@bkabbagej
You got that right.If our folks had concentrated on developing our own businesses & neighborhood schools like they did in the south back when we weren’t allowed into white establishments & then hadn’t dropped the ball after civil rights laws were passed & gotten hooked up in the crack epidemic & LOST A LOT OF THE CULTURE THAT KEPT OUR FAMILIES INTACT & OUR KIDS PROPERLY RAISED TO VALUE EDUCATION, we would be way ahead of where we are now.Chicago & other big cities wouldn’t be covered with dead black bodies almost every day & we wouldn’t be running to KOREANS, who’ve never combed a napp, to get products for OUR HAIR!! Almost every white critique of blacks mentions our lack of business skills & the high crime rate.
When I was a kid I used to hear that immigrant blacks from the West Indies often didn’t want to associate too much with us American blacks for a couple of reasons: some thought they were better than we are,which is nonsense, & the other reason,which many agreed with is that they come from countries run largely by blacks because they were freed from slavery before we were,were able to develop their own country wide culture, were not subjected to the psychological affects of the awful Jim Crow laws we had to deal with, & and are often more confident & ready to do things that many American blacks don’t feel comfortable going into because they’d be the only one in it or consider “trying to be white”. Because of our sturggles here, the great civiI rights leaders came from AMERICAN BLACKS. Now I can’t argue with the cultural difference issue because as a music ed college student I found many American blacks were too often into exclusionary cliques, skin color & hair issues, & coming from the right city in order to be accepted, & other nonsense.I was criticized by them for “studying the white man’s music”. I ignored all that & had my own mixed ( black,white,Asian) group of friends. Some were Jamaicans with the same major I had. They studied hard & didn’t get into those messes I mentioned. They were there to learn & had no issues about “white man’s music”. I met African students who were the same way.
Now I don’t know a thing about Mayor Love & hope to hear her speak, but she just might be one of those people you describe in your last paragraph. I hope not, but it’s happened before.

Because its easier to give examples about someone everyone knows. I could talk about how some of my cousins where bus into schools during the desegregation period but would you relate? Probably not.

Why must we dog her because we don’t like her politics? If you look at some of the postings, they talk about her hair, her husband, religion, and call her just about all names in the book. What makes it right for us to BULLY (yes that’s what is happening here) because we don’t like her politics or religion?
Do I agree with her politics, no but I respect her as a woman and a human being not to call her all names out of the book. We have to agree to disagree.

I personally rather see articles about how some states passed voter ID laws and that many people are NOT VOTING because they don’t like the President or Romney.