Following the meme started by Dell Gines...
Strengths:
Blackfolks in America are deeply part of the American culture and our influence is pervasive. Our flavor is America's flavor and we are inseparable from that cultural hegemony the world over. We are integrated to the highest levels of society and there are very few parts of this country none of us have been. We are growing in educational achievement, financial stability and particpation in the managerial, professional and entrepreneurial classes. The best of our culture is intact and its preservation continues.
Weaknesses:
African Americans are a very large and diverse group which means there are millions who remain disconnected to the mainstream of America. 40% are still lodged in pockets of rural and urban poverty and despair. We have been unable to advance at a consistent pace across our internal demography and therfore continue retain ghetto deprivations two generations after Civil Rights. The plight of the black underclass is as dire today as it was before WW2. The worst of our culture is intact and appears permanent in America.
Opportunities:
Relative to other minority groups, African Americans' degree of assimilation into the white collar workforce can yeild a distinct advantage in certain sectors of the global economy. Aggregation of black wealth can create a permanent trust. Dynasties in various entertainment and sports professions can fund a diversification of black business interests.
Threats:
Conflicts between poor blacks and immigrants can devolve into classic ethnic strife driving divisive politics to reopen old racial wounds. Failures in the public sector combined with hypersegregation can drage otherwise promising poor blacks into the permanent underclass.
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