Thursday, November 29, 2007

LeBron's success secret part two

I would guess that LeBron's business savvy had something to do with the fact that went to a private Catholic school. I think it gave him access. In that Mike Vick atricle, wasn't there a portion dedicated to Baron Davis. He went to Santa Monica high school full or kids with successful parents. He got to learn the "patterns". It's too early for me to get into patterns, but this has to do with black kids that get a broad exposure of people early. He got to see success that stems from positivity. The pattern (coined by Dolphas) is that white children know as a young child that they are going to college. They may fart around an slack academically, but is pre-ordained that they are going to college. Black kids who don't hang out with white people rarely get to see it and don't feel that way growing up. I did, but Dolphas saw the patterns when he was young and he was a Superintendant. Going to a private school has allowed him see and live certain things. I remember after graduating college that the black students were so happy to graduate but didn't have a career clue. Most of the mainsteam kids knew what they were doing for work before finishing. This really disturbed me because it became apparent that the black students were behind in terms of career planning or being a professional or coroporate. This is why I get mad at the convervatives who think that everyone knows how to go get an education or how to create generational wealth.

The impact of slavery that is still felt today is the fact that African American's weren't given the ability to create wealth early. You can still do it now, but we are 5 generations behind and it's hard to find that type of guidance in our community.

If you take the crack damage and aids, you will see that we lost another 2 generations of wealth creation. I think America will become more and more wealth based over the next few generations and the only black one's who can participate will be the children of athletes and entertainers, not the smart people.

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