News,radio etc

There are times when you find yourself doing some things that people would find interesting or even strange.Anyone who grew up in Kenya knows how the news is one of the most pivotal times of day for the old folk and those who seek to be informed.I recall how when you were in some locals the music would be turned down and the volume of the telly turned up at 9pm for the news.You could usually hear a pin drop when the news was on, I recall being the recipient of a couple of slaps as kid because of making noise during news.Anyway during the last few weeks I have actually been watching FOX 5 news in the evenings instead of stuff like MTV,VH1 and the many other channels on cable.
I turned on the radio this morning,something I rarely do (refer to my morning schedule) and there was a most interesting discussion.First of all it seems that this station ( a black station ) had been making jokes about Africans.Of course some ppl didnt approve and sent mail.Then the discussion moved to what Africans think about African Americans.Well one African I think Nigerian called and said that first they need to drop the African part from the name.Something that I agree with totally because there are many populations in the States that descended from immigrants but not too many call themselves Italian American,Irish American, British American etc according to the caller.Also they do say that they are descended from Africans which I dont argue with but since Africa is the cradle of civilisation doesn't that mean that we are all African in some way and everyone should add African in front of their heritage ie African-Italian-American.Then one other thing that most of the African American callers pointed out is that most Africans think that African Americans are lazy.A point that I dont dispute, thing is that even though most of the callers said that none of them refuted the belief that they are lazy.Not to say that I think that all of them are lazy on the contrary, they do have quite a number of super achievers among them but as Bill Cosby said there are very many who are not carrying their share of the load.The thing is that people didnt get angry at Cosby for what he said, it is because he said it out loud; he aired dirty linen.It was also pointed out that they don't take advantage of all the opportunities that they have like free education and loans for college.An African American chic actually called and said that we foreign black ppl have more opportunities in the form of grants and scholarships.Anyone who is an international student out here knows how fallacious that statement is, it is really hard getting scholarship and aid as an international student.Bickering aside I dont think anyone persons choice to be lazy or not can be used to describe a whole group of people.It was interesting to listen and know how people can be so the same yet so different.Anyway back to my term paper...