Growing up in a city with a small black population is damaging to your blackness

[MikelArteta]

I grew up in white ass towns, surrounded by white people everywhere. I never even knew about black history, my culture nothing.

That old saying you are who you hang around, and all I hanged around was cacs, at one point it felt like a honor to be the token black male, like i was better than other black brehs and brehettes. In reality I was just a kewn azz nikka, I'm just finding myself now, my church is majority all black , at work now a bunch of minorities, its just refreshing to be amongst your people brehs.



@1stPick

 

[KOohbt]

I didn't know any cacs til I was 10 years old. So my view on whites was skewed. They were good people according to the TV. Now with that said. Holy shyt at how they would view us if they had TV to go by.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

I spoke on this my breh...
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/bein...iety-is-physically-mentally-hazardous.270000/

That bytchmade c00n ass fukking fakkit @philmonroe couldn't even dispute what I was saying so he had to talk shyt on me.

 

[MikelArteta]

I spoke on this my breh...
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/bein...iety-is-physically-mentally-hazardous.270000/

That bytchmade c00n ass fukking fakkit @philmonroe couldn't even dispute what I was saying so he had to talk shyt on me.

breh i remember growing up in these cac ass burbs, mom taking me to get my hair cut at white barbers

lemem read through that thread

 

[kp404]

I grew up in white ass towns, surrounded by white people everywhere. I never even knew about black history, my culture nothing.

That old saying you are who you hang around, and all I hanged around was cacs, at one point it felt like a honor to be the token black male, like i was better than other black brehs and brehettes. In reality I was just a kewn azz nikka, I'm just finding myself now, my church is majority all black , at work now a bunch of minorities, its just refreshing to be amongst your people brehs.



@1stPick

Very true. Frantz Fanon's book "Black Skin, White Masks" is all about this and how it damages us psychologically. Whenever we run into any black children, we have to expose them to people, things, and ideas that look like them and come from people like them.

 

[MikelArteta]

Very true. Frantz Fanon's book "Black Skin, White Masks" is all about this and how it damages us psychologically. Whenever we run into any black children, we have to expose them to people, things, and ideas that look like them and come from people like them.

book seems interesting going to cop, but I agree growing up especially at a yougn age, you learn by observing and at school. All I had was white teachers, surrounded by white folks. Only times I saw or heard about black folks minus my family was when I watched the news and it was crime, or scantily clothed women in hiphop videos

you need to sticky a black book thread breh!!

 

[kp404]

book seems interesting going to cop, but I agree growing up especially at a yougn age, you learn by observing and at school. All I had was white teachers, surrounded by white folks. Only times I saw or heard about black folks minus my family was when I watched the news and it was crime, or scantily clothed women in hiphop videos

you need to sticky a black book thread breh!!

That thread is coming soon

 

[Suicide King]

Balance is important, indeed.

 

[philmonroe]

I spoke on this my breh...
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/bein...iety-is-physically-mentally-hazardous.270000/

That bytchmade c00n ass fukking fakkit @philmonroe couldn't even dispute what I was saying so he had to talk shyt on me.

Stop talking tough online dude you another p*ssy that wouldn't even call a female dog a bytch IRL so stop fronting. Nothing c00n and or bytch made about me but you keep talking that dumb shyt. You the p*ssy that has to whine on here cause you're a social outcast always looking for assurances your life ain't shyt. So again FOH and stop talking tough online cause you don't get play from chicks. nikkas finally get a job making more than $7.50 a hour think they big shyt. FOH p*ssy and I did dispute what you said in the thread.

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

I've only had 2 white friends before everyone else I've known is Black, Spanish or Mixed.

 

[Kitsch]

Grew up around them but my mother always told me I am not one of them.

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

Yep. Being an artist I really enjoy being around a diverse group of people. Black, white, Asian, etc.

Its a great feelin seeing people from all kinds of backgrounds hangin out, sharing experiences, knowledge, etc....BUT as a black man I still have to have dat feelin of "home" regularly too.

Being around mah people is a necessity just like being around diversity is. Each provides me wit dat "nutrition" mah mind & spirit needs to thrive and excel in dis world.

Like one of da brehs said, dat balance of da two is so crucial to personal growth.

You can stay in a box if you feel more comfortable in it...just don't close da lids ya dig?

 

[Elle Driver]

This is definitely true. Going from Harlem, to New Hampshire was complete culture shock to me. It almost damaged my psyche. I vowed never ever to raise my kids that way. It's really not healthy.

 

[thirdeye]

Ehh, my family always educated about our blackness. Was it challenging? Yea but then again I didn't have much of a social life out of school, our cousins and I always hung out with each other.
I remember growing up watching civil rights VHS tapes my grandpa had and also he was very pro-black.

 

[Yehuda]

Too bad I can't relate, been around originals all my life

Parents taught me from the jump these white folks are evil