Black People Should Open Their Minds More..

[Peter Parker]

I mean to other cultures, ways of thinking, lifestyles, kinds of food, music, movies, all that shyt. Not saying we're all ignorant and trapped in the bubble of black culture but I think that's one of the biggest problems I have with our community today and in the previous generation. There's kind of a fear within our community to try new things because its "weird" and it's not cool, and I personally feel like it cripples us. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've been labeled weird or lame for liking certain things that are outside of the norm for the "black community", being stuck in our ways is one of the biggest things that hold us back.

The best thing about my generation(90s kids) is that, the perception of new things in our community is drastically changing, new ways of thinking, new lifestyles, new religions and even old traditions are being brought to the forefront and embraced but I think for this all to work we need some of the older folk to begin to change and raise their children to change.

I'm not saying abandon your blackness and assimilate, I'm saying consider other things in addition to your blackness. Blackness doesn't have to be a singular hivemind of thoughts, its what you are and our past and traditions can't be abandoned even if you want too, just maybe consider other things.

I know I'll get negged to hell for this but just something I was thinking about

 

[Michael9100]

Self hate cripples us more than our "fear to try new things"...

 

[Peter Parker]

Self hate cripples us more than our "fear to try new things"...

what does that entirely seperate issue have to do with anything?

That's like me saying "Man Benito Mussolini was a really bad guy" then you going "Yeah but Hitler was even worse"

Like yeah, I get it, I'm not giving a solution to all the problems that ail blacks, I'm just pointing one of them out that's never mentioned

 

[Michael9100]

I'm not giving a solution to all the problems that ail blacks

You're not giving a solution at all.....but if you want to date a white woman and read anime magazines, go ahead......

 

[Larry Lobster]

You mean like be open to pawg?

 

[Peter Parker]

You're not giving a solution at all.....but if you want to date a white woman and read anime magazines, go ahead......

Wonderful cop out, you win, you're excused

You mean like be open to pawg?

I never understood that honestly, I mean whatever floats your boat but exclusively pawg'ing is or exclusively dating any type is weird to me

 

[Larry Lobster]

Wonderful cop out, you win, you're excused


I never understood that honestly, I mean whatever floats your boat but exclusively pawg'ing is or exclusively dating any type is weird to me

Well its like they say, once you pawg...

 

[godkiller]

what does that entirely seperate issue have to do with anything?

That's like me saying "Man Benito Mussolini was a really bad guy" then you going "Yeah but Hitler was even worse"

Like yeah, I get it, I'm not giving a solution to all the problems that ail blacks, I'm just pointing one of them out that's never mentioned

Blacks' "trying new things" is not a problem and there's nothing inherently valuable in "trying new things". The Japanese rarely leave Japan--a form of "not trying new things--and seem intelligent, successful, etc. c00nery is a problem for blacks and "trying new things" is often a vehicle for that. Someone who "tries a new drug" like heroine might end up dying. The list goes. Blacks shouldn't feel any urge to "try new things" for the sake of trying. The "old things" are just fine.

 

[Peter Parker]

Blacks' "trying new things" is not a problem and there's nothing inherently valuable in "trying new things". The Japanese rarely leave Japan--a form of "not trying new things--and seem intelligent, successful, etc. c00nery is a problem for blacks and "trying new things" is often a vehicle for that. Someone who "tries a new drug" like heroine might end up dying. The list goes. Blacks shouldn't feel any urge to "try new things" for the sake of trying. The "old things" are just fine.

Japanese built a large chunk of their country off an over the top imitation of Western Culture mixed with traditional Japanese aesthetics, Japanese music is a large mix of American Rock/Pop/Rap, a lot of Japanese youth culture is based in black american fashion and music, I can go on and on for days, and the Japan is one of the closest things to a completely homogeneous society we have aside from North Korea and some Islamic countries.

Forget race, but life in general, if you're stuck in your ways, you'll never get anywhere. Why model yourself mentally and spiritually off a dying failure of a country like North Korea when you can pick any of the successful countries in the world were birthed off new ideas?

EDIT: And I'd argue that the old things aren't even remotely fine

 

[SouljaVoy]

 

[Biscayne]

I get, and kinda, sorta agree with what OP is saying. But OP, I think what everyone else is saying is, that there ARE Black people who DO try new things all the time. The problem is, MANY of these Black people use "Trying new things" and "Being different" as an excuse to completely break away from the Black community, and to completely break away from anything considered "Too Black", and that includes ignoring social ills from White Supremacy that effect the Black community so they won't "offend" or "scare" away the "Alternative" or "Different" crowd they're trying to assimilate into. There's an heir of "LOOK at me, I'm not like those OTHER Blacks, because I like X,Y,Z, and I love doing X,Y,Z", "Racism is only a state of mind". There's alot of that, and it sometimes it just seems like an attempt to impress that group of "Others", by throwing Black people under the bus, because of supposed "lack" of Open Mindedness in the Black community. Kinda like that term, TheNewBlack.

 

[THEREALBRAND]

That's not a "black thing", most groups are like that. If a kid grows up in a predominantly white town in middle America and he's non-Christian he's going to get made fun of. If you're Indian and you do anything that goes against the cultural norms you're going to be mocked for it in the community.

Every group around the world has their societal norms and if you don't fit into them you're going to be ridiculed for it. If anything blacks are lot more open-minded and accepting then other groups.

 

[Biscayne]

That's not a "black thing", most groups are like that. If a kid grows up in a predominantly white town in middle America and he's non-Christian he's going to get made fun of. If you're Indian and you do anything that goes against the cultural norms you're going to be mocked for it in the community.

Every group around the world has their societal norms and if you don't fit into them you're going to be ridiculed for it. If anything blacks are lot more open-minded and accepting then other groups.

This is also a pretty good point. That's every group.

 

[Peter Parker]

I get, and kinda, sorta agree with what OP is saying. But OP, I think what everyone else is saying is, that there ARE Black people who DO try new things all the time. The problem is, MANY of these Black people use "Trying new things" and "Being different" as an excuse to completely break away from the Black community, and to completely break away from anything considered "Too Black", and that includes ignoring social ills from White Supremacy that effect the Black community so they won't "offend" or "scare" away the "Alternative" or "Different" crowd they're trying to assimilate into. There's an heir of "LOOK at me, I'm not like those OTHER Blacks, because I like X,Y,Z, and I love doing X,Y,Z". There's alot of that, and it sometimes it just seems like an attempt to impress that group of "Others", by throwing the supposed "lack" of Open Mindedness in the Black community. Kinda like that term, TheNewBlack.

Yeah that's very true, nikkas like that annoy the shyt out of me. It's a legitimate fear but no reason to stay stuck your ways

 

[godkiller]

Japanese built a large chunk of their country off an over the top imitation of Western Culture mixed with traditional Japanese aesthetics, Japanese music is a large mix of American Rock/Pop/Rap, a lot of Japanese youth culture is based in black american fashion and music, I can go on and on for days, and the Japan is one of the closest things to a completely homogeneous society we have aside from North Korea and some Islamic countries.

Forget race, but life in general, if you're stuck in your ways, you'll never get anywhere. Why model yourself mentally and spiritually off a dying failure of a country like North Korea when you can pick any of the successful countries in the world were birthed off new ideas?

EDIT: And I'd argue that the old things aren't even remotely fine

1. The Japanese almost never leave their country. They eat the same food they've always eaten. J-Rock developed several years ago and that's their most popular music. Most of them don't engage in Black American music like you say.

2. Plenty of countries around the world stick to their ways and only adopt things which improve their lives. There's no reason to change anything just for the sake of changing.