Absolutely, but there are some of us in a position to help on a systemic level and they don't OR they give to the "accepted" structure. Someone on here threw out a brilliant idea a while ago of the "billionaires" adopting an HBCU similar to how T. Boone Pickens did Oklahoma State, but more appropriate to us how Dr. Dre gave $70 million to USC for his daughter to get accepted or Bron did Akron....I'm pretty sure $70 million ain't shyt to USC, but that's the annual revenue for the majority of HBCUs......but the idea was Diddy gets Howard. Oprah gets Southern. Jay gets Alabama State. Master P. Beyonce. Rihanna...and so on and so on. It would change the dynamic of those schools instantly and they wouldn't even need to give money. Just visibility similar to what Deion did with Jackson State. All he's doing is lending his star power. Beyonce fans alone could double the annual revenue of a HBCU with her tweeting about donating, but she'd rather do a stepping performance at Coachella or rap about how her grandchildren's children will be the rich ones. I can understand how they can look at the ones who made it and not understand how they're not even attempting to give back. The athletes in the cycle aren't the ones to go at, but there are people who can help and they ain't.
I agree, but as I said if regular black folks in general ain't gonna do this shyt then we ain't learned nothing from the lessons of our parents, grand parents and great grandparents taught us.
My great aunt was a freaking maid in the delta of Mississippi and she never was in school past 5th grade. Yet every year she donated money to Mississippi Valley State. The school right down the street from her. At the same time every year she donated to the NAACP and the United Negro College Fund. She did all of this till the day she died.
So you telling me these dumb ass black gen x, millennials and zoomers can't do the same. But a old black women with a 5th grade education who didn't have two pennies to rub together can go donate to an HBCU she never attended for decades?
At the end of the day these last 3 generations need to piss or get the fukk off the pot. If you ain't contributing to help your people (real tangibles like the twitter fingers love to say...you know freaking money) then you need to stop talking about what folks need to do.
As I mentioned on here I say all of this as a person who never attended an HBCU, but adopted Jackson State and Langston and make sure I send them money every year no strings attached and been doing it for 8 years. At the end of the day jokers need to put up or shut the hell up....period.
