Fat Joe speaks on Black people having a crabs in the barrel mentality

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This “crabs in a barrel” cliche is played out and doesnt make sense

1. Crabs don’t live in vertical environments, they live on the horizontal sea floor which means whatever removed them from their natural habitat is causing a change in their behavior that is unnatural. So using the analogy, the better question would be who put black people (crabs) in the barrel in the first place?

2. Crabs are not attempting to pull each other down as the analogy suggests, they’re in survival mode and are trying to grab onto anything that could potentially allow them to escape the barrel. The same way a drowning person would unintentionally drown someone trying to save them.

It’s funny how the analogy focuses on the crabs fight for survival and never the fisherman who put the crabs in the barrel. :sas2:

Another lesson to be learned: The best thing for the crabs is to avoid the fisherman. :sas1:
 
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