#GrowingUpBlack

[Art Barr]

If you're from Chicago, who remember having a neighbor that had a candy store in the basement?
I remember when I moved to Cali, like where the candy man at, none of the kids knew what I was talking about.

when, I went on 55th and Princeton to auntie Janice and grandma vernell house.
who bought my toys for Xmas and bday.
That was the first time I encountered a store in someone's house.
later on, I manned the store everyday at my godmother's house.
then, in eighth grade our math and science teacher sold us top shelf candy to penny candy in class.
before getting us ready for college/university math in the 8th grade cause he was a college math professor.
it was mad candy stores in houses block to block.
I still remember trying to get blue ringpops, from them.


Art Barr

 

[Knuckles Red]

 

[DallasTxRep]

What my Texas brehs know about going to kidsville on Saturdays tho

Refresh my memory....where was this? It looks very familiar

 

[...and some waffle fries]

Let's not let these cacs derail the thread. Last thing they want is to be ignored. They always feel the need to be the center of everything...back to BLACK MEMORIES

 

[DallasTxRep]

Dallas.

And my fault they just repealed it last month, so they don't charge anymore. But it was like$.5 a bag or something.

There was a couple of 7-11 in Oak Cliff charging 15 cent per bag

 

[Raiders]

Let's not let these cacs derail the thread. Last thing they want is to be ignored. They always feel the need to be the center of everything...back to BLACK MEMORIES

 

[↓R↑LYB]

either MLK or black jesus

Some of us had white Jesus

 

[Food Mane]

Are you being purposely obtuse
All I did was post a fact, you can ignore it and focus on how you want to feel.like most posters here do but most of these things all children can relate to and even the ones they don't based on the way these are described they can probably relate to put in a different context and some of these are just silly.
And I can relate to a decent amount of these, like the one about china in a glass cabinet which my grandmother had and also kept her old statues of black people dancing and stuff in.
But my Asian friend Andy's mom has a similar thing and so did my Hispanic friend Miguel, and this white kid Taylor.
You don't need to deny reality to make yourself feel better.
(This doesn't mean I support the growing up white hashtag though which is petty and is most likely a trolljob anyways)
And once again, three pictures in three separate arguments have shown that I'm black. That's the best I can do unless there's a coli meetup in santa barbara ca once I move there, maybe you should just accept that I'm black especially because the vast majority of black Americans don't even share the views of people on thecoli so it's not unlikely.
And I agree with you all on a lot more than you all are willing to see.
I probably deserve negs for this because it's needless fun killing but it's true.

 

[prime]

Why is this thread in the root

 

[Arishok]

50/50 on these things being black dominant

I don't think that's the point...

 

[prime]

LP



how old are you.
chances are you may have come up with my ex and her fiyoine ass friends in the heights.


Art Barr

I'm 26 But I'm pretty sure I know them everybody know everybody in the Heights

 

[CjNelson]

Good times brehs

 

[Robert California]

Keep playing into these silly # trends on social media. #whitegirlsdoitbetter #growingupblack
These racially motivated #'s only perpetuate stereotypes and thus further White peoples own negative feelings towards Black Americans - moreso than they already are.

White people (not all white people) can't see past the superficiality of the hashtag...to them, "growing up black" is everything they hear about Black folks on TV. Ghettos, children out of wedlock, etc.
Matter of fact, Ghetto is a term that is not fairly scrutinized as it should be in the public platform. To me, it's equivalent to the word "thug" in the context in which it's used, but that's another story.

"Black people can't have anything" - no shyt, we've heard this narrative for years.
When you make it a point to emphasize race, you are leaving the door open for negative backlash. Look at how black twitter destroyed the "Whitegirsldoitbetter" movement. People are quick to slam "the media" for being unfair to minorities, but what about social "media"?

Watch, by the end of this week, we'll hear some story about teens getting into a fight or worse from one of these hashtags

 

[TheNig]

I think one of my favorite things about growing up black was how your mom and Grandma could both cook up masterful dinners with what seemed like leftovers and scraps. My grandmother is gone now but she was probably the best cook I ever knew and could make a bomb ass dish out of almost anything.

shyt was wild. You'd look in the refrigerator about 3 times like "Where the fukk is the food? "

And later on in the day granny would come outta nowhere with a full course meal and shyt.

You go from to to

 

[MVike28]

fukk him too

I always question devil "allies"

He benefitting from the system.

fukk a pat on the back.