How Black Middle-Class Kids Become Poor Adults

[Wild self]

hmmm perhaps because America is setup to repress black americans


and a college degree means much less now than in the past

the job market is trash


shyt should be of no shock

I think that people should sue institutions of learning if they lied about "college makes for a better future"

People are too damn scared to go against them for some reason.

 

[Warren Moon]

I think that people should sue institutions of learning if they lied about "college makes for a better future"

People are too damn scared to go against them for some reason.

College does make it for a bettrr future especially for blacks we have the biggest income gap for college educated and high school degree holders

 

[Warren Moon]

Dp

 

[ElectroMan]

White supremacy.

White supremacy made me lease that Audi breh

 

[Wild self]

College does make it for a bettrr future especially for blacks we have the biggest income gap for college educated and high school degree holders

Yeah, but look at people with Masters degrees in IT and getting paid barely above 70k with certs. Problem is, there are far more people with higher degrees than anytime in history and have the lowest standard of living. At this point, schools and jobs have failed us. We have to be entrepreneurs.

 

[Wild self]

1: Black folks need to stop buying shyt that they dont need. Kill that materialistic consumerist mentality.

2: Just because you dont have kids or much of responsibility is not a license to live recklessly.


I was at a party this weekend that was half black on one side of the venue and half white on the other. Spent time watching the football game on one side, had six or seven drinks and was charged 40 bucks. They were trying to get people to buy tables and bottles and every single young white person negged the waitress. I go over to the black side to meet with my people after the game was over and every table had six bottles of overpriced alcohol. In addition, there was an upcharge on drinks on the black side vs the white side.

Lastly, almost everyone on the black side was 30 and up while on the white side, noone inside the bar was over the age of 30. No sense in doing age appropriate things. Everyone out there trying to stunt for the same IG captions and hashtags.

@ old ass nikkas still wanting to fake balling out. On that Puffy shyt.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

2 years community college, 2 years state a school

As little loans as possible, don't go to school to party- learn everything you can, major in useful degrees (science, math, computer science, etc), have a financial plan early, get internships and experience early, don't over spend on anything. Save.

shyts a bummer reading through this & it's hitting home. What advice would y'all give to me? I'll be 19 in Aug.

Work on those certs ASAP depending on your interests if you know what they are. Unlike me. I would have been a Project Manager already instead of just now trying to get on.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Another thing is that whether you live in a homeless shelter or baldwin hills...you're still subject to the same imprinting from the media, entertainment, culture as a whole....American culture is simply toxic to black people. Impressionable kids + constant propaganda = Bad results.

And than you add the fact that even middle class black families, still live in neighborhoods, or in neighborhoods with a close proximity, to poverty stricken areas...I've seen studies that show that the poverty rate for black children dwarfs the rate at which are children actually live in poor areas. Like...even if you're parents make money, you still might be living in "the hood". Redlining, housing discrimination, etc.

Us staying in the hood would actually be a good thing, ya know? Take there money and bring it back to the hood like other cultures do us. Take our money and build up their communities. Us making it can inspire children and families to do some things differently.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Us staying in the hood would actually be a good thing, ya know? Take there money and bring it back to the hood like other cultures do us. Take our money and build up their communities. Us making it can inspire children and families to do some things differently.

This sounds good in theory, but the fact is the hood is a beast. If you have the means to move, you do. This goes back to us taking responsibility for ourselves and treating each other better. If I got a stable fam and me and my husband are bringing home 70- 90k collectively, why would I stay in the hood where nikkas break in your car, your home, disrespect your property, want to get your son caught up, trying to approach your 12 year old daughter? Why would you subject yourself to needless violence, drugs, food deserts, etc? Why would you keep your kids in these schools where the students actively try not to learn and parents are disengaged? Staying in the hood is not a good thing, now going back to help, donating time and resources, that helps, but living amongst poverty and struggle and continued residential isolation does not help create an upwardly mobile family.

 

[Another Man]

but how their parents got where there are though

Different times. Back in the day you could step right outta high school and land a good job.

 

[Box Cutta]

Us staying in the hood would actually be a good thing, ya know? Take there money and bring it back to the hood like other cultures do us. Take our money and build up their communities. Us making it can inspire children and families to do some things differently.

You make a really good point. It's definitely a complicated issue.

It's a tough balancing act I think. I want people who have "made it" to support their own (I mean, that's paramount really). At the same time, I don't think it's acceptable for well-to-do kids to be living in a community where they are subject to all of the culture and peer-pressure that poor communities burden black kids with, nor do I want them going to shytty, broken schools that won't create a culture for them to strive in. And they especially shouldn't be living like this because of redlining and housing discrimination.

Of course, what we need to be doing is cleaning up our communities and schools, so that there is less stratification between our poor, middle-class, and rich. But that's a completely different matter altogether really.

 

[Drip Bayless]

I'm starting to believe that most of the people on the coli are idiots. Do you understand what middle class means? of course someone in the middle class is going to be struggling living paycheck to paycheck. Middle class is barely living about the poverty rate (50k). You guys must be getting confused between upper middle class and middle class.

The poverty rate is about 25k for a family of 4

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

This sounds good in theory, but the fact is the hood is a beast. If you have the means to move, you do. This goes back to us taking responsibility for ourselves and treating each other better. If I got a stable fam and me and my husband are bringing home 70- 90k collectively, why would I stay in the hood where nikkas break in your car, your home, disrespect your property, want to get your son caught up, trying to approach your 12 year old daughter? Why would you subject yourself to needless violence, drugs, food deserts, etc? Why would you keep your kids in these schools where the students actively try not to learn and parents are disengaged? Staying in the hood is not a good thing, now going back to help, donating time and resources, that helps, but living amongst poverty and struggle and continued residential isolation does not help create an upwardly mobile family.

Well, I guess those people have to wait on their messiah then. I love the hood. Look at Richard Sherman's family, they interacted and was positive to gang members and people in general and no one messed with them. They didn't coward away from their people. You'll be surprised how much love you'll get by buying some weed off or just being genuinely caring for a few kids. Being in the mix, living good and modest can inspire people going a different way on how to get it. Trust, I thought the same way.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

You make a really good point. It's definitely a complicated issue.

It's a tough balancing act I think. I want people who have "made it" to support their own (I mean, that's paramount really). At the same time, I don't think it's acceptable for well-to-do kids to be living in a community where they are subject to all of the culture and peer-pressure that poor communities burden black kids with, nor do I want them going to shytty, broken schools that won't create a culture for them to strive in. And they especially shouldn't be living like this because of redlining and housing discrimination.

Of course, what we need to be doing is cleaning up our communities and schools, so that there is less stratification between our poor, middle-class, and rich. But that's a completely different matter altogether really.

Property taxes fund schools. The main source of problems will always be the lack of parent engagement. Catch-22 is how are we to expect the ignorant to lead on something they're not versed in?

 

[L&HH]

Most of these families don't encourage their kids to have their own business. It's always be the best employee as you can...

Came in here to say this. It's a lack of ownership in anything. Pretty much the same struggles the previous generation had in getting those jobs to make it in middle class are just cycled right back on through to the next