How in the blue f#ck do you have the balls to push a Lexus while living with your parents?
That sh#t kills me when I see dudes stunting with Audis, Lexus and other luxury whips yet these dudes live with their mom or aunt or grandmom. And then these dudes drive around the street like they're "that dude" because they have a nice wheel but then they have to take a chick to a hotel or sneak the chick into the basement via the back door.
Then dudes wonder why chicks talk sh#t to them. Then dudes wonder why dudes talk sh#t to them. Then dudes wonder why they're always the 3rd or fourth option.
Then dudes wonder why their chicks are always getting taken.
Listen, I don't care how much money someone has saved up by living with parents. The fact that a GROWN person is still living at home with their parents and they're in their upper 20s/low 30s.......ALL THAT SAVED UP MONEY GETS CANCELLED OUT! The kudos are no more. The props have disappeared. The shine is diminished.
You're NOT a man until you are able to sustain yourself in this world without mommy and daddy. Dudes want to be respected as men but still live like boys. Dudes want to have women treat them like kings but act like court jesters. Dudes want to be seen as leaders but can't even lead themselves into their own spot over the age of 30.
I swear yall "I live at home because I can save money" dudes are some weirdos. I guess dudes can't do both.....like chew gum and walk at the same time............or maybe pay for a spot AND save money.
Oh, and I happen to notice that the dudes who push that "live at home" sh#t the most tend to have the most to say about how f#cked up women are. That's not a coincidence.
Peace
Everything doesn't operate in such a black and white Eurocentric accordance, as your defining of Black "manhood" seems to entail.
His situation may not be a matter of him "having" to live with his parents. It could be his plan, his way of achieving a goal that you nor I know nothing about, and it would be wise of you not to gauge another man's path.
Think about it this way, what do you have to say to the brother who does this same thing at that same age, and then next year when he's 33 he's ready to(and does) buy a home, marry his long time girlfriend, and start his family- which, thanks to his planning, are things that happen all on
his terms, with everything
he wanted in place, already in place?
It is naïve to think that he did it this way because doing it the western world "American dream" route was too "hard" for him, and that it therefore makes him less of a man because he..what, essentially planned better than most of us?
That said, for the brother who
does follow that route(typical American dream route), as I and many of us have, and if it works out for him, then more power to him too.
But I know from a self sustaining standpoint(funny you eluded to that very thing) that doing it the way he did it was actually not a bad idea, and is generally done like that by literally everyone else around the rest of the entire planet. Are the rest of the world's population not "men", and only the American male who follows the American dream is?
Every man's path will be different, not always better or worse, just different.
His is possibly a good example.
As a final aside, there
are limped out no good brothas who do this just on some 'baby boy' don't want to grow up type shyt. Too comfortable with their lack of financial responsibility to take the next step. But rarely do they also possess the discipline, consistency, and focus it takes to accumulate (and not spend) 39k. And so I caught the impression that this particular poster wasn't one of them.