I'm from the hood. what did I do that others can't?
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cleanface coney
Superstar
whats the hood to you?
to me its just a mindset thats why you can escaped or "overcome" it
i think people that are born into fukked up situations like poverty, abuse, drugs have a physical and mental barrier to overcome
what you think my nikka?
Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
How hard he is ain't relevant. If we take him at his word, he pulled a pistol on a female, sold drugs, and carried illegal weapons and was kind of a troublemaker/lawbreaker in general in his youth. So I'm asking him would he be in the same position today if he got caught doing any of that stuff...or if he ran afoul of real thugs.
I'm not trying to knock dude, but I always doubted him when he said he had these interviews with top companies. He's always talking about how he didn't go to a prestigious school and this and that. Interviews are few and far in between for people who didn't go to elite schools to get those type of job opportunities. Especially because he doesn't come across as personable.
This is a typical argument placed by Republicans all the time. If I can do it, why can't you? I feel that way sometimes (I cant lie), but that is a lack of compassion. Who am I to fully understand another persons perspective. I have no idea how the person got to where they are, and that is the gap.
We really are unique and different (thank god), just do you and keep it moving.
We really are unique and different (thank god), just do you and keep it moving.
yeah I noticed this too... it's very odd cause it shows how unstable his worldview is if it's so closely keyed off his personal adventures
Pool_Shark
Can’t move with me in this digital space
It's hard to believe OP is a real person.
GetInTheTruck
Member
Exactly. A lot of the immigrants who come here and succeed and get shytted on by people in the hood for that success come from situations more fukked up than anything in the US. The difference is they actually had the drive and determination to make their lives better. A lot of people in the hood are content with living in the hood and wear their social status as a badge of honor. Well, that's their problem, not anyone elses.
I was born and raised here and first went to India in 1998, after seeing what real poverty looks like I looked at poverty in the US a whole lot differently. It's almost laughable, no comparison. Kids are over there walking barefoot to school, stepping over dead bodies and shyt and people over here are whining about the conditions of schools in the inner-city
not saying that schools in the inner-city don't need to be better but when you put things in perspective you see that a lot of this shyt people complain about in this country is overblown.
GetInTheTruck
Member
I know a few dudes who sold drugs, got caught with guns, done bids, and still managed to clean themselves up and live a respectable life and raise good children. I got a friend who caught a body in 1996, he got his own business now and makes more money than me. They were able to turn things around because they wanted to. Yeah, some people are going to get a raw deal in life but not that doesn't mean everybody in the hood should get a pass just cause.
cleanface coney
Superstar
Exactly. A lot of the immigrants who come here and succeed and get shytted on by people in the hood for that success come from situations more fukked up than anything in the US. The difference is they actually had the drive and determination to make their lives better. A lot of people in the hood are content with living in the hood and wear their social status as a badge of honor. Well, that's their problem, not anyone elses.
I was born and raised here and first went to India in 1998, after seeing what real poverty looks like I looked at poverty in the US a whole lot differently. It's almost laughable, no comparison. Kids are over there walking barefoot to school, stepping over dead bodies and shyt and people over here are whining about the conditions of schools in the inner-city
yep i see it all the time. foreigners come over and achieve everything they wanted
barring health, family or something like that
people should learn how to motivate themselves
and people who cant should be around people who motivates them
im glad im from detroit because i got the best of both worlds
most nikkas dont get that kind exposure but at the same time
its not an excuse to not do shyt wit yo life
Dirty_Jerz
Ethiop
i agree with it being a mindset as well as a place though but not just drawn on a paper map but like walking into a community with a state of mind and being who reject what goes against the their grain and im sure you know the saying everyone in the hood isnt a hood nikka and you can take someone from the hood but you cant take the hood out of them
its one of those things that is hidden in plain sight like many things that keep people limited or under control
"the hood" is sort of like "the projects" except the projects was something literally built first because it is a project of housings but the hood is capable of being in any area with a group of people locked into this thought proccess
when you put a hood on it can cover your eyes and manipulate your vision something like that but like you said it is possible of being overcome but not everyone is in the right conditions to make that happen which i do think is true due to drugs and poverty
cleanface coney
Superstar
you gotta realize that alotta dudes on this website
wouldnt even know any dudes like that
but they gotta opinion on it
i find that shyt funny that all these nikkas on here claim they from the hood but at the same time will shyt on the same exact people and places where they "supposedly" from
thats wassup shyt like that let me know its just a mindset
and once you realize that and try to keep it positive
you'll be alright
Of course there are serious issues of culture and individual responsibility separating these groups, but nevertheless, unless these immigrants are from highly violent or authoritarian places, this is almost never true. Most immigrants to this country coming from Asia, for example, have no clue that their struggles and obstacles simply don't measure up to those of Black people already living here.
Black people are the primary targets of the police-prison continuum in this country, as the percentages prove. Let's also remember that the US police-prison system is massive. We currently have more people imprisoned than any country in the history of the world- the combined incarcerated populations of the Stalinist Soviet Union at the height of the Gulag period and Maoist China at its peak still can't match up to the number of people imprisoned in the US now, and the largest demographic among those imprisoned are the Black poor. The percentage of incarcerated Americans is only growing, too, meaning that this system is actively growing despite crime rates remaining stable, so it's not as simple as saying that these people are getting themselves caught up in it by their own actions. In at least one sense, the "system" is indeed out to get them.
Furthermore, Black people's quality of life and mortality indicators are often comparable to those of wartorn, sub-Saharan African countries. Check the HIV rate in poor, heavily-Black areas, like the South Bronx, for example... it's worse than most poor countries in Africa who have HIV epidemics. On the whole, Black children face conditions that most immigrants do not, despite coming from the "global South" or "third world."
The truth of Black life is invisible to most people, including most of those who interact with Black people on a regular basis. Personally, I hear fewer Black people shytting on immigrants, than I hear European, Asian and non-Black, Hispanic, and even some privileged African immigrants shytting on American Blacks on a regular basis and asking why they just can't do what the immigrants do. I'm not suggesting we give people a pass for negative, self-defeating, or destructive behavior, of course. The point is that the conditions faced by the Black population are unique and cannot simply be analogized to those of immigrants, especially in a way that makes them seem easier.