In the past, Foundational Black Americans were the Most Classy, Admirable, Reputable and Married People in this Country. What Happened to US??

[RadaMillz]

I had to laugh at this


people often romanticize the past based in picturesque family portrait and sh!t.
I even seen some people bigging up colonial Africa based on the elites who cooperated living lavishly.
man you have no idea what kind of life those people or the average person went home to after.

 

[audemarzz]

I see nikkas are in attack mode because they are afraid of the truth

Black boys back then growing up wanting to work at manufacturing plants, auto plants, construction work, salesmen, different trades to raise a family and black women as well was working little jobs and taking care of the kids and everyone build together

Then the crack era came and it was a wrapped.. black folks wanted everything quick.. cars, nice places to stay, clothes, etc etc , fukk all that taking your time and build and responsibility and accountability went out the window… a lot of sisters saw that if they fukk up by having Leon and Willy baby and them nikkas broke camp, they can rely on step daddy to come in give them section 8 and food stamps as long as no nikka up in the crib and they was like ok

Young black boys went from want to be a physician, lawyer, salesman and different trades to being a drug dealer to a rapper

Oh you think all those plants are still around?

 

[audemarzz]

Ain't no damn "FBA", you mean Black Americans?




Ask somebody that believes in "FBA" and I'm sure it was Pan Africanism saying 'we all black' as they passed out crack/gang starter kits

Shut up nikka.

 

[Ozymandeas]

- Took the father out of the household.
// fathers provide stability and structure

- Told us it was better to integrate into white society than own in our own.
// didn't tell us we'd still be pariahs but, now without ownership

- Brought crack, heroin and guns into our neighborhoods.
// crime and gangs festered. ghettos became Black Hunger Games

- Redlining, deed covenants, race soldiers (police) and other forms of systemic racism kept us trapped inside said chaos.
// Whites ran to the suburbs like the Rich people in that movie "In Time" and used all the stated tools to keep us from crossing into their areas.

And it's not because we want to live around whites but, because we want to live around the best resources that whites keep for themselves and try their best to keep from blacks. Because of the way they set things up, we are always at a disadvantage. Blacks have less wealth, whites have more wealth. Their tax dollars can build better schools, attract businesses and development at a faster pace, attract more government funding, which creates more demand for these areas, and raises their property values relative to properties in black neighborhoods. These advantages pushes their kids into a pipeline to higher paying jobs and our kids into low paid ones. Then the cycle repeats the next generation. They'll throw scholarships and grants our way out of guilt to allow some of us to make it out but, on a macro level, it will never compare. There's a chasm of inequality between us.

- This chaos has now become our "culture" You put someone in prison for 30 years, they're gonna be institutionalized to shyt. That's the urban inner city experience compared to the middle class suburban one. We're institutionalized. If King Von grows up in Calabasas-CA, there's nearly no chance he kills 10 people, goes to prison, joins a gang and gets killed outside a nightclub. As a rich black kid in the burbs, he would still have to deal with the media and the culture telling him that he needs to do this to be hard or tough as a BM but, being away from that environment would have decreased the probability of him turning out like that by 80-90%.

 

[TEH]

this Foundational White American happened

Rest in Piss Gipper

 

[TEH]

Also, if it happened any other way we wouldn’t have been born. This was before anyone here was alive.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

this Foundational White American happened

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Sexual revolution + drugs + war on drugs + rap music destroyed the black community

Pretty much came in that order too.
We can probably add social media to the mix now too

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Those businesses still had to pay taxes, pay white suppliers, pay white manufacturers, and white distributors.
The "black dollar circulation myth" needs to die, it's based on falsehoods aka a woman trying to sell a book in the 90s.
Willie Lynch Letter? Fake. Black Dollar Circulation rate? Myth.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Money over morality

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

There were men and women during that time that were wild as well. Men leaving families and raising new ones or living 2nd lives. Women prostituting and Black on abusing drugs then. There were gangs, criminal violence etc. I say that to say old generation of people are liars about the beautiful nuclear family structure or wonderful neighborhoods

How old are you? The era OP is referring too in regards to the nuclear family was light years better than what we have today. Just because it wasn’t 100 percent perfect doesn’t mean you can easily dismiss it.

 

[vino]

How old are you? The era OP is referring too in regards to the nuclear family was light years better than what we have today. Just because it wasn’t 100 percent perfect doesn’t mean you can easily dismiss it.

There has always been crime, violence, dysfunctional families that existed. We don’t know for sure the percentage breakdown. Are you really that oblivious. This was the case 1875,1885, 1895, 1910’s, 20’s, 30’s, 40’s,50’s’,60’s,70,80,90 and etc. You have your head up your ass if you think people who went through trauma of slavery were not dysfunctional as well.

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

I blame rap music

 

[Who Not How]

There has always been crime, violence, dysfunctional families that existed. We don’t know for sure the percentage breakdown. Are you really that oblivious. This was the case 1875,1885, 1895, 1910’s, 20’s, 30’s, 40’s,50’s’,60’s,70,80,90 and etc. You have your head up your ass if you think people who went through trauma of slavery were not dysfunctional as well.

In 1950, 83% of Black mothers were married with the husband present.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

There has always been crime, violence, dysfunctional families that existed. We don’t know for sure the percentage breakdown. Are you really that oblivious. This was the case 1875,1885, 1895, 1910’s, 20’s, 30’s, 40’s,50’s’,60’s,70,80,90 and etc. You have your head up your ass if you think people who went through trauma of slavery were not dysfunctional as well.

And with all that said trauma, black people of yesteryear still accomplished and achieved more collectively under direct duress and domestic terrorism than we have post 1980.