Yes you are generalizing. fukk outta here most of ya'll are too sensitive to even think like that prolly why you believe that stupid shyt you believe in the first placeNot a generalization, its my experience. You can believe the shyt or not IDGAF
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That's the damn problem. You cannot alone rise above your people.
NoChillJones
Banned
........this is defeatist bullshyt......This is gonna seem like a Dr. X type rant. I know all the militants are raging mad ready to neg off the thread title alone.. but we need to address the REAL.
Every week there's a thread about black folks needing to stick together, support black businesses, do like the asians and jews do and keep our money within our community, etc... but truth be told, that stuff ain't ever happening. Reason being because we're simply complacent with just getting by and doing what feels good. A lot of us come from single parent homes, and if not, have a lot of friends/family that have and had to learn to raise ourselves. A lot of us grew up watching TV and idolizing our favorite rappers, athletes, actors, singers, etc. A lot of us grew up idolizing the dope boys and the gangstas that got all the love and play with the ladies. It's like the more ignorant you are, the more our women love us and the more we're idolized, adored and appreciated. The more intelligent you are the more "different" and "weird" you are and become isolated by your own people.
But anyways to keep things short, this is why we're a lost cause. There are so many successful rich and famous black people here in America. There's honestly NO reason why we can't start up another Black Wall Street and combat the systematic white supremacy. We're in a better position now more than we've ever been all throughout history to get our shyt together. But instead, all our black athletes and entertainers who are making millions of dollars a year are spending it on jewelry, cars, clothes to impress other black people cuz we all know what our favorite past time is. I listen to Jay's 4:44 album and I'm more frustrated and annoyed that it took him til he was 47 years old and dried up to finally make "woke" music with substance and content we can actually use to uplift our communities and build. Oh, I get it. Now that he's done flossing and stunting and telling us how rich he is in every song, now he wanna try something different. All while he's had this information all along for the 20 years he's been in the game. This is why I always said Nas > Jay-Z, but that's a whole other thread.
There's literally no excuse why we can't be greater than we are even with coming from poverty and single parent homes. Imagine if Drake, Future, Yachty, Wayne, Thug, Savage, all these new rappers these kids idolize made being smart and intelligent the "cool" thing to be? But no, instead it's taking drugs, spending money to floss, being promiscuous, being angry and violent is the cool thing to be. It's what makes our women love us, our men inspire us, and the rest of the world hate us. It's why we have trouble getting housing, get discriminated against at places of business, and why we can't simply get ahead without a fight. We can sit on thecoli all day and act like we're all gods and goddesses, kings and queens, etc... but the truth is we haven't been those for a long time. At least not here in America.
As much as the "white people are the enemy" rhetoric gets spewed around here, they actually aren't. At least not all of them. White people will at least hire you at a lot of places (except Jews). It's the arabs, asians, indians, and hispanics not looking to hire us, EVER! They stick amongst themselves, but they'll hire any other type of person before they hire us. We're the last option to them. I've worked over 20+ jobs and possibly have done more than 30-40+ job interviews and it's the white man or woman that usually hires me. It's the Hispanics, Arabs, Jews, Indians I faced the most discrimination with. Like no matter how impressive I was in the interview and how well qualified I am, I never get that call back by them, ever. And you know the funny thing about it? These people are jealous of us. Cuz only us black people can make millions of dollars and become hot shyt being rappers, athletes and entertainers. How many famous arab basketball/football players are there? Or famous asian actors/actresses compared to blacks? They envy us because they know what we're capable of. While some of they're families are struggling to get by with their laundromats, bodegas, and food stands, rappers like Meek and Future are out here stunting like Mayweather throwing money away on bullshyt. We got the more ignorant types like Blac Youngsta with all this money and still stupid as ever and that's gotta be frustrating to anyone watching.
All in all, we need to be better with our money. We need to stay woke. We need to educate our youth as early as possible about white supremacy and systematic racism. We need to open up black businesses, have owner ship over our assets. But until then, as long as we keep making being loud, dumb, ignorant, violent, sexual, and petty the cool thing to be, each generation is gonna grow up worst than the last. If we have more of our people of influence, the Jay's, Beyonce's, Rihanna's, Kanye's, Chris Brown's, Drake's, Future's be more positive, provide more positive and uplifting content. Of course we have artists and musicians that been on that shyt (Common, Talib, Mos Def, etc) but they're not as mainstream and don't have as much clout. We need to change the mainstream idea of what's cool and it starts with our mainstream celebrities and entertainers. America is all about Money and Entertainment (hence our President). Entertainers have more influence in our country more than anyone. And until our entertainers can provide more uplifting content and change the definition of what's cool, we're a lost cause. Lost cause as in we won't get to Black Wall Street even when it's so frustratingly at the palm of our hands. We might be able to get by and become successful individually, but as a group?
southpawstyle
Superstar
*looks at OP avi*
Damn homie, on first page you was the man homie
Damn homie, on first page you was the man homie
Slowly they're coming around.Crazy how 75% of the post was about the influence that popular "idols" (mainly rappers) have on the masses.
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/brea...eapons-is-the-ability-to-create-idols.542467/
GreenGhxst
Veteran
This pessimistic shyt won't get us anywhere, I'm tired of black folks always talking about what we can't do and why we can't get this
That's p*ssy shyt
You're basically doing the white mans job for him
Can't never could do nothing
That's p*ssy shyt
You're basically doing the white mans job for himCan't never could do nothing
Sindicated
Knowledge is the Greatest gift
I agree to an extent, the problem is they have to want it and get off their asses to go and get it. My new job just hired 1500 People and it was an immediate hire first come first serve type deal and like 70% of the workforce is Black which is damn near unheard of nikkas was camping outside the doors for a chance to get a job some Black People simply dont have the drive or determination.
I lived 200 miles away and drove all the way there to get a job.
I lived 200 miles away and drove all the way there to get a job.
what people fail to understand are black people are lumped into one category. Black. There is no such thing. We represent many diverse backgrounds and historys. We consider italians, french, polish etc white but they all have their distinct culture. With this comes a certain consciousness. Black dont have certain drivers installed. We have no sense of belonging, we have no cultural rite of passage, we dont have anything to truely define us and inturn we are basically out on our own to figure it out. take the bar mitzvah or quinceanera for example. what do black people have to bring them into adult hood ? Sure we work to create these vehice but do they even reflect our true dna code. We need a rite of passage. More american black youth have one through gang activity then their cultural familiy. and this is just preteens. Our only hope is to find the like minded and pool resources. we need economic liberation. Personally I feel groups of blacks need to settle overseas and almost start over to succed. take these babies and raise them in costa rica, panama etc
I can see your point. However, even though we aren't a monolith we are still African and fall into the diaspora. Like I said, we need to become tightly knitted like the Jews and Hispanics.You can rise for yourself and give to those with promise....
AA aren't part of the diaspora breh ...
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