The Children of Upper Class Black Parents - Who do they end up with?

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Hollywood kids need their own separate category. They're living in an alternate realty that other well-off people aren't, one where bank accounts and notoriety supersede the traditional classist criteria of education/upbringing, family, networks, etc.

The more "old money", multi-gen African Americans of upper-middle+ backgrounds have networks, organizations and traditions that provide their children with exposure to other people who share their SES background that are also black. So even if their kid is the only black student in AP English they can hang out on the weekend with kids that share that experience and they're never completely isolated in a lily white existence.

Black folks with serious money but didn't grow up in that kind of situation, don't share a background or know people from boarding school, frats, prof orgs etc are probably more isolated. Some dr who is a fifth generation Morehouse to Meharry graduate, with a house on The Oval, and sends his children to Choate and Philips Exeter (or any east coast boarding schools and Country Days to an extent) is not going to introduce his daughter to a kid whose father is a functional illiterate with baby mama drama and a flock of birds and grandfather/great uncle are beyond street. It just is what it is.

Other well off black folk with different roots run into issues with their kids being isolated because they themselves don't have the same identity and sense of community, plus natural networks and communities that many Aframs have.

You got a lot of people that don't want to make their special little snowflakes take part in organizations and activities where they'd natural meet/befriend other blacks. Or don't like certain groups because they seem too "bourgeois" or they don't like race based organizations and making their kids feel racialized or different from their school buddies. But then sit around looking perplexed when their kid comes out their neck about 'those other kind of black people', feeling like a white kid in brown skin and wants to join SAE :gag:, thinks we'd be post racial if blacks could just stop talking about race, their daughters never have prom dates (black girls just go as a group)/sons never have black (or even non-white) girlfriends and they never get a single solitary black grandchild.

At least know what you're going into and not sitting around dumbfounded that your child who was always the one raisin floating in the bowl of cornflakes grows up to have only white social networks, white educational and professional contacts, memberships in predominantly white organizations and activities, talks/dresses/acts like they have a yardstick impaled in their lower digestive tract, lives in only the whitest suburban enclaves, lives an excessively white bread existence and only ever has white lovers/partners/spouses.
They need to decide if having a whitewashed child is something that'll bother them before hand and create more experiences and opportunities to diversify their life but don't wait and get irrationally pissed at their offspring for being exactly like one would expect given their background.

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Hollywood kids need their own separate category. They're living in an alternate realty that other well-off people aren't, one where bank accounts and notoriety supersede the traditional classist criteria of education/upbringing, family, networks, etc.

The more "old money", multi-gen African Americans of upper-middle+ backgrounds have networks, organizations and traditions that provide their children with exposure to other people who share their SES background that are also black. So even if their kid is the only black student in AP English they can hang out on the weekend with kids that share that experience and they're never completely isolated in a lily white existence.

Black folks with serious money but didn't grow up in that kind of situation, don't share a background or know people from boarding school, frats, prof orgs etc are probably more isolated. Some dr who is a fifth generation Morehouse to Meharry graduate, with a house on The Oval, and sends his children to Choate and Philips Exeter (or any east coast boarding schools and Country Days to an extent) is not going to introduce his daughter to a kid whose father is a functional illiterate with baby mama drama and a flock of birds and grandfather/great uncle are beyond street. It just is what it is.

Other well off black folk with different roots run into issues with their kids being isolated because they themselves don't have the same identity and sense of community, plus natural networks and communities that many Aframs have.

You got a lot of people that don't want to make their special little snowflakes take part in organizations and activities where they'd natural meet/befriend other blacks. Or don't like certain groups because they seem too "bourgeois" or they don't like race based organizations and making their kids feel racialized or different from their school buddies. But then sit around looking perplexed when their kid comes out their neck about 'those other kind of black people', feeling like a white kid in brown skin and wants to join SAE :gag:, thinks we'd be post racial if blacks could just stop talking about race, their daughters never have prom dates (black girls just go as a group)/sons never have black (or even non-white) girlfriends and they never get a single solitary black grandchild.

At least know what you're going into and not sitting around dumbfounded that your child who was always the one raisin floating in the bowl of cornflakes grows up to have only white social networks, white educational and professional contacts, memberships in predominantly white organizations and activities, talks/dresses/acts like they have a yardstick impaled in their lower digestive tract, lives in only the whitest suburban enclaves, lives an excessively white bread existence and only ever has white lovers/partners/spouses.
They need to decide if having a whitewashed child is something that'll bother them before hand and create more experiences and opportunities to diversify their life but don't wait and get irrationally pissed at their offspring for being exactly like one would expect given their background.

Great post,

A great philisopher once said "my seeds, run with his seeds, marry his seeds, that's how we keep wutang money all up in the family"
 

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Hollywood kids need their own separate category. They're living in an alternate realty that other well-off people aren't, one where bank accounts and notoriety supersede the traditional classist criteria of education/upbringing, family, networks, etc.

The more "old money", multi-gen African Americans of upper-middle+ backgrounds have networks, organizations and traditions that provide their children with exposure to other people who share their SES background that are also black. So even if their kid is the only black student in AP English they can hang out on the weekend with kids that share that experience and they're never completely isolated in a lily white existence.

Black folks with serious money but didn't grow up in that kind of situation, don't share a background or know people from boarding school, frats, prof orgs etc are probably more isolated. Some dr who is a fifth generation Morehouse to Meharry graduate, with a house on The Oval, and sends his children to Choate and Philips Exeter (or any east coast boarding schools and Country Days to an extent) is not going to introduce his daughter to a kid whose father is a functional illiterate with baby mama drama and a flock of birds and grandfather/great uncle are beyond street. It just is what it is.

Other well off black folk with different roots run into issues with their kids being isolated because they themselves don't have the same identity and sense of community, plus natural networks and communities that many Aframs have.

You got a lot of people that don't want to make their special little snowflakes take part in organizations and activities where they'd natural meet/befriend other blacks. Or don't like certain groups because they seem too "bourgeois" or they don't like race based organizations and making their kids feel racialized or different from their school buddies. But then sit around looking perplexed when their kid comes out their neck about 'those other kind of black people', feeling like a white kid in brown skin and wants to join SAE :gag:, thinks we'd be post racial if blacks could just stop talking about race, their daughters never have prom dates (black girls just go as a group)/sons never have black (or even non-white) girlfriends and they never get a single solitary black grandchild.

At least know what you're going into and not sitting around dumbfounded that your child who was always the one raisin floating in the bowl of cornflakes grows up to have only white social networks, white educational and professional contacts, memberships in predominantly white organizations and activities, talks/dresses/acts like they have a yardstick impaled in their lower digestive tract, lives in only the whitest suburban enclaves, lives an excessively white bread existence and only ever has white lovers/partners/spouses.
They need to decide if having a whitewashed child is something that'll bother them before hand and create more experiences and opportunities to diversify their life but don't wait and get irrationally pissed at their offspring for being exactly like one would expect given their background.
Good point.

People from families that have had wealth status and power for multiple generations tend to place more emphasis on future bloodlines of their offspring. Most of the time.

Everybody else will more than likely mingle with whoever is around them. It's gonna happen esp if your family doesn't care who you date.
 

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I have this theory that when a black couple make it in life and move to a upper class area, they have black children and they generally end up with non blacks simply because that's what they grew up around


This thread was inspired by going through the Instagram's of Floyd Mayweather's family members (no :sitdown: here) and noticing the demographics of their circles.

Floyd Mayweather doesnt fuk with non Blacks at all, on any level. Dude is Black Excellence, self made, etc. He only messes with Black girls yet will his kids follow in his foot steps?

So from your experiences, who are black kids from upper class backgrounds ending up with?

Justin Combs(Diddy's son) and his girl

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Will Smith's kid with a Kardashian last year

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Ice Cube's son

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Michael Jordan's son

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Diddy's son was dating that India Westbrooks girl at one point, he just generally goes with the racially-ambiguous "InstaThot" types
Jaden Smith is dating one of those Brooklyn "fashion" Black girls that Ian Connor was fukking a few weeks ago.
Ice Cube is dating a Latina, no issue there.
And I have no clue about Michael Jordan's son, I highly doubt he's dating White girls, probably just running through them like your average wealthy young man his age.
 

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Ice Cube is dating a Latina, no issue there.
Nah by Coli standards if his girlfriend passes the brown paper bag test he's a c00n :troll:

And it's not surprising when the areas these Hollywood entertainers live in neighborhoods that are literally 90% white for their kids to be with white girls unless they start arranging marriages with other entertainment families. Old money Blacks down the East coast I'm sure it's different due to history
 

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Keep in mind these are not "high class blacks". These are the children of entertainer. Looks for Jack and Jill alumni to see who real upper class black marry.
Jack and Jill, Links etc tend to fall in line and marry someone else with either bloodline or old money or extremely wealthy new money. They're not keen on marrying random people. And as for WHO their children are around, that's the point of these groups, to connect upper class Blacks with each other.

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If u raise your kids right they won't be c00ns under any circumstances
nikkas acting like ain't no rich bad black chicks in those schools/neighborhoods
The word c00n done lost its value. Too many cats use it for so go stupid ass all encompassing phrase on here. Nobody said it wasn't none but lets also not act like its the same as you'll run into regularly.

facts. it has nothing to do with accessibility, it's a slave mentality, period.

People that aren't in these circles always trying to say somebody else has a slave mentality or something smdh. I guess only if you regular you can't be a slave now? That's how the coli logic seems to work for a lot on here.
 

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Good point.

People from families that have had wealth status and power for multiple generations tend to place more emphasis on future bloodlines of their offspring. Most of the time.

Everybody else will more than likely mingle with whoever is around them. It's gonna happen esp if your family doesn't care who you date.
Even amongst AAs who've gone to these type of schools, it's especially important to NOT date out. I've never dated a white boy in any of those type of settings- even if they were trying to get at me. :whoa:

And if I'd brought one home, given the amount of history I'd been taught, I'd feel real stupid.

There are Black men at these levels of education- and that's more important to a non-elite person than anything else. A Black man is going to hold me down during that experience and make sure I stay focused (true story). Even if white dudes approached me, my Mom let me know once you're competing with them for a spot at a university :comeon:all that kumbayah shyt goes out the window.

I don't understand how- after OJ situation- how Black men could be down with this whole pawg mess.... Unless they really didn't come from anything.:mjlol: Black men who come from something (parents who know history) know better than to bring a woman home whose likely going to destroy their career and reputation once he gets too comfortable.:what: They're not even checking for white women like that because of the enormous liability they represent and low chance of loyalty, etc.

Remember it's all cute UNTIL you're competing for the same opportunities.:comeon:
 

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If u raise your kids right they won't be c00ns under any circumstances
nikkas acting like ain't no rich bad black chicks in those schools/neighborhoods
what makes you believe they're automatically interested in black males?

regardless of gender, if you grow up around whites. you will be more prone towards dating/marrying whites.
 

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what makes you believe they're automatically interested in black males?

regardless of gender, if you grow up around whites. you will be more prone towards dating/marrying whites.
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Not true at all... I went to boarding school and the whole nine... I know my history... Never went down that road.:camby:
 
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