70% of people in this thread and on the site is white.
Sorry, I don't keep demographics of this site, nor do I really care that much. This isn't about them, this is about us.
70% of people in this thread and on the site is white.
...so what you're saying is that, despite your keen awareness of all these factors, particularly in your own life, you're not smart enough or capable enough to overcome them?
I posted nothing about my life tpday besides my moms worked at night as as n example cacs love to pull shyt out your,ass
Fix your spelling breh, also hit cbox for Damutelli's debut on the world stage.
I think the thing people are missing is the idea of "Victim of Circumstance". Anyone can be pushed to do incredible amounts of bad or evil or even things of moral ambiguity given the right circumstances.
There are hundreds of thousands of willing soldiers fighting in Afghanistan, and have fought in Iraq, all not coerced. Those poor white boys and some black/hispanics were compelled by the invisible hand of circumstance. Some can slide through it others cannot, its a law of averages.
It's not an excuse b. When people come in here & ask stupid questions about why the black community is in its current state, without acknowledging what contributed to it, its incredibly insensitive. It takes a huge jackass to hoard all the resources, create blockades for certain groups attempting to enter into his neighborhoods/schools/firms, assuring that he retains everything; effectively sealing the undesirables off into their own area outside of "paradise"..............only to peek outside the gates a few decades later and wonder why shyt has turned to hell outside
I remember when I was 12. My church pastor was like a father to me and still is. Dude's a millionaire & after he seen my brother spend most of life in jail, then end up getting killed, he wanted to pay for me to go to some private school. I went there for a day visit & shyt was a middle school that looked like a college campus. I begged my mom not to send me back because i was felt out of place during the visit being the only black kid.......hood as hell at that........in a school full of rich azz white students . In hindsight, my mom was foolish to listen & not force me to go because those kids were being prepared for something we weren't. The right private school that offered the right curriculum & the right tutoring sessions to get the right score on a standardized test to get into the right university that ultimately led to the right job. While we just got pushed along at the city school
I just despise people who disregard social inequality. You're right though. Blacks need to focus more on "what now". The best our generation can do is become successful and give our children the same sort of opportunity to be great.
i must commend you on your c00ning.. It's of a different breedno one is denying that there are clear and unmistakable institutional obstacles to our mobility. but, does that excuse us treating each other with respect and being mindful of how we live? does that mean we have to reduce our community to a crude enclave of the basest desires and little else? sex, drugs, and outrageous materialism? i disagree. i think institutional racism should compel us to do the exact opposite. we need to be civilized in SPITE of the enormous challenge of being black in america. sadly, too many blacks in the "ghetto" gladly accept the stereotypical behavior. and, that makes it harder for blacks like myself, someone who wishes to be a productive member of society.
It's not an excuse b. When people come in here & ask stupid questions about why the black community is in its current state, without acknowledging what contributed to it, its incredibly insensitive. It takes a huge jackass to hoard all the resources, create blockades for certain groups attempting to enter into his neighborhoods/schools/firms, assuring that he retains everything; effectively sealing the undesirables off into their own area outside of "paradise"..............only to peek outside the gates a few decades later and wonder why shyt has turned to hell outside
I remember when I was 12. My church pastor was like a father to me and still is. Dude's a millionaire & after he seen my brother spend most of life in jail, then end up getting killed, he wanted to pay for me to go to some private school. I went there for a day visit & shyt was a middle school that looked like a college campus. I begged my mom not to send me back because i was felt out of place during the visit being the only black kid.......hood as hell at that........in a school full of rich azz white students . In hindsight, my mom was foolish to listen & not force me to go because those kids were being prepared for something we weren't. The right private school that offered the right curriculum & the right tutoring sessions to get the right score on a standardized test to get into the right university that ultimately led to the right job. While we just got pushed along at the city school
I just despise people who disregard social inequality. You're right though. Blacks need to focus more on "what now". The best our generation can do is become successful and give our children the same sort of opportunity to be great.
He's not c00ning, he's just calling out narrow minded B/S.i must commend you on your c00ning.. It's of a different breed
He's not c00ning, he's just calling out narrow minded B/S.
Exactly. Jews had to go through a lot of the same struggles in this country. Now they run everything because the bolded is exactly what they did.
Edit: Where do you think the word "ghetto" comes from?
nikka get off capslocks blood.
we're being narrow minded for assessing the situation for what it is...while he's not being narrow minded for throwing out dumb defenses of a fukked up socioeconomic situation
telling someone who works a graveyard shift to cook breakfast for their child and help them with their hw when they have limited education just because thats what c00nmit the SAmbo was used to in a stable 2 parent house isn't narrow minded?
gtfoh...talking about he wants to be a productive member of society and shyt. That's my whole point is that not everyone is afforded the same chance to be a productive member of society.
Perspective is a beautiful thing my friends, the sooner you're able to see where people are coming from with their complaints, and stop dismissing them as narrow minded bs/ or excuses the sooner we can come up with solutions for fixing the problems.
A nikka like me was smart enough to recognize all these things NOW at 21, At 15-19 I still had the same high intellectual capacity for processing and retaining information, BUT THE FACT THAT I WAS ACHILD AND THE FACT THAT MY ENVIRONMENT DIDN'T PREPARE ME FOR THE PROPER CHANNELING OF CERTAIN EMOTIONS AND THE PROPER WAY TO SOCIALLY INTERACT IN A CERTAIN BUBBLE COULD NOT BE OVERRIDDEN AND IT LED TO ME MAKING TERRIBLE DECISIONS AND DOING SOME fukkED UP shyt AND ENDING UP IN SOME LIFE THREATENING POSITIONS BEFORE THE shyt WAS SHOCKED TO MY BRAIN. NOT EVERYONE THINKS LIKE ME, HOWEVER, NOT EVERYONE IS LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIGURE IT OUT. THERE'S GRAVEYARDS FULL OF 16-21 YEAR OLD BLACK MEN WHO GOT GUNNED DOWN BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T FIGURE IT OUT EARLY ENOUGH. THERE'S PRISONS FULL OF 16-21 YEAR OLD BLACK MEN SERVING SENTENCES TRIPLE THEIR AGE BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T FIGURE IT OUT EARLY ENOUGH. THERE'S HOMES FULL OF BLACK TEENS THAT ARE UNSUPERVISED AND HAVEN'T BEEN RAISED RIGHT BECAUSE THEY'RE LIVING WITH ONE PERSON THAT EITHER HAS TO WORK ALL THE TIME TO MAKE ENDS MEET (IF SHE'S A GOOD WOMAN THAT'S DOING THE RIGHT THING) OR ISN'T DOING shyt BECAUSE SHE'S EITHER ON WELFARE OR SHE''S A FIEND. BOTH SITUATIONS ARE BAD, BECAUSE BOTH SETS OF KIDS INTERACT, INTERMINGLE AND DEAL WITH THE SAME PRESSURES. NONE OF THESE THINGS ARE EXCUSES, OR FICTION, OR NARROW MINDED BS......ITS FACT THAT NEEDS TO BE RECOGNIZED. AND IT'S RECOGNITION BRINGS OUT THE c00nS AND WHITE BOYS ON SOHH LIKE SAMBO THE BACKWAERDS HUSTLA INTO SHOWING THEIR LACK OF PERSPECTIVE AND THEIR LACK OF AWARENESS AS TO WHAT PEOPLE'S DAILY LIVES ARE. JUST BECAUSE YOU SEE SOMEONE AT SCHOOL AND HE SEEMS FINE, DOESN'T MEAN WHEN HE GOES HOME, HE ISN'T STARVING AND DEALING WITH SOME BULLshyt. START SEEING THE WORLD LESS AS GOOD/BAD AND MORE AS SANE/INSANE, PRIVILEGED ENOUGH/OR UNDERPRIVILEGED.