That instagram shows me that black people really have no money at all in this country
No real wealth
We needa get more money and climb these ladders
Now i better not ever hear some "sitting on the comfortable seat of centuries of white privilege" ass cac talk to me bout our obsession with money
Now i can see why an individual like Jay Z or Ross or Diddy aint satisfied with no half a billi
That shyt aint no real money
Especially legacy money
Blacks needa strengthen their presence of teh upper echelon of this capitalist nation.......OO i pray we will soon
This thread reminds me of that Chris Rock "Bigger and Blacker" special.
He was talking about how the only black folks in his neighborhood were people like Eddie Murphy and Mary J Blige.
Meanwhile everyone else is a dentist, surgeon, radiologist, or in some tech field.
Rap money ain't shyt. The 90s and early 00s aren't coming back.
Pigeonholing ourselves within the realms of sports and entertainment isn't realistic.
it depends what they are getting together for, if its just more entertainment then its not gonna change much, to make real money black people have to move outside of entertainment, things like science and technology, building schools and universities and financial systems like banks and credit unions
in a lot of ways jay-z and diddy have misled people into thinking entertainment is the the only way to make money and misled people to thinking that is where the real money is
C/S
You need to get off the capitalist dikk, gotdamn.
Money isn't everything and it damn sure ain't the most important thing. Wake up. Being obsessed with money isn 't the answer to our problems.
It's about collective wealth son.
Owning businesses, property...stuff that actually increases in value and doesn't depreciate.
Collectively...WE DON'T HAVE THESE.
WE had more back in the day, but integration f*cked us over in that regard.
I understand that sports and entertainment can provide income but that isn't long lasting!
Only few can make anything out of those fields.
And thanks to that mentality there are way too many black folks that think sports and entertainment is the way to go.
It is not.
You're better off getting into a high studied trade and making a couple 100k a year.
But too many people are infatuated with the glamour and glitz that comes with the sports and entertainment industry.
I guess people just have to much pride to suck it up and actually do something where our kids can have something 100 years down the line.
Rather than doing something that feeds their own ego.
Being a rapper or a ball player is more appealing than being a scientist or a technician.
Instead of beggin the white man for a job for the 9,394,203rd time, we could be actually employing our own people and making moves in industries WE control!
Why we always gotta fly, take a train, take a bus, and get a boat to something they can just walk a block to?
this is what people are saying.
I'm done.
Apologies for getting overtly preachy.