Piff Perkins
Veteran
These dudes will jump out a 10 story building window before admitting Jay was wrong about anything. He said "capitalist" is a phrase created to attack black people who find financial success, and compared it to the n-word. There is nothing to debate, nothing to infer, nothing to contextualize. He made an idiotic statement, the end.
The other aspect of this conversation, about black people who view success as given by whites or "the devil" etc, is an entirely separate conversation from the capitalist one. I've been going to black barbershops since I was a kid. Yes, there is a sentiment within the black community where less advantaged people rationalize their own lack of success by claiming that more successful people must have "done something" ugly to get it. Someone played with his butt, someone gave a blowjob, someone sold their soul. It's a disgusting mentality and a lot of black people literally believe those things. I've seen handsome (pause), well put together, educated, charismatic black men from the community who we all "know" walk into the barbershop, discuss a new job/promotion/opportunity they received, get dapped and saluted...and the minute they walk out the shop you already know what's being said.
"He be smiling in those white people's faces with all his teeth"
"I bet he only dates white women"
"You know what they say about nikkas with dreads. They on that gay shyt"
Hell I know for a fact this has happened to me. When I got my first big boy job I went to the barbershop, got a cut, gave my barber $50 and thanked him for the advice he gave me all through college. Walked out the shop and barely an hour later got a text from my mans who was in there saying "you know they in here talking shyt about you, saying you talk white."
That's how shyt goes in this community. But let us not conflate that with the idiotic shyt Jay said about capitalists. And to re-iterate, I am not a socialist or a communist. I think capitalism, in some form or fashion, is the best economic system by far.
The other aspect of this conversation, about black people who view success as given by whites or "the devil" etc, is an entirely separate conversation from the capitalist one. I've been going to black barbershops since I was a kid. Yes, there is a sentiment within the black community where less advantaged people rationalize their own lack of success by claiming that more successful people must have "done something" ugly to get it. Someone played with his butt, someone gave a blowjob, someone sold their soul. It's a disgusting mentality and a lot of black people literally believe those things. I've seen handsome (pause), well put together, educated, charismatic black men from the community who we all "know" walk into the barbershop, discuss a new job/promotion/opportunity they received, get dapped and saluted...and the minute they walk out the shop you already know what's being said.
"He be smiling in those white people's faces with all his teeth"
"I bet he only dates white women"
"You know what they say about nikkas with dreads. They on that gay shyt"
Hell I know for a fact this has happened to me. When I got my first big boy job I went to the barbershop, got a cut, gave my barber $50 and thanked him for the advice he gave me all through college. Walked out the shop and barely an hour later got a text from my mans who was in there saying "you know they in here talking shyt about you, saying you talk white."
That's how shyt goes in this community. But let us not conflate that with the idiotic shyt Jay said about capitalists. And to re-iterate, I am not a socialist or a communist. I think capitalism, in some form or fashion, is the best economic system by far.
