“Wealthy Black Americans DO NOT like messing with poor Black Folks in general! Classism divides us!”

[NYC Rebel]

I'd say the opposite is true.

Other races of people don't really have a hard time accepting they grew up with a silver spoon in their mouths. We feel the need to prove that we're ghetto, gully, hood etc.

I agree. The one thing I’ve enjoyed about America compared to Africa is that there isn’t a stark class divisions in America as it is in Africa. Im a Yoruba prince….. but I grew up hood my entire life in Brooklyn. When I get Nigeria, Family suddenly tell me I can’t talk to certain people because they are lower class. The way the poor are treated in Africa… They don’t exist. The wealth divide between a rich African bourgeoisie and the poor is so stark that you can’t imagine.

I can’t find the video, but there was a African politician who is driving Danny Glover around his own country and Danny asked him how come so many impoverished kids they were driving past werent in school. Politician brushed those kids off saying they were low class. Danny made him stop the car and forced him to see the humanity in those kids and that politician honestly said it was the first time saw them as human beings. The state of Africa has a lot to do with class divisions, and how the rich do not give two shyts about the poor on levels you don’t see here amongst blacks in the US.

I see this as someone who lives on both sides of the pond. It’s not even close.

Kwame Toure made the same observation after living in Africa for a decade

 

[Savvir]

Wealthy people mess with poor people? when and where?

/thread

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

Classism is within every race.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

A lot of paper bag nikkas in here?

 

[MajesticLion]

Africa is worse.

Ten times worse.

A million times.

It's not "worse" simply because it's unfamiliar to you. The mechanics are simply different.

 

[papa pimp]

the who? you're talking about a few 1000 black people who aren't large enough in numbers to have a real class divide

 

[010101]

LINE IN THE SAND*

 

[RaspberryFitted]

It's not "worse" simply because it's unfamiliar to you. The mechanics are simply different.

shouldn’t be unfamiliar to him because he’s a Yoruba prince

 

[NYC Rebel]

It's not "worse" simply because it's unfamiliar to you. The mechanics are simply different.

Stop talking. I’ve lived on both sides of the continent and have a lived in experience to both. Stop talking.

Look at African nations. The rich don’t give two shyts about the poor.

I’ll take Kwame Toure opinion over someone on the coli

 

[NYC Rebel]

shouldn’t be unfamiliar to him because he’s a Yoruba prince

I grew up in Brooklyn dead ass broke. I never visited Nigeria until 28 years old.

The class thing was unfamiliar to me.

 

[Apollo Creed]

I grew up in Brooklyn dead ass broke. I never visited Nigeria until 28 years old.

The class thing was unfamiliar to me.

How many damn chiefdoms they got in yourbaland where everyone a damn prince

 

[CrushedGroove]

All jokes aside, some of the wisest people with the biggest hearts for humanity, that I know, were poor. Understanding finances don't mean you understand everything.

Most, as in the high majority, are good people. A lot of my fam are poor and we need each other. As in, I need to be reminded to be humble and grateful, and sometimes they see me and know that success is attainable from where we come from.

 

[NYC Rebel]

How many damn chiefdoms they got in yourbaland where everyone a damn prince

my family is from Ife, the cradle of Yoruba civilization. Not some offbrand chiefdom. My fam is one of the four royal families.

I brought the Ooni to Brooklyn.



His grandfather was my great grandfather’s nephew who paid for his grandfather’s education.

That bullshyt doesn’t work with me and I pull rank when other Yoruba speak on that because they know

The only reason they were willing to listen to me is because they know that it was my family’s turn to produce the next king and this was a concession for me.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Looks like the first page of a coli thread

Right, none of the people that commented seem like serious people.