What is being "pro black" exactly?

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Not simple. We need examples. These are just general sayings everyone says. What exactly is "economic growth" for black people? "Activism"... ? Doing what exactly? Where? How?

Economic growth really depends on your means and there are various levels to it. If you have the capital you can start a business within the community or even doing something simple like supporting a black business.

You can google the definition of activism for yourself if you don't know what it means.
 

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Pro black is simply a response to anti black anti African sentiments and practices that have taken place for the past 1000 years

A group of white folks decided they would create a "Hametic hypothesis" that declared all Africans were cursed due to them being the children of ham, who was cursed by God for not covering noah when he was a drunk laying naked. God cursed his grandson canaan. This became the justification for our enslavement. What would follow is hundreds of years of lies about our history and the breaking up of black families.

So pro black simply responds to that attack. They broke black families up and attempted to breed us out or kill us, so in response we choose to have a black wife/husband and black children, they lied and said we never contributed anything to civilization so in response we teach the truth of our history and what we did contribute to civilization. They said our thick lips, dark skin and kinky hair were all bad things so we in response uplift those things and appreciate our phenotype. They destroyed black businesses and trade so we reestablish those things, and so forth.

Hope that explains it.
 
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Thinking and behaving in a way that's contributes to the positive development and prosperity of the black community. If you are doing something that does not help the black community, but instead subtracts from its growth and/or welfare, you are not pro-black. :francis:
 

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Life isn't supposed to be fair. Especially among your own people. A true pro black person believes in the advancement of the black race. Should they care about holding their chin high and receiving the adulation of their community then focus on black women.

A black man with a PAWG could do more for their local community than everyone combined but they'll still get certain looks and comments if they talk about black problems. It's not so much a matter of rightness than it is what it is.
 

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I think that's a tougher question to answer than people believe. I don't care about the Donald Glover stuff or any other celebrity and In my opinion I don't care about people dating IR. Can people date IR and be pro black is a popular thread this week. Can they? Being in a IR relationship doesn't erase their black experience so they can and should feel comfortable chiming in. I don't think being attracted to or procreating makes you a less credible to speak on black male issues if you're a male or female issues if you're a black female in a IR relationship. The problem comes when you're with a white partner and criticize black women as a man in a IR relationship vice versa as a black female with a white man you can't talk about us. How many times has a thread with a black female making some crazy hot take on black men been thrown out because she dates cacs A LOT. I can't nor do most of us guys trust pro black women in IR relationships to judge us so I can't blame BW for feeling the same about black men in IR relationships making critiques of black women. If you're happy in a IR relationship prove it and stop talking about us.

I think most black folk are pro black I just think the methods and routes (Assimilation, Republican, intersectional, Swirl) some of us are headed for the betterment of ourselves aren't going to pan out but I'm not rooting against anyone black if they own their blackness, want the best for us and will stick with it through highs and lows of being pro black.
 

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The sad thing that the digital cult of social media has shown us?

There are two types of pro-black.

There is the open ended pro-black that represents you being a black person who identifies with the struggles, trials and tribulations of black people in Western Society and are enthusiastic about dialogue and action to better the situation.

And then there is Pro Black, Inc.

This is the exclusive club that has a very strict and trademarked standard. Unless you completely check every box that a hive mind digital culture has set without genuine thoughtfulness, you are either unable to ever fix your mouth to say your pro black or in tune with helping improve the human rights situation caused by institutional racism or, if you've previously been inducted, you could be ex-communicated without intellectual due process.

As far as I'm concerned... The latter can kick fukking rocks because it's toxic as fukk.
 

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To me, being "Pro Black" is basically "I want black people as a whole to reach incredible highs, compete with or best other groups in all areas of activity and actually exist and be free of white supremacy for generations to come."

Also being pro black is to be pure excellence. You cant be pro black and be an black under achiever, brehs.

I digress.. So if you procreate with or marry other races, you're not building our numbers or passing down resources to future black people. (If you can't tell, I don't subscribe to the belief that biracials are black, like those of us who come from generations of black ass people)

One of the biggest pro black things you can do is create another successful black person. Period. Unless you're breaking bread with the community or putting them on game to paper/opportunities people who swirl are lost causes with very few exceptions.

You can be pro black and fukk other races, that's just recreation. No nikka should be the dikk police, if you ain't cupcaking with a cac, regurgitating their rhetoric, who gives a shyt. But where is your resources/knowledge going to at the end of the day? That's what I'm concerned about.

In summation, pro black = Putting black first no matter the environment, no matter how grim the situation looks. being black excellence, abstaining from the fukkery (unless on the coli :mjgrin:) . marrying a like minded black person. getting that paper as a team and raising black children who come from such a beautiful union. :blessed:
 

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To me, being "Pro Black" is basically "I want black people as a whole to reach incredible highs, compete with or best other groups in all areas of activity and actually exist and be free of white supremacy for generations to come."

Also being pro black is to be pure excellence. You cant be pro black and be an black under achiever, brehs.

I digress.. So if you procreate with or marry other races, you're not building our numbers or passing down resources to future black people. (If you can't tell, I don't subscribe to the belief that biracials are black, like those of us who come from generations of black ass people)

One of the biggest pro black things you can do is create another successful black person. Period. Unless you're breaking bread with the community or putting them on game to paper/opportunities people who swirl are lost causes with very few exceptions.

You can be pro black and fukk other races, that's just recreation. No nikka should be the dikk police, if you ain't cupcaking with a cac, regurgitating their rhetoric, who gives a shyt. But where is your resources/knowledge going to at the end of the day? That's what I'm concerned about.

In summation, pro black = Putting black first no matter the environment, no matter how grim the situation looks. being black excellence, abstaining from the fukkery (unless on the coli :mjgrin:) . marrying a like minded black person. getting that paper as a team and raising black children who come from such a beautiful union. :blessed:
According to your standards, then,

Anyone marrying a biracial is not pro-black.

Biracials, by their very nature, would be doing a disservice to black people by continuing to date blacks and possibly procreating with them because it would further dilute the blackness.

Since biracials aren't black, calculations of the buying power of the black dollar would have to parse out biracial's income.

And further, if you're a black person who has married a biracial or white person, and woke up today and truly and genuinely realized that he or she needs to commit themselves to pro-blackness, they can't just dedicate time and blood to the cause, they'd have to legit abandon their biracial kids and non-black spouse in order to be considered pro-black.

You don't see the significant issues and ridiculous counter-productivity of that thinking?
 

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To me, being "Pro Black" is basically "I want black people as a whole to reach incredible highs, compete with or best other groups in all areas of activity and actually exist and be free of white supremacy for generations to come."

Also being pro black is to be pure excellence. You cant be pro black and be an black under achiever, brehs.

I digress.. So if you procreate with or marry other races, you're not building our numbers or passing down resources to future black people. (If you can't tell, I don't subscribe to the belief that biracials are black, like those of us who come from generations of black ass people)

One of the biggest pro black things you can do is create another successful black person. Period. Unless you're breaking bread with the community or putting them on game to paper/opportunities people who swirl are lost causes with very few exceptions.

You can be pro black and fukk other races, that's just recreation. No nikka should be the dikk police, if you ain't cupcaking with a cac, regurgitating their rhetoric, who gives a shyt. But where is your resources/knowledge going to at the end of the day? That's what I'm concerned about.

In summation, pro black = Putting black first no matter the environment, no matter how grim the situation looks. being black excellence, abstaining from the fukkery (unless on the coli :mjgrin:) . marrying a like minded black person. getting that paper as a team and raising black children who come from such a beautiful union. :blessed:
Church.

Also. c00ns and agents like @ItsGhost know exactly what it means to be pro black. They’re not dumb. They use one of the most powerful tool’s the white supremacists mastered which is the art of wasting time. Black people need to realize these little trolling tactics they like to use, such as time wasting and eurostep past their bullshyt.
 

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Marrying someone black.

Being for black empowerment or black ownership.

Not supporting the alt right or feminist lgbt liberal movement.

Being proud of ur heritage and who u are.

Not worshipping cacs for being white or taking any disrespect

Pro-Black means doing everything in your power to empower the Black collective where you are located. That includes, procreating with Black people.

 

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Church.

Also. c00ns and agents like @ItsGhost know exactly what it means to be pro black. They’re not dumb. They use one of the most powerful tool’s the white supremacists mastered which is the art of wasting time. Black people need to realize these little trolling tactics they like to use, such as time wasting and eurostep past their bullshyt.

:comeon:

"Pro black" is the biggest sham in America. So what is the day in the life of a pro black breh? :jbhmm: Do I wake up, pump my fist in the air, salute at a pic of MLK on my wall, and get on the coli and dikk police all the brehs that pawg? The point I'm making is there's no actual clear cut code or method to being pro black other than this nonsense of not dating outside your race and only marching for injustices. It's all one big mirage. Especially when the majority of self proclaimed pro black people ain't doing nothing for their community. The people who are actually pro black don't go around saying that they're pro black.
 

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"Pro black" is the biggest sham in America. So what is the day in the life of a pro black breh? :jbhmm: Do I wake up, pump my fist in the air, salute at a pic of MLK on my wall, and get on the coli and dikk police all the brehs that pawg? The point I'm making is there's no actual clear cut code or method to being pro black other than this nonsense of not dating outside your race and only marching for injustices. It's all one big mirage. Especially when the majority of self proclaimed pro black people ain't doing nothing for their community. The people who are actually pro black don't go around saying that they're pro black.
This is exactly what I mean by time wasting.

Pro blackness is not an action. Pro blackness is simply a mindset. You can be powerless (which individually all of us are) and still be pro black. I don’t have the patience to sit here and lay it out all in the table. You know if it’s in you or not. We don’t have time to help c00ns find themselves, it’s too late in the day for that shyt considering what kind of American we’re living in today.
 
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