I don't even think unity is possible at this point. We're too far gone for that. We really need to focus on being better individuals I think the more people you try to get on board, the further back you push progress. You've got to move forward and educate yourself about your own history everyday and do it with a passion. Live it and speak it and if someone just so happens to agree with you, then you two as like minded individuals can work together. But fukk trying to save a bunch of wayward nikkas. You'll never get anywhere trying to do that.
I can't let myself believe that. Maybe I'm foolish, dumb, an optimist, but I can't let myself believe that the community as a whole is beyond help. I agree we need to develop the individual, but I do feel that the "enlightened ones" need to go out and attempt to affect some sort of change, even if its on a small scale (ie, educating your brother, nephew, neighbor or kid down the street.)
what it is, is so many of these c00ns are enamored with white culture. they think they're special if they like to skate board or listen to punk music. they internalized that shyt as other black people dont get them or understand them and from there it leads to subconsciously hating being black and or black culture.
What they lil fakkits dont realize is theyre not special. You can like non standard black shyt and still keep it trill when it comes to race. Theyre lost tho and im like fukk em. I honestly dont even fukk with black younger than 25, a fukking different species.
While this does happen, we gotta be careful not to ostracize or exclude others because their interests are outside of the norm. I like punk music as much as I like hip hop. Played bass (not too well) in a shytty punk band. Apparently I was too tall to be good at skating (
) but I had friends who skated. I never saw myself as being better than, or different from my friends who would rather listen to rap exclusively. As a comic book and graphic novel fan, I'm a Dwayne McDuffie fan and was genuinely sad when he died (one of the few successful black comic book writers)Only thing was I sought out black bands. (Bad brains, living colour, etc) I sought out black skaters like Kareem Campbell and Terry Kennedy. Whatever I did, I tried to find people that looked like me, I didn't see myself as above.
Tldr: we need not to discourage young black kids with "alternative" interests, or automatically think that they're white washed.
The crazy thing is, a lot of our grand parents and parents were alive and around during the Civil Rights Era and segregation. Haven't they told y'all the reality of being black in America since our ancestors were sold into slavery?
There are tons of people who grew up in single parent households and they were given a strong foundation, the problem is the fact that it's brushed aside and people like to act like it was such a long ago when the 50s and 60s really weren't. It was basically yesterday. And it's no different, yeah we can eat in the same restaurants as white people, piss in the same toilets, but damn if you're a black man minding his own business and some crazy white person wants a nikka dead, chances are not a thing's gonna happen. And that cracka gon go free, because if you're a black man in America who breathes and exists you're a fukking problem. There should be more outrage and anger about the obvious unfair realities. The attention is being put in the wrong direction, black women vs black men for what? We in the same position, if anything black men got it worse, and we should be sticking together. It's stupid. The division between black men and women is absolutely mind boggling to me, especially since we fukking need each other.
Right on. We really do need each other. Now more than ever. I always say, some of the rhetoric I see spewed here, I really hope that its just anonymous Internet posturing.