Black Culture Discussion Thread

Interesting the topic of racial stereotypes as it pertains to violence,

I honestly forgot that I had this Doc., but it is VERY informative,

Keep in mind that this is not a pro-black Doc or an anti-white thing, it is of American sociology

Also some of this is a lil' more graphic than the norm, so be aware of that...











 
 
A$AP Rocky Compares His Fashion Struggle To Civil Rights Movement
November 06, 2014 | Mitchell Steinfeld


A$AP Rocky discussed his recent negative views on the Hood by Air fashion brand in an interview with New York Magazine published today (November 6).

Rocky debuted the song “Multiply” this April at Coachella which included the line “HBA **** is weak, you can keep that.”

In October, A$AP Rocky dropped the visuals for the Juicy-J assisted track “Multiply.”

A$AP Rocky, who had worn HBA in previous years, said that he doesn’t have a serious issue with the brand, but that his fashion tastes have evolved.

“I’m going to put it to you like this: I can say that I’ve been scrutinized for my fashion since I was about 15 years old,” Rocky says in the interview. “A lot of people got it easy. I feel like I had to go through the whole Civil Rights Movement just to be comfortable, to make other people comfortable, to be able to wear what they want to wear, and a lot of dudes are just claiming to have it without having to have that sacrifice or suffering through all that kind of ****. We’ve been through that kind of ****. That’s all I can really say about it. It is really miniscule. It’s no real beef.”

Rocky, who is still prepping his sophomore album, said he thinks “HBA **** is weak,” so he does not know if he would work with the brand again.

A$AP Rocky clarified the struggle he endured through fashion.

“The way that I look now, this wasn’t acceptable about 12 years ago in the hood,” Rocky says while wearing a closely tailored black suit. “Because we’ve always been dressing like this and it wasn’t acceptable and we made it acceptable.”

THIS GUY IS A COMPLETE IDIOT COMPARING FASHION STRUGGLES TO PEOPLE GETTING BEAT, HARASSED & MURDER BECAUSE THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN...THIS NEW GENERATION IS PATHETIC....
 
I'm not gonna hate on ASAP. Dude is cool in my book.

I feel like calling Black people out on stuff like this is just nit picking.
 
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Just wanna bring this to the thread HOUSING DISCRIMINATION investigation going on down here in the N.O. its all of the news & the papers down here
SOURCE: NOLA.COM

Discrimination shuts out black renters from New Orleans' wealthy neighborhoods, report finds


African-American families are often steered away from the opportunity to rent in more affluent neighborhoods in New Orleans, preventing them from living in communities with lower crime rates and better educational systems, according to a report released Thursday (Nov. 6) by the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center.

The nonprofit organization sent two undercover "mystery shoppers," one black and one white, with matching incomes, careers and rental histories to Lakeview, East Carrollton, and Uptown near Audubon Park.

They attempted to view or apply for 50 apartments and 44 percent of the time the black tester was denied the opportunity to rent or was "treated unfairly," including failing to show for appointments, ignoring follow-up inquiries or failing to mention benefits offered to the white testers, according to the report.

"Unfortunately, in New Orleans not only does the place where a person lives contribute to one's life outcomes, but race plays a significant part in determining whether one can find a home in neighborhoods that offer the greatest opportunity for positive life outcomes," the report states.

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, family status and nationality.

The neighborhoods where the tests took place are at least 70 percent white, compared to 34 percent citywide, have low levels of violent crime, high levels of education and an average household income of $69,000 compared to the city average of $36,600.

The neighborhoods also have greater access to public transportation and lower hospitalization rates for chronic illnesses and congestive heart failure.

The tests were conducted over a four-month period starting last December. The testers, who were trained by the fair housing action center, contacted real estate agents or housing providers and expressed interest in apartment units for rent, asking for basic information, attempting to arrange a viewing and requesting a rental application.

In four cases the real estate agents or housing providers ignored requests by black testers for information while promptly contacting the white testers.

In 10 cases, the agents "pursued and favored" the white testers while "refusing to show the apartment, ceasing to respond to follow-up inquiries after a showing, or failing to provide an application" to the black testers.

During a test near Audubon Park, "a housing provider did not show up to the prearranged appointment to view the apartment with an African-American tester, but did show up that same day to show the apartment to the white tester. The owner subsequently contacted the white tester and tried to lure him into taking the apartment with a break on the utilities payment. The owner never contacted the African-American again."

In an Algiers Point test, the leasing agent canceled an appointment with the black tester, "stating that a deposit on the apartment had been received. However, the agent subsequently met with the white tester to view the apartment, and followed up with the white tester to ask if he was interested."

In nine cases, real estate agents or housing providers gave white testers preferential treatment by reducing application fees, rents and deposit amounts, discounting utilities or waiving the application process entirely.

"In one case, a white tester was told the application process was 'laid back' and required only that the tester be employed; this same housing provider told the African-American tester that he needed to have six months' employment, a landlord reference, and undergo a credit check," according to the report.

To help combat housing discrimination, the fair housing action center recommends that the city impose strict penalties on leasing agents and homeowners who engage in the practice, improve the quality of the city's housing stock, and ensure that lower-income residents in improving neighborhoods such as Bywater, St. Roch, Treme and Holy Cross are not forced out due to higher rents.

"When discriminatory and unfavorable treatment occur in the housing market, neighborhoods become out of reach for many African-Americans, who are too often pushed to racially segregated neighborhoods far from vital services and pathways to opportunity," the report concluded.
 
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The thing is its not so much the rental companies fault but their white clients that will flea if too many blacks move around them...not saying they have a right but from their viewpoint I see why they do what they do
 
^^reped for that n.o piece 

lost due to low turn out in 2013 
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Samuel “Sam” Jones is the first Black mayor of Mobile, Ala. After years of serving in a smaller public office role, Jones took the city’s top job in 2005 before losing an reelection bid in 2013. Jones, a native of the city, gradated from Central High School. He attended college in Jacksonville, Fla., graduating from Jacksonville University. Jones served nine years in the U.S. Navy under the command of Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona aboard the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier.

Jones’ work in the civilian sector led to him becoming the executive director of Mobile Community Action, Inc. from 1980 to 1987. He then began serving the first of four terms as the Mobile County Commissioner. Jones made history by becoming Mobile’s mayor in September 2005, winning the support of locals across all demographics with a promise of bringing economic development and government structure to the city.
But Jones’ reign as mayor came to an end in August 2013 after he lost a tightly-contested race to Republican businessman Sandy Stimpson. This summer, Jones was appointed to the Mobile Area Water and Sewer Service’s Board of Commissioners.

Although some leaders balked at the appointment and considered it a ruse for Jones to find his way back into major office, he as insisted that his focus is solely on the work of the board. On October 29, 2013, the Mobile City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution that would rename the city’s Mobile Government Plaza to the Samuel L. Jones Government Plaza in honor of his work with the city.

The renaming of the building is still currently pending approval by the Mobile County Commission. Jones, according to what’s been written, is single and never married.
 
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You guys seen the new trailer for the 'Exodus' movie? Straight whitewashed, they even remade the Egyptian statues to have white faces.
 
No surprise on Exodus. The fact is that white film makers dictate the cast, characters, etc. So we simply need not to support and create our own. Problem solved.

I'm trying to give certain things practically zero attention. Use the energy of disdain or complaint for creation and building.
 
Joseph Paul Leonard Jr., 62, who is currently on trial for hate crime murder, allegedly exited his vehicle and proceeded to strike the victim, Toussaint Harrison, several times in the head with his steel-toed work boots.
“Just because we got Obama for a president, these people think they are real special,” Leonard allegedly said while sitting in the back of a sheriff’s patrol car after his arrest.
The incident occurred about 6 a.m. on June 6, 2013 as the victim and another man, Justin Oliphant, were handing out food to homeless people, the newspaper writes. But defense attorneys claim the men had stolen the food from a nearby hotel.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article3609482.html
 
Here's a really cool article/map that hypothesizes how Africa may have looked if it were never colonized by Europeans.

bigthink.com/strange-maps/africa-uncolonized
 
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No surprise on Exodus. The fact is that white film makers dictate the cast, characters, etc. So we simply need not to support and create our own. Problem solved.

Kinda hard to create films on that scale without Hollywood budgets. Next to impossible really.
 
Here's a really cool article/map that hypothesizes how Africa may have looked if it were never colonized by Europeans.

bigthink.com/strange-maps/africa-uncolonized

Great post and interesting to ponder.
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It's crazy how even space images show earth in this orientation. But on paper, western society "Europe" is always on top.
 
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^^People always look at me crazy when I tell them it's worse now than even back then. Good video.
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Great post and interesting to ponder.
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It's crazy how even space images show earth in this orientation. But on paper, western society "Europe" is always on top.

can you link to these space images?

I'm sure the orientation in pictures is based on the poles... but I'd like to see links to the space images you speak of.
 
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can you link to these space images?

I'm sure the orientation in pictures is based on the poles... but I'd like to see links to the space images you speak of.

I'll try to post em when I get off work but Herr is a good article on the subject.




http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/2/maps-cartographycolonialismnortheurocentricglobe.html


The north’s position was ultimately secured by the beginning of the 16th century, thanks to Ptolemy, with another European discovery that, like the New World, others had known about for quite some time. Ptolemy was a Hellenic cartographer from Egypt whose work in the second century A.D. laid out a systematic approach to mapping the world, complete with intersecting lines of longitude and latitude on a half-eaten-doughnut-shaped projection that reflected the curvature of the earth. The cartographers who made the first big, beautiful maps of the entire world, Old and New — men like Gerardus Mercator, Henricus Martellus Germanus and Martin Waldseemuller — were obsessed with Ptolemy. They turned out copies of Ptolemy’s Geography on the newly invented printing press, put his portrait in the corners of their maps and used his writings to fill in places they had never been, even as their own discoveries were revealing the limitations of his work.
 
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so with the grand jury decision supposedly coming today in ferguson, how do you think people will react if wilson isn't indicted.
 
so with the grand jury decision supposedly coming today in ferguson, how do you think people will react if wilson isn't indicted.
Businesses there are expecting riots.  I'm expecting more protests.
 
 
Here's a really cool article/map that hypothesizes how Africa may have looked if it were never colonized by Europeans.

bigthink.com/strange-maps/africa-uncolonized
Great post and interesting to ponder.
alkebu-lan-1260.jpg


It's crazy how even space images show earth in this orientation. But on paper, western society "Europe" is always on top.
This is dope.
 
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