Black Culture Discussion Thread

[tay1]

Just found out he was a victim of identity theft

They raised almost 400,000 at this point

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/uni...man-robbed-entire-bank-account-173742121.html

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Thoughts?

 

[hand2handking]

#HYON

 

[nawghtyhare]

#HYON

I see a bunch of different stuff
In that tag
But not sure what’s going on
What happened

 

[MalcolmNewton]

Thoughts?

Everyone should do what they feel in their hearts and minds is the right thing to do, not what someone else tells them is the right thing to do. While Tariq is an intelligent dude, he is not the king of solving racism problems. In fact, everyone who is non-white is fully qualified to offer an opinion on how to solve the racism problem.

"First they came for the socialists...and I did not speak out because I wasn't a socialist..."

 

[sooperhooper]

Man. I heard stories about feeding babies to gators but didn't want to believe it

 

[nawghtyhare]

Man. I heard stories about feeding babies to gators but didn't want to believe it

Don’t know how U thought that was made up

 

[MalcolmNewton]

 

[k3stacks]

Lena horne a relative of mine.

#blackexcellence

 

[MalcolmNewton]

...

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Sammy Sosa, what is he up to?

 

[pmpdaddyrobford]

Man. I heard stories about feeding babies to gators but didn't want to believe it

You should read some of things Columbus did

 

[sooperhooper]

You should read some of things Columbus did

Where can i find the material.

 

[pmpdaddyrobford]

Where can i find the material.

There's a decent list
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vo...hristopher-columbus-murderer-tyrant-scoundrel

There was an account of a slave owner that said he would have nightmares for the rest of his life. He seen Columbus order a baby to be taken from their mother and then have their head smashed on a rock while the mother was then rapped.
Id need to find that source, can't remember.


"But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had invested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.

The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. "

https://www.sott.net/article/267451-Columbus-and-the-Indians-By-Howard-Zinn

 

[sooperhooper]

There's a decent list
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vo...hristopher-columbus-murderer-tyrant-scoundrel

There was an account of a slave owner that said he would have nightmares for the rest of his life. He seen Columbus order a baby to be taken from their mother and then have their head smashed on a rock while the mother was then rapped.
Id need to find that source, can't remember.


"But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had invested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.

The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. "

https://www.sott.net/article/267451-Columbus-and-the-Indians-By-Howard-Zinn

And this is the man awarded with a holiday and credited with discovering the country.

This is what blacks have been subjected to for generations yet we're expected to perform as if it's a level playing field.

Trump would probably go in that museum and get a hard on... and he's the one chosen to run the country... and people are still surprised by injustice. Smh

 

[kix2mny]

There's a decent list
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vo...hristopher-columbus-murderer-tyrant-scoundrel

There was an account of a slave owner that said he would have nightmares for the rest of his life. He seen Columbus order a baby to be taken from their mother and then have their head smashed on a rock while the mother was then rapped.
Id need to find that source, can't remember.


"But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had invested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.

The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. "

https://www.sott.net/article/267451-Columbus-and-the-Indians-By-Howard-Zinn

Wish they taught this in school. I was so hppy to get the day off from school back in the day but the older I got the more I learned about how **** up this person was.

Wait until my son is asked to do a report about this scum. I’m pretty sure they will call me to principal office.

 

[pmpdaddyrobford]

Wish they taught this in school. I was so hppy to get the day off from school back in the day but the older I got the more I learned about how **** up this person was.

Wait until my son is asked to do a report about this scum. I’m pretty sure they will call me to principal office.

And some places have actually been changing it to "Natives Day"

 

[Quincy McCall]

Some have probably heard the interview already but for the Floridians who haven't, very good interview by Gillium. I don't know his track record in Tally but he's picking up steam ahead of primaries

 

[MalcolmNewton]

 

[sooperhooper]

No lie, threads like this make me want to unleash my inner savage and risk it all. Our people get shafted for generations and then all of a sudden we're asked to play nice: {

 

[hand2handking]

Boat Explodes: Black People Help Save Lives. White People Cry and Run.

 

[nawghtyhare]

No lie, threads like this make me want to unleash my inner savage and risk it all. Our people get shafted for generations and then all of a sudden we're asked to play nice: {

Black folks aren’t savages though
Regardless of what they want us to believe
We are VERY compassionate people
Very forgiving too

 

[ggarvinxx3]

Black folks aren’t savages though
Regardless of what they want us to believe
We are VERY compassionate people
Very forgiving too

Too forgiving...

 

[sooperhooper]

I honestly think that they just programmed our people to not be savage by implementing religion. The real savages are the ones that run **** in this country smh

 

[tay1]

Black Men are Succeeding in America

Share of poverty among men by race/ethnicity, 1960-2016
Percentage of men in poverty

(CNN) In recent years, much of the racial news in America has been sobering, if not depressing. Trayvon Martin. Tamir Rice. Walter Scott. Ferguson. Baltimore. And Charlottesville. While many public commentators, like Ta-Nehisi Coates, have underlined the enduring character of racism in America, and the ways in which America's racial divide has exacted a particular kind of toll on black men and boys, there is today, unheralded, good news about African-American men.

Despite a portrait of race relations that often highlights the negative, especially regarding black men (many Americans, according to a 2006 study by the Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University, believed that crime, unemployment, and poverty are endemic among African-American men), the truth is that most black men will not beincarcerated, are not unemployed, and are not poor -- even if black men are more likely than other men to experience these outcomes.
In fact, millions of black men are flourishing in America today.


Our new report, "Black Men Making It In America," spotlights two pieces of particular good news about the economic well-being of black men.
First, the share of black men in poverty has fallen from 41% in 1960 to 18% today. Second, and more importantly, the share of black men in the middle or upper class -- as measured by their family income -- has risen from 38% in 1960 to 57% today. In other words, about one-in-two black men in America have reached the middle class or higher.

This good news is important and should be widely disseminated because it might help reduce prejudicialviews of black men in the society at large, and negative portrayals of black men in the media. It should also engender hope among all African-Americans -- particularly young black males.

Correcting overly negative depictions and attitudes regarding black men is important because they shape how black men are treated, and how black men view their potential. Alan Jenkins, executive director of Opportunity Agenda, a social justice organization, noted that "Research and experience show that expectations and biases on the part of potential employers, teachers, health care providers, police officers, and other stakeholders influence the life outcomes of millions of black males."
So, what routes are black men taking to make it in America?
Tracking black men from young adulthood through their 50s using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we identified three factors that are associated with their success: education, work, and marriage.

Black men who worked full-time, had some college education, or were married were much more likely to be members of the middle or upper class by the time they got to their 50s. We found, for instance, that the odds that black men make it to the middle or upper class are at least three times higher for those men who marry, compared to their peers who never married. Their financial well-being is higher partly because married black women contribute a higher share of income to the household than other married women.
Adding to the chances of black men achieving middle class and higher status is the US military. We found that serving in the military was associated with a 72% increase in the odds that black men made it into the middle class or higher as 50-something men.
By providing stable work, good health care, housing, and opportunities for advancement, by championing virtues such as duty, responsibility, loyalty, and perseverance, and by pushing racial integration, the US military has served as an important route into the middle class.

Moreover, the US military is also known for its marriage-oriented culture, and we found that black men who served in the military as young men were much more likely to be married later, at ages 29-37, compared to their peers who did not serve. This marriage advantage played a role in boosting their later odds of success.
Of course, the story our report tells is not all rose-colored. Black men are significantly less likely to make it into the middle and upper class than their white and Asian-American peers. The odds of black men in their 50s making it to the middle class were about 60% lower for those who were charged with a crime as a young adult.
Given that racial segregation, poverty, and bias affect the odds that young black males get caught up in the criminal justice system, systemic racism limits the economic fortunes of black men. What's more: right now, only a small minority of black men graduate from college: 17%. Schools and colleges need to do more to identify, recruit, and support young black men so they are accepted, attend, and graduate from four-year colleges and universities in the US.

Amidst all that's wrong about race in America today, we cannot lose sight of two sets of social facts: today, about one-in-two black men have made it in America, and these men have traveled routes into the middle class that can be replicated.

The evidence suggests that if more Americans knew how many black men were succeeding, and more about the routes they are taking, it would reduce racial prejudice and engender hope among today's young black males that they too have a shot at making it in America.