Black Culture Discussion Thread

[DCAllAfrican]

Question: At work, how long do yall, "help a brother out", before you go ahead and throw his goofy *** to the wolves?

I'd never throw anyone under the bus. Eventually they will hang themselves. Not my place to put one of US under the bus in front of them.

 

[tr1ll]

Im trying not to but homeboy is making it hard.

 

[maq25060]

Question: At work, how long do yall, "help a brother out", before you go ahead and throw his goofy *** to the wolves?

Right up until I determine he's a goof.

But like DC said, you typically don't need to do anything. Those people will be found on their own.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Im trying not to but homeboy is making it hard.

In short what is happening? What's the situation.

 

[tr1ll]

In short what is happening? What's the situation.

I dont know if he's not focused,he's just fed up with the job or what. He just keep coming up with new ways to mess up and its affecting other people. The most egregious....I dont want to get too far into the work woods....but he did some calculations, realized he forgot to add interest and tried to add the interest to the final number. Thats not how math works b. You have to do the whole thing over. This is people's money, it all has to be allocated to seperate parties. The fact that he even thought assumed he could do that lets me know he don't even understand what or why he's doing what he's doing. Also, the girl who trained him said he was a goofy day one, 2 years ago...and shes YOUNG. He wasn't working with me at the time so I didnt pay it any mind and thought he'd tighten up a bit. Nope.

 

[finessence]

Let that boy hang himself. Shout out Brooks off “Shawshank Redemption”

 

[maq25060]

That brother needs more help than you could ever give him.

 

[deuce king]

This.

You don't know what you don't know. Someone growing up in a family that doesn't know the value of education is less likely to explore career avenues linked to it, and it's very hard to sell the value of a good education when you're surrounded by unemployed folks with degrees and certs. The second point tends to be one consequence of concentrated poverty, and it is not unique to Black Americans.

Newsflash champ………NOBODY CARES how you grew up, where you grow up, and what you don’t have and or aren’t equipped with. The world is not this caring utopia that some of you dudes want it to be. Everyone doesn’t start off on equal footing or is given a “fair opportunity”………such is life, especially for Black America.

If you want to go door to door to every black household in an effort to help educate and improve them I say go for it, can’t knock the hustle. At the end of the day if a person or family doesn’t know the value of an education then that’s on them. Nobody is giving anything away for free just because you started out with “less than” someone else. Sink or swim champ.

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

I dont know if he's not focused,he's just fed up with the job or what. He just keep coming up with new ways to mess up and its affecting other people. The most egregious....I dont want to get too far into the work woods....but he did some calculations, realized he forgot to add interest and tried to add the interest to the final number. Thats not how math works b. You have to do the whole thing over. This is people's money, it all has to be allocated to seperate parties. The fact that he even thought assumed he could do that lets me know he don't even understand what or why he's doing what he's doing. Also, the girl who trained him said he was a goofy day one, 2 years ago...and shes YOUNG. He wasn't working with me at the time so I didnt pay it any mind and thought he'd tighten up a bit. Nope.

Yeah, I don’t know man. If you cool with dude, you could offer to help, but if he gets defensive about it, I’d say screw it.

Had a similar situation at my old job. Always told dude to reach out if he needed help. He never did and ended up basically getting fired (which took forever).

 

[Raji Lowenthal]

I'd never throw anyone under the bus. Eventually they will hang themselves. Not my place to put one of US under the bus in front of them.

What if you don't work for them, but US?
I'm only throwing you under the bus if it's about to hit me but it ain't my fault, otherwise I'll let it play out.

 

[finessence]

Newsflash champ………NOBODY CARES how you grew up, where you grow up, and what you don’t have and or aren’t equipped with. The world is not this caring utopia that some of you dudes want it to be. Everyone doesn’t start off on equal footing or is given a “fair opportunity”………such is life, especially for Black America.

If you want to go door to door to every black household in an effort to help educate and improve them I say go for it, can’t knock the hustle. At the end of the day if a person or family doesn’t know the value of an education then that’s on them. Nobody is giving anything away for free just because you started out with “less than” someone else. Sink or swim champ.

Bingo.

Survival of the fittest

 

[DCAllAfrican]

What if you don't work for them, but US?
I'm only throwing you under the bus if it's about to hit me but it ain't my fault, otherwise I'll let it play out.

Same thing.

They will eventually hang themselves but as you said if I will be impacted I would need to say something.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Cats think they did something extraordinary when they just got a good spawn point.

This needs to go on a t-shirt.

 

[Public Enemy]

 

[tr1ll]

Is that an Autobot tattoo?

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Take care of yallselves man



Peep Game , The interview dude. How known is he around the city?

 

[gry60]

The logical conclusion of the "just asking questions..." mindset

 

[Public Enemy]

******* disgusting

 

[Public Enemy]

 

[Public Enemy]

How homeownership shaped race in America, with Adrienne Brown (Ep. 141)

Book goes beyond the history of discriminatory practices to show how homeownership changed our perceptions of race

news.uchicago.edu

"Paul Rand: Many of you probably think you’ve heard this story before, but Brown is telling a totally new story, one that’s gone largely unexplored and totally flips the script to understand not only how race shaped housing in America, but how housing also shaped race.

Adrienne Brown: This new idea of how to be white, how to inhabit whiteness changes so much between the early 20th century and the mid-20th century, and home ownership is the engine that really changes how whiteness is thought about, how it’s defined, and how people see and value it. And in my mind, those questions are aesthetic questions. They’re about learning how people see, how people understand what race is and how they come to inhabit those norms of sight, action, performance. And those questions to me are humanistic questions, right? Questions that you have to understand how people lived, saw, and experienced race.

Paul Rand: To get into the minds of the people who shaped this history, Brown looks beyond just historical documents, pulling in all the cultural artifacts to speak to the inner workings of people’s thoughts such as art novels, movies, ads, magazines.

Adrienne Brown: It’s those kinds of places where this idea of feeling and property and race come up across the ownership archive, from writers like Steinbeck to housing administrators who use similar language around feeling and racial capacity, where I’m like, “Oh, feeling is really important to understanding this story.” And it’s not just about maps and data and census records, but understanding the way that feeling becomes so important to how people understand what home ownership is and how it works."

 

[Grine]

 

[Cashflow]