Black Culture Discussion Thread

[executive76]

Eating regular food that's already available has nothing to do with being spoiled and certainly not having a silver spoon.

The truth is many people don't view kids as people. Children were/are third class citizens who were tolerated.

I believe some parents didn't buy their kids certain things or didn't let their kids do certain things only because their parents didn't. Like Anthony Mackie

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

My 6 year old neice be asking me to fix her stuff or get stuff out the pantry, like nah, gone in there and get it yourself!

Trippin.

Children THAT young have no business being able to grab and get food whenever they want.

That's how big bones are created because they are children and they absolutely have NO sense about moderation/timing/etc as far as eating is concerned.

 

[wavycrocket]

Smush with the cameo

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[Raji Lowenthal]

This adds up

finessence posts definitely come from a place of black privilege. Tryna make sure my kids got them effed up attitudes

 

[fluid hips]

Bruh why am I seeing dudes out in public with bonnets on

 

[fluid hips]

When you in survival mode, education gets put on the back burner.

Hard to focus on education when you don't know where your next meal is coming from or if you're gonna make rent to put a roof over your head.

This why we need to stop normalizing baby daddies and baby mamas. Setting kids up to fail without a strong family unit.

You need a stable family unit as a foundation in order to build on and to serve as a parachute so folks can have the luxury of taking risks such as furthering education

These social economics factors were also exacerbated by the GI bill after WWII.

Black folk were excluded from these loans that enabled white people to buy houses and further their education which they were able to pass on to future generations.

Dudes gotta understand, the playing field was never equal. How can you expect someone starting on first base to compete with someone starting at third base

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Re: Promoting family units

Be careful before they call what you are preaching right-wing talking points.

But I agree with you man. The broken families do nothing but further widen that gap.

I wish I had a fix but I can't really see anything changing.

 

[finessence]

finessence posts definitely come from a place of black privilege. Tryna make sure my kids got them effed up attitudes

I was spoiled rotten fam but I was never arrogant and I always shared. And I’ve been working since 17 too. So I wasn’t just a spoiled kid who ended up lazy and selfish

Some us actually end up being contributing citizens

 

[finessence]

Bruh why am I seeing dudes out in public with bonnets on

Same reason they got blonde, green, blue, purple hair etc

 

[finessence]

Re: Promoting family units

Be careful before they call what you are preaching right-wing talking points.

But I agree with you man. The broken families do nothing but further widen that gap.

I wish I had a fix but I can't really see anything changing.

I agree but schools need to bring back TRADES as well. College isn’t for everyone. There’s nothing wrong with having a blue collar job.

Black men would make a KILLING in engineering, construction, etc if geared towards it

 

[TSCQ]

black men gotta wear all type of hats to beat out "them"

 

[maq25060]

Some us actually end up being contributing citizens

Define some

 

[frenchbreadbuilds]

When you in survival mode, education gets put on the back burner.

Hard to focus on education when you don't know where your next meal is coming from or if you're gonna make rent to put a roof over your head.

This why we need to stop normalizing baby daddies and baby mamas. Setting kids up to fail without a strong family unit.

You need a stable family unit as a foundation in order to build on and to serve as a parachute so folks can have the luxury of taking risks such as furthering education

These social economics factors were also exacerbated by the GI bill after WWII.

Black folk were excluded from these loans that enabled white people to buy houses and further their education which they were able to pass on to future generations.

Dudes gotta understand, the playing field was never equal. How can you expect someone starting on first base to compete with someone starting at third base

I think that’s all of this is true. But there also seems to be a concerted push against black men going to college. Black men make up 19% of students at Howard, they make up a quarter of all students that go to HBCUs. There’s plenty of external factors that act as hurdles to black people getting into college for sure but in my personal life I see a lot of black men captured by high risk/high reward avenues they’re choosing over education. I’ve got cousins who are 5-6 years out of high school who’m all they could talk about after graduating high school was entrepreneurship, owning rental properties, and investing crypto because the only thing they hear when it comes to college is debts. There’s a a concerted effort to get black men to not value education and I fear that it’s working.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Bruh why am I seeing dudes out in public with bonnets on

Bruh why am I seeing dudes out in public with bonnets on

#Respectabilities

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Ain’t no pressures dawg. Dudes are just FOLLOWERS. Every young black male isn’t on that type of time. Ja overcompensates because he CHOOSES too.

We need to stop basing everything on societal issues and call it what it is. People have free will. You hit the ages of 23-25, you have free will and no the difference between right and wrong.

Yea but Free Will isn't independent of society. So it isn't completely FREE (of influence).

Young black men DO feel the pressure of having to be ON. Some overcome that pressure, some ignore that pressure, some give in to it. But we ALL feel it and to pretend it doesn't exist isn't reality.

It's just GOOFY when someone like Ja goes in that direction because again, what kind of example are you setting? Again, this man JUST got in trouble for that nonsense and he is STILL going gestures like that? He's just stupid.

 

[finessence]

Yea but Free Will isn't independent of society. So it isn't completely FREE (of influence).

Young black men DO feel the pressure of having to be ON. Some overcome that pressure, some ignore that pressure, some give in to it. But we ALL feel it and to pretend it doesn't exist isn't reality.

It's just GOOFY when someone like Ja goes in that direction because again, what kind of example are you setting? Again, this man JUST got in trouble for that nonsense and he is STILL going gestures like that? He's just stupid.

I’ve never felt the pressure of fitting in with a bunch of broke, busted and disgusted cats in the hood. Caring about the opinion or judgment of people who don’t have s**** always baffled me. Taking care of the family (which he’s done), perfecting a gift/craft that he was born with (basketball)… whyyyyyyy again, wound I (he) even care about proving something to people who are millions of steps behind him…. Matter?

Again, that’s why I respect the guys like Kawhi, Tim Duncan, Grant Hills, etc.

Getting tricked off by some people who’ve never had, or are content with ghetto fame or being hood rich…. Is damn near worse than cancer IMO. Ja made it, again, I know I’m not in his shoes, but this has always confused me. Even before Ja. Growing up, I never understood the mentality of caring about the opinions of broke, bummy people from the hood

 

[deuce king]

Bruh why am I seeing dudes out in public with bonnets on

SMH. It’s a disgrace. WE gotta do better to protect our cultural image black men.

 

[tr1ll]

Men are starting to follow women's lead now. Father your sons.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

I’ve never felt the pressure of fitting in with a bunch of broke, busted and disgusted cats in the hood. Caring about the opinion or judgment of people who don’t have s**** always baffled me. Taking care of the family (which he’s done), perfecting a gift/craft that he was born with (basketball)… whyyyyyyy again, wound I (he) even care about proving something to people who are millions of steps behind him…. Matter?

Again, that’s why I respect the guys like Kawhi, Tim Duncan, Grant Hills, etc.

Getting tricked off by some people who’ve never had, or are content with ghetto fame or being hood rich…. Is damn near worse than cancer IMO. Ja made it, again, I know I’m not in his shoes, but this has always confused me. Even before Ja. Growing up, I never understood the mentality of caring about the opinions of broke, bummy people from the hood

Man we know you are immune to ALL of life's snowballs.

 

[finessence]

Man we know you are immune to ALL of life's snowballs.

Never said immune… I said whyyyyy would I care about broke, busted and DISGUSTED dudes????? The hood is fulllllll of dudes like that? These the cats that dudes like Ja get tricked off the streets by. Again, it’s the hood/slums for a reason. And I’m not generalizing….

Again, why care??!!

I’ve already stated that my outlook was different several times, I know I grew up privileged (again, ja had a full court in his backyard, his pops was a barber, etc). Again…. Why is he trying to stoop to the level of cats who choose to be lowlifes and bums?? Leave them where they are

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Men are starting to follow women's lead now. Father your sons.

FOlks will try and convince you (or tell themselves) that this is how it SHOULD be.

 

[finessence]

Bruh why am I seeing dudes out in public with bonnets on

Bonnets anddddddddd sagging… nastiest of nasty combinations I remember Trae the truth reunited with his daughter, I couldn’t help but notice his SON with a bonnet so, it ain’t just the female influence.

And dudes proudly letting their homeboys come around with colorful hair. I wish a dude I knew would try to get in my whip or hang around me, or come in my house with colorful hair or a purse

 

[DCAllAfrican]

I’ve already stated that my outlook was different several times, I know I grew up privileged (again, ja had a full court in his backyard, his pops was a barber, etc). Again…. Why is he trying to stoop to the level of cats who choose to be lowlifes and bums?? Leave them where they are

Because there IS societal pressure for black boys to go to that darkside (or pretend to go there).

With how much it happens, how can you honestly deny that pressure exists?