Black Culture Discussion Thread

I really don’t care. These people know better. They just DON’T care. Just stay out of me and MINES’ way.

I’m so tired of black people wanting everyone to be responsible for some else’s kids who continue to misbehave out here.

The parents spent time making them, they need to spend the time raising them.

Too many excuses out here.

We celebrate gender reveals and baby showers… once that child gets here and reaches a certain age, it’s “to hell with them”

America OVERALL wants everyone else to raise the children BUT, their parents. It’s getting ridiculous at this point
 
Unpopular opinion, but I live in the area too and I don’t see the issue with them building more housing. Housing stock in the DMV as a whole is low and given the proximity to metro stations and 495, it makes sense. I don’t see them putting some type of town center since you already have Woodmore 5 mins away.
My issue with PG is they will build all these properties but folks still have to drive OUTSIDE the county to get top notch dining and experiences. We need more than Chipotles, Royal Farms, and Chick-Fil-A.

We need more commercial retail in the county.
 
I really don’t care. These people know better. They just DON’T care. Just stay out of me and MINES’ way.

I’m so tired of black people wanting everyone to be responsible for some else’s kids who continue to misbehave out here.

The parents spent time making them, they need to spend the time raising them.

Too many excuses out here.

We celebrate gender reveals and baby showers… once that child gets here and reaches a certain age, it’s “to hell with them”

America OVERALL wants everyone else to raise the children BUT, their parents. It’s getting ridiculous at this point

THIS!!!

I have more in common with a white moral citizen with good character than a black immoral citizen with poor character.

Black folks have nothing to do with what N-words (be it field or house) have going on.

IMHO, N-words and the so-called Black Boulee (AKA "house N-words") are the greatest enemies to progress that black folks have ever faced.

Lumping us all together based solely on the color of our skin is the definition of racism.

No other racial group has to be brought down to their lowest moral common denominator.

Respectability politics is nothing more than "talented tenth" classism endorsed by house n-words.

No different than a Nigerian governor calling for the arrest of deadlock-wearing Nigerian citizens, who would be forced to face the judgment of white man wig-wearing legislators.

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Excellent read on the "myth of the model minority."

Origins​


Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham coined the term ‘politics of respectability’ in her 1993 book Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920. In it, she examines the use of respectability narratives by Black Baptist women to “counter the images of black Americans as lazy, shiftless, stupid, and immoral in popular culture” and appeals for both societal acceptance and equal legal protection.

Even when the word “respectability” is not referred to directly by name, Professor Angela Banks points out in Respectability & the Quest for Citizenship that respectability politics has consistently been used in areas such as immigration law, in hopes of creating more access for excluded immigrants. In particular, she studies the reversal of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act through the use of respectability narratives that “described Chinese immigrants as sharing a belief in and experience with democracy, having a strong work ethic, having high moral standards, Christian or believing in a higher power, a commitment to the rule of law, self-sufficiency, and individualism.” Politically, these strategic narratives and the growing need for U.S.-China allyship during WWII led to the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943. However, the respectability narratives told of Chinese immigrants also paved the way for the model minority myth.

Historian Kenneth Mack explored respectability politics from a legal perspective, coining the term “legalist strand” to describe the intentional use of respectability—or the "similarity of the values, norms, and practices” between dominant and marginalized groups—as the rationale for policy changes that offered more rights to marginalized groups. In short, respectability politics in action.

 
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My issue with PG is they will build all these properties but folks still have to drive OUTSIDE the county to get top notch dining and experiences. We need more than Chipotles, Royal Farms, and Chick-Fil-A.

We need more commercial retail in the county.
we got woodmore and pg plaza... outside of that what else we got? bowie town center, largo town center, jaspers... what else?
 
My issue with PG is they will build all these properties but folks still have to drive OUTSIDE the county to get top notch dining and experiences. We need more than Chipotles, Royal Farms, and Chick-Fil-A.

We need more commercial retail in the county.
I agree, but between racism and grown folk acting like dumbasses, I’m not optimistic that’s going to change. I don’t know how county gov’t can “force” better restaurants to come here.

I see ppl all the time on this FB group complain about all the Crab and chicken spots but I’m like they’re always PACKED though :lol I never see those crowds at the few better or healthier spots, so what is it ppl really want
 
we got woodmore and pg plaza... outside of that what else we got? bowie town center, largo town center, jaspers... what else?
I’d add the Rt. 1 corridor. I know a different demographic lives over there, but there’s decent variety from Hyattsville up through Beltsville.
 


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When they realize that people with short hair also commit crimes…. When they realize that if everyone cut their hair… crimes will continue to ensue :lol :lol

Short or long hair… them capers gone happen regardless :rollin
 
My issue with PG is they will build all these properties but folks still have to drive OUTSIDE the county to get top notch dining and experiences. We need more than Chipotles, Royal Farms, and Chick-Fil-A.

We need more commercial retail in the county.
They set up national harbor and that was it :lol :{

It is weird that a county that big and populated lacks more areas for dining and entertainment, the folks in charge trying to keep it just residential but that’s an old school approach….Suburbs are different these days, should be at least 2 harbor type developments
 


😂🤦🏿‍♂️ that man is wylin, what a waste of limited resource & time…while locks/long hair isn’t exclusive to ‘yahoo boys’ or 419 scammers, in west africa/nigeria long hair on (young) men is kinda synonymous/tied to that negativity.

the long hair thing has been a negative thing for as long as i can remember amongst native nigerians, so i can see the older folks co-signing this off gp 😂. besides the associated fines maybe being a way to extract/generate (tho i would imagine it at best it breaking even) funds i also think there is a growing generational divide culturally between the elders & youngers so it’s probably fuel in that regard too
 
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I have a question as I am not familiar with Nigerian politics but is the hat he wears customary for religious or political purposes? My man is wearing a hat in 100% of his pics online. Not 99.9%. One. Hundred. Percent. You already know that this about. How you let someone that damn insecure into power?
 
😂🤦🏿‍♂️ that man is wylin, what a waste of limited resource & time…while locks/long hair isn’t exclusive to ‘yahoo boys’ or 419 scammers, in west africa/nigeria long hair on (young) men is kinda synonymous/tied to that negativity.

the long hair thing has been a negative thing for as long as i can remember amongst native nigerians, so i can see the older folks co-signing this off gap 😂. besides the associated fines maybe being a way to extract/generate (tho i would imagine it at best it breaking even) funds i also think there is a growing generational divide culturally between the elders & youngers so it’s probably fuel in that regard too
It's not just in Nigeria.

The negativity associated with dreadlocks, braids, and afros on African men and boys is pretty much everywhere on the continent and in the African diaspora. The standard hairstyle during colonialism was short length, and the culture of "men must have short hair" has persisted beyond it.

And because there is no such thing as enforcement of anti-discrimination laws (of the laws themselves exist) in most West African countries, good luck getting service if you look/sound local and you wear dreads/braids.

I have a question as I am not familiar with Nigerian politics but is the hat he wears customary for religious or political purposes? My man is wearing a hat in 100% of his pics online. Not 99.9%. One. Hundred. Percent. You already know that this about. How you let someone that damn insecure into power?
It's just a hat.

Definitely on the formal side of things, but you can wear it with anything from a tee to an evening outfit. It does look best with short hair though.
 
So basically my locc wearing *** needs to scratch Nigeria of my bucket list!?
No. Exceptions are almost always made when you (appear to) have money. That includes tourists. That's why I said "if you look/sound local."
 
It's not just in Nigeria.

The negativity associated with dreadlocks, braids, and afros on African men and boys is pretty much everywhere on the continent and in the African diaspora. The standard hairstyle during colonialism was short length, and the culture of "men must have short hair" has persisted beyond it.

And because there is no such thing as enforcement of anti-discrimination laws (of the laws themselves exist) in most West African countries, good luck getting service if you look/sound local and you wear dreads/braids.


It's just a hat.

Definitely on the formal side of things, but you can wear it with anything from a tee to an evening outfit. It does look best with short hair though.

🤔 i can definitely see that…i just have been firsthand exposed to the west african perspective 😂 but it makes sense that it would exist in the diaspora & have some colonial origin(s) i can’t imagine what the enforcement of this would look like…i’m not that familiar w/that part of nigeria but generally interactions between the enforcement arm & people in a country like nigeria can be perilous 😮‍💨 enough already
 
So basically my locc wearing *** needs to scratch Nigeria of my bucket list!?

🤣🤣🤣 nah, depends on the where…you’d be (mostly) good in the bigger cities in the south (like lagos)

No. Exceptions are almost always made when you (appear to) have money. That includes tourists. That's why I said "if you look/sound local."

😂 yea but that also can come w it’s own problems
 
Bring back shaming. The “as long as they not bothering me” mentality is the reason a lot of Black neighborhoods went down hill because folks stopped caring about the community beyond their doorsteps.
 
You're giving a lot of folks too much credit. You're assuming everyone has 'shame'.
Nah nah, shame on a mass level exist. The folks that truly lack the ability to be shamed or feel shame are the outliers.

I was talking to my coworker about this last week. Shame is a powerful and useful tool. It is usually used for thr wrong reasons, but when applied in a effort to make someone want to be better, it can go a long way.

But you are correct...it's ability to be a powerful tool lies in the person who is being talked about caring enough to longer want to be talked about.
 
Bring back shaming. The “as long as they not bothering me” mentality is the reason a lot of Black neighborhoods went down hill because folks stopped caring about the community beyond their doorsteps.

You want people who’ve been trying for DECADES… some of us 20, 30, 40 years etc to undo what parents have created???

10 parents are supposed to undo what thousands of UNFIT parents have done…? Again, get out of here with that mess.

I watched a 100 year old black woman on YouTube get asked “what’s the key to you living long?” She said “MINDING MY BUSINESS”

It harkens back to environmentalist telling civilians to not use plastic… but I don’t see them telling any big plastic manufacturing factories to stop producing plastic.

Ya’ll want accountability from everyone except from the party’s who are the ones who caused it it the first place :rollin :lol
 
They set up national harbor and that was it :lol :{

It is weird that a county that big and populated lacks more areas for dining and entertainment, the folks in charge trying to keep it just residential but that’s an old school approach….Suburbs are different these days, should be at least 2 harbor type developments
PG is big. Most of the county is pretty much rural once you leave the beltway area. The folks who originally owned the bulk of the land don’t want to give it up back when places in MoCo and NoVa started being developed decades ago.

Unfortunately, government incompetence and lobbying against county growth set the county way back. That’s why most of the elevated commercial development and amenities (outside of Woodmore Town Center and National Harbor) are municipalities (Bowie, Laurel, College Park, Hyattsville).
 
You want people who’ve been trying for DECADES… some of us 20, 30, 40 years etc to undo what parents have created???

10 parents are supposed to undo what thousands of UNFIT parents have done…? Again, get out of here with that mess.

I watched a 100 year old black woman on YouTube asked “what’s the key to you living long?” She said “MINDING MY BUSINESS”

It harkens back to environmentalist telling civilians to not use plastic… but I don’t see them telling any big plastic manufacturing factories to stop producing plastic
This isn’t about undoing what others have done, it’s preventing it from happening again. As yes, you can absolutely prevent degenerates from being in your space.
 
I have a question as I am not familiar with Nigerian politics but is the hat he wears customary for religious or political purposes? My man is wearing a hat in 100% of his pics online. Not 99.9%. One. Hundred. Percent. You already know that this about. How you let someone that damn insecure into power?
I just realized he's bald headed :rollin
 
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