Re: Re: Re: Race-ology
Mcleanhatch said:
i will be the first to admit that things are not equal but they are pretty damn close
Thats the exact samething I did when I read his post Sergeant Hustle....I just rolled my eyes
I don't know what goes on in your head Mcleanhatch, but if you think that things are close with blacks and white you are GREATLY mistakened. You probably need to go out to your nearest library and read books by black writers or something to get another perspective of America.
There is a false belief that Black Americans live in the same and culture as white Americans. Which make folks like you believe that we have the same opportunity and chances like White Americans do in this country. WRONG!!! No way there is White America and then there is Black America.
As human beings its natural for us to emulate what goes around us.....am I right? If you were raised by wolves the chances of you emulating a wolf is great. If you were raised by dogs, the chances of you emulating a dog is great, if you were raised in a crime infested city the chances of you emulating that type of environment is very great. In Black America there are very little positive things these young kids could emulate to prepare themselves for the dominant culture, competition which is WHITE AMERICA. No way do these young black kids say they want to be the next Bill Gates. Who do Black kids emulate? Cash Money Millionaires, Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson, Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, Terrell Owens, Barry Bonds, etc. Black youth see more examples of black success in sports and entertainment industry then anybody else. It wasn't very long ago when I passed a young black kid that was reciting words from a Cash Money song. The kid was saying, "Money Cash, Money Cash, Money Hoes, Hoes Cash Money, Money Cash, Money Hoes". Now who do the kids in White America have to emulate? The richest man in the world Bill Gates, the president of the United States and many MORE.
The primary goal for all men is to make money, buy nice cars and wear the nice clothes to attract women. Now how these goals are achieved in our communities is very different. Achieving that type of success is not very hard when hustling, pimping, drug trading is around the corner. These pimps and hustler are the rolemodel to young black males. These young whipper snappers look at these pimps and hustlers and want to be that, they want the gold chain, the fancy clothes, and the women. And it's easy too, thats why some brothas at the young age of 12 is hustling on the streets.
Welcome to the otherside called Black America :classic:
I thought people would be able to understand that in rap music but I guess they aren't seeing it.
i will be the first to admit that things are not equal but they are pretty damn close
Please man you can't tell me that most blacks are prepared EQUALLY for the competition they will receive in the future in the dominant white culture. I was reading one of my old Vibe magazines and Jill Scott said that she donated a few thousand dollars to her elementary school in Philly and now they finally have a library. Thats pretty sad don't ya think? Because kids should be reading a lot of books at a very young age. And for 3 decades thousands of kids have gone to this elementary school and have not had the luxury of a library. What I find extremely funny is that people are puzzled on why blacks and hispanics score lower on test scores then whites.
For you to say that it's equal is the biggest crock of crap I've ever heard. The last time I checked the definiton of the word EQUAL is "having the same privileges, status, or rights"....
What you need to understand is that we are divided in Americas there is black and white they are seperate and sure as hell unequal. It's easy to be successful if you live in the dominant culture. It's easy to be successful in the dominant culture if 1) you have the same skin color as the people in the dominant culture and 2) If your environment emulate that of the people in the dominant culture. I'm not saying that blacks can not be as successful or as smart as White Americans. After all who did the Europeans bring on the slave ships? The biggest, strongest, and brightest Africans over here. They didn't bring the weak, or the old, they brought the best Africans over here. Thats why you see African Americans dominanting in some sports like football and basketball and thats because there genes of African Americans are of the best Africans. However the odds of them succeeding in the dominat culture is against them. Just for the fact of the environment the people emulate. We can get out from these ghettos and compete, but there is another obstacle once you get through that layer and that is RACISM.....