Anybody else Disturbed and Embarrassed at how Proudly Ratchet our Culture has Become?

[EndDomination]

No. I don't put that much stock into popular media depictions of "Black culture."

 

[FrontoBama]

Pick your ideal time when Black people were civilized and not ratchet, no matter where you land you’ll find that the elements you speaking about have been prevalent In that sphere..Y’all Coli nikkas like them old ass 1962 pictures of Black people in suits but they still were going down the block every Friday to some rauccous unchristian nikka shyt filled with smoke and Shug Avery’s.

This line of thinking boils down to the sons and daughters of slaves wanting to be able to park their car next to the whiteman, so let’s completely shed our culture, abandon our people and anything associated with it because it’s different.

Yall talk about multimillionaires in the hood like MLK wasn’t shooting pool with Vice Lords.. Our people are our people.

 

[B86]

WHY WAS THE COSBY SHOW
AND FRESH PRINCE SO POPULAR THEN?



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That was 30-40 years ago . You got people in here talking about self hate and shyt because OP just wants to see our be “classy” on a show that represents our culture

 

[Micky Mikey]

Blacks of America really don't have a proper culture to begin with. Rap, tattoos, Jordans and Street degeneracy worship isn't real culture. At least not anything that is approximating order and collective success.

That's not true. We have a very rich cultural tradition. Hip hop culture is just subset that has currently overtaken pretty much everything else. All the things you mentioned are a very recent phenomena that arose out of the devastation of the crack era. Most of the glorification of "rathetness" we see today arose from that era. It destroyed our sense community.

Gangster rap and hip hop culture was ceated to express the plight of struggles in modern inner cities. Drugs, Gangs, poverty, violence etc. But now it has metastasized into something that sets the tone of our culture. And its also highly commercialized which makes the sensationalism of it more pronounced.

 

[Jazzy B.]

You trying too hard to be the new Drx breh

 

[King Poetic]

We have become a joke since the mid 70s to now

Give a nikka a nickel and a camera and they’ll show they ass up like no other and instead of blaming ourselves and the household we was born in, nikkas always deflect onto something or someone else like the white man

 

[Micky Mikey]

Pick your ideal time when Black people were civilized and not ratchet, no matter where you land you’ll find that the elements you speaking about have been prevalent In that sphere..Y’all Coli nikkas like them old ass 1962 pictures of Black people in suits but they still were going down the block every Friday to some rauccous unchristian nikka shyt filled with smoke and Shug Avery’s.

This line of thinking boils down to the sons and daughters of slaves wanting to be able to park their car next to the whiteman, so let’s completely shed our culture, abandon our people and anything associated with it because it’s different.

Yall talk about multimillionaires in the hood like MLK wasn’t shooting pool with Vice Lords.. Our people are our people.

Of course the element has always beem there. I think what OP is getting at is the deliberate glorification of it.

 

[69 others]

this didn't happen overnight. shyt was slowly sliding downwards probably since before the 80's. The hustler, baller, etc culture of the 90's and early 2000's lead to what you see today.

 

[Wildhundreds]

nikka u grew up in the crack era

I guess youre saying 100% of blacks were on crack during that time.

 

[MikelArteta]

 

[Mowgli]

Their culture.


We in Christ.

 

[get my pool]

Entertainers being ratchet is expected to an extent so that’s whatever. The shyt that’s crazy to me is how grown ass people are influenced by the way entertainers act, live etc. People not being able to differentiate entertainment/social media from real life is the main problem.

 

[MostReal]

Black people have unfortunately been made the face of lack of decorum and debauchery (even though we aren't in reality)

music has certain vibes and frequencies and right now our vibe is the lowest of the low from a public standpoint.

We are WAY better than this.

 

[Will Ross]

That's not true. We have a very rich cultural tradition. Hip hop culture is just subset that has currently overtaken pretty much everything else. All the things you mentioned are a very recent phenomena that arose out of the devastation of the crack era. Most of the glorification of "rathetness" we see today arose from that era. It destroyed our sense community.

Gangster rap and hip hop culture was ceated to express the plight of struggles in modern inner cities. Drugs, Gangs, poverty, violence etc. But now it has metastasized into something that sets the tone of our culture. And its also highly commercialized which makes the sensationalism of it more pronounced.

Let’s be real hip hop glorifies poverty and street shyt. Before hip hop street shyt was looked down

 

[MacNCheese]

Nah our culture isn't all that different, it's just that social media allows people to document stuff more easily nowadays. Most black people these days are normal and it was the same way back in the day. Difference is the average idiot back in the 80's and 90's didn't have any way of documenting themselves and sharing it with other idiots.

And honestly some of yall also need to realize that the social media and media you consume is what you yourself choose to take in. Improve your media diet or just focus only on the shyt that's actually happening in and around your life and you'll probably feel differently about it.