Are Black Men Losing Hope?

[Duckman]

@WhiteDawg3000 what's with your name son

 

[Duckman]

Everybody off on this thread suddenly. He got them.

 

[3rdWorld]

You'll get depressed if you choose to as a man fail to involve yourself in serious national matters or you choose to just remain silent..this apolitical and apathetic crowd was always going to lose it.

 

[WhiteDawg3000]

@WhiteDawg3000 what's with your name son

get off my nuts, herb

it's a combo of whitedawg + andre3k

 

[Ohene]

..these lil dudes are so broke they cant even rob each other no more....they about to purge.....

 

[Data-Hawk]

Real shyt. My best friend is from Baltimore, we both from the hood but now are working in corporate America. He doesn't fit in either now. I have dreads and a Louisiana accent so I'll always be hood like, but he's clean cut so he's not hood enough for the hood and not preppy enough for the corporate circle. So he and a lot brothers are lost.

Being from Baltimore myself , I can agree with this 100%. Sometimes it feels like you are stuck in the middle between 2 very different worlds.

 

[NobodyReally]

those stats sound a little exaggerated. Especially with 80% of all black men going to jail in their lifetime and 60% of black men infected with an STD.


Best cities for us are ATL, DC, and Houston.

The 80% going to prison stat is definitely BS. The 60% infected with a STD may not be.

 

[Yup]

Someone tell @legacy not to tag me and I agree @philmonroe he whines too much. As for mental health...black people sre very susceptible to it but never get help.

 

[AntiVenom]

I'm totally comfortable admitting that we have shortcomings at Black men.

We've got to be more responsible. We've got to value education more. We've got to be fathers to the children we create. We've got to protect our women. The whole nine. Black men are out here saying the same things all the time. People like Farrakhan have been taking Black men to task for decades.

It's the Black woman who always wants to shift blame as if she's a child. Where is the Black woman's equivalent of Farrakhan taking Black women to task?

this post is the truth.

How? When? Where?

never.

 

[Pdiddy]

Americans are losing hope in general.

Who has the upper hand though?

 

[Blackout]

I'm saying when did black give up hope ?

When more of our people started c00ning more.

Its been less about the collective and more individualism for some time now.

Rap has also shifted in the mainstream to mainly feature gangsta shyt and not much conscious shyt and Im noticing less black men into black businesses these days.

Im doing what I can to get more brothers to rise up on my end but it will take a lot of work by many of us to get back on track.

 

[Flay Mayweather]

When more of our people started c00ning more.

Its been less about the collective and more individualism for some time now.

Rap has also shifted in the mainstream to mainly feature gangsta shyt and not much conscious shyt and Im noticing less black men into black businesses these days.

Im doing what I can to get more brothers to rise up on my end but it will take a lot of work by many of us to get back on track.

You're projecting your own views as fact. It is merely an opinion, you can't let a small portion speak for the majority.

Is black people are truly losing hope we would have let cruelty link the murder of Mike Brown & Trayvon Martin get swept under the rug.

Black businesses are on the rise. If you follow Black news or read Black Enterprise you'll see what we're achieving everyday. The progress may be small but it's progress nonetheless.

A lot of black people have become de sanitized to certain things, but that doesn't mean we've gave up hope.

It's sad you have lost hope in our people.

 

[Blackout]

You're projecting your own views as fact. It is merely an opinion, you can't let a small portion speak for the majority.

Is black people are truly losing hope we would have let cruelty link the murder of Mike Brown & Trayvon Martin get swept under the rug.

Black businesses are on the rise. If you follow Black news or read Black Enterprise you'll see what we're achieving everyday. The progress may be small but it's progress nonetheless.

A lot of black people have become de sanitized to certain things, but that doesn't mean we've gave up hope.

It's sad you have lost hope in our people.

Dude we have fallen since the days of Malcolm X and MLK. Thats just fact. Many of our people got comfortable and practice individualism which is why we had Morgan Freeman and Pharrel and Charles Barkley with this New Black crap and many others follow their c00ning.

Back then our stars got together to address racism and now our stars get together to give racist whites a pass.

Yea some of us rising thanks to those two murders but there was still a fall nonetheless.

I have not loss hope or else I wouldnt be trying to raise up our people as we speak.

 

[Nigerianwonder]

On the real...I think depression is just a major symptom of America; it has nothin to do with the quality of your life. I've been to places where the standard of living is much lower than it is here, but in some of those areas I've noticed that the people are collectively happy.

I believe a big part of this is the media in America. In this technology age we're in, the youth have been sold lies and dreams from a very young age. This has distorted their perception of reality on a deep psychological level. As they grow older into adults, the real begins to set in, and all the images they had of life begin to crash. At that point, they realize.......that 9-5 shyt isn't life brehs.

this is why its important to travel and see the world. Enjoy your youth.. I always laugh when I hear folks working themselves to death talking about they are saving up for retirement. Why would you wanna wait till 65 to "try" to enjoy your life? Half the people wont even live that long or will have serious medical conditions limiting them by then.. In other countries people work to live.. only in the US we live to work.

 

[swimmingpools]

That rejection video brought legit concern for him out of me. I hope he will one day be able to value himself enough to seek the help he needs.