At The End of The Day It’s On Black Men To Police Our Communities

[skyrunner1]

I used to work in international aid. The main reason these ‘change the black community’ initiatives and think pieces fail is this: when you are aiming for systematic, lasting change, you need to aim at 20, 30, even 50 years from now. Anyone or anything already embedded in the system you’re trying to change can’t be reached.

Black folk think too nearsided. You’re not reaching adult men. You’re not even reaching teenagers. Not enough for wholesale change. You almost gotta ‘sacrifice’ the current generation and lay the foundation for the future ones.

EYL is a great example of this they got their break teaching financial literacy to elementary/middle schoolers

QFT. This is such facts I have said it before that the real elephant in room is most people dont want to sacrifice for next generation, I think most people know that to have real growth and change when talking about generational wealth, usually the starting generation building the foundation is self sacrificing and wont see the majority of fruit. Most know they dont want to put in that kind of work so just hitting a quick lick and "ballin out 1-2 summer is good enough"

Also no one wants to be real and straight up and tell the older generation it might be over for you but you have to look in mirror and self sacrifice for next generation. How you gonna tell all these single moms in late 30s that you were lied to and for majority no one is coming to save you, we can use your story as a cautionary tale for future women tho, will you say this on video? How you gonna tell these local rappers with greys in they hair its over and you need to get a job when they built no skills for 25+ years? Alot of ego and pride got people rejecting any accountability. Good luck tho

 

[Amo Husserl]

QFT. This is such facts I have said it before that the real elephant in room is most people dont want to sacrifice for next generation, I think most people know that to have real growth and change when talking about generational wealth, usually the starting generation building the foundation is self sacrificing and wont see the majority of fruit. Most know they dont want to put in that kind of work so just hitting a quick lick and "ballin out 1-2 summer is good enough"

Also no one wants to be real and straight up and tell the older generation it might be over for you but you have to look in mirror and self sacrifice for next generation. How you gonna tell all these single moms in late 30s that you were lied to and for majority no one is coming to save you, we can use your story as a cautionary tale for future women tho, will you say this on video?

...when a group of people say they ain't a monolith to be individuals so bad for too long. "Yeah, I'm different..."
Collective individual selfishness won't build; the builders we have are outnumbered, cynical from years of being jaded.
"...pull up to the scene with my ceiling missing".

 

[africngiant]

black women can’t be saved they get all their thoughts collectively molded by tik tok and twitter jargon. they can’t think for themselves anymore


and black men are judged and validated by their ability to mimic the behavior of rappers who are seen as the spokespeople of virtue in our community

 

[RaspberryFitted]

black women can’t be saved they get all their thoughts collectively molded by tik tok and twitter jargon. they can’t think for themselves anymore


and black men are judged and validated by their ability to mimic the behavior of rappers who are seen as the spokespeople of virtue in our community

you could replace “women” with “men” and “tiktok and twitter” with “rappers and athletes”

 

[Who Not How]

Too many Black people have a voice in the community. nikkas be 19 years old on Twitter with all the answers and still live at home with their parents. These cats know women so well but haven't had a date in 3 years. Imagine getting real estate advice from a homeless man.

 

[africngiant]

you could replace “women” with “men” and “tiktok and twitter” with “rappers and athletes”

women need to be held accountable for shifting the image of black men too though. every tweet is about “nikkas” this and that and cheering on their terrible selection criteria instead of correcting their priorities. their statements get 3m views and 20k rts and remain unregulated

i made the 2nd statement because black men don’t only receive negative judgement from our own community but also others because of the culture we’re represented by. we’re expected to be the hyper-masculine monsters of society who always stir the pot and only concern themselves with unconscious degeneracy. bw don’t help this because they don’t humanize us and they see us as disposable

people expect the worst in us and we constantly have to change our behavior to appeal to white spaces as a result. but the catch 22 there is that being clean cut doesn’t fit our collective narrative so your legitimacy will always be questioned and you won’t get as much respect in general for trying to compensate as the safe guy in professional or most social settings. then you get nagged on by your wife for not being a real nikka. so we are already collectively screwed.

average professional black men are losing their voice in the world and will forever climb an uphill battle to lead and be respected by the masses

 

[Dave24]

QFT. This is such facts I have said it before that the real elephant in room is most people dont want to sacrifice for next generation, I think most people know that to have real growth and change when talking about generational wealth, usually the starting generation building the foundation is self sacrificing and wont see the majority of fruit. Most know they dont want to put in that kind of work so just hitting a quick lick and "ballin out 1-2 summer is good enough"

Also no one wants to be real and straight up and tell the older generation it might be over for you but you have to look in mirror and self sacrifice for next generation. How you gonna tell all these single moms in late 30s that you were lied to and for majority no one is coming to save you, we can use your story as a cautionary tale for future women tho, will you say this on video? How you gonna tell these local rappers with greys in they hair its over and you need to get a job when they built no skills for 25+ years? Alot of ego and pride got people rejecting any accountability. Good luck tho

@skyrunner1 what types of jobs would the local rappers be able to get if they haven't built any skills for 25+ years?

 

[skyrunner1]

@skyrunner1 what types of jobs would the local rappers be able to get if they haven't built any skills for 25+ years?

Idk they trap or scam..

 

[TEH]

Gums are flapping but no volunteers for the neighborhood watch

 

[Gloxina]

I do have a plan, but it's radical. That's what it takes.


We need fathers, lawyers, cops, sheriffs, city councilmen and solid men to come together. If we really going to take back our community. We must be able to punish and reward those deemed worthy. If there's gangster terrorizing a neighborhood, we have to have the power to make him move out of the community or kill him. We got to whop azz. Men and women. Your kids bad, you out. Not taking care of your kids, you out. Looking like a ratchet mess out in town, you out.


Until we do this, it's over for the black community. Fukk it.

^^^^^^^^^^^^
That’s literally all we’ve been saying.

What a lot of ppl seem to ignore is that a lot of these young ladies who deal with pookies are raised around them or in areas that champion that shyt.
Ppl are bred in dysfunction and follow what they see.

Some of these kids aren’t fully exposed to communities of structured Black folks until it’s too damn late.
YEA, they need to see Black men walk in and take control of their neighborhoods. Then they’ll desire young guys who remind them of the Black men who set shyt straight.

I never dealt with no pookie/ray ray types because I knew the men in my family would kill me. But that’s because of the structure they created in our family generations ago. If you don’t have that, no one is teaching you WHY those guys are a bad choice in the long run.

 

[tuckgod]

Charles S Dutton possibly the most underrated black actor.

Roc still one of the GOAT sitcoms

 

[tuckgod]

Gums are flapping but no volunteers for the neighborhood watch

I can’t wait to watch the footage as a group of 40 year old nikkas that’s been smoking black and milds and Dutch masters for 25 years is chased out O-Block by some 15 year olds wearing crocs.

 

[Gloxina]

Just saying......

This cat popped up outta no where but he’s one of the few rattling the cage and making some sense in the online space.

Real talk though, where’d all that stop snitching stuff come from? The men who influence and terrorize the community? Or we gonna blame the single mothers who birthed them?


Hiphop culture has been one of the most detrimental things to the Black community. It’s not just music.
This shyt is particularly damaging to us because we don’t have a strong cultural system in place to override its influence.


Imagine some white kids talking to their parents about “rock and roll culture”?! They’d get knocked over the damn head! But this is how STUPID we look when we talk about Hiphop culture. PEOPLE ARE BEING INFLUENCED BY THE IMAGES AND MESSAGES IN THE MUSIC because there isn’t a stronger cultural message amongst the people.

 

[Gloxina]

Biggest viral moment of 2022

2023 gone be even bigger

Wow! Watched the entire interview.


This man is NEEDED.

 

[Carlton Banks]

Until we rid ourselves of this culture that rewards rebellion and bad behavior, nothing will ever change.