Prince Mongo
Banned
What do you do that makes you more successful than Geoffrey Owens?
Be a bus boy for 54 years on minimum wage
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See: this sounds like an argument to keep people poor. "Look at those third world children playing in the mud near a corrosive waste site. Look how happy they are without videogames, education, food, protection, or a chance at living to be 45. You Americans wouldn't understand."Everyone who can’t believe this guy was content with this lifestyle would be mind blown if they actually got off their computers and traveled the world. Believe it or not there are people happier than you with less. But on another note those comments by his grandson are low key
Formerly Black Trash
Philosopher, Connoisseur, Future Legend
I love OHOP
This article though
This article though
Two of my materal great-grandmother were seamstresses and a maids, but that was in the 20s-50s, and they didn't have formal education, nor the opportunity to have educations. They did so to send their children to private schools and then colleges, also in the 40s and 50s.
Same for my father's side, they were sharecroppers and maids.
The thing was, they weren't working the exact same low-wage jobs after the Civil Rights Act, and they didn't do it for 50 years either.
I support his work ethic but he allowed himself to be exploited, not systemically, not involuntarily, but wholeheartedly allowed himself to be exploited by cacs for over 1/2 a century. That goes far beyond what you're saying.
There's a reason his son (or grandson) is working there with him for a long time, why he hasn't asked for a raise or changed positions, and why this isn't admirable, its embarrassing.
He averages $14 an hour including tips.
Not at the beginning. All Black people were relegated to a few select Chicago neighborhoods. The middle-class AAs that wanted to get out of the slums that were being created fought their way out, but they were by far less than 1% of Black Chicago at that time. Not to mention their houses were bombed quite a few times, they were vastly overcharged, and White flight took the value out of quite a few homes.
We were everywhere, but in incredibly small numbers. The 60s were when the spread to the North and West suburbs really began.
aXiom
Maximized Potential
This dude is a lost cause. The real problem here is that he has a grandson that's following his path for the past 15 years. This really bothers me as he's somewhat partly to blame for this. As social creatures, when your potential mentors lack, and are not able to pass on knowledge that will help put you in a position to better navigate the world they might as well be useless. A bar set at "Grandpa has been working there for 30+ years" vs a bar set at "Grandpa did that just long enough to get his money up to put your father through school so you won't have to go through that" can have an significant impact on the mindset and drive of your offspring. I'm not saying that I know the grandson's whole life or anything, but the mere fact that he's been doing the same shyt for 15 years as a much younger individual shows lack of drive. That's a bloodline L... Lineage vs Losseage.
feelosofer
#ninergang
I'm not going to call this Black elder a Sambo or a c00n. That is disrespectful to an elder of our community who went through way more shyt than any of us would have even dreamed of. With that said.
I wouldn't be so disappointed if he did what he did to secure a future for his children. The fact of the matter is my grandmother worked as a maid for 50 years cleaning the houses of wealthy white folk for years and they gave her their hand me down goods and other things they didn't want and my grandfather worked in a can factory but their children all became productive members of society and they lived without any debt and enjoyed life on their own terms.
I say this to say its men like him who helped paved the way and gave us younger Black folk the opportunities to shine. But in doing so sometimes they don't see the value in themselves and would prefer to stay comfortable with what is familiar. But fact of the matter is if the owners really valued him. They would have raised his wages or even given him partial stake even 2.5 percent is a great value to him.
I wouldn't be so disappointed if he did what he did to secure a future for his children. The fact of the matter is my grandmother worked as a maid for 50 years cleaning the houses of wealthy white folk for years and they gave her their hand me down goods and other things they didn't want and my grandfather worked in a can factory but their children all became productive members of society and they lived without any debt and enjoyed life on their own terms.
I say this to say its men like him who helped paved the way and gave us younger Black folk the opportunities to shine. But in doing so sometimes they don't see the value in themselves and would prefer to stay comfortable with what is familiar. But fact of the matter is if the owners really valued him. They would have raised his wages or even given him partial stake even 2.5 percent is a great value to him.
Fail to read the article brehs
dude was probably Heisenberg on the side. 
Money in the walls of his house and shyt. Playing stupid around these cacs. 
Money in the walls of his house and shyt. Playing stupid around these cacs. 
TaxCollector13459
2018 Coli Rookie of the Year
Man this shyt blew my high
I cry foe my people dawg
I cry foe my people dawg
dude was probably Heisenberg on the side.
O.iatlhawksfan
Devoted Joel Embiid hater
Who are the owners with the nerve to pay a 54 year employee minimum wage
Lefty Gunz
Superstar
Threads like these always expose people. Some of you cats are so full of shyt it isn’t funny. Could he have progressed and done something else to satisfy your own personal ego of what a black male should accomplish? Sure. But if he’s happy and making money without hurting anyone stay out his fukking pockets.
The God Poster
LWO representa
One of the biggest factors in not advancing in career earnings is comfortability. nikkas will stay at a job forever if nothing comes along that drastically increases pay.this shyt is disgusting on multiple levels
Ray Walker said he’s asked Loggan about advancing but “Loggan doesn’t want anything else — he’s said he’s fine where he is.” He said, “I think he views this as a place where he knows people, he’s safe and comfortable.” He said Loggan “was the complete opposite of a Black Panther kind of guy,” never an advocate or rabble rouser. He said that limited schooling “probably helped smooth out his world — I would doubt Loggan really ever dreamed about buying a Cadillac.”
“He could retire now,” said Javon Chambers, his grandson, himself a Walker Bros. busser for 15 years
It’s hard not to notice the social gulf between customers and staff in a place like Walker Bros. Not that any of this is unique, of course. The optics are just a bit more evident: The staff is black and Latino, wearing old timey diner hats, serving comfort food to mostly white, affluent, well-educated North Shore families, the dining rooms wrapped in polished wood and stained glass more common a half century ago. That said, it’s also not uncommon to see customers giving bear hugs to beloved bussers and servers. It’s a warm community hub, a fixture of the local culture
Sometimes you gotta take a L(lesser paying job or same paying but having to start fresh) in the short term to win big long-term. The long game gets lost especially among our people.