"Black men are arrogant.....Get over it....Black men always gonna flex"

[Carlton Banks]

Shout out to @CorporateTrapper in reference to his post

Black men are arrogant.....Get over it.... I personally love it... I love seeing my brothers shine.... love seeing my brothers flex..... I dont get jealous... love seeing my bros reach their goals.... I get motivated to go HARDER

My younger cousin 23 years old and pulled up on me in the new 6-series.... that shyt made me happy cause I remember when he was 14 pullin up on me with the BMX bike.

Black men always gonna flex..... get over it bytch.

How we all feel about this?

Me personally I find flexing to be corny. I think the "act like you been here before" attitude is some real motivational shyt ever. When you got so much paper and p*ssy that you don't even think highly of it like that is some cool shyt. Anyways let's have a discussion. Brehs can have disagreements and still be cordial...

 

[BaldingSoHard]

I'm generally a "fly under the radar" breh myself but flexing has its place if / when you accomplish something.

Graduate college, get a good job, marry a dime, kids get accepted to college, etc...

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

There's levels to it I feel like

just don't turn into Tony Robbins with it and you straight.

 

[KidJSoul]

Nah.

I'm not saying you have to be arrogant, but there's nothing inherently wrong with it.

The only reason I wouldn't do it is because I don't want to make enemies with random psychos that will get jealous and emotional and shoot at me or rob me.

 

[Scott Larock]

If you talking about black power and community building it's not helping, if you talking about individual achievements yes it's good to hold yourself in high regard.

A bunch of arrogant people running around flexing on each other is kinda nonproductive.

If we were separate and believed in class I'll moreso agree but we all want the same thing so IMO, not a good idea. Broke dudes gonna get the strap when they can't win, upper-income dude gonna kiss white ass to keep what they got. No real winners except the top % if you ain't in it, waste of time.

 

[Scott Larock]

Nah.

I'm not saying you have to be arrogant, but there's nothing inherently wrong with it.

The only reason I wouldn't do it is because I don't want to make enemies with random psychos that will get jealous and emotional and shoot at me or rob me.

This

And we all trying to get the same thing which is really the point, if nikkas were happy working at walmart then I'd say let the arrogant dudes live but the broke dudes want the same chicks, someone will get peeled in the parking lot going to the benz eventually.

 

[WesCrook]

I'm generally a "fly under the radar" breh myself but flexing has its place if / when you accomplish something.

Graduate college, get a good job, marry a dime, kids get accepted to college, etc...

Same here.

Also, flexing and treating yourself to nice things are not the same....something people misconstrue. This is not to say that flexing is a bad thing. Go ahead and cook.

One breh may have a new porche to show off to others. Another breh may have that same model because HE likes it. Damn what the rest of the world thinks.

 

[EBK String]

flexing is in our DNA. We are from the continent of abundance, Ggold, diamonds, every precious mineral. African kings invented drip.

 

[Streetcar]

Getting a Benz at 23 is a bad investment unless you’re in the league or Roc Nation lent it to you. Real estate brehs.

 

[Collateral]

Stuntin is a habit

 

[TRUEST]

Be mindful of the person calling you arrogant.

If the person is black and they're calling another black person arrogant, that indicates inferiority complex.

in the original thread that birthed this spinoff, they were calling highly educated black men conceited because they carry themselves a certain way. My question is, if these guys are arrogant/conceited, what do you call their white counterparts with the same level of education?

 

[Wild self]

Same here.

Also, flexing and treating yourself to nice things are not the same....something people misconstrue. This is not to say that flexing is a bad thing. Go ahead and cook.

One breh may have a new porche to show off to others. Another breh may have that same model because HE likes it. Damn what the rest of the world thinks.

I dont like when people dictate what "nice things" are to me. For me, having a comfy bed, a nice couch, and a regular TV and a laptop is comfy. I dont need a Mercedes Benz or a Bentley to stunt.

 

[MMS]

if folks didnt get jealous of eachother or provoke eachother by comparison it would be a great thing

if everyone had ric flair energy but not ric flair eye gouges and low blows

 

[CopiousX]

flexing is in our DNA. We are from the continent of abundance, Ggold, diamonds, every precious mineral. African kings invented drip.

I vauguely remember PimpC teaching 14yr old me about this….

 

[hatealot]

Folks have to stop putting status on these cars. It's all a facade. I see the interest rates, I see the down payments, I see the monthly payments folks are paying.

nikkas are over leveraged and one/two missed payment away from a repo.

nikkas barely making insurance payments without constant lapses. Switching checking accounts, floating money.

But it looks nice though.

Flex some real shyt.