Do you think the Pro Black Era is dying or now getting started?

[Unknown Poster]

Are you even from the hood? Why do you feel the need to embrace hood culture? You stop wearing vans ans skinny jeans ? For what Jordans and Balmains?

Dawg, I am Nigerian and West Indian. First born generation American.

WE have no choice here but to assimilate or attempt to assimilate into AA culture, and that's largely in the hood. AAs hold the monopoly on blackness in America. Come on man...it's not like there are throngs of affluent predominantly black suburban enclaves for black people of all walks of life (AA, African, West Indian) to move into that aren't in PG Country MD or all the way out in TX.

I was just sick of black bougie motherfukkers trying to assimilate with cracker culture...that's what was in my parents neighborhood.

 

[How Sway?]

I'm pretty sure OP's a cac.

But it's only getting started. Actually, it never went away.

Being pro your race is not a fashion statement.



I'd say the early 2000's were still pro-black.

The dark age really came around the mid-to-late 00's. The period of 07/08/09 al the way up until Trayvon Martin was just a horrible era. I remember being in my "anti-ignorance" phase as a kid it was so bad.

thats cuz after obama got elected the media made it seem like we were in this post racial bliss (which was somewhat true looking back). But little did we know that the silent majority was scheming for a takeover

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

The 'Pro-Black' era died along with disco at the end of the 70's.

I was there for both.​

 

[Unknown Poster]

And @Aba_juggin atleast I';m not like my family...I've gotten into yelling matches with them cause they've tried to talk down on AAs and AA culture. I fukking hate Africans and West Indians that try to act like they above AAs. All while trying to emulate AA culture.

 

[Unknown Poster]

How so

The bling
The chains.
Teh rap
Lil Jon was in a group called the Eastside boyz with two members named Big Sam and Lil Bo.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Also, on SOHH I remember alot of c00nish statements getting a pass.....

The first week I posted there, I had a nikka telling me to "stop trying to be on that MLK bullshyt."

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

My grandfather(RIP) put me on to WWRL in the mid-90s, we listened all the time... now it's an indian station

WWRL was still playing r&b music when I was a little kid, but even as a teenager, I would listen
to Bob Law's "Night Talk" ("I respect you").

Now those were memorable days.

 

[cjlaw93]

What we have a lot in 2017 is a lot of "Pro Black" people who date outside their race 100%, don't support Black business, c00n every chance they get, shyt on lower income Black people, indulge themselves in white/ pop culture, shyt on the opposite gender of their race, put the LGBT shyt over their race and plenty other outta pocket shyt while claiming to be "ProBlack"

 

[Swirv]

Maybe for the fair weather people.

The ones who were standing on their square before will remain standing always.

It ain't about assimilation it's about shaping your own destiny with the help of the Universe and our ancestors.

 

[Micky Mikey]

Race consciousness has always come and gone in cycles.....hit a fever pitch in the 1920s with the pan-africanist movement, resurgence in the 50s, then came the 70s, a lil comeback in the early 90s, then the mid 2010s to where we are now. Won't be long til it's time to repeat again. Get ready to buss your Kufi's back out in 2035 brehs

sad but true

 

[Thanos]

People are pro black out of convenience When their authenticity tested, they are nowhere in site. I see this too many times with black thinkpiece writers. They are rah rah about being pro black and blackness until push comes to shove. Then they straight up talking down to black community. Some of these articles got me thinking some of these black writers don't even mess with other black people on regular. So much effort is to taken to assimilate to witness, not realizing that being black is a great thing. Everyone is trying to copy this.

 

[315]

What we have a lot in 2017 is a lot of "Pro Black" people who date outside their race 100%, don't support Black business, c00n every chance they get, shyt on lower income Black people, indulge themselves in white/ pop culture, shyt on the opposite gender of their race, put the LGBT shyt over their race and plenty other outta pocket shyt while claiming to be "ProBlack"

And always reassuring white people that "their pro-Black isn't anti-white"

 

[cjlaw93]

And always reassuring white people that "their pro-Black isn't anti-white"

Facts

 

[GrindMode]

People are pro black out of convenience When their authenticity tested, they are nowhere in site. I see this too many times with black thinkpiece writers. They are rah rah about being pro black and blackness until push comes to shove. Then they straight up talking down to black community. Some of these articles got me thinking some of these black writers don't even mess with other black people on regular. So much effort is to taken to assimilate to witness, not realizing that being black is a great thing. Everyone is trying to copy this.

exactly they seem out of touch

 

[SNG]

Only time nikkaz are pro black is when the media is promoting a cop killing an innocent black person. After a few weeks it dies down. There's still a swirling and pawging epidemic. Only real pro black era to me is the 60s/70s where black people were literally trying to make strides in there consciousness. To me it's dead especially when all black people got beef from each other from all different African Diaspora's, black man vs black women, light skin vs dark skin etc. Once I start seeing black people totally shift in conscience and come together as a nation under God and go by the millions back to Israel to take it back then were sayin somethin until then