Has Black America truly if not completely lost its way?

[8WON6]

But what have we done? Millennials and Gen Xers?

Let’s just tell it like it is: We are a generation of Black people that our ancestors would be ashamed of.

The majority of us are politically inactive, and those of us who are mostly share our political outrage on social media where what we say carries minimal weight. We tweet, post TikToks and share Instagram reels like we are actually doing something.

We live comfortably in McMansions surrounded by white neighbors that earlier generations fought for us to have and we work jobs that require us to sound like white people when we answer the phone. And our children? So many Black kids are growing up disconnected from their heritage.

And Black boys are out here clamoring for “exotic” or outright white girls, which is going to set Black girls up with an impossible choice: either marry a man of another race or face the possibility of life alone.

he really packed a bunch of dumb shyt into this.

What percentage of Black people live in a McMansion?

 

[WIA20XX]

The first article was just an excuse to type this paragraph, they know who's in their audience.

First published @ the Root

 

[WIA20XX]

Bruh, some of the most pretentious, over the top mf’s I’ve ever met were those in Africana studies. Some of the most performative mf’s on campus be in that department.

I'm not surprised, but if it's a PhD cat, I would need to dismantle the joint line by line. It's Thursday, I'm not into it.

 

[Fresh]

So I googled the author and he's affiliated with theroot.com.

The Root is the shaderoom and WSHH for boule nikkas who feel it's their personal duty to talk at and scold other black folk they feel are beneath them .

Than cook up these clickbait think pieces "Black men are the white men of the black community"

I know about theroot.com

that site basically blames EVERYTHING on Black men

even said something like 'Black men were the white men of the Black community'

I never posted there, lurked for a lil bit then left

but I was hoping that site would've went under by now

 

[Paper Boi]

let kai cenat raise your kids brehs

 

[CoryMack]

MSN

Why Gen-X and Millennial Black Folks Are What’s Wrong With Black America​

It’s easy to blame President Donald Trump for, like, 82 percent of contemporary Black America’s ills. But is he really the one to blame here? Are members of Generation X and Millennials unknowingly dismantling Black America?

Heavy question…so let’s step back for a second. We need definitions.

Generation X (Gen X) are born between 1965 and 1980. Now, Millennials are born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s. There is disagreement about the exact years, so let’s just say 1981 to 1996.

Now here’s the issue: The history of Black people in America is one where the previous generation paved the way for the younger one. The last generation of slaves toiled and fought so that their kids could prosper. The same is true for people that the younger generation derisively call “Boomers.” Say what you want about their inability to drive, homophobia and dated taste in music…Black folks who are Boomers and members of the “Greatest Generation” laid the foundation for the comfortable life Black America enjoys today.

They were the ones who fought valiantly in World Wars I and II, the Korean War and were sent off to Vietnam. They were also the ones who protested during the Civil Rights Movement and participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, ensuring that Black people today could enjoy freedoms they themselves never were able to access.

But what have we done? Millennials and Gen Xers?

Let’s just tell it like it is: We are a generation of Black people that our ancestors would be ashamed of.

The majority of us are politically inactive, and those of us who are mostly share our political outrage on social media where what we say carries minimal weight. We tweet, post TikToks and share Instagram reels like we are actually doing something.

We live comfortably in McMansions surrounded by white neighbors that earlier generations fought for us to have and we work jobs that require us to sound like white people when we answer the phone. And our children? So many Black kids are growing up disconnected from their heritage.

And Black boys are out here clamoring for “exotic” or outright white girls, which is going to set Black girls up with an impossible choice: either marry a man of another race or face the possibility of life alone.

Black America is in a precarious position. We have a President who is directing his administration to do all it can to attack us. We have a Congress and Supreme Court who are just letting him do what he wants. And make no mistake, the police are still killing us in the streets.

Older generations understood something that many of us have forgotten. We are not white people. It may be 2025, but we still must fight so that the next generation of Black people will have it better than we had it.

Gen X and Millennial Black folks, one question: Are we the problem?

Gen X and Millennials weren’t the ones to first start moving into white neighborhoods. That began with the boomers, many of whom served during wartime and were able to take advantage of programs like the G.I. Bill and no down payment, low interest loans for houses and cars.

Not to mention that was the generation that fully benefited from programs like affirmative action and govt hiring quotas. Especially for those like my dad and uncles who were sent to Vietnam.

So the ball was really dropped with them. If there’s anything to be ashamed of it’s the fact the they never ensured the legacy of political activism that had helped them was passed on to us. And even before them we have to look at the failure of the so called “talented tenth.”

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Is this dude even a black american?

 

[cyndaquil]

Is this dude even a black american?

@Brolic

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Family reunions barely exist, ain’t no mo big momma’s. This shyt over

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

We live comfortably in McMansions surrounded by white neighbors that earlier generations fought for us to have and we work jobs that require us to sound like white people when we answer the phone. And our children? So many Black kids are growing up disconnected from their heritage.

Growing up poor has nothing to do with our heritage. What a dumb ass hot take.

We romanticize struggle, and alot of Black Boomers and older Gen X parents low key resent the kids they raised in the suburbs, because they can't trauma bond with them.

And Black boys are out here clamoring for “exotic” or outright white girls, which is going to set Black girls up with an impossible choice: either marry a man of another race or face the possibility of life alone.

I hope no one is taking anything in this article seriously. Both articles are obviously pandering to anti black male Aunties.

The root needs to be shut down.

 

[Brolic]

Is this dude even a black american?

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Growing up poor has nothing to do with our heritage. What a dumb ass hot take.

We romanticize struggle, and alot of Black Boomers and older Gen X parents low key resent the kids they raised in the suburbs because they can't trauma bond with them.

But, I hope no one is taking anything in this article seriously. Both articles are obviously pandering to anti black male Aunties.

Anti black male propaganda....The root needs to be shut down.

Why I always hesitated coming back here


This country does nothing but try to make you feel like shyt for being a black man. In every fukking way

Edit: “Regular” black man… we all know how celebs are worshipped here but even being rich doesn’t help that much

 

[Black Hans]

Somebody wrote this on MSN and MSN greenlit?

Sounds like something theGrio would write.

 

[SNG]

Yes it has. I mean just look at all the pawg worship threads up in here. Look how some posters post black women in a negative light sometimes. Look at the single parent rate in the community that doesn’t give the future children any incentive to aspire and be in black on black relationships. Not to mention some of the vitriol black women have to black men not all but some. But how did you expect Black Americans to keep shyt intact when the community is watched by white supremacy and controlled to a certain degree.

 

[Strapped]

America is what it's always been