How do you mentally cope as a black man?

[patscorpio]

Marijuana

LOL!!!! alleviates my physical aches and pains

 

[Somebody]

Cac thread

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Knowing the entire system is against our very existence and we are literally at the bottom of the racialized caste system hierarchy?

How does it feel knowing that most of us won’t make it out of poverty at worst and mediocrity as best, if we weren’t lucky enough to be born or put into position?

How does it feel knowing that even if you manage to make it out, you’ll have to sell apart of yourself and live as a hypocrite in order to maintain whatever economic means you have accumulated?

How does it feel knowing that despite however hard we fight, how much effort we put in, most of us will still come out at the bottom?

Honest reflections only. Don’t come in here, shoftshoe, and try to downplay the existence of systemic racism and the plight of the black man in this world. This is real life, not a fukking fairytale.

OP definitely an agent

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

LOL!!!! alleviates my physical aches and pains

Smoke weed everyday!

 

[Bryan Danielson]

I laugh and joke with the coli niccas I’m cool with and shyt on the ones I’m not

 

[Dr. Acula]

You don't live day to day thinking about misery and moping about it. Sounds dismissive but as a general rule, for all aspects of life, you need to put your focus on what YOU can control. You can't control racists. You cant control what the next man does. What you can control is make an assessment of your situation and basically making a mental checklist of where you want to be, where you're starting from, and what you need be doing to move forward. Not everyone is going to start at the same place because life is inherently unfair and unjust. So, like most black folks know, we have to work twice as hard for the same benefits because the deck is stacked against us.

If you sit around and obsess over the unfairness of life, you'll never progress. Not saying you can't acknowledge it but a huge part of your motivation and living is affected by the mental. If you are mentally in the dumps for whatever reason, it will impact your ability to progress in life.

 

[CW_1991]

I fully understand the condition of the battle and the way the world is calibrated in regards to us but I don't have existential crises about it. I just understand the environment and keep it pushing. We are the original.

There is no "coping".

 

[semicko82]

I've noticed watching various commercials here and there that every demographic is getting represented except black men.

 

[semicko82]

I fully understand the condition of the battle and the way the world is calibrated in regards to us but I don't have existential crises about it. I just understand the environment and keep it pushing. We are the original.

There is no "coping".

No coping in what context?

 

[CW_1991]

No coping in what context?

It doesn't take conscious effort or acceptance to be who I am.

 

[semicko82]

It doesn't take conscious effort or acceptance to be who I am.

Gotcha

 

[HDiron]

“Knowing the entire system is against us”

Lolol till when is this going to be said?