"I'd rather live 25 Years and Have Everything I Want Than Struggle for 70"

Ezekiel 25:17

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She speaks on young black men/boys who would rather rob, scam, sell drugs and kill for money and make hundreds/ a few thousand dollars a day than work a legal career because it's "slower" and "boring". The way she's saying it, it's pretty much "What can I tell them to possibly change their mindset"?

The reality of it is too many black men are caught up in this weird glorification of "being real" and take extremely great risks for short term rewards. It's truly backwards and embarrassing. The mentality is a good 50 years strong now and realistically isn't going anywhere anytime soon. What's almost as bad as that mentality is people like the one in the video. From the way she's talking it almost feels like she agrees with them and trying to make an excuse for them.


Why did she not bring up White Supremacy? That's the main reason for what black men are doing. Because of white supremacy, black men have no other choice but to rob, kill, scam and sell drugs. What other options are there?


Tired of all these c00ns talking bad about black men.
 

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I would tell them they make a good point,and to enjoy the zoo within the zoo. Unless I felt compelled to say more. Your wasting your breath on most of these kids,and adults. They have been genetically modified and weaponized. Only thing you can do at this point is stay out the way,teach them from afar and lead by example. Meaning if you can prove them wrong,show them they are wrong. This thinking isnt opposed to what Babylon teaches,and the narcissism they breed in this country. I would be lying if I told you there was a reward in not thinking this way,other than not going to jail.


Youve decided money is your god. So whether your in jail or working til 70,its two sides of the same assimilation coin:respect:#RenderUntoCeasar
 

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She speaks on young black men/boys who would rather rob, scam, sell drugs and kill for money and make hundreds/ a few thousand dollars a day than work a legal career because it's "slower" and "boring". The way she's saying it, it's pretty much "What can I tell them to possibly change their mindset"?

The reality of it is too many black men are caught up in this weird glorification of "being real" and take extremely great risks for short term rewards. It's truly backwards and embarrassing. The mentality is a good 50 years strong now and realistically isn't going anywhere anytime soon. What's almost as bad as that mentality is people like the one in the video. From the way she's talking it almost feels like she agrees with them and trying to make an excuse for them.

Facts. Rap and most of our Culture loves this wild back against wall triumph story. Hiphop perpetuates this wild living.


Another big issue in our community, single mothers put a lot of grown man burdens on their young sons. Teenagers shouldn't have to worry about lights being on. But we arent critique Black Queens.
 

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I don't agree with it either, but there is a bunch of bullshyt in corporate America to deal with that really is draining.

Those kids aren't all the way wrong, life is tough. Living life legally, is a grind.

However, one of the downsides is that illegal lifestyle can land you in jail and you have zero freedom there and you around a bunch of sweaty dudes rather than some females and that ain't living. Not to mention the strain that'd put on your family because they always got to take care and clean up after your irresponsibility.

A lot of people who resort to crime actually have all the means to do a 9-5, but they don't want to.
 
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Because we never have the conversation on WHY these young boys feel this way
Young men feel hopeless and unseen by their families
Or they take on responsibility at a very young age and it’s not all voluntary
So they never were kids and parents take out all kinds of aggression on their children because they are stress or don’t know how to be parents them damn selves
Young man could have been really good at something and the family talks down on them for liking that activity or even take that activity away from them as punishment for a mistake
You goofy nikkas always talk about the aftermath and not the reasons for young men crashing out
Too scared to say these women out here being single mothers ain’t detrimental to young mens psychs
Women creating son husbands
Women having different nikkas in and out a young boys life because that woman is seeking the love and affection while ignoring the main thing that needs that
Or smothering their son and telling them everything is dangerous Everytime they go out the door
Many parents (especially parents of 80s babies) are just good with the old tired line
Well you not in jail are you
They think that was enough and a PlayStation achievement
No it’s a lot of men fukked up behind some shyt in their family life
The same young kids saying this shyt now
Young men of my generation was saying in the 90s
Black men have always been told we not making it to 21 because a number of factors
But thecoli doesn’t want to have real conversations on mens mental health or these young boys troubles with life
You nikkas rather dikk swing like you almighty intelligent 5%centers that saves the community after day and never made a mistake in life while regurgitating bullshyt from an article/book you read
Because you lack real world application on everything in life
Pretty much summed up the whole first page and how the rest of this thread will go
 

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But they don’t have to struggle 70 years. If they focused on school and got a good trade or legit degree they’d be good by their late 20s. :francis:
you missing the point
they are saying people that did it "the right way" are broke
plenty people finish college and don't become shyt
and the successful people aren't in their neighborhood because they left
plenty people grow up in environments where only the people doing negative shyt have the money
 

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Because we never have the conversation on WHY these young boys feel this way
Young men feel hopeless and unseen by their families
Or they take on responsibility at a very young age and it’s not all voluntary
So they never were kids and parents take out all kinds of aggression on their children because they are stress or don’t know how to be parents them damn selves
Young man could have been really good at something and the family talks down on them for liking that activity or even take that activity away from them as punishment for a mistake
You goofy nikkas always talk about the aftermath and not the reasons for young men crashing out
Too scared to say these women out here being single mothers ain’t detrimental to young mens psychs
Women creating son husbands
Women having different nikkas in and out a young boys life because that woman is seeking the love and affection while ignoring the main thing that needs that
Or smothering their son and telling them everything is dangerous Everytime they go out the door
Many parents (especially parents of 80s babies) are just good with the old tired line
Well you not in jail are you
They think that was enough and a PlayStation achievement
No it’s a lot of men fukked up behind some shyt in their family life
The same young kids saying this shyt now
Young men of my generation was saying in the 90s
Black men have always been told we not making it to 21 because a number of factors
But thecoli doesn’t want to have real conversations on mens mental health or these young boys troubles with life
You nikkas rather dikk swing like you almighty intelligent 5%centers that saves the community after day and never made a mistake in life while regurgitating bullshyt from an article/book you read
Because you lack real world application on everything in life
Pretty much summed up the whole first page and how the rest of this thread will go

too much for them man
 

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This has been a crucial piece of understanding crime/gangs/ and even Mexican organized crime in Mexico that people tend to look at through narrow class filters. I remember someone I know saying something like why don't they just all put on a suit, and go and get a job?

Which is one part, but the other part is if you DO GET THE JOB, what are you promised?

Hustlers have long embraced that mindset, of what would draw someone to the drug game. And also people miss the idea that teenagers don't make great choices anyway, esp. ones without social/personal/familial guardrails. When I hustled in teenage years, I also swore I would never talk, so I understand the risk, or THAT risk, at that age, but I didn't know all the consequences.
 
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Facts. Rap and most of our Culture loves this wild back against wall triumph story. Hiphop perpetuates this wild living.


Another big issue in our community, single mothers put a lot of grown man burdens on their young sons. Teenagers shouldn't have to worry about lights being on. But we arent critique Black Queens.
You sound dumb as hell blaming single mothers
The men not supporting their children.
If there isn't a male figure father, brother, uncle
the child will be a victim of that burden most times
as a man you chose to impregnate that thot gotta figure shyt out
 

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I don't think this issue specifically applies to any one race over another or any kind of wealth/class tier over another.

Nor does it apply to any kind of music. Fact is:

There are some people who don't have much money that love going to work.
There are those who make plenty of money but dread their jobs.
There are two people who have the exact same job, from very similar backgrounds and feel two entirely opposite ways about what they do.

Part of the issue here is really finding what you want to do then hoping it pays good and brings what you want out of life the most.
Additionally, finding out what you want to do and hoping that if you got a boss they're not a massive moronic a$$hole.

shytty bosses and shytty pay go a long way in making people feel this way.

Most people who were working remote were less stressed during the pandemic and were happy with their jobs for example.
People were excited to try and find jobs so that they can work remote.
Then bosses wanted people back in office, many times making productivity worse, making people hate work again and polluting nature.

That'll wear anybody out. Some people don't want to go through all that.
 
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