I'm convinced most of y'all on the Coli don't know struggle.

[Anerdyblackguy]

Paper food stamps, government cheese and commodity canned pork.
Beans and rice for days on end.

Made the mr and I the people we are today.

Respect!

 

[Solomon Caine]

Wat u know about living on one piece of bread shared with your brother for the whole day?

Only god knows what everyone has been through at one point in another, surviving struggle is nothing to brag about. Because there is always people out there contending with a hundred times harder. Pray for them and help people in need at every opportunity, when you can afford to do so.

 

[Throwbacksample]

What you know about tape on the back of your remote or showering with a bucket

Tape on the back of your remote didnt mean a struggle. lol.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Wat u know about living on one piece of bread shared with your brother for the whole day?

Only god knows what everyone has been through at one point in another, surviving struggle is nothing to brag about. Because there is always people out there contending with a hundred times harder. Pray for them and help people in need at every opportunity, when you can afford to do so.

Amen!!

 

[How Sway?]

Ole started from the bottom and I'm still here lookin azz

 

[SemiEnlightenedBum]

Paper food stamps, government cheese and commodity canned pork.
Beans and rice for days on end.

Made the mr and I the people we are today.

when they were literal stamps and not EBT cards..

when you actually have used both..

and still do

being broke is being rich in these Orwellian dayze,that's why the rich are crumbling down right along with us po folk..your material things will just pull you down in the quicksand faster

that's why i adore entheogens/drugs,they're disposable,you use them,get your worth right away,then you piss&shyt them back into the earth..

that's ghetto ecology bruhs&bruhettes!

 

[PhonZhi]

I used to hit the kitchen lights.....cockroaches everywhere

 

[Lo-Co]

Nikka you try growing up near Jamaica Ave, and then tell me you know struggle. You try having to take care of a grandma who was on dialysis for 32 years; and dealing with that emotional BS. You try having your cousin, one of your closest friends, grandma, and aunt die in the same month ( August 2013).

I don't glorify it; but please try walking in somebody shoes before you talk about them.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

It's cool man.

 

[Paradise]

Commodities, paying for the essentials with a bag full of wrapped pennies ( this was before coinstar), Government grape and apple juice was good as all heck.

 

[ultraflexed]

Please classify what you mean by "the struggle" ?

 

[Pineal Gland]

Visit my father's friends on Christmas like they rich and we not
They had a pyramid of presents, stacked 'em up to the top
Get back home like, "Damn, Zac, I think this is all that we got"
No disrespect to my pops, Winn-Dixie just wasn’t paying
My mama did what she could, as a kid I heard patience was a virtue
On the first day of school those last year shoes, could hurt you
Stains on those Paco jeans belong on Tide commercials

 

[Knuckles Red]

OP, why would you want us to struggle? Why does it seem like some people think struggling is the core of the black experience? I don't want black people to know "the struggle." I

want black people to have all the opportunities possible. I do get what you're saying about people being self-centered as I wish more people were understanding of others.

 

[GunRanger]

 

[EndDomination]

Only struggled for a few years when I was younger, and a year of college where I lived illegally in my friend's dorm, but I do know the struggle.
The smell of ramen almost turns my stomach now, and anxiety has worn my teeth down a bit.
Most people know the struggle, if only for a few days.
When you can talk about it with friends and all laugh because you relate so closely, you've been through the struggle.