LeBron violates Memphis :snoop:

[Hoodoo Child]

Oklahoma City and Memphis feel like the same caliber of city, though OKC is less run down. Salt Lake is a different tier/class of city than either of those two, period. We joke about SLC on here because its so white, but its actually a really dope city.

Maybe not you specifically, but alota people are putting extras on Memphis with this shyt. 1, saying you don't like Memphis isn't an anti-black statement.

2, saying you like Nashville better isn't anti-black;

3, all those black people in Memphis does not make it a great place for black people to live. Memphis is objectively terrible across a variety of metrics for black people;

4, people have kept mentioning Memphis' culture and history. Every city of size has culture, and Memphis history is only of elite relevance in music. And most of that history is from bygone eras, there are plenty of cities with elite musical lineage and some cities that have influenced pop culture on a much larger scale.

Memphis is fine, but it's only special to people who have ties to it, or wanna look pro-black by saluting Memphis. I have a soft spot for Memphis....but objectively it's only really something to talk about because of the region its in.

fukk outta here with this mess. @IllmaticDelta

The Rich Cultural History of South Memphis

“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis - AAIHS

 

[Voice of Reason]

What LEbron said was wrong but Kobe fans are not about to act like he didn't make c00n statements surrounding the Trayvon Martin situation.

 

[blackestofpanthers]

What LEbron said was wrong but Kobe fans are not about to act like he didn't make c00n statements surrounding the Trayvon Martin situation.

Yea, and let’s not bring up tamir rice while we’re at it, if anyone wants to go that route.

 

[Houston911]

Oklahoma City and Memphis feel like the same caliber of city, though OKC is less run down. Salt Lake is a different tier/class of city than either of those two, period. We joke about SLC on here because its so white, but its actually a really dope city.

Maybe not you specifically, but alota people are putting extras on Memphis with this shyt. 1, saying you don't like Memphis isn't an anti-black statement.

2, saying you like Nashville better isn't anti-black;

3, all those black people in Memphis does not make it a great place for black people to live. Memphis is objectively terrible across a variety of metrics for black people;

4, people have kept mentioning Memphis' culture and history. Every city of size has culture, and Memphis history is only of elite relevance in music. And most of that history is from bygone eras, there are plenty of cities with elite musical lineage and some cities that have influenced pop culture on a much larger scale.

Memphis is fine, but it's only special to people who have ties to it, or wanna look pro-black by saluting Memphis. I have a soft spot for Memphis....but objectively it's only really something to talk about because of the region its in.

This post is bad on so many levels

 

[Apprentice]

Now even people from Ohio are gonna hit him with the

Both those cities are majority black lol

Damn Bron going out sad, he lettin uk what he really think

 

[murksiderock]

Milwaukee isn’t one of the most significant cities in black history

What would we use to quantify this? I feel like alota cats in here talking and ain't that familiar with Memphis. Memphis has a significant black history, it likely isn't Top 5 All-Time and it has real competition to fit into the Top 10, so what are we using to quantify this?

You just gave me a dope thread idea though, so thanks for the alley!

Having significance in black history because that’s where the Civil Rights movement took off, and it’s where MLK died doesn’t somehow make it a good city to visit 60 years later. I’ve stated before, but I’ve been there for work.. literally was told about shootings outside the facility, and to not leave my car outside the gate cause cars have been getting rummaged through. Was frankly my least favorite place I’ve been to

Milwaukee has a STRONG black community of people who migrated to the north after slavery. That’s where my family moved to, but I’m not gonna get bent out of shape over a ball players opinions of a city I have roots in

Civil Rights era kicked off in Alabama and that's probably the most prominent state for black history in that whole era (1950s, 1960s).

People in here giving Memphis flowers but also putting extras on it.

It’s not even a big deal

And nikkas getting upset over nothing

U go to Memphis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, New Orleans, and any other city , i guarantee ton of black folks right now saying “ I CANT WAIT TO GET THE fukk OUTTA HERE, I cant stand this city “

nikkas upset about nothing. It's already established that most of us feel like him saying it in all white company was poor taste, with that said, cats bringing up repeatedly about how Memphis is a black city are misdirecting.

Memphis' black history and whatever significance nikkas think it has, do little to nothing for Memphis today, because Memphis hasn't been a leader in black cultural exports in a long fukking time.

Memphians love being from there but so many people have left and won't go back. My stepmom went to high school there, moved to St Louis after high school, and other than the year we lived in Memphis in my 8th grade year (and mom was 36-37 then), she has not lived in Memphis since she was 18. She will not move back even though she proudly reps it as her hometown.

Her sister stayed longer, her sister was 12 when they moved to Memphis, and she got married, had all her kids and stayed in Memphis until 2011 when they moved to Harrisburg PA, so my aunt was in Memphis until she was around 42. They've been in the Illinois suburbs of St Louis for a decade now and she also has no plans to return to Memphis, even though she spent 30 years of her life there and proudly reps it as her hometown.

These are personal examples I know, and there are obviously others. Memphis has been a stagnant-to-dying city for a long, long time. It's decline goes back to the 80s at the latest, but my late grandfather (my mom and aunt's dad, who died in '21, but was from the Mississippi burbs of Memphis); my grandfather once told me that Memphis started declining after Dr King was murdered.

My mom was born there but she was like 10 months old when he moved his woman and kids to Western New York, like 6 months after Dr King died. Said something like Dr King's death broke something in the spirit of Memphis.

It's true that Memphis has been sabotaged by the state of Tennessee many times over the years, but this isn't a Memphis-specific issue. People don't realize that Memphis has generations of electing poor leaders into authority that helped intensify the decline in the city, Memphis leaders at numerous offices from the mayor to city council to the police department to the school board and so on and so forth, THE ELECTED LEADERS that Memphians voted into office, there is a long list of corruption and just weak ass, poor ass leadership, "leading" the city.

Real fukking Memphians who been around a long time or really know the city and its history will tell you the city bears some accountability in its own demise. They got fukked over at the state level, but they helped fukk themselves. Memphis lived too long in its "golden era" of like the 1940s to 1970s, I mean even in the 00s the city was pushing old school shyt to the forefront to carry its economy, while cities like Nashville, Atlanta, the Carolinas were diversifying their tourism palette and advancing into the present, preparing for the future.

Memphis was a city stuck in the past and while its gotten a little better, what you see today is the result of a few generations of being reactive, instead of proactive. Not expanding its economy, putting the wrong people in office, mass corruption, and yes, racist gatekeeping from the state of Tennessee.

You didn't ask all this so this isn't for you necessarily but the convo in here has kinda jumped the shark. Too many people with minimal knowledge of Memphis misspeaking on Memphis; we love that its a lot of black people there, but if we gonna go that route, nikkas probably should educate themselves on Memphis and how it got to be the butt of jokes it is today.....because 60+ years ago, it wasn't.

And its not like whites and nonblacks liked black ass Memphis more 65 years ago because it was always heavily black (it wasn't always majority black though, I think in the Civil Rights era it was like 35-40% black. White flight in the 70s turned it majority black).

If people wanna tell truths about Memphis tell the whole thing.