NEWSFLASH: The “ADOS” Movement is Not An Excuse for You to Be a FKN Idiot About Race and Culture

[Roland Coltrane]

It also had the Nation of Islam revival. Had black people wearing "X" on the shirts. Had HBCUs being the thing to be. Had Malcolm X getting respect from the young generation.

I think you're both right if that makes any sense

yes there was a lot of fukk shyt going on especially in regards to the crack epidemic but there was also an elevated level of consciousness

I don't think they have to be mutually exclusive


this topic is definitely deserving of further discussion because those two realities in the Black community at the time, being diametrically opposed, is a pretty wild dichotomy

 

[Barnett114]

It also had the Nation of Islam revival. Had black people wearing "X" on the shirts. Had HBCUs being the thing to be. Had Malcolm X getting respect from the young generation.

None of that mattered because people were poor and suffering

Most people never rocked with the Nation and know nothing of them. Chicago, where the Nation is headquartered, was at it's worst.

And for the talk of HBCUs, the 80s/90s had a lot of high school dropouts and the highest rate of teen pregnancy

All of that was just feel good moments through entertainment and the clothing they wore didn't matter

 

[Barnett114]

But that was after 92, but the people were pro black, look at what people were wearing in the background of those vids, all the African stuff people were wearing, the medallions, African colors, that's the way I remember it

Wearing clothing doesn't make you pro black nor does making feel good music

nikkas was selling crack, highest rate of teen pregnancy, high school dropouts, etc

Crime was out of control and there were no jobs

Why do you think there are gang injunctions in many cities, the 80s and early 90s

 

[Barnett114]

I think you're both right if that makes any sense

yes there was a lot of fukk shyt going on especially in regards to the crack epidemic but there was also an elevated level of consciousness

I don't think they have to be mutually exclusive


this topic is definitely deserving of further discussion because those two realities in the Black community at the time, being diametrically opposed, is a pretty wild dichotomy

How are you conscious when you are selling poison to your own people, gang banging, etc

Because entertainers are making feel good music to distract you from reality?

 

[Wild self]

I think you're both right if that makes any sense

yes there was a lot of fukk shyt going on especially in regards to the crack epidemic but there was also an elevated level of consciousness

I don't think they have to be mutually exclusive


this topic is definitely deserving of further discussion because those two realities in the Black community at the time, being diametrically opposed, is a pretty wild dichotomy

That would be a dope thread. On how the pro black mocement started, and how it dissolved by outside forces

 

[xCivicx]

Question: aren't Afro-Caribbeans descendants of slaves (except them c00n-ass Dominicans :mbaku: )?

Not saying that they should receive reparations like African-American DOS's, but I don't get the contempt for Black Hispanic/Afro-Caribbean/Haitian brehs in this movement. :bppatrice:

DISCLAIMER: I am African-American, and my family comes from Mississippi.

honestly the case could easily be made Caribbeans could get reparations also

Smh the bold is NOT the point

There are MILLIONS and MILLIONS of black people owed reparations from all over the plane

Many different groups are owed compensation from DIFFERENT european countries though...

Even though they're all the same, it makes more sense to me that the slightly different groups within the black diaspora push for reparations against the specific subgroup of europeans that owes them the MOST, SPECIFICALLY to that particular group

That's just my opinion

 

[Roland Coltrane]

How are you conscious when you are selling poison to your own people, gang banging, etc

Because entertainers are making feel good music to distract you from reality?

you're speaking in absolutes as if EVERYONE was in the drug game and the only "conscious" folks were entertainers. Their art gained traction with a lot of folks for a reason

I feel like you want it to be a mutual exclusive thing when even at the height of the Black power movement. Black people were still killing each other and selling drugs. The murder rates back then are higher than what they are now.


But I think you may be in an argumentative mood and I'm gonna go enjoy a movie

 

[Deuterion]

How are you conscious when you are selling poison to your own people, gang banging, etc

Because entertainers are making feel good music to distract you from reality?

Those entertainers didn’t come from a different dimension, they came from the same neighborhoods the crack dealers were at. To take the CIA created crack epidemic and the crime that ensued because of it and paint that as the spirit and mindstate of the entire Black community at the time is wreckless and straight out of the white supremacy playbook. I was alive back then and I know for a fact that it was a lot more conscious...so remember when X dropped and Remember the Time...we were hype on the West Coast. We were wearing dashikis, African colors, Nigerian caps, and all that.

 

[Barnett114]

you're speaking in absolutes as if EVERYONE was in the drug game and the only "conscious" folks were entertainers. Their art gained traction with a lot of folks for a reason

I feel like you want it to be a mutual exclusive thing when even at the height of the Black power movement. Black people were still killing each other and selling drugs. The murder rates back then are higher than what they are now.


But I think you may be in an argumentative mood and I'm gonna go enjoy a movie

Not really, I just don't have on rose colored glassed.

Your average person in the 80s was poor because the economy was shyt due to Reagan

But yes, lets make the 80s and early 90s seem great where most black folks were conscious and aware

In a country were 85% of the people are blind


Only on the internet

 

[010101]

neo.tribalism¿*

 

[Barnett114]

Those entertainers didn’t come from a different dimension, they came from the same neighborhoods the crack dealers were at. To take the CIA created crack epidemic and the crime that ensued because of it and paint that as the spirit and mindstate of the entire Black community at the time is wreckless and straight out of the white supremacy playbook. I was alive back then and I know for a fact that it was a lot more conscious...so remember when X dropped and Remember the Time...we were hype on the West Coast. We were wearing dashikis, African colors, Nigerian caps, and all that.

Those entertainers came from the remnants of what was left over from the Panthers and the 60s. The community had be broken since the death of X and King which is why the people were vulnerable.

But yes your average brother and sisters were wearings were wearing dashikis, African colors, Nigerian caps and the entertainers restored the feeling.

 

[Roland Coltrane]

Not really, I just don't have on rose colored glassed.

Your average person in the 80s was poor because the economy was shyt due to Reagan

But yes, lets make the 80s and early 90s seem great where most black folks were conscious and aware

In a country were 85% of the people are blind


Only on the internet

enjoy your Friday breh

 

[Barnett114]

enjoy your Friday breh

Thanks for the rebuttal

 

[ultraflexed]

How are you conscious when you are selling poison to your own people, gang banging, etc

Because entertainers are making feel good music to distract you from reality?

Your assuming everyone was selling or using that's far from the truth, black home ownership was at far larger % then now. Black had better paying jobs, not everyone was on the streets

They had community centers in the hood like the young community development center, a lot black programs that dont exist now..
Your wrong

 

[Deuterion]

Those entertainers came from the remnants of what was left over from the Panthers and the 60s. The community had be broken since the death of X and King which is why the people were vulnerable.

But yes your average brother and sisters were wearings were wearing dashikis, African colors, Nigerian caps and the entertainers restored the feeling.

@Dj method x come get ya mans.