Should Educated/Wealthy Blacks do More to Help The Community

[froggle]

Let's keep it real, we all come from the same place. Our forefathers were slaves and everybody was equally broke off and in despair...minus those b*stard mixed kdis and them house negroes

Some way along the line some people got opportunities, while others didn't. I know when it comes to black people, we are some of the most selfish out there and I realize a lot of people who make it often look at themselves as more CAC than even associating with them wild ass negroes in the ghetto.

So for those who have the power, money and influence, should they do more or it's everyman for themself?

I realize the Latino's and a ton of minorities stick and help each other out, but we are all on

 

[Wild self]

Blame the nikkas that made fun of them when they were grinding for that education and legit paper. No one wants to build, but leech off of the finished product. That is how many successful black folk in the community feel like. When the community stops glorifying ignorance and negativity, then the attitudes of people will change.

 

[omnifax]

Yeah we (blacks) should all do more for our communities. How is the question cause not everyone is rich or famous and regular people (myself included) may feel like we can't make much of a difference since we don't have a lot of money or influence. I'm starting to realize though that being a black male visible in the community doing good things does have an impact on the kids even if its small and you never know you may get some other people to join in.

 

[Humble (Not) Mike Tyson]

Good morning, fellas,

Wow, it's quite a confoudning quandry. But, so simple at the same thing. The most tremendously challenging inquisition is that; the well-to-do, in the community, want nothing to do with the neer-do-wells (I believe that is a spelling error).

Until we can reach back, we can't pull forward.

My answer is; yes!

-Love, Mike

 

[AAKing23]

Blame the nikkas that made fun of them when they were grinding for that education and legit paper. No one wants to build, but leech off of the finished product. That is how many successful black folk in the community feel like. When the community stops glorifying ignorance and negativity, then the attitudes of people will change.

This.

But at the end of the day we do need to build some type of infrastructure for our selves because other races of people ain't gonna be on our side when some shyt pops off so we all we got.


Also I'm a firm believer that if you ignore shyt or put it off to the side eventually it's gonna come spilling into your own backyard.

 

[cleanface coney]

what the hell you think nikka?

 

[Wild self]

This.

But at the end of the day we do need to build some type of infrastructure for our selves because other races of people ain't gonna be on our side when some shyt pops off so we all we got.


Also I'm a firm believer that if you ignore shyt or put it off to the side eventually it's gonna come spilling into your own backyard.

And its gonna crush us into Native American status . All the negativity we been spitting out since the crack era is gonna hit us hard and kill us all. Only so long can a human mind take in so much negative influences before they crack on some Chief Keef shyt.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Blame the nikkas that made fun of them when they were grinding for that education and legit paper. No one wants to build, but leech off of the finished product. That is how many successful black folk in the community feel like. When the community stops glorifying ignorance and negativity, then the attitudes of people will change.

I gotta disagree. Everybody gets clowned in highschool that's not a good reason not to help your community. None of us made it to success without the help of those before us, so if you do find success it's only fair that you reach back and help the less fortunate. In my opinion the only way to get the community to stop glorifying the wrong things, is to reach back and SHOW them the right things. The poor glorify drug dealers and rappers because they are the only ones who find success but stay visable in the community. It only takes a successful black man to step back into his community and show the kids how he made that success to change lives and outlooks.

 

[SouthernBelle]

Simply put, yes

 

[DaChampIsHere]

Blame the nikkas that made fun of them when they were grinding for that education and legit paper. No one wants to build, but leech off of the finished product. That is how many successful black folk in the community feel like. When the community stops glorifying ignorance and negativity, then the attitudes of people will change.

This has nothing to do with the thread.

Let's keep it real, we all come from the same place. Our forefathers were slaves and everybody was equally broke off and in despair...minus those b*stard mixed kdis and them house negroes

Some way along the line some people got opportunities, while others didn't. I know when it comes to black people, we are some of the most selfish out there and I realize a lot of people who make it often look at themselves as more CAC than even associating with them wild ass negroes in the ghetto.

So for those who have the power, money and influence, should they do more or it's everyman for themself?

I realize the Latino's and a ton of minorities stick and help each other out, but we are all on

Black people do a lot to help out their communities. The problem you are speaking of has nothing to do with fault line between educated-uneducated or whatever you're insinuating.

I wish y'all negros would stop making all of these socially stratifying threads on here.

 

[malbaker86]

I don't think they SHOULD feel like they have to do more, but it sure would help more than it hurts. I think we all could do more things tho, myself included.

 

[King Poetic]

They should, but at the same time who would listen.. unless the person is lil wayne, nikki M., or rick ross or some other entertainer.

If you the brother who runs american express and u looking to give back alot of local black folks wouldn't care..

our mindset nowadays is stuck on so much materialistic items if u place computers and books in the community they'll just sit

 

[Chris.B]

 

[Wild self]

I gotta disagree. Everybody gets clowned in highschool that's not a good reason not to help your community. None of us made it to success without the help of those before us, so if you do find success it's only fair that you reach back and help the less fortunate. In my opinion the only way to get the community to stop glorifying the wrong things, is to reach back and SHOW them the right things. The poor glorify drug dealers and rappers because they are the only ones who find success but stay visable in the community. It only takes a successful black man to step back into his community and show the kids how he made that success to change lives and outlooks.

The successful person can try in groups, but lets be serious, many black kids don't want to aspire to be a doctor, lawyer, or a scientist, but to be a rapper that has "swag" and get bad bytches. Even kids of these successful, educated black people want to be the ratchet images of the hood cause it looks cool. I have a lot of personal stories where I know black kids that grew up in better homes than I did with a better support system of a family and still ended up in the wrong tracks, cause of peer pressure and the desperation to fit in.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

The successful person can try in groups, but lets be serious, many black kids don't want to aspire to be a doctor, lawyer, or a scientist, but to be a rapper that has "swag" and get bad bytches. Even kids of these successful, educated black people want to be the ratchet images of the hood cause it looks cool. I have a lot of personal stories where I know black kids that grew up in better homes than I did with a better support system of a family and still ended up in the wrong tracks, cause of peer pressure and the desperation to fit in.

In my opinion that's an issue of the kids having proper guidance. Doesn't matter how well off the parents are, if they are not guiding the kids in the right direction, they will look to the wrong things for guidance(tv, peer pressure, etc). But at the end of the day even those kids usualy get it together and find some type of success and this is due to the wealth of economic opportunity they have.

Poor black kids don't have those opportunities so there is absolutely no room for mistakes. Their parents aren't guiding them, their schools aren't teaching them. And the only people they see not starving are rappers and drug dealers. They don't want to be lawyers and doctors because they don't feel like those goals are attainable.

I run a mentoring program here in cleveland and I have these types of conversations with the kids a lot. In one conversation the question came up "Why do the right thing"

Some of the answers were "to get money" "to not go to jail" "there is no good reason to do the right thing" "cause my mom told me too" so i let them keep answering and discussing their answers. After a while I stopped them and told them all of them were wrong. I told them "you do the right thing, because its the right thing to do" it's not about who's watching or what you can get out of it. It's about being responsible for yourself and carrying yourself with dignity regardless of what people around you are doing"

They paused for a moment and looked around at each other like after our session one of the young dudes pulled me aside and said " thank you, I've never had anyone talk to me like that, and explain things to me" he said he never felt powerful enough to control his own world before, because no one told him he was.

These kids just need positive guidance, we can give it to them, we just have to stop the culture of counting them out before they even make it to adulthood.