The hood is the backbone of Black America

[Elle Driver]

That shyt is the backbone alright the backbone that's infected with tumors and is spreading to other parts of your body rapidly

I was born in NYC during the crack epidemic and seeing photos of that shyt makes me thankful that I wasn't a youth back then. The crack epidemic is partly responsible for the hoods growing at such a cataclysmic rate. shyt was crazy.

 

[Theraflu]

I feel this but your family is just one group of people. We aren't doing it at a large enough magnitude to compensate. Give them hood rats a job at a young enough age and it's less likely they become that...

I would see kids as young as 7,8,9 working in different Chinese establishments in their hoods. You gotta nip that shyt in the bud early.

You're exactly right, it definitely needs to be nipped in a bud young. If we catch them young then we'd be fine, there's brehs trying though, you've got all those mentoring clubs and stuff, sure you've seen those big brother clubs, after school clubs etc for kids. It has to start in the home with parents training kids with new morals. The Chinese kids you mentioned are a good example because their parents are strict with them and train them with those morals. The problem is how exactly do we tackle the kids though, because I know damn well most parents aren't listening to anyone on how to raise their kids. Most of the kids aren't benefitting from that tough parenting and I doubt the parents are interested in listening to people like us

 

[Nintendough]

Those of us who have lived it everyday and faced the poverty and reality of it know it's not all fun and games. As a black man in the hood you need to fix up and look sharp and be on constant alert because some times shyt is literally like a dangerzone. It's affected us as a people in more ways than it should. It's abit like that thread where we were talking about our struggle growing up and from the outside them nikkas who thought we were 'cool kids' cos of how we were living but the every day reality is v different tbh.

Exactly....no fun or games at all.



See what little Xavier doesn't understand is that he wont be able to get a meaningful job or mesh with well to do people while still trying to live a hood representation that he wasn't even alive to witness. He was a tadpole in his father's loins when half of this entertainment he worships was being developed.


As men, we have to lead the weak. I remember the days of wondering if the electricity was getting cut off, asking the corner store to loan out a bite and telling the folks behind the desk all of your life for a few pennies. These lil scrubs need us to guide them. I

 

[Poitier]

Black people really think they are the only ethnic group with hoods. Difference is Mexicans and Asians use theirs as ground zero to self-support and rise out of poverty while we ruminate and run away from it.

I really don't know how we change the mentality and economic practices at this point. Our best bet would be for one of these Black celebrities to come out and say it but for some reason they never do kick game about ownership and investing in our communities.

 

[kermit da hustla]

U nikkas sayin "OMG black entertainment has fell off, the comedians succ, da movies succ, the tv shows succ, the music succs, the 90s were better!!"

The 90s, black entertainment revolved around the hood. From the music(suge knight, deathrow, eazy e, biggie, shyt EVERYONE)

Comedians- Bernie Mac, Eddie, Steve, etc.. all nikkas from the hood

Movies- Boyz, Menaec, New Jack, all hood movies, and o yea Menae and Boyz is better than the Godfather

tv shows- Martin: set in some ghetto ass apartments in Detroit, Fresh Prince, hood nikka goes to live wit his rich relatives in bel air, best friend lives in compton, etc..

Nowdays everyone wants to see the middle class and rich black people voice, but lets keep it real, nikkas from the suburbs are wacc as fucc and corny as hell

get mad

Blacks from the hood are the worst element of black America. Middle and upper class blacks are what we should aspire to be. The nikkas and hood rat bytches in the ghetto are what makes every other race go to our community.

 

[Elle Driver]

Black people really thing they are the only ethnic group with hoods. Difference is Mexicans and Asians use theirs as ground zero to self-support and rise out of poverty while we ruminate and run away from it.

I really don't know how we change the mentality and economic practices at this point. Our best bet would be for one of these Black celebrities to come out and say it but for some reason they never do kick game about ownership and investing in our communities.

We need to educate our community, that's the problem. We're too comfortable. I'm gonna be honest, I work around a lot of youth, and a lot of the rhetoric I hear from their parents is pretty disgusting. It's a cycle. They don't care as long as they got they roof, they bullies full, and their spending money.

 

[Theraflu]

Why not buy instead of rent (instead of living on section 8 with the federal govt paying like 80% of your rent and feeling comfortable)? Then go back and revitalize the hood by buying up all that property. Maybe I'm just being ridiculous.

Not being ridiculous, what you're saying would be ideal and would allow us to combat gentrification, we do buy to lets, so we have our 2 houses that we bought as investments and rent out per room, all our properties are in the hood over here and we never use agents so I photograph, advertise, vet tenants, check reference etc all by myself with my father. I prefer black people (employed). At the moment one of the houses have 4 black girls and all's well, they work and study so it's okay. I've had quite bad experiences with black men (young) but I still rent to them as long as they've got a job and leave a good deposit. It's better to provide good rent for people and buy the home instead of having people renting forever and living on section 8 and eventually getting kicked out because of gentrification.

Houses in the hood are obviously cheaper too, it's a great way to keep our areas control our homes and rent, build black wealth (we make good money) and overall property in your hood as long as you know what your doing is an okay investment for your future to the average person whose too scared of shares stocks etc.

Although i go to the hood 4 times a week, tbh I couldn't live there and as someone who wants to marry the girl I'm currently with and start a family, I think having a black son (aka biggest target in the hood) I'm not sure I'd want to raise him here however I'll always keep my business and investments in the hood.

 

[Captain Crunch]

Not being ridiculous, what you're saying would be ideal and would allow us to combat gentrification, we do buy to lets, so we have our 2 houses that we bought as investments and rent out per room, all our properties are in the hood over here and we never use agents so I photograph, advertise, vet tenants, check reference etc all by myself with my father. I prefer black people (employed). At the moment one of the houses have 4 black girls and all's well, they work and study so it's okay. I've had quite bad experiences with black men (young) but I still rent to them as long as they've got a job and leave a good deposit. It's better to provide good rent for people and buy the home instead of having people renting forever and living on section 8 and eventually getting kicked out because of gentrification.

Houses in the hood are obviously cheaper too, it's a great way to keep our areas control our homes and rent, build black wealth (we make good money) and overall property in your hood as long as you know what your doing is an okay investment for your future to the average person whose too scared of shares stocks etc.

Although i go to the hood 4 times a week, tbh I couldn't live there and as someone who wants to marry the girl I'm currently with and start a family, I think having a black son (aka biggest target in the hood) I'm not sure I'd want to raise him here however I'll always keep my business and investments in the hood.

What houses you own?
I'm thinking to get something in the Rust Belt.

 

[kermit da hustla]

I'm talking about right now.Almost everything on tv regarding blacks is some middle class cookie cutter shyt with safe nikkas.And that shyt is not funny/entertaining. Only "black" show i can really think of that shows some aspects of hood/struggle shyt is Treme (If that even counts)

You act like being a safe and cookie cutter negro is bad. these dusty hood nikkas y'all look up to are the worst of black community. fukking trash that doesn't respect our women, doesn't respect being a father, doesn't respect education. How can you celebrate the kind of human waste that exists in the hood? I literally feel sorry and almost for thee few good black men and women stuck in the hood and trying to get out. They are surrounded by people who just gave up at life.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

U nikkas sayin "OMG black entertainment has fell off, the comedians succ, da movies succ, the tv shows succ, the music succs, the 90s were better!!"

The 90s, black entertainment revolved around the hood. From the music(suge knight, deathrow, eazy e, biggie, shyt EVERYONE)

Comedians- Bernie Mac, Eddie, Steve, etc.. all nikkas from the hood

Movies- Boyz, Menaec, New Jack, all hood movies, and o yea Menae and Boyz is better than the Godfather

tv shows- Martin: set in some ghetto ass apartments in Detroit, Fresh Prince, hood nikka goes to live wit his rich relatives in bel air, best friend lives in compton, etc..

Nowdays everyone wants to see the middle class and rich black people voice, but lets keep it real, nikkas from the suburbs are wacc as fucc and corny as hell

get mad

Pays my bills though.

Its so demonic, friend.

 

[cleanface coney]

Black people really think they are the only ethnic group with hoods. Difference is Mexicans and Asians use theirs as ground zero to self-support and rise out of poverty while we ruminate and run away from it.

I really don't know how we change the mentality and economic practices at this point. Our best bet would be for one of these Black celebrities to come out and say it but for some reason they never do kick game about ownership and investing in our communities.

 

[Elle Driver]

Not being ridiculous, what you're saying would be ideal and would allow us to combat gentrification, we do buy to lets, so we have our 2 houses that we bought as investments and rent out per room, all our properties are in the hood over here and we never use agents so I photograph, advertise, vet tenants, check reference etc all by myself with my father. I prefer black people (employed). At the moment one of the houses have 4 black girls and all's well, they work and study so it's okay. I've had quite bad experiences with black men (young) but I still rent to them as long as they've got a job and leave a good deposit. It's better to provide good rent for people and buy the home instead of having people renting forever and living on section 8 and eventually getting kicked out because of gentrification.

Houses in the hood are obviously cheaper too, it's a great way to keep our areas control our homes and rent, build black wealth (we make good money) and overall property in your hood as long as you know what your doing is an okay investment for your future to the average person whose too scared of shares stocks etc.

Although i go to the hood 4 times a week, tbh I couldn't live there and as someone who wants to marry the girl I'm currently with and start a family, I think having a black son (aka biggest target in the hood) I'm not sure I'd want to raise him here however I'll always keep my business and investments in the hood.

That's the fukked up thing. I worked in housing for a while too, I would try to encourage tenants to try to rent to own but they were too damn comfortable having the federal gov't pay 80% through low-income subsidized housing (that shyt is a circus in and of itself). It inspired me to focus on trying to build the black community and educate. Cause really, a lot of us don't even know or understand how to acquire property, or how to get scholarships and aid for school. One client I worked with was 17 and got accepted to Harvard and he didn't even know about financial aid (he was living in the projects with his mom and younger sister, on public assistance and the whole shebang). Needless to say he's got a full ride scholarship now and he's pre-med.

 

[Theraflu]

What houses you own?
I'm thinking to get something in the Rust Belt.

We own one 3 bedroom and one 4 bedroom house. Find 3-5 bedroom houses in the hood. Turn the living room into a bedroom. So if you buy a 4 bedroom it automatically becomes 5 Bedrooms. You can either rent out the whole house (if you wanna do this get 3 bedroom to attract most families) or you can rent out 1 room each. You make more money renting out one room each and also if you have a gap in rent it won't affect you as much if you're getting rent from 5 different people vs 1 person.

Do all the advertising yourself, so photos, viewings, meet each tenant yourself, take in only working people or students and check references (I've had many 'employed' people who turned out to be drug dealers) So make sure you check that they actually work.

And that's it. Get a landlord mortgage for it preferable, the tenants pay the mortgage and keep the profit, when you've done it for about 15 years and they've paid of the mortgage with you having a steady income, the house value should have risen in 15 years, you can sell it and add the sale money to your retirement fund or just keep it going till your kids take over.

It's a good investment and stable income and way to buy a piece of the hood before it gets snatched up by hipsters in gentrifiction tbh.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Which many of us have been trying to do but it's really hard, trust me. I work in my family businesses 3 of our shops are in the hood and we are black run businesses in black areas and houses we rent out. Ideally this should be idyllic and great but let me just tell you breh it's hard. It's hard attempting to revitalize the hood, this is what I'm tryna tell you brehs like @marcuz and @Coney Island because we are all told we need more black businesses! Well I can tell you first hand that running a black business in a black area can be HELL. Breh we sell African hair skin products and food, not high risk right? Do you know how many times nikkas have tried to rob the store ? What about our houses that we rent out, owning properties in black areas and renting them out to only black people like we do has been a challenge.

I will always do it and continue to do it, I earn a good living from it but it isn't the mecca everyone thinks, even if your business is doing well and you're helping your community, you have 10000000 hood rats trying to rob your store, damage your store, burgle your house.

I used to drive a Mercedes which was new and when I used to oversea our houses that we rented out, no lie for a straight 6 months my car windows got smashed like 4 times, it became ridiculous, vandalism, damage, theft, my mums an old woman, closing up shop she had some hood rats pull out a knife on her for her car. My mum's been robbed many times.

The problem is when you're one of the few trying in black areas but you are completely surrounded by crime, educated hard working people like us aren't the problem, it's the thugs and feral youth, because as we try and build things they damage it.

I remember a day care in my old hood that we painted, next day nikkas already spray painted it. It's easy for us the educated one's to try and build the hood but unless we sort of the remnants of drug culture (the dealers, gangs, thugs) we won't get anywhere.

As a black business owner in a black hood there is NO unity or support, infact when nikkas see you're a black business owner all the more to put on that ski mask and try rob your store, so it's NOT some paradise where all us negros join hands and build the economy. Hood rats aren't letting us do that.

More likely to rob and kill us tbh.

You in the UK?

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Yall nikkas can't be serious.