Kenny WRLD
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Tell these black kids they can be who they are, dye your hair blue, shyt I'll do it too
What do up think black men as a whole could improve upon?
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rats are known for singing so I close my ears to avoid hearing it.
i notice you're reduced to gifs and smilies whenever i address you
Be more specific about Charlottesville. What should we be paying attention to about Charlottesville? Dat shyt ain't nothin new
Attitudes towards cacs, on this site? KKK, Tuskegee Syphillis Experiment, Massacre of Black Wallstreet, Dark Alliance, etc. I wonder why
MLK;
Segregation on buses ended (montgomery bus boycott)
Beyond Vietnam
He had a major impact on civil rights movements(like no other).
Played a major role in the first NFL quarterback.
He hit racism straight forward on a political/national level (showed whites that the shyt ain't right, when they didn't realize it).
Campaigns for voting rights.
I've worked with plenty of recovered addicts. Known J's that don't smoke no more. In fact, they all have said, "you can stop smoking crack and drinking alcohol, but not cigarettes."
D-Boys? nikkas gettin dey act together.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...n-to-this-massive-change-in-criminal-justice/
D-Boys are a minority in the black community. Gangbangers are a minority. Racist cacs are the majority.
It's more cacs than blacks incarcerated. Percentage wise this is not the case tho, but I wonder why.
Oh yeah, and there are more blacks in college than prison.
2010: 850,000 in prison...1.3 million in college
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Exactly. MLK told racist whites what they already knew and here we are in 2017 still plagued with racist whites. His dream of racist whites opening their eyes and seiing Blacks as their brothers was a fantasy.
Wake me up when the gangbaging and dope dealing in the Black community stops...until that world arrives its a fantasy thinking that gangbanging and dope dealing will stop. Especially when statistics shows that gang culture is on the rise. And yes there are a lot of racist whites...Like I said MLKs dream was a fantasy because those racist whites in Charlottesville will never see me or you as their brother.
I think the tide is turning already, but we have a ways to go.
Think about it this way, in the 1980s, if you were a kid you didn't get to see what your favorite athlete was doing with their money positively. Now, these kids know that all of these athletes are starting businesses, are helping other kids, etc. It is starting to shape the youth already.
They try to stereotype us as thugs etc. but the "average" black man in 2017 is not on stupid shyt. That population is shrinking.
For the average black man, we need to be on the entrepreneur and mentorship wave. We need to build our own and teach the youth how to build their own.
Yeah, back in the day, all that "thugged out" bullshyt harmed the black youth in too many ways. Now we got to fight this emasculation of the black male.
PhonZhi
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The content of the most popular music aimed at the black youth needs to change amongst many other things.
No more "young n1kka move that dope" and "Percocet....Molly, Percocet".
We need to start viewing rappers who promote and glorify a destructive and backwards mentality to their own people as enemies of black people.
No more "young n1kka move that dope" and "Percocet....Molly, Percocet".
We need to start viewing rappers who promote and glorify a destructive and backwards mentality to their own people as enemies of black people.
BlackManLiveFromLondon
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As black people we need to stop hyping fat people period. Too many want to embrace these 'thick' girls - they are not 'thick' they are overweight. Alot of our women are fat (contrary to Coli belief the stats back me up), they wont make the effort to change if you gas em up.
-Travel : Its important that black men travel idc what people tell you about it, travelling is a great way of gaining knowledge. Theres only so much info you can learn about the continent known as Africa on the internet.. its up to you to go and learn first hand.
-Stop calling other black men that have interests outside of the norm for black people 'white'. Its very divisive.
-Look at life as a game of chess not a game of checkers. Be ten steps ahead at all times.
Being better fathers
Stop spending money we don't have
Stop spending money we don't have
- Learn to adapt. You might have to learn another language to make more connections in business. This gives you an edge. How many of you brothers can speak Chinese or Spanish fluently? So many black american men can only speak English. Knowing more than one language is useful in many ways.
- Stop whining about what's "fair". While you're whining about the rich being rich, they still don't care about you. Are you going to go after yours or whine about unfairness in the world? Nobody's going to just hand you their fortune, you have to invest and build your own. Life isn't some fair, magical Utopia. Other races of men seem to understand this better.
- Have multiple streams of income. It's not 1961 anymore. One "job" is not enough and could be gone tomorrow. This should be common sense but unfortunately for a lot of us it's not.
- Stop putting these rappers and athletes on such a high pedestal. Only time they should be listened to is if they're bosses giving out good investment or business advice.
- Stop being a reminiscing "back in the day" ass nikka, unless you have something to show for what you were doing back in the day. I.e. back in the day i invested and i made this much money. Or back in the day i started a business and it's still going strong. Nobody cares about raggedy hoes you piped 15 years ago or shoes you wore. What do you have to show for it?
- Stop thinking that masculinity means being overly confrontational, emotional, angry and argumentative. It's not. Those are feminine traits, and will hold you back as a man. If you can't think critically and are a crybaby or hot head, how will you lead a company?
- Stop lying to yourself by saying, "money doesn't matter" or "money can't buy happiness" etc. The only reason why you're saying that is because you're trying to make yourself feel better about not owning anything or having anything to pass down to your kids. Money makes the world go around.
- Get your OWNERSHIP game right instead of chasing p*ssy all afternoon after you get off your shift at Radio Shack or Wal Mart. If you had some ownership, you wouldn't have to be getting bossed around by Mr Charlie for $12 an hour, just so you can pay the rent for a house/apt that you don't own.
- Stop constantly whining about "the white man". Not only is it a waste of time, but Asians, Arabs, and Latinos, pretty much all men except the black man, has managed to open businesses even in BLACK areas, so it's not just "white men" in business and real estate, other races of men are too. The "white man" excuse for why you won't start a business is getting old. If you have time to cupcake with hoes on twitter, you have time to figure out business ownership. Or at least be self employed in some capacity.
- Stop thinking sneakers, phones and cars are worth more than they really are. As soon as nikkas get a little bit of money, we go buy a Mercedes, that depreciated as soon as you drove it off the lot. Open a BUSINESS first, buy some property, then you can flex later.
- Stop spreading and believing that slave, archaic mentality that your single mother had. There's nothing cool about slaving for Mr Charlie and having nothing to pass down to your kids. Your mama lied.
- Stop acting like the Arabs who own the gas stations and stores, Latinos with the Mexican restaurants, Asians with the restaurants etc are doing something wrong. That's right, that's what you call entrepreneurship and group economics. Don't hate on them like they're doing it wrong. They don't care if you don't like them anyway. They care about what you should, BUSINESS.
- Stop whining about what's "fair". While you're whining about the rich being rich, they still don't care about you. Are you going to go after yours or whine about unfairness in the world? Nobody's going to just hand you their fortune, you have to invest and build your own. Life isn't some fair, magical Utopia. Other races of men seem to understand this better.
- Have multiple streams of income. It's not 1961 anymore. One "job" is not enough and could be gone tomorrow. This should be common sense but unfortunately for a lot of us it's not.
- Stop putting these rappers and athletes on such a high pedestal. Only time they should be listened to is if they're bosses giving out good investment or business advice.
- Stop being a reminiscing "back in the day" ass nikka, unless you have something to show for what you were doing back in the day. I.e. back in the day i invested and i made this much money. Or back in the day i started a business and it's still going strong. Nobody cares about raggedy hoes you piped 15 years ago or shoes you wore. What do you have to show for it?
- Stop thinking that masculinity means being overly confrontational, emotional, angry and argumentative. It's not. Those are feminine traits, and will hold you back as a man. If you can't think critically and are a crybaby or hot head, how will you lead a company?
- Stop lying to yourself by saying, "money doesn't matter" or "money can't buy happiness" etc. The only reason why you're saying that is because you're trying to make yourself feel better about not owning anything or having anything to pass down to your kids. Money makes the world go around.
- Get your OWNERSHIP game right instead of chasing p*ssy all afternoon after you get off your shift at Radio Shack or Wal Mart. If you had some ownership, you wouldn't have to be getting bossed around by Mr Charlie for $12 an hour, just so you can pay the rent for a house/apt that you don't own.
- Stop constantly whining about "the white man". Not only is it a waste of time, but Asians, Arabs, and Latinos, pretty much all men except the black man, has managed to open businesses even in BLACK areas, so it's not just "white men" in business and real estate, other races of men are too. The "white man" excuse for why you won't start a business is getting old. If you have time to cupcake with hoes on twitter, you have time to figure out business ownership. Or at least be self employed in some capacity.
- Stop thinking sneakers, phones and cars are worth more than they really are. As soon as nikkas get a little bit of money, we go buy a Mercedes, that depreciated as soon as you drove it off the lot. Open a BUSINESS first, buy some property, then you can flex later.
- Stop spreading and believing that slave, archaic mentality that your single mother had. There's nothing cool about slaving for Mr Charlie and having nothing to pass down to your kids. Your mama lied.
- Stop acting like the Arabs who own the gas stations and stores, Latinos with the Mexican restaurants, Asians with the restaurants etc are doing something wrong. That's right, that's what you call entrepreneurship and group economics. Don't hate on them like they're doing it wrong. They don't care if you don't like them anyway. They care about what you should, BUSINESS.
Community investment.
Staying out of the prison-industrial complex.
Raising children.
Removing ourselves from gang violence.
Graduation rates and college attendance rates.
Colorism.
Stamping out sexual abuse, zero tolerance.
Staying out of the prison-industrial complex.
Raising children.
Removing ourselves from gang violence.
Graduation rates and college attendance rates.
Colorism.
Stamping out sexual abuse, zero tolerance.
There is no "black men as a whole"
Black people go to stop with thia narrative of this mega monolith
Brehs aint never been to the other side of their own cith talmbout "black Men as a whole"
But watch this thread be full of stuff black men already do
Black people go to stop with thia narrative of this mega monolith
Brehs aint never been to the other side of their own cith talmbout "black Men as a whole"
But watch this thread be full of stuff black men already do
Believe in God.
Ask God to help you:
1. Love yourself; and
2. To be at peace with yourself.
Ask God to help you:
1. Love yourself; and
2. To be at peace with yourself.
InfinateOpulance
All Star
How about some positivity?
How is that negative?
I do not believe the problem is us.
With every negative about us, America is there to exploit it and give it to the world.
The same isn't done to other folk.
With every positive, it's suppress, ignored and treated like something only a few of us do.
Like, someone listed dating fat white women when the large majority of us are with black women.
We are fine, largely. Now, it's time to attack the systematic forces that turn our mistakes into tragedy and makes our triumphs out to be rare.
