Why Black Boys Wanna Be Athletes & Rappers

[Pdiddy]

The lifestyle is tempting, even though most wont ever make it

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

shyt me too I grew up broke af always either playing sports or doing dumb street shyt with my nikkas .


But now I'm making good money in the tech sales field and will be transitioning to full on IT shyt once I do my 902 in 3 weeks

 

[Pdiddy]

shyt me too I grew up broke af always either playing sports or doing dumb street shyt with my nikkas .


But now I'm making good money in the tech sales field and will be transitioning to full on IT shyt once I do my 902 in 3 weeks

Sounds good...So if you had to choose between making $5 mill rapping and a tech career.....which would you pick?

 

[DrX]

problem is, that life is an illusion, even most legit rich people dont live like that, alotta rappers dont live like this, its all for marketing to get peons (the public) to amire the image and really buy the product, so the rappers really can live that lifestyle...dame and 50 all admitted this

alotta kids chase this illusion and end up in Satan trap, everybody want the throne, but the problem is, there simply isnt one...the crown doesnt exist

 

[BezO]

Because that's all the media portrays of us.

If there were more glorified Black doctors, lawyers, businessmen, etc on TV, we'd want to be that.

It's the only reason I voted for Obama. Young Black men/boys need something else to look up and aspire to.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

Sounds good...So if you had to choose between making $5 mill rapping and a tech career.....which would you pick?

Rap career. But only if I'm actually dope.

 

[MikelArteta]

undeveloped mindset

 

[Arithmetic]

Paper boy paper boy all about that paper boy

 

[Worthless Loser]

Because historically having money is new to black people. And the first black people to have big money besides the occasional black actor was the abundance of black athletes and to a lesser extent, black musicians. Then once rap blew up and appealed to poverty hoods, dudes in those hoods seen it as their way to money.

The talk about people should want to be a lawyer, doctor has merit to it. Its because we never seen ourselves in that way cause there was/is not a lot of black lawyers or doctors presented to us.

 

[Vandelay]

Because that's all the media portrays of us.

If there were more glorified Black doctors, lawyers, businessmen, etc on TV, we'd want to be that.

It's the only reason I voted for Obama. Young Black men/boys need something else to look up and aspire to.

Why did it take so long to post this.

 

[MillionMills]

The media only portrays successful black men as rappers, athletes and actors.

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

I'm Black and a Teen and I definitely do not want to be a Rapper or Athlete.

I do agree with the post up there tho. A lot of images in the media of successful Black men are usually Rappers or Athletes.

 

[PhonZhi]

Because that's all the media portrays of us.

If there were more glorified Black doctors, lawyers, businessmen, etc on TV, we'd want to be that.

It's the only reason I voted for Obama. Young Black men/boys need something else to look up and aspire to.

 

[PhonZhi]

The media only portrays successful black men as rappers, athletes and actors.

 

[BezO]

Because historically having money is new to black people. And the first black people to have big money besides the occasional black actor was the abundance of black athletes and to a lesser extent, black musicians. Then once rap blew up and appealed to poverty hoods, dudes in those hoods seen it as their way to money.

The talk about people should want to be a lawyer, doctor has merit to it. Its because we never seen ourselves in that way cause there was/is not a lot of black lawyers or doctors presented to us.

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