I have to question are some of yall actually currently raising black boys?
Maybe this needs it's own thread, but I'm so tired of screaming and empty threats being looked at as some tough shit, especially when it's done by men (which the boy will be one day)
Maybe in the burbs that shit fly, but I'm an Eastside Detroit nigga. We ain't do that shit when I was coming up because it's weak behavior. You're trying to scare your threat by being loud and irrational
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Where is all this respect the cops thing coming from? You think he spazzed on teachers or his parents? On one hand y’all say express self then other hand it’s act right and show no feelings because it’s the cops. And then y’all taking it further assuming he just gonna spazz on every authority figure.
You hit the nail on the head when you said 90% of the time it's a reaction.
The reaction is what I see needs to be handled differently. Like I said early, we really got this whole going off = being strong mindset right now and that ain't it.
True strength and courage comes in your reaction to difficulty. I don't think anyone can call brother Malcom weak or docile, and you never heard him carry on in a certain way. He spoke his mind and stood by it without empty threats and drama.
That's one thing we a definitely getting wrong these days.
I'ma be that guy and say it, so many of us were raised by women, that we have inherited a lot of their emotional traits without having the opposite energy of a positive male to balance it out. The strongest, most G'd up, most leadership minded men are usually the ones who can control their emotions under pressure. That's a forgotten skillset in our community. Understandably so
Bruh relax his threat was too police niggas in every state talk shot to police I’m sure y’all do in Detroit. You trying to put his shit talking to the cops in the same vein as talking shit to niggas on the street and we know it’s not. Why you assuming he would get buck with a random stranger on the street anyway. It’s not the same as police officer.
I think it's safe to assume that if he's poppin off on the cops he will pop off on the average person who he disagrees with.
At 10 yrs old he ain't thinkin "ok, I respect everybody else, but fuck these cops". You really think he's making that distinction?
The police in this situation did a good job considering I didn’t see any adults with the little kid
In this case he is 10 tho expecting emotional maturity from a kid who knows he been wronged and taught not to trust police?
don’t you think having to mute yourself does damage. If we take it further say he bottles it up and takes frustration out on others which happens with a lot of men and yes even the ones with fathers.
You never once in your life went to the store without an adult as a kid?
I been to the corner store or gas station by the crib by myself when I was real young
but son looked like he was a big retail store at 10 by himself.
that shit is irresponsible.
Exactly
Just because I did something don’t make it right no matter what.
It can't be both ways. On one hand yall praising him for putting himself in an adult situation, but on the other hand falling behind him being a child.
Which one is it? He's a child and since you admitting his lack in emotional maturity, that means he should be guided and not patted on the back for such behavior.
Yall really think all the "I should smack one of yall" is ok for a child to say to ANY adult?
Damn I can't believe some of this shit I'm reading in here. I see it like this, in life you gotta pick and choose your battles. Whether it be the cops, a teacher, a store clerk, a bank teller - whoever, somebody is going to say or do some shit you don't like.
You can address it (and should) without the extra shit. When it comes to kids and adults, the so called checking should come from other adults.
That's not the point and you know it.
Moving along
That is the point. That’s why I keep asking was their an adult he was with.
I do understand your perspectiveSo let's take a step back here.
First, the whole premise is that the boy was disrespected. How?
He says "they thought I was stealing". He then admits they found a bunch of stolen shit on his homey. That's a lesson in itself to teach our youngins not to move around ppl that are likely to get you in a wrong place wrong time situation.
So if he's moving with a thief, it's not unreasonable to question whether or not he is stealing too in that moment.
Second, we all know there's a lot of scary cowardly and piece of shit cops out here. That's not our kids fight, it's ours. We shouldn't be placing them in adult situations where their defiance could backfire. As you stated, innocent black children are being gunned down, there's no need make the probability even worse by issuing empty threats. I wouldn't really care if this were an adult, but we're talking about a child here.
Last, this ain't lettin your nuts hang. When I see males carrying on like this it reeks of feminine energy
You scream on the cops and they leave you alone because you're a woman
They ignored his antics because he's a child
Understand that when he becomes a young black man, that likely won't work for him
We have to be very aware of the space we can put ourselves in. You just stated why are black boys rushed into adulthood, that's exactly what he's doing here, putting himself in an adult place
Lol the dumbest shit get defended