Aite man where did we go wrong?

#1 Whitness......Our affinity to be closer to whiteness is our biggest downfall of the community. We tricked ourselves in thinking that if the whites have it then must be the best. Take any so called fashion item today and there's some niggas right now making or made a video or song of them popping that tag to have what a white said was next big thing. We rather leave the hood instead of purchase in that same hood to build it up. Athletes and celebrities won't be considered "on" until they're keekeeing in a photo with a white who didn't have to work even close to hard as they did.

#2 Drugs.....Watch Snowfall and watch how the series starts and how the neighborhoods gradually started turning into hoods as crack became bigger. John Singleton captured that excellently as he showed a nice neighborhood just turn to a warzone in a few months to a year after crack was introduced.

#3 Black Man/Woman......the absolute disrespect of the Black woman from the Black man and vice versa. Destroyed the Black family unit. The government played a part in that as well but the Black man can succeed without the Black woman no matter how you super niggas try to say otherwise. For the Black family to succeed mutual respect and parents being in the home to raise the Black child is needed.

#4 Education.......the lack of education will always be the main hindering for any community. In our community education isn't always pushed but being the best athlete, drug dealer, gang member or any other thing that trumps education being #1 goal of attaining. The hood hero will get more love than Man Man getting accepted to his first college choice.

Those are the 4 major problems in the Black community in my humble opinion.
 
RusselWilsonJr said:
It started when people stop asking how you got your dollar and started asking if you got it.

You gotta look at black people as the kidneys of America. Most often then not, before you experience the symptoms of an illness. Your kidneys are first affected and then the body starts to experience symptoms.

What happened to the black community was what was going to happen to America. We just experienced it first.

I mean look around America, everything that decimated us…is now affecting others.

Drug epidemic
Health epidemic
Homelessness epidemic
Education epidemic
Financial epidemic
Senseless gun violence

The only difference between us and the rest of America is that we’ve never experienced an overall high side to level things out. It’s not a black issue, it’s an America issue. It just affected us first

Soon mass incarceration is coming for them if it keeps going the way it is .
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Duwop said:
You can't single out women going to work as the DEATH of the black community.

The economy of this country was never sustainable.. Housing and college was cheap as fuck back in the day. You could have a livable wage for an entire family doing a job that's barely minimum wage back in the day.

The economy has been fucked up for a while. Capitalism has poisoned the country for a while.

Women having to work isn't the cause , it's a consequence of a broken system that doubles down on it's mistakes.

Profit is more important than progress. That's why we've been fucked.
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Both things can be true, though I wouldn’t necessarily say feminism itself. I would say when welfare became so prevalent and pushed the man out of the house. This became more of an issue for women to take the man role in order to keep getting govt services. There is probably a more articulate way to present this argument, but I’m at work and just thought this convo is worth having. This does not just go for black neighborhoods, but Latinos as well.
 
Knock_Twice said:
Must be 2 sides.

Some of the uprising were started out of the church. Not sure where you got that line of thinking from.
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During the Pullman Porter uprising in Chicago, between the 1920s-1940s when black porters were fighting to unionize

One of the ways the Pullman leadership combatted that was to give money to black churches and pastors to speak and preach against unionizing

And that’s just one example
Ironically the civil rights movement took a lot of their inspiration from the Pullman Porters struggle for unionization
 
Elzo69Renaissance said:
During the Pullman Porter uprising in Chicago, between the 1920s-1940s when black porters were fighting to unionize

One of the ways the Pullman leadership combatted that was to give money to black churches and pastors to speak and preach against unionizing

And that’s just one example
Ironically the civil rights movement took a lot of their inspiration from the Pullman Porters struggle for unionization
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Kool.

Nat Turner was a preacher, and his flock were part of an uprising.
 
lack of financial education.
little to no ownership of property
Blaxploitation in the late 70's and 80's
we care more about showing up to our kids football game than their PTA meeting.
Hyper violence entertainment rises in the mid 2000's
school choice matched with poor school funding
lack of knowledge in other revenue ventures (tech, medicine, transportation)
Over whelming flow of drugs in the 80's Matched with bad policing
Lack of community ownership HOA's and Neighborhood Watches
Poor leadership from Congressional leaders not recognizing key issues
Way to much of a dependency on the Church
look to self not to others but come together as a collective within the community to move it forward
 
We are truly under a curse that set up by GOD. I don’t care what nobody says. The amount of things that have been done to us and we are still here? That’s essentially what started it. If you want to keep going? I would say it’s largely because of white people. They made it their priority to go against us and to bring us down.

Feminism is one tentacle, one tree branch but it’s almost too much to name.
 
killing or silencing many of the more focal Black Power leaders, crack epidemic soon after. almost a resurgence of with the Hip Hop movement, killed that off and here we are. dependance on a leader to keep us on a united path. j3ws have been working overtime in shutting down any revelations of their adverse effect on our wellbeing, maybe the entire worlds. high profile black people with millions of admirers were removed and the community so far is once again dispersed trying to find itself. it's not just us defeating ourselves. we keep pushing.
 
FlowrenSick said:
killing or silencing many of the more focal Black Power leaders, crack epidemic soon after. almost a resurgence of with the Hip Hop movement, killed that off and here we are. dependance on a leader to keep us on a united path. j3ws have been working overtime in shutting down any revelations of their adverse effect on our wellbeing, maybe the entire worlds. high profile black people with millions of admirers were removed and the community so far is once again dispersed trying to find itself. it's not just us defeating ourselves. we keep pushing.
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Damn. Not one ounce of accountability in this post

We’re not some dumb ass people that just falls for every trap. We set our own too and can never be better with this mindset
 
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