What reason do black people have to love America?

DOS_patos said:
where else can you get a home with no money down?

where else can you manipulate the credit system to become a millionaire?

where else can you evade taxes in legal ways?

its all about potential and believing in ones self.

the crazy thing is people see potential ....in others and often more than not try to squash it early.

thats weird
black people dont do that or whatever else.

we also see people who believe in themselves and we trash them on some "they conceited or think they better" type shit.

its only different if we think they cool.

man look.

fuck them people ....its easy as fuck to live a nice life in the states.

and before yall bring up the cops, the system and all that other shit.....guess what makes that system work? guess who keep feeding the system? guess who holds it up? but i guess you know who its built on top of. whos the foundation.

if you built the foundation....you know how to break it.
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Bruh! I know we've been talking trash to each in other threads, but that's just friendly banter.

Everything you put into this post is straight fire.

The opportunities are there for a large majority.
 
The Lonious Monk said:
We built it. We better love it.

I mean I can't say I love it. It's just a country. I wouldn't love any nation no matter where I lived. That's silly to me. That said, blacks have done to much to make this country what it is to be run out. I'm not saying any individual black person should stay if he or she finds a better opportunity somewhere else. I'm just saying that it would be unfortunate if there was a mass exodus of blacks out of this country given everything that blacks have gone through for this country.
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"We built it" is a misleading statement that gets thrown around alot.

Yeah we physically built it and it was built on our labor, ideas, and continued oppression. But our name has never been on it and we've never gotten anything remotely close to credit or just compensation for all that we've done.

It'd be like saying employees should love the company they made successful even though they don't own it and are underpaid and mistreated.

That's not reason enough. Hell, it ain't reason at all.
 
Soul_Rattler said:
"We built it" is a misleading statement that gets thrown around alot.

Yeah we physically built it and it was built on our labor, ideas, and continued oppression. But our name has never been on it and we've never gotten anything remotely close to credit or just compensation for all that we've done.

It'd be like saying employees should love the company they made successful even though they don't own it and are underpaid and mistreated.

That's not reason enough. Hell, it ain't reason at all.
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at some point if them employees dont see it progressing and want in ownership....you cant blame the CEO for not offering it.

them same employees if they dont like it can step away and create another company.
 
I wasn't gonna comment cuz im not American. But i have alot of family (cousins/stepmother) who are American and i lived in America for a couple years.

I could never "love" a country that enslaved, raped and tortured my ancestors. Never. The middle passage alone and the unimaginable horrors that happened on those ships is jus the tip of the iceberg. And that alone is enough to make me dislike America.

And to this day and all thru history, America has purposely disenfranchised blk ppl. Voter suppression, red lining, gerry mandering, poor education, health care, and housing. For profit prisons etc etc.
 
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Marc123 said:
I wasn't gonna comment cuz im not American. But i have alot of family (cousins/stepmother) who are American and i lived in America for a couple years.

I could never "love" a country that enslaved, raped and tortured my ancestors. Never. The middle passage alone and the unimaginable horrors that happened on those ships is jus the tip of the iceberg. And that alone is enough to make me dislike America.

And to this day and all thru history, America has purposely disenfranchised blk ppl. Voter suppression, red lining, gerry mandering, poor education, health care, and housing. For profit prisons etc etc.
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you not american?

:scust1:
 
I don't think it's that we love the US.
Our blood ties to America are what black people love.
The other stuff is just what we're accustomed to.
 
Yea who said we necessarily love America? Like, are we talking about the people who run the country or the people who live alongside us, I’m not sure.
 
DOS_patos said:
american is a country where if you can see the opportunity...you can become something great for your family.

i think too many of us cant see the opportunity because of so many things that blind us.

take any black child from any hood that has a drop of hope and belief that its more for him and he would be unstoppable.

most people in the hood are built for more than they can ever imagine.....

the real question is why arent we a force to be reckoned with while living in america.

like i always say....we have all we need here. if we stop worrying about white people and stop thinking they some sort of super beings that we can touch and keep begging them to allow us to live and just fucking live.......things would be different.

why beg for respect when you can take it...because we are built for this.

white people got tooo much free space in peoples head.
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How the hell did you manage to turn this topic into some "pull yourselves up by the bootstraps" shit?
 
Soul_Rattler said:
"We built it" is a misleading statement that gets thrown around alot.

Yeah we physically built it and it was built on our labor, ideas, and continued oppression. But our name has never been on it and we've never gotten anything remotely close to credit or just compensation for all that we've done.

It'd be like saying employees should love the company they made successful even though they don't own it and are underpaid and mistreated.

That's not reason enough. Hell, it ain't reason at all.
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lol It's really misleading at all. The bold as in your own post as long as our culture and style are exactly what people mean when they say "we built this country."

And like I said, it's not really about loving the country. It's about the fact that this country is as much our as anyone's, maybe moreso in some cases. Whether we love it or not, we shouldn't let others run us away from what is rightfully ours. If you're at a company, and your efforts were pivotal in building that company yet you weren't properly compensated, would you just take the L and leave or would you fight to get what you're rightfully owed?
 
Soul_Rattler said:
You have always loved America and America has always hated you. It enslaved your ancestors, assassinated your leaders, constantly denies you human and civil rights, disrespects you in politics, entertainment, and in everyday situations. It stomps on your international family throughout the world while using its media to portray you as its most evil and volatile constituency.

But every 4 years, every 4th of July, every "national tragedy", you intend on protecting and serving this country's military, law enforcement, media infrastructure, government, and social status quos.

What reason do black people have to love America?
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Don't love it but it's all I know so that's like asking a crip or a blood why he would love the hood. That's all they know

You won't see me being patriotic or none of the goofy shit but there's no perfect country so I guess I'll make the best of it while I'm here in this funky ass bitch
 
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