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How do these black people have the money to spend hundreds of dollars per week on weed and Jordan’s? They don’t seem to be struggling when I see them on social media. A smart man could take that same money and invest it into college tuition, or a car.
What society teaches you: go to church, take your education seriously, don’t have kids before you’re married, get a job, don’t break the law, don’t do drugs.
What black culture teaches you: you’ll find a better sense of brotherhood if you join a gang. Education is for nerds. Fuck as many bitches as you can. Robbing people, selling drugs, and shooting people boosts your street cred and clout.
Those are the messages in black mainstream music. And that is the behavior that leads to the downfall of our people. Rappers who echo those sentiments are heralded as heroes in the black community
congrats on exposing yourself as a picture perfect piece of shit
Honestly I don't have the time for this because the issue is obviously too fucking complex for me to dare engage into an actual discussion on a skateboarding message board, let alone that just this question you just asked could be answered in a near infinity of ways depending on where you are geographically, different minorities get different treatments from country to country (which in itself highlights how the world is fucked) but were I to bring up one general answer, I'd say the lifelong relief of never really knowing how it feels like to be consistently prejudiced, not just by certain confused individuals but by western society as a whole, on the basis of the color of the skin you were born with which is something arbitrary yet somehow still dictates a lot of the social reception your whole person will ever be getting? That being said, materialistic considerations aside I'm with you on how 'race' shouldn't be an excuse not to do shit (but is it ever? maybe when people start thinking in black(s) and white(s) too much?). Your life story actually moved me a bit and now I don't really think you're a piece of shit like I said, but you're definitely very, very confused (I very rarely resort to sterile ad hominem attacks unless I think the situation is hopeless beyond words, sorry you caught it but that's saying).
The music argument for that matters - pop culture as a whole sucks. No matter what color or culture or tee-shirt they're wearing, people will listen to shit music with shit lyrics because primary impulses - unsophisticated people (again, of whatever background) need unsophisticated shit and would need some sort of education (from themselves even) to be able to even catch a glimpse of the rest, let alone grasp it, so instead those who will (choose to? do you believe in free will?) go the easy way - and don't know about KRS-One - just take whatever bullshit they're spoon fed - that's not 'race' specific. 'Race' as a whole is an archaic concept people are still getting fed with somehow and to recycle your words, I think that is the behavior that will cause the demise of our people regardless of everybody's claim as a color or flag. The correct thing to say would be that one just shouldn't focus on shitty mainstream music to begin with. 'Arguments' like your whole list of what 'society' vs. 'black culture' [sic] respectively promote (according to you) could easily be turned around by renaming society 'white culture' and illustrating its degenerescence with fucking Sum 41 or something, whereas the great John Coltrane was black. Your math isn't right here.
I'm done posting because this really is way too time consuming, I like that you recognize the importance of working hard (like I'm not doing while I'm typing this down) and education, but the rest of your logic still appears polluted by a lot of mental constructions, divisions and misconceptions that may be a result from the sum of your own personal experiences, but ideally shouldn't exist in anybody's head for they bring people to look at life from very wrong perspectives and oftentimes conflict with one another which is the very issue that needs resolution. Of course different upbringings result in cultural differences but letting those define everything in the world like everybody wasn't trapped within their own skin in the first place is a counterproductive and regressive stance.
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