Overcoming jealousy in the black community #culture #society #blackpodcasters #selfimprovement #blackgirlswhopodcast #education #blackwoman #journalism #community
6:00 Much of our historical and cultural experience has been underlined by struggle. I believe it has had a catch 22 effect; on the one hand it's inspiring to recount the obstacles we've overcome collectively, on the other hand we're consumed by this struggle mentality and we nurture it to the point of it being to our detriment. This mentality is further promoted by rap where every rapper will have you believe they're "from the streets" when many of them are actually suburban/middle class and will go out of their way to sabotage their own lives just to fulfill this "struggle" image and narrative. As you said the middle class black is seen as "whitewashed", "less black", "black boulee(or however you spell it)". Take that guy Quavo for example; he's an internationally recognized rapper in one of the most successful rap groups yet he's shooting dice with riff raff on a Saturday night. He loses some money somehow the situation escalates and his cousin Takeoff is unalived. This was an unnecessary altercation and death. No other genre of music has artists unaliving every other month. This is a cultural deficiency and we have to stop tiptoeing around the issue and trying to be politically correct. It was vhuqing u1QQ3r stupidity. I'm sorry to talk like that but it's out of control at this point. I can edit the comment if you don't like me talking like that. 10:29 black American culture in general does not value education outside of the assumed perceived status it gives. We're obsessed with appearances, faux or perceived status and feel good or empty symbolism. This can be alienating to the more scholarly and intellectual black leading them to form these relationships with people outside of Black American culture. This has a cultural brain drain effect. While I can acknowledge that dwight zupr3m@c has played a role of course in all forms of our social engineering, there is a point where we are complicit.
Thanks for the character censorship. I’ve always said that the people who need to learn and need to hear it are the ones who refused to listen. Those that are aware understand.. you’re right in the sense that we will always be complicit because so many people don’t have an understanding why we support destructive mediums. So much to unpack in your comment but thanks for engaging!! This is good.
When should we cease using the misnomer of black, red, white, yellow people? Who started this misnomer? WHY? Are there various skin tones on The Continent, even without miscegenation? Are all peoples' skin tones between very dark brown to very light brown?
Typing this now pretending like there aren't black American communities with cultural nuances musical genres started by black Americans like blues, jazz, R&B. So it's no longer a race thing it's that African American is now an ethnicity like Mexican American. It's not something you can overlook because race and ethnicity combined play a big role in where you live how you live.
