As a person of color

[Admin]

As a older person of color, or 'black' (generic term), I can't stand what urban raised black folks have done to the image of black people, or those deemed as...why?

Cause I know this sounds like a clique, but yes, not all B males are thugs or felons or ex-felons or this or that, or fill in any other negative stereotype...although with all the recent videos on social media, are those thuggish traits stereotypes anymore??

And that's what I hate, is that for generations, black folks went out of their way to clean up ugly images bestowed upon them, us, then suddenly this rap generation, beginning at around 2000 or so, just set out to reverse all the positive gains made by black folks before them.
That and social media, and that fact that since every phone is a camera, in the past most people never got to see what 'thugs' did in the ghetto, that stuff stayed hidden and off air, but not anymore, now every goonish act a thug does is filmed on a 1 phone and shared to the world, which totally justifies peoples resentment towards them or us.

And I hate that!!

I hate being feared, feared for my talent, sure, feared for my savvy mind, sure, but feared for being some irresponsible mindless thug, no.

And as you age, that fear makes it harder for you to move up into a better neighborhood, especially if single and male.

Perception is everything.

Thugs, city ones, they'll never leave their areas, so they have no idea what it's like to be a black male or female trying to live in Wyoming or Montana or Idaho, or areas where the black population is less than 5%.
Everyone looks at you as if they just expect you to be a bad person.
I blame this on black inner city thug types, or the thug culture, more so than I do 'white folks', cause white folks didn't create the monster thug image, black folks did!, at least inner city ones, which now all of us are measured by.

[Admin]

As a black person, can you ever really trust a white person born and raised in South Africa?
If black, is Elon Musk your friend or enemy?

I do remember reading, a while ago, how in his factories, racial harassment ran rampant.

www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-hit-by-new-lawsuit-alleging-racial-abuse-against-black-workers-2022-07-01/

Here's an article about the lawsuit that was filed by employee or employees who were constantly being harassed while at Tesla, and I guess the harassers just felt Elon would be OK with it.

Sentiment always trickles down from the top, you decide.

[easyrider]

I find B people, at least none home owner types, to be utterly depressing to have to live around.

All they do is litter, throw trash on the ground, in the parking lot, their fast food, junk food hogs meal.

I mean who does that?
B people do, that's who does that...they're the only people who feel OK to trash  up their own environment.
I just want to move miles and miles away from any and all B folks who were raised in the city.

Even though i'm a person of color, I'd rather live around supposedly racist whites, Asians, whomever, than to have to live around crime loving, litter loving street level B folks.

[Admin]

Many older black people are totally embarrassed and ashamed of the actions of todays urban bred youth

raulmanderson88.blogspot.com/2023/06/when-you-wake-up-and-realize-youre.html

I think many older blacks, if could, if could press a button, would love to just press that button and change racial identities, become any race other than black, just to escape and live a normal life, in older age, without all the negative stigma associated with being black.

Thats sad, but true for many.

[Admin]

Just in from West Virginia, 7 people shot at graduation even, 2 have died so far

www.politico.com/news/2023/06/06/7-wounded-in-shooting-after-high-school-graduation-00100650

I mean come on!!

Who wants to live around people who can't even attend a graduation event without pulling out guns and blasting.
What kind of warped mindset is this?
Where does it come from?

It just happened, google or duck duck go it yourself.

[Admin]

Not all skin tones do well on camera



I got like odd skin tone.
And cameras don't like my skin tone.
I got the type of skin tone that's light during the winter, then some kind of off color brown during the summer.
I don't like like it...like copper tone or something...

I'd rather have darker even toned brown skin, or lighter more Ayron skin, but my skin tone seems to be stuck in the middle somewhere which ugg, makes me look odd on film or cameras.

[Admin]

I just heard there's a teacher shortage, and like cops, many teachers are retiring early or just getting out of the profession.

Wanna know why?
Unruly B students, that's why.

It's this unruly, smash and grab, rap listening to, single parent raised, B urban youth, are the ones driving teachers out of the profession.

Teaching is only fun when your students are polite, respect authority, and want to learn.

I mean just look at all the YT videos of urban B students giving teachers hell.

Why would anyone want to put up with that crap if they don't have to?

No one wants to teach these people, and they, obviously don't want to be taught anything.
The long term effects of this isn't going to be good, at least not for some.



This is why teachers are retiring early...and I don't blame them...
I mean I wouldn't want to teach these wild cannibal acting so called students either.

[Admin]

Still available on Amazon



How to survive in da hood as an outsider, a good read, if I must say so myself.

[Admin]

My time living in urban area, around B people, folks, raised in urban environment, has been the worst years of my life.
I, in my life, have never lived around a more close minded people ever.
Not to say there's other people who are more close minded and mentally small, but I've never lived around them.

Living around urban bred, mainly younger, B folks, will ust suck all the love and joy out of you, you'll be in fear the whole time, and in fear that gun shots could break out at any moment.

[Admin]

As a person of color, I didn't start off prejudice against urban blacks, cause I wasn't raised around them and so only mainly saw them on TV, music videos, when growing up, or college students.
The only blacks I was around growing up were usually associated with the University.
I never lived around ghetto types until well into my adulthood, and that's when the reality begin to set in.
TV, pop culture painted one picture, but reality told a completely different one, that I suppose, was shielded from the longest time.

But now, have lived in the proximety of urban blacks for over 20 years, and have had time to see the destructive behavioral patterns, over and over again, as if even getting worse now.

I ust don't know who's raising this new generation, they're being raised with anger and resentment.
And less and less peoples lives center around the church, easter, xmas, I mean in the hood areas, no decorations, no Sunday dressing up, nothing, ust the same ole vile, violent rap music blarring in the distance or in cars that drive by.

God?
Ye OK, sorry, there will never be some mass coming back to god, there never is after a certain point....what usually comes is a cleansing, either by nature or by man....like a reset button of sorts.
And sadly, when this occurs throughout history, usually both the good and the bad get swept up in the cleansing.