Baltimore gets bloodier as arrests drop post-Freddie Gray

[2stepz_ahead]

The ghetto is fucked up...that's a fact. Why is the ghetto fucked up?

because people learn to live with excuses for their situation.

the people i know who made it out the hood...their parents never had money but they didnt make excuses why they didnt have money..they didnt make it ok they was living below the poverty line...they did what they had to survive but they never made it like it was ok to live like that.

they put more importance into standing in line for 5 hours at walmart on black friday to get that tv than to wait in line for 2 at a job fair.

man i have so many solutions......but it always comes with me being a coon or not understanding.

Before even those solutions it comes in the MIND set.. You can be poor and have value.

right....and those people usually make it out...if they are not discouraged from those around them.

 

[2stepz_ahead]

one thing i hate hearing is that .....

people who make it out is the exception and not the rule.

i always want to know why they cant be the rule.

like @playmaker88 says.....the mindset.

why look at yourself as lower because you are in a low cost area?

then you got niggas who love jail.....they do whatever they gotta do to be in jail. i call them communist niggas.....cause they want someone to give them everything and tell them what to do..

 

[_Lefty]

The ghetto is fucked up...that's a fact. Why is the ghetto fucked up?

because people learn to live with excuses for their situation.

the people i know who made it out the hood...their parents never had money but they didnt make excuses why they didnt have money..they didnt make it ok they was living below the poverty line...they did what they had to survive but they never made it like it was ok to live like that.

they put more importance into standing in line for 5 hours at walmart on black friday to get that tv than to wait in line for 2 at a job fair.

man i have so many solutions......but it always comes with me being a coon or not understanding.

I wouldn't call you a coon. But uhhhhh...............That was kind of whoa, especially coming from you. But I don't know your background, so I can't say.

why you say "coming from me"

I've read your posts. That was outside of what i'm used to seeing from you.

 

[playmaker88]

one thing i hate hearing is that .....

people who make it out is the exception and not the rule.

i always want to know why they cant be the rule.

like @playmaker88 says.....the mindset.

why look at yourself as lower because you are in a low cost area?

then you got niggas who love jail.....they do whatever they gotta do to be in jail. i call them communist niggas.....cause they want someone to give them everything and tell them what to do..

and you dont gotta even be rich to make it.. you just gotta live..LIVE if you see one person make it.. You can too those people who make it reside in some of those same dwellings and just live their life the grind life.. and sadly they get casket quicker than these aimless "terrorist"

 

[_Lefty]

Listen, when society keep telling you you're lower. Everybody isn't hard wired to take that stand and say i'm not. When you see some of the shit these kids see, it's hard to see beyond the projects, i'm not saying it's impossible. and I'd never reinforce that excuse with "those" children, but let's see niggas try to win the 100 yard dash with 1 leg cut off, that's pretty much the circumstances these youngins is dealt a lot of the time, then when you settle for what you've been given(low income, lack of education, low paying jobs, lack of finacial literacy), they have a way of instilling that fuck it attitude in your children, then once one of the children get out, the pressure to keep it real remains and sometimes you get drug back in. Vicious cycle doesn't even begin to bring it to terms. To be a black man living in poverty, I wouldn't wish that on nobody. There's so much that comes with it. Then you said niggas love jail, are you out of your fuckin mind? Nobody loves jail, it's not for humans, but like I said, there's a certain hopelessness bruh, where you just accept your position in the world. Why bitch about it, real niggas ain't bitchin about jail, they take it in stride. You can never show weakness in the jungle.

 

[LPast]

If this doesn't show that the community needs to look inward I'm not sure what will.

"I'm the biggest hypocrite of 2015"

 

[Dupac]

shit just got real in my neighborhood last night..

had to tell a nigga he a grown man, we ain't trying to tell him what to do, but if he would respectfully do that shit away from the street we got our families on I can give a fuck less....

you go your way, i'll go mines and i have no concerns with what's going on...just keep that shit from in front of my house...

 

[Colin$mackabi$h]

This shit is chess. We are losing pawns.

 

[Carthaginian]

That was a joke @Stiff but seriously though the mindset is the most difficult thing to achieve. I think it requires discipline.

Smarter people than us in higher positions of power have discussed all of these issues ad nauseam and yet here we are still talking about it. Its all redundant.

Nothing will change until the people change. That is the fundamental truth. Unfortunately for most in that situation, daily life is a war...and for people in a war, hope is fleeting.

It's obvious who hurts most when the war is a civil one.

 

[manofmorehouse]

Listen, when society keep telling you you're lower. Everybody isn't hard wired to take that stand and say i'm not. When you see some of the shit these kids see, it's hard to see beyond the projects, i'm not saying it's impossible. and I'd never reinforce that excuse with "those" children, but let's see niggas try to win the 100 yard dash with 1 leg cut off, that's pretty much the circumstances these youngins is dealt a lot of the time, then when you settle for what you've been given(low income, lack of education, low paying jobs, lack of finacial literacy), they have a way of instilling that fuck it attitude in your children, then once one of the children get out, the pressure to keep it real remains and sometimes you get drug back in. Vicious cycle doesn't even begin to bring it to terms. To be a black man living in poverty, I wouldn't wish that on nobody. There's so much that comes with it. Then you said niggas love jail, are you out of your fuckin mind? Nobody loves jail, it's not for humans, but like I said, there's a certain hopelessness bruh, where you just accept your position in the world. Why bitch about it, real niggas ain't bitchin about jail, they take it in stride. You can never show weakness in the jungle.

These are excuses we've become accustomed to telling ourselves to make the negative shit we do acceptable. There's no one with a whip telling us to pick cotton anymore. There are no longer colleges denying us entry into their institutions because of our race. Hell yeah, we have it harder than everyone else. That's the gift and the curse of being Black. Our struggle is harder because, at our core, we're greater at handling it. Nowadays u have fuck niggas that don't embrace the struggle, that feel like selling drugs to US, robbing US, pimping US is a means to some kind of end. It's nothing prideful about any of that shit . That "only God can judge me" rhetoric is exactly why we're in this situation now. U want to do better, be better and provide an example of what positivity looks like. And that doesn't require leaving the hood, just taking pride in it in all aspects

 

[playmaker88]

 

[LPast]

Shit don't change until you get up and wash your ass nigga

Shit don't change until you get up and wash your ass

Shit don't change until you get up and wash your ass nigga

Oh now, slow down

 

[Stiff]

one thing i hate hearing is that .....

people who make it out is the exception and not the rule.

i always want to know why they cant be the rule.

like @playmaker88 says.....the mindset.

why look at yourself as lower because you are in a low cost area?

then you got niggas who love jail.....they do whatever they gotta do to be in jail. i call them communist niggas.....cause they want someone to give them everything and tell them what to do..

Well when you use phrases like "make it out" that kind of implies that you're not supposed to survive.

But okay you say the mind states of people are fucked up and I agree..how'd the mind states get tucked up though?

 

[PapaDoc223]

There is many problems with the hood. The biggest is lack of jobs. White folks aint gonna give us jobs cuz those cacs do not care about us. So what we need is more black buisnesses created to give these lost niggas direction. This is what Dr Cluade Andersen was talking about building a black economy so we wouldnt be dependent on the people who despise us. People wont respect you when you are broke and begging.

Another we need a new version of the black panthers to police the hood. This means finding the inter state weapons traffickers who are giving these gangs guns. Tracking them down ourselves since the govt isnt motivated to shut them down.

And it starts with us black men. Black women dont respect us cuz we aint building nothing for our community. It all comes down to money. Money is leverage and can change alot of shit. You never whites or asians begging for jobs. They build businesses and think of the greater community good. This violence needs to stop. The cops aint shit we should have expected them to do a work slow down and we should have filled the vaccum with a force to police the hoods in Baltimore. The enemy is playing chess whilebwe are playing tick tac toe.

 

[2stepz_ahead]

Listen, when society keep telling you you're lower. Everybody isn't hard wired to take that stand and say i'm not. When you see some of the shit these kids see, it's hard to see beyond the projects, i'm not saying it's impossible. and I'd never reinforce that excuse with "those" children, but let's see niggas try to win the 100 yard dash with 1 leg cut off, that's pretty much the circumstances these youngins is dealt a lot of the time, then when you settle for what you've been given(low income, lack of education, low paying jobs, lack of finacial literacy), they have a way of instilling that fuck it attitude in your children, then once one of the children get out, the pressure to keep it real remains and sometimes you get drug back in. Vicious cycle doesn't even begin to bring it to terms. To be a black man living in poverty, I wouldn't wish that on nobody. There's so much that comes with it. Then you said niggas love jail, are you out of your fuckin mind? Nobody loves jail, it's not for humans, but like I said, there's a certain hopelessness bruh, where you just accept your position in the world. Why bitch about it, real niggas ain't bitchin about jail, they take it in stride. You can never show weakness in the jungle.

bullshit....

niggas are hard wired.

imma break down your post when i get back from dinner....

 

[2stepz_ahead]

shit just got real in my neighborhood last night..

had to tell a nigga he a grown man, we ain't trying to tell him what to do, but if he would respectfully do that shit away from the street we got our families on I can give a fuck less....

you go your way, i'll go mines and i have no concerns with what's going on...just keep that shit from in front of my house...

this is where is starts....props

 

[2stepz_ahead]

one thing i hate hearing is that .....

people who make it out is the exception and not the rule.

i always want to know why they cant be the rule.

like @playmaker88 says.....the mindset.

why look at yourself as lower because you are in a low cost area?

then you got niggas who love jail.....they do whatever they gotta do to be in jail. i call them communist niggas.....cause they want someone to give them everything and tell them what to do..

Well when you use phrases like "make it out" that kind of implies that you're not supposed to survive.

But okay you say the mind states of people are fucked up and I agree..how'd the mind states get tucked up though?

from the excuses.

if you keep making an excuse why you losing fights before the fight starts...why would you train harder?

when i say make it out....i mean.....you do better .....you make it out of poverty....you have the option of staying or the option of leaving. you make it out of the mindframe that keeps some many people down.

 

[2stepz_ahead]

The ghetto is fucked up...that's a fact. Why is the ghetto fucked up?

because people learn to live with excuses for their situation.

the people i know who made it out the hood...their parents never had money but they didnt make excuses why they didnt have money..they didnt make it ok they was living below the poverty line...they did what they had to survive but they never made it like it was ok to live like that.

they put more importance into standing in line for 5 hours at walmart on black friday to get that tv than to wait in line for 2 at a job fair.

man i have so many solutions......but it always comes with me being a coon or not understanding.

I wouldn't call you a coon. But uhhhhh...............That was kind of whoa, especially coming from you. But I don't know your background, so I can't say.

why you say "coming from me"

I've read your posts. That was outside of what i'm used to seeing from you.

specifics....im still not following you

 

[playmaker88]

Just because a hamster wheel is in the room doesn't mean you have to jump on.

 

[S2J]

Insane that they can,get away with this...and lwts be honest very embarrassing that it implies we're animals who need to be governed

These nggas 'juking stats'. A real life Hamsterdam... And its in Baltimore. The legend and prophesy of The Wire keeps growing