BOSSExcellence;c-9667091 said:Lefty_;c-9667029 said:BOSSExcellence;c-9666991 said:Hevalisk;c-9666802 said:BOSSExcellence;c-9666143 said:findin it hard to give a fuck..
been sayin we need to quarantine the hood for a minute now..
everybody cant be saved..
"its easier to build strong children then to repair broken men."
-Fredrick Douglas
Problem with this is white people are the ones making the decisions, and you know who they think.
There will be many black neighborhoods that aren't the hood, but will be categorized as such.
nah the problem is niggas let this shit get THIS out of hand to the point they givin the crackas the excuse..
u cant help bein born in the hood..
but i cant help it if u choose to stay there..
and this aint an attack on all blacks its an attack on poor blacks.. this is an attack on the poor period cause police is killin poor whites too.. its jus not news worthy.. so the more affluent black neighborhoods where most of u niggas come from will be safe as it always has..
but nah..
i still stand by what i said..
shit needs to be fumigated.. the writings is on the wall so if u still there by next yr not only do i not know what to tell u..
i dont know where to find a fuck to give either..
I agree with most of this, with the exception of the bolded. It's easier to win a game if you start off even vs startin off down 20. People in the hood are born into an environment where you're encouraged to kill yourself at every turn from the time you can walk. Not everyone is going to possess the resolve to rise above that.
From poor education, to mcdonalds on every block, to gun stores, to cigarette ads everywhere you look, even hip hop, the voice that replaces a lot of fathers drawing weak minded niggas into the belief that their brother is out to get em. You goin to go through a gauntlet to reach what most people born into better situations are born with.
thats funny u say that cause i was jus bashin hiphop to a friend.. sayin that now that im older and a parent i see how detrimental it is..
but still..
ur basketball analogy would be more accurate if muthafuckas was actually IN the game.. THOSE INDIVIDUALS we need to help.. im down to help iv actually tried to help..
but the hood in general.. nah..
them niggas is lost amd its better to put the energy in the next generation.. cause aint no helpin these niggas..
until thy show me they have the propensity to help themselves i really dont give a fuck..
my great grandmother turns 90 this yr we plannin a big party.. out of all her descendants im the oldest male still livin born to her.. im the last livin male on my father's side that can carry the name..
i got aunts and grandmother in they 70s ..moms and female cousins in they 50s then there's me.. ill be 35 this month..
i watched all my cousins and uncles get picked off.. i went to more then 10 funerals before i was 15.. all them niggas was active tho so u could kind of make a case against them for that.. BUT approachin 3yrs my lil cousin who aint never did shit to nobody got gunned down for simply bein in an area he wasnt known..
it was then i realized its jus the nature of th fuckin beast..
the longer u dwell in that wildlife exhibit the greater ur chances of bein devoured.. i talked to damn near everyone in my family and nobody wants to leave.. they've all accepted it.. done watched they sons get murdered and okay wit raisin they grandsons in the same situation..
told them id buy the land and they can sell they houses and we can build.. u think they took the bait!?
told them instead of payin tithes we csn pay a pot to ourselves and after a yr start a business and let the lil cousins run it since they aint got jobs or bullshit ones..
or we jus save money as a family!? the only way u can get these muthafuckas to save is if we goin on a family cruise.. they'll save for that..
mannn i see this shit daily.. these muthafuckas is happy in they misery..
so im happy for them..
Trump can blow that muthafucka up for all i care.. take them muthafuckas out they misery.
I feel you, and i've tried to raise people's level of thinking around me as well. And have been met with the same bullshit, I agree to leave niggas where they at if that's where they want to be, but as far as blowin it up. There's a part of me that wants to drop a nuke in that bitch and start over, but on the other, I don't know what kind of dude i'd be without a lot of the lessons I got from comin up. And no matter what happens, I could go home and get real, real love. It's crazy too because I can see niggas got real talent, but they let their surroundings get the best of em. But that goes back to what I said, everybody don't have that resolve to beat themselves like that. They get settled into their comfort zone and boom, you look up, an you 50, and it's over.
There was a time where every time I sensed any type of failure in doing something else, I literally went and bought some work, every time, it's because it's what I knew. But like you said, the longer you stay in, the more likely you'll end up stayin, so finally I said the streets gon be there forever and just walked, whatever happened, happened. Not everybody is willin to do that because they can't see further than the corner store. Respect tho. I understand exactly how you feel because i've been in that spot. You just more shrewd about it than I am.