(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s no secret that most of the “successful” black actors, athletes, and rappers in America started at the bottom of The Hood early in their life.
The main reasons why The Massa put us in The Hood was to make us feel sorry for ourselves, blind to our own ignorance, and self-destruction.
A lot of the crime and violence that is rampant in inner city neighborhoods across the country doesn’t exactly come from us. It’s the product of social engineering the racist Caucasoids created as part of their “black extermination” campaign in America in the 1970s to destabilize our communities by deliberately putting the drugs and guns in our neighborhoods as well as destroying us with the mass incarceration epidemic that is at Holocaust proportions in America right now.
When I was a kid growing up in The Hood, I used to buy into this myth that if I wanted to be “successful“, then I must get out of The Hood. But these days, I’m questioning that because many of the most successful black people today have become very desensitized from their own community once they become “successful” and it’s one area that we have greatly failed in as a community.
Another thing is that The Hood Culture has and is still being exploited by cultural vultures and these big corporations like VH1 so that can keep the money train rolling to their bank account.
And it certainly doesn’t help that there are so many liquor stores in The Hood because alcohol is one of the most toxic drugs that has poisoned our community because so many people are getting drunk and locked up from it and it’s being heavily promoted in rap and some of today’s R&B songs. Malcolm X said it best, “The Massa will sell you the liquor bottle and then lock you up for being drunk.”
The main reason why I don’t drink alcohol is not for religious reasons, but because my grandmother often dranked when I was growing up and she became the inspiration of what NOT to do: never drank alcohol. If it wasn’t for that experience I had growing up, my life would’ve been a whole lot different.
Also, the main reason why I don’t engage in the corruptive, destructive behavior pattern of sexual irresponsibility because a lot of brothas and sistas participate in it. My stepdad has a very long history of it because he has 4 biological daughters through several different black women and my mother used to engage in it for 17 years and had 10 of us (9 sons and 1 daughter) through 6 baby daddies.
It certainly doesn’t help that our community is heavily saturated with churches that only seek to exploit our dollars every Sunday. The main reason why pimp pastors like Creflo Dollar, TD Jakes, Eddie Long, and many others are living this fantasy lavish lifestyle is solely based on the financial exploitation and greed that is rampant within many of these Churches and seen in the film The Undershepherd.
One of the many things that bothers me about The Hood Culture is that the hood mentality has many young black people degrade themselves by calling each other b*****s, h**s, n****s, t***s.
They even say stuff like “These b****** or n****s ain’t shit” or “These H**s Ain’t Loyal” and this hood mindset is very destructive to our advancement, empowerment, and progress as a community.
I come from the perspective of a young black man that has and is still in The Hood and can relate to the stuff most rappers often glorify in their music because I’ve seen these things up close over the years. And the bar is set very low and many of us have come to accept this dangerously low standard.
The Conclusion – I think that many of us need to change this destructive hood mentality and turn it into something positive and productive for the community.
Staff Writer; Joe Davis
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It doesn’t matter what I am called because I don’t care. People like you with all due respect need to STOP getting into these petty debates over what we should call ourselves because it is irrelevant
Focus on the most important issues brother
If you think you are BLACK, you have been brainwashed to ignore your own eyes. It amazes me how many of you are still brainwashed to call yourselves BLACK. Black is the color of your car tires, not your skin. The white oppressive slave trader called you black and himself white to set up a contrast and to attach negative images and denotations to you based on a lie about color. Look up BLACK in the dictionary.
Research even shows that blacks are perceived by other groups as very different from African Americans. But we still keep calling ourselves what someone else defined us as, what we are not and what has a negative dictionary denotation in society. WAKE UP. LOOK AT THE REAL COLOR OF YOUR SKIN. YOU ARE NOT BLACK. You are an African American. The lie of calling us black and defining us by color (the wrong color) has been in place so long that our people accept it as truth – but it’s not. Know your colors.
Native Americans do not allow others to call them red men. Asians do not accept being called yellow men. Hispanics do not answer to “what’s up brown man”. And Caucasians are not white, notebook paper is white. Wake up and see the plan where white racist supremacists plotted to redefine our people from Africa. STOP CALLING YOURSELF SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE NOT!
AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE NOT BLACK.
Black is the color of your car tires, not your skin author. Being called “black” is a lie and it should be offensive. Haitians, Jamaicans and even Africans do not accept being called “black”, Why do you think that is? They are identified by tribes, klans, geographic areas and their respective countries.
By using the very term black to describe us, we are doing the following:
1. Using a term white oppressors and slave masters gave us.
2. Letting someone else define us other than our own people.
3. Calling ourselves something we are not.
4. Buying into thee lie and the negative denotation. Check the dictionary.
5. Being set apart in a way that no other ethnic group allows. Native Americans are not called Red Man. Asians are not called Yellow Man. Hispanics are not called Brown Man. They do not and will not accept being defined by color and by some other race or ethnic group at that.
6. Ignoring our actual color (brown) which means brainwashing has worked. Any time someone can get an entire race, ethnic group or culture to ignore what they are and call themselves what they factually are not, THEY HAVE BEEN INDOCTRINATED, ASSIMILATED AND BRAINWASHED.
7. Playing right into the oppressor’s profiles and stereotypes. Did you know studies show there is a different perception of black people than there is of African Americans? Words create perceptions and perceptions create actions towards us.
WAKE UP. You know your colors. And even though others around the world equated our ancestors with the color of the soil in Africa or the meaning of negro/negroid, that does not change the fact that WE ARE BROWN – NOT BLACK.
If you look in the dictionary or send an email to brainstormonline@yahoo.com, I will send you the research. Facts are facts and YOU ARE BROWN, NOT BLACK. When you receive the revelation of why they keep calling African Americans “black” and Caucasian people “white”, you may just wake up!
STOP LETTING OTHER GROUPS DEFINE YOU WITH AN OBVIOUS LIE that we have heard and accepted so much that we believe it’s true and forget our colors. The de-programming has to take root or African Americans will forever be defined, limited and oppressed by those who get us to accept a lie.