Is Brooklyn in the house?

7 Comments

• Chanell says:

  Posted December 17, 2008 at 2:23 am

  This is very very true. I grew up in Chicago and my mom moved out to Seattle. Yeah we hate to send our kids to school but we have to. I have to talk to my oldest nephew all the time about school and how his friends could careless if he passes his classes. We as role models in their lives need to help them grow and succeed in this crazy world we live in

• Bad B says:

  Posted January 28, 2009 at 7:33 am

  This is very true. EDUCATION is the key. As much as I love listening to music, it saddens me how most black kids these days only want to be entertainers and spend most of their youth trying to achieve only that at the expense of getting a proper education. At the end of it all they ‘sometimes’ resort to crime to support themselves and end up as nothing.
  It is high time the black community starts to enocurage and educate the youth on the importance of a good education. Stop blaming other races for OUR underdevelopment. Its time to get a grip and take ourselves out of this quagmire….

• BG says:

  Posted June 3, 2009 at 12:38 am

  It just seems like the quiet power of the “Civil Rights” generation did not extend beyond the school children that watched it happen. For those born in the 70′s it’s something only heard about.

  I remember my parents telling me “someone is always watching you and judging you by your actions as well as your words.” And it’s not just individuals, it’s all of us.

• BigBlackRod says:

  Posted June 16, 2009 at 7:34 pm

  I beg to differ with not the premise of this post, but with the aims of the Civil Rights Era. We were so intent on sittin’ next to White folks, that we endured bottles, cans and bricks just so our kids could go to school with folks who hated and feared them. AND, when we got the right to sit next to them, the more affluent White folks moved even further away, and left us with their social detritus, the po’ white trash, whose adults were calling us “nigger” by day, while their slatternly daughters were sneaking out to be with our boys at night. What we should have done is to quietly cultivate our own, to support our own institutions, keep our own counsel, and do for ourselves. THEN, we would have been able to charge White folks for access to our lives, instead of us paying them to be near them…PEACE.

• Kimmie says:

  Posted June 19, 2009 at 8:43 pm

  The only thing that I can say about “some” black people is that everything is always someone else’s faught. When black people refuse to go to college, because they “can’t” afford it then it’s someone else’s faught that they didn’t apply for student loans, apply for grants, or qualify for a scholarship. PLEASE people get your sh*t together if you want to blame other people for your hardship you have to prove that you “can” do better. Barack Obama and other’s don’t represent the masses of black people since the vast majority of African Americans seem to accept and strive for less. I am also, african American in case you were wondering…and I see black people shoot their kids dreams down yet, teach their kids to expect less of their future. Telling your kid that they can be whatever they want to be and in the same breath not forcing them to pick up a book the entire summer is hardly enforcing the “dream”. Please people point your fingers and call out the stupid ones!

• MissDublD says:

  Posted January 18, 2011 at 4:52 pm

  BigBlackRod, I totally agree. As a people you might have even been able to create a separate government, laws, currencies, even having total sovereignty over your own people. I have seen this in another country I lived in. BUT, alas, its too late for that road, we’re already on this one. So….where to?

• playboy buddy rose says:

  Posted October 24, 2012 at 12:45 pm

  as a native new yorker i got to ask the question whats so great about goin to school in atlanta?