I just don't understand why WE continue to idolize, glorify, promote, and portray Pimps, Thugs, Gangsters, and criminals. It's not all Hip Hop's fault. There has always been trashy art in every genre. There is positive, educational, political, thought provoking hip hop. There's party music. Then that which glorifies criminal activity, promiscuity, murder, drugs, etc. And damn if the latter isn't what a great portion of OUR youth don't latch on to and emulate. I am NOT referring to hip hop that mentions the activity in the story. I am referring to that which GLORIFIES it as something to be, take pride in, strive for, or emulate.
Nothing worse than a post 25 yr old man running around talking about i'm a pimp, i'm a G, dig my swag..... sit your old(retarded adolescent) asses down somewhere. I expect it from a misguided child who knows no better and has no one to teach them. Once you grow up and are out of HS, no one has to teach you, life teaches you that the shit these trash rappers spit is Bull and you wouldn't survive one day trying to live that way..... They don't tell you about the downside, but you should see it..... it's a program called the NEWS! or American Gangster. There are some who watch American Gangster(the series) and actually get inspiration from it to be more like the criminal being profiled. WTF?
I wonder how many of our men are in prison right now because of the mistakes they made trying to imitate the fake persona of a "studio gangsta rapper" Rick Ross? or a character they've seen in a movie.
Also, what is up with all these rappers assuming mob associated names .....Gotti,Kapone, etc. Now hear this..... The Mob doesn't even like us, to them you are a silly nigger. That's the blunt truth......To run around calling myself Don Coleone quoting Godfather lines would be akin to Al Sharpton running around calling himself David Duke and acting like a klansman!!!!!
While I'm on it..... Black Women have been stereotyped as less beautiful, promiscuous, Boisterous, Bitter, Classless, and a host of other pejorative adjectives. Then of course many cry foul when they see a black man with another race of woman and light into an expletive laden tirade about how society has given them a bad deal or how black men are sell outs. Yet day in and day out 1. Some black woman is hopping on a track talking about her head game, giving brain, putting in neckwork, Droppin or poppin her p----y, sucking the skin off a D---, then justifying it as embracing her sexuality or female empowerment. 2.Addressing herself, her sisters, and other black women as bitches.... ie the baddest bitch, i'm that bitch, head bitch, the bitch... or a variant of a Ho. Then wonder why men go in and out of their lives and complain about finding a good or real nigga. WTF?
Also, these are the women in the spotlight and do the majority of good black women(our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, and friends) a bad name as they are a visual MEDIA representation of the whole. You can argue that each woman defines herself but we all know truthfully, media image play a big part in influencing how the majority is perceived by the masses based on those in the spotlight. Also, you may say white women dont have to do it yet they aren't seen the same way. Another dose of reality, the majority of the population is white people. No one is saying you must mimic them, I am saying however, they are watching, and what they think DOES matter to a point. Until we are building businesses, supporting ourselves, have our own banks, etc etc, and until we build Black World and operate seperately and independently from white america and are self sufficient with our own country, own president, own military etc..... You are damn right it matters. It matters when you have to go ask one for a job, when you have to ask one for any type of assistance. The point is we must assimilate to a point it's called adapting !!! no one is asking to forget culture, race, tradition, or identity..... but there is a COMMON culture and if you arent a part of it, you are outside it and SOL as a one man army.
Black men don't have to devalue or degrade them, they do it willingly. I get so tired of hearing black women call each other bitch in casual conversation or greeting. THAT is WHY you can't find a decent man. Also, if you are looking for a good Nigga..... you will get one 100% of the time. What you will NOT get is a Good Man.... because NO self respecting, positive, UPSTANDING MAN would EVER refer to himself as a nigga... and No upstanding, virtuous, self respecting woman would refer to herself as a Bitch or a Ho.
G.I.T -------------------------------------GET IT T O G E T H E R !!!!!!!!!!
Now Swag That!
Steps off Soapbox, snatches microphone, and walks away disgusted.
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