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THE STEREOTYPE FIGHTER!!!
this reason why i wrote this is because i wanted to clear up a few things about black people. i wrote because i think it's important to know some of this stuff, amid all of the watermelon and porchmonkey jokes being made. i'll update with another piece later thats very important to me and maybe to u too.
well, it's now the 28th, the last day of february..... the last day of black history month. i want to share a few things with y'all that you don't know or think you know but don't. i was gonna throw a little comic relief in this but i won't.
#1 the ghetto/hood is not cool, hard, ill, fly or dat shit or pimpin
As a matter of fact poor neighborhoods that are mostly populated with black and/or latino peoples are dangerous and depressing. over and over and over and over a fukin gen, we all hear songs on the radio or cd where many rappers are representing their hood. some truth but mostly false. no musician whose net worth is > 5 million dollars, drives autos that cost at least 60k, sport jewlrey thats valued at , at least, 150k represents any type of "hood" in america. the hood is full of teenage pregnancy,
single mothers who are raising children without a strong positive father figure
((( the us census bureau released a study entitled America’s Families and Living
Arrangements: 2003. In it, there is A household , which contains one or more people—everyone living in a housing unit makes up a household. One of the people who own or rent the residence is designated as the householder. and then there are family households that has at least two members related by birth, marriage, or adoption, one of whom is the householder.
Family households are maintained by married couples or by a man or woman living with other relatives—children may or may not be present. For purposes of simplicity here, a household means one parent and a family household means 2 parents .
out of the 8,031 households headed by males, only 762 of them are headed by black males ( meaning that black male is a single parent, the householder). out of 22, 317 households headed by females, 4,000 of them are head by black females ( meaning that black female is a single parent, the householder)))),
drugs are being sold and used in the open ((( according to the US Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2004 ,of the 265,100 state prison inmates serving time for drug offenses in 2002, 126,000 (47.53%) were black, 61,700 (23.27%) were Hispanic, and 64,500 (24.33%) were white..... ))) see who makes up the majority? ,
young black males are heading off to jail younger and faster than other races (((Among the more than 2.1 million offenders incarcerated on June 30, 2004, an estimated 576,600 were black males between ages 20 and 39. Among males age 25 to 29, 12.6% of blacks were in prison or jail, compared to 3.6% of Hispanics and about 1.7% of whites and this all comes from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2004 ))) etc. i could go on and on. there's nothin glorius or fabolus about living in poverty. the hood can kill u, literally.
#2 du rags are for hair care
The headgear dates back to the 1940s, said Mark Evan Blackman, chair of the Menswear Department at the State University of New York's Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, but the young urban generation gives the old look a new spin.
The first do-rags of the World War II era were cutoff rayon, or silk stockings. Black men wore them while they slept to hold flat their chemically processed hair-dos, Blackman explained. The rags resurfaced in the 1970s as a way of keeping hair out of one's face, he adds, but worn, brazenly, on the streets, rather than in the privacy of the home. The look was symbolic of the rebellious times, he continues. Today's do-rags, popularized again in the late 1990s, are variations on the same theme, Blackman said.
Do-rags still have a place as a hair grooming aid, said Tameka Wright, marketing and sales manager for blackhairmedia.com, a Web site for beauty and hair information. But for Omari Harris, 17, an East Brooklyn Congregation student in New York, his black do-rag (similar to a hooded scarf with tie strings) merely conceals unkempt natural hair. "It's a bad hair day," he said
that's right children, du-rags, like the one nelly wears above, du-rags are supposed to be be for hair care, not a fashion statement or a prt of your outfit. when your trying to get waves in your hair, you get your hair cut a certain length, wash it, buy a pomade and put it on your hair, brush it and then put the du-rag on OVERNIGHT!!!!
if you can see those dark and light lines in nelly's hair
. those are "waves". the pomade, brushing and du-rag help to create than look. your not suppused to wear the if A.) you're havin a bad hair day B.) you have a bald head C.) you have twists or locks D.) you have cornrows. hair care shuld be taken care of in the home, barbershop or beauty salon, not on the hoop court, football field or packin bags at walmart!!
well, it's now the 28th, the last day of february..... the last day of black history month. i want to share a few things with y'all that you don't know or think you know but don't. i was gonna throw a little comic relief in this but i won't.
#1 the ghetto/hood is not cool, hard, ill, fly or dat shit or pimpin
As a matter of fact poor neighborhoods that are mostly populated with black and/or latino peoples are dangerous and depressing. over and over and over and over a fukin gen, we all hear songs on the radio or cd where many rappers are representing their hood. some truth but mostly false. no musician whose net worth is > 5 million dollars, drives autos that cost at least 60k, sport jewlrey thats valued at , at least, 150k represents any type of "hood" in america. the hood is full of teenage pregnancy,
single mothers who are raising children without a strong positive father figure
((( the us census bureau released a study entitled America’s Families and Living
Arrangements: 2003. In it, there is A household , which contains one or more people—everyone living in a housing unit makes up a household. One of the people who own or rent the residence is designated as the householder. and then there are family households that has at least two members related by birth, marriage, or adoption, one of whom is the householder.
Family households are maintained by married couples or by a man or woman living with other relatives—children may or may not be present. For purposes of simplicity here, a household means one parent and a family household means 2 parents .
out of the 8,031 households headed by males, only 762 of them are headed by black males ( meaning that black male is a single parent, the householder). out of 22, 317 households headed by females, 4,000 of them are head by black females ( meaning that black female is a single parent, the householder)))),
drugs are being sold and used in the open ((( according to the US Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2004 ,of the 265,100 state prison inmates serving time for drug offenses in 2002, 126,000 (47.53%) were black, 61,700 (23.27%) were Hispanic, and 64,500 (24.33%) were white..... ))) see who makes up the majority? ,
young black males are heading off to jail younger and faster than other races (((Among the more than 2.1 million offenders incarcerated on June 30, 2004, an estimated 576,600 were black males between ages 20 and 39. Among males age 25 to 29, 12.6% of blacks were in prison or jail, compared to 3.6% of Hispanics and about 1.7% of whites and this all comes from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2004 ))) etc. i could go on and on. there's nothin glorius or fabolus about living in poverty. the hood can kill u, literally.
#2 du rags are for hair care
The headgear dates back to the 1940s, said Mark Evan Blackman, chair of the Menswear Department at the State University of New York's Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, but the young urban generation gives the old look a new spin.
The first do-rags of the World War II era were cutoff rayon, or silk stockings. Black men wore them while they slept to hold flat their chemically processed hair-dos, Blackman explained. The rags resurfaced in the 1970s as a way of keeping hair out of one's face, he adds, but worn, brazenly, on the streets, rather than in the privacy of the home. The look was symbolic of the rebellious times, he continues. Today's do-rags, popularized again in the late 1990s, are variations on the same theme, Blackman said.
Do-rags still have a place as a hair grooming aid, said Tameka Wright, marketing and sales manager for blackhairmedia.com, a Web site for beauty and hair information. But for Omari Harris, 17, an East Brooklyn Congregation student in New York, his black do-rag (similar to a hooded scarf with tie strings) merely conceals unkempt natural hair. "It's a bad hair day," he said
that's right children, du-rags, like the one nelly wears above, du-rags are supposed to be be for hair care, not a fashion statement or a prt of your outfit. when your trying to get waves in your hair, you get your hair cut a certain length, wash it, buy a pomade and put it on your hair, brush it and then put the du-rag on OVERNIGHT!!!!
if you can see those dark and light lines in nelly's hair
