who's watch 'black in america' on CNN 2nite?

[TurdFergueson2 5,000+ posts]

What "stories" have you heard and read about down here? I am not talking about 50+ years ago..I am talking about since the 1990s.

A lot of them are still alive eh? After you saw "Bangin in Little Rock" would you go hang out there?

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

A lot of them are still alive eh? After you saw "Bangin in Little Rock" would you go hang out there?

What does Little Rock have to do with MS?

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

To suggest not looking down on people is telling you how to live your life?The Yayo part lead me to believe that you feel you are better than them because you don't do what they do. And I said maybe you are a jagoff. I didn't say you were. I wasn't trying to get you riled up Brah, I was just saying. People for different reasons choose different paths. You chose school. I got old friends that used to play my Atari and was the best of friends with until they chose the path they took. They don't look up to me for choosing to not be a dope dealer, and I don't look down on them because they did. I do however keep a safe distance from them because of the company they keep. They chose to do what they felt was best for them. Poverty sometimes make you make decisions that did not grow up with two doctors as parents do. You I'm sure get different kinds of pressure. You more than likely get pressured to succeed. I bet mommy won't let you date "lesser" chicks. That person "doing illicit activities" may have had no other choice. Peer pressure is a Muthafukka. I had older brothers who kept me out of shit like that. But regardless, I know right from wrong. Everybody should. But many view life as how much can they get away with.

I highly doubt if you grew up around crack dealers and killers. If you are who you say you are, you more than likely grew up in the burbs. Maybe you had some relatives that you visited every now and then that lived in the gutter. And you know you look at them differently. But that's neither here nor there

So keep on learning Brah. Hopefully you will learn that being a service to the people is the key to success. Whether you do it legally or illegally, it's still the key to success. Sometimes people like to take shortcuts.

You keep blowing all this hot air around but haven't actually said anything but insulted me and my family, so again, who are you to tell me how to live my life?

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

And please, don't even begin to tell me that someone HAD to sell drugs when someone from the same area didn't.

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

Being a service to the people is the key to success. Whether you do it legally or illegally, it's still the key to success.

And again, selling drugs is the key to success? Yeah, I think our conversation is just about finished.

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

Come on lemans, you're black, how could you not sell drugs???

 

[Captain_Ahab 5,000+ posts]

What does Little Rock have to do with MS?

Thats what I was thinking...

I don't know of any "black horror stories" down here in MS within the past 60-70 years.

 

[TurdFergueson2 5,000+ posts]

What does Little Rock have to do with MS?

I said I would never go to Mississippi....Deerhunt said get over that 50 year ago shit, I said what you quoted.

 

[TurdFergueson2 5,000+ posts]

You keep blowing all this hot air around but haven't actually said anything but insulted me and my family, so again, who are you to tell me how to live my life?

Insulted you? Did I ever call you anything other than privileged?

 

[TurdFergueson2 5,000+ posts]

And again, selling drugs is the key to success? Yeah, I think our conversation is just about finished.

Your definition of success, my definition, and someone else's may be two different things. Yours may be sitting in some downtown office with your legs kicked up having your secretary rubbing your nuts. Mine might be living more comfortable than I do now. Dude who took the other path might look at success another way... He may want to move a kilo or two a week and buy shit to impress the locals. Hood Rich they call that. There is something wrong with that. I will never condone drug dealing. But I can understand why people sometimes do what they do. Poverty is the root of pretty much all of the crime and horror you read about. To not want to be a part of that is no bad thing. It doesn't make you an Oreo or no shit. It just makes you want better for yourself. a lot drug dealers and addicts are smarter than you think. They just chose the other path. I guess I just see shit differently being that I live in it.

For the 3rd time, it's not said to insult you. What you are doing is great. Your outlook on people kinda differs from mine, but if we're on here long enough, we'll differ on a lot of things.

 

[Banana Balls 5,000+ posts]

Your definition of success, my definition, and someone else's may be two different things.

Uh, dude.... That would be three different things.

 

[adio 5,000+ posts]

I caught some of this last night. Some of the stuff is way too generalized....painting with a brush a bit too broad. Still, I would say a lot of it is fairly accurate, though I am a bit confused as to how people are unaware of these things yet?

cause few ppl give a fuc till something happens to them or someone they know. for others, they know it already and take preventative measures and help out.

 

[adio 5,000+ posts]

I say this in a nice way, but maybe you're a jagoff. Maybe it is the way in which you interact with people that gives them that vibe off of you. It doesn't matter if you do or don't get smoked out with the dudes around the block every night. I never touch the shit, but I can be around my friends who do without making them feel like I'm better than them. Maybe it is you. Maybe it is you correcting your buddies and looking down on them and others because you are more privileged. I grew up poor, but at the same time, I went to the best schools in my area. Only time I stepped in public schools was for my buddy's graduations. Chicago Public school education has to be one of the worst in the world. But I have friends who made it through and a few are doing better than me, and a lot more aren't. But we never look down on the ones that aren't because of it. It is the life they chose.
So watch the way in which you interact with others rather than the way you speak. When I go to other cities, their diction sounds a lot different than mine. I go to Ohio and they sound "white" I guess. But those same Ohio cats with their sounding out every letter doesn't make me think they are better than me because I don't. Never dumb yourself down, but try not to Big Brain Brett cause you got you some schooling.

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[adio 5,000+ posts]

Who the **** are you to tell me how to live my life? I'm a ******* because I don't respect people who in turn respect failure? I have never ONCE said I look down on people because they're less fortunate. Never have I, and never will I. I DID, however, state that I do distance myself from ignorant black people who are too busy running the crack game instead of trying to get ahead in life. No one said anything about going to college and getting numerous degrees and using education as a means of success. Working two jobs so that your children can have things they want is just as similar. Hard work is what gains my respect, not being lazy and getting money doing illicit activities. Explain this to me, because I'm not sure what direction you're taking this, but quite frankly, I don't much like it.

well, i will............going to college and getting a degree(s) and using education as a means of success is a good way to get through life

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[adio 5,000+ posts]

Come on lemans, you're black, how could you not sell drugs???

where in the holy mutherfunk u been!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!??!!?

i know i'm king of the black list now..... i made sumone pop out