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WhoisDonG??? wrote: »

@King Hassan real talk my pops told me that one day. He march with Larry, David, and Shorty back in the day B.G.D. He told me his generation failed us because we loss focus in the movement when drugs and the money came into the equation.

To be honest, the youth didn't help either b/c instead of looking at the drugs and what it did to your communities, and rejecting it, a lot of black youth began to embrace the quick money and profiteering off the misery.

Drug-related raps didn't help either b/c it turned the whole mentality of "we can make a quick buck off drugs" into a "get money" mentality that keeps a lot of youth more enamored with the glitz of what money can get you and not on a vision of a better life down the road.

WhoisDonG??? wrote: »

sully wrote: »

WhoisDonG??? wrote: »

@King Hassan real talk my pops told me that one day. He march with Larry, David, and Shorty back in the day B.G.D. He told me his generation failed us because we loss focus in the movement when drugs and the money came into the equation.

To be honest, the youth didn't help either b/c instead of looking at the drugs and what it did to your communities, and rejecting it, a lot of black youth began to embrace the quick money and profiteering off the misery.

Drug-related raps didn't help either b/c it turned the whole mentality of "we can make a quick buck off drugs" into a "get money" mentality that keeps a lot of youth more enamored with the glitz of what money can get you and not on a vision of a better life down the road.

I agree but once gangs had control of the drug market they had the ? running like a fortune 500 company. And the youth embraced the gang mentality because they had so much control it was a way of life plus must of the youth wanted to apart of something that was sold to u to be bigger then life and the only way of life.

True. I don't think Black leaders and activists post-Malcolm and Martin made it any easier by instilling the "Us vs. Them" mentality. B/c when you make it "us vs. them", they begin to reciprocate as "us vs. them" too. And when the "us" is the lower socioeconomic class, those that want to break through and make things better find it infinitely harder to do so, and soon no matter how hard you try to break the cycle of poverty you can't do it...b/c to break it, you have to release yourself of the shackle of communities pitted on race in competition against each other. That's why you see the current most successful black Americans aren't the ones who still abide by the "us vs. them" mentality, it's the ones who have embraced an integrated approach and a wholistic approach to removing yourself from poverty: Obama, Jay-Z, Oprah, Beyonce, Colin Powell, etc. IMO, the militant mentality worked better when there was still laws against blacks, but now that those barriers have been crossed, such a mentality only serves to hold you back rather than push you forward.