He’s Right: The Biggest Issues Facing The Black Community
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- Опубліковано 26 гру 2023
- Today we’ll be reacting to our friend Amir Odom as he walks through his diagnosis of the biggest issues facing the black community. We’ll be getting into everything from music and culture to victimhood mentality. Is his diagnosis correct? Let’s discuss.
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I don't go to church often. But I remember going to church June 2021. It wasn't a church I normally go to. It was a new church. A new black church. The pastor went in that day. He opened up saying "I need to speak to my black folks. Like really speak. Yall need to stop blaming white people for your issue. Chad didn't force you to sell dope, drop out of school, lack sexual discipline, etc. That's your fault." I was the only black person in the crowd that clapped and yelled "Amen!" Because it's true.
I'm glad you yelled it. Pretty alarming that you were the only one. How did it feel to be the only one (other than the pastor) in church who wasn't deceived?
I wish it was the other way around and most people agreed with his message but I don't know if people will acknowledge his message any time soon. It's just too easy to blame everyone or anyone else. It's been done for so long now. People are raised with this way of thinking. It's not bad decisions or actions but some outside reason that is keeping you or those around you from achieving.
I cannot stand fake people like you. Did you know that less than 2% of Black people sell drugs? Did you know that less 5% of all Black people account for all major crimes? Did you know that that 5% the FBI points out encompasses all Black people as in foreigners and those born in America? Did you know that woman is twice as likely to be graped by a white person then buy a black one?
Sometimes messages take time to sink in, especially when they require taking accountability that people don't wanna take. But every now and then, they'll think of that one pastor that told them to get their shit together and stop blaming other people, and that one person who clapped and agreed, and they'll slowly start to question their current view of the world and learn to think for themselves.
Perfectly said, we as Black people need to really get Real and take some responsibility for all of our actions and words in life. I'm saying this and I'm a Black male. Who ever that Pastor was, he was right on 🎯 on the issues dealing with the Black community in America at large
He’s right but it will fall on deaf ears
@JWashington754 nah he is very wrong he wants to disrespect 😊 Hip Hop and Black Culture but Everyone is quiet on Rock music causing school shootings
@@darnellwilliams8783 "Rock music causes school shootings" holds about as much credence as "video games cause violence"
@@darnellwilliams8783 Your IQ is showing, and it is heartbreaking.
The "culture" is broken beyond repair. And you help to keep it broken.
@@jahmeregill6243 sir wake uo and stop being emotional when we know rock muisc is very deomonic .and the lryics are too
Hip hop/Rap actually glorifies substance abuse, selling oneself and promiscuity, literal gun and gang violence... 🙄 Then rock music, covers alll kinds of subject matters, but actually never really any of those things. So pop off poppet, pop off... 🙄 😂 @@darnellwilliams8783
"We're out here demanding to be respected, but we don't even respect ourselves!" Wowzers, that was heavy.
I always think back to the Lil Wayne story where he talks about his life being saved by a white man after he got mortally wounded as kid and black cops busted in, and ran past him laying on the floor bleeding and a white cop picking him up and scolding everyone as he carried him out to get him to the hospital. That was a touching story that I won’t forget. Anyway, imo we’re all brothers and sister under God no matter what we look like.
I thought you said Emmett Till, you have to go back to a white cop doing his job to give credit to white people? Bro read some articles about white cops history in America, cause you’re drunk on delusion. They’re literally Slave Patrol with a new name😕😂. Have you not seen any of the riots between the 50-70s for example?
Acknowledging a problem shouldn't be viewed as racist. That's just not taking accountability
Exactly , that's also part of the problem in the black community
@@Mellytylerbrown It’s racist when you disregard the historical and empirical evidence clearly highlighting the “causes” for such disparities.
@@TheEmpiricistNetwork So no personal accountability?
yeah but progressives don't have brains. They don't understand it's a two-way street, they just want the "systemic issues" to be fixed before they agree to better themselves.
@@davinci3259 no, that could cause better organizations and trust.
It is crazy that “acting white” means being civilized. Why cant all humans be civilized, polite, and do the right thing?
Welfare, when it took the man out of the home, in order to get the entitlement, introduced a subculture in many black communities. Prior to these sub cultures, people had a sense of citizenship with the broader culture and never had to be "acting white". They had good morales like the culture of the time. Morales were not defined by skin color but by having a shared humanity that did not hypersexualize children or glamorize gangsterism or ramport crime in neighborhoods and on subways.
An idea perpetuated by white people, written into the Bible and foundations of civilizations across the world centuries ago. This idea that whiteness is better than blackness was not written by black people.
😂😂😂😂 lmfao you people are so delusional and it’s sickening! I’m so tired of this lie! Nobody has ever said anything like this! If you go on any page like baller allert you will see most black people hate this type of shit! Y’all are too ignorant to do that so you make up anything bad about black people then call everyone else racist
civilized, intelligent, open-minded.. all of these things are associated with “whiteness” like it’s a bad thing. it’s so strange.
Yessss!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
He’s right. I adore Amir. As a gay black man he gets so much hate from not only from most POC, blm ally’s, but also the LGBT+ community.
People call anyone that steps out of line white sympathizer, closet homophobe (if you’re gay, lesbian, or bi and don’t agree with pride). Even myself a biological woman get called a “pick me” for defending who’s right, even if is a man. I can’t imagine the strength it takes to speak out and hear so much backlash.
The right loves their tokens. Gay AND black is like hitting the lottery for them lol
Who’s ur pfp? You seem like a white person
“Pick me” has got to be the most annoying and intellectually lazy criticism of recent times
suppose I start a strait pride movement...will that offend the gays?
@@johnnielawrence420 Straights aren’t called abominations
I went to high school in the rural south. There were less than 20 black kids in our school of over 700. My best friend was black and when I moved away senior year she was on track to be valedictorian. She also played and studied classical music. Her mom was the lunch lady, so they weren't wealthy (nor were most in our school). There was no "community" pushing a negative narrative. Therefore each person excelled in line with their family values and abilities.
When I was a kid, my white parents hated cops. My dad had a sign that said "The only good cop is a dead cop" in the kitchen. It took time to realize that the reason we didn't have Christmas presents, nice things, food, and sometimes heat wasn't because of the evil government or the cops, it was because of my dad's meth habit. It is so important to learn how to think on your own. I have lived in a few different poor neighborhoods with different racial majorities. The problem seems to be the same among impoverished people, no accountability and heavy drug and alcohol use to escape reality. I wish positive role models were paraded around more than entertainment industry people. Kids need to see a way out that is realistic.
Cops are the ones who shut down backyard meth labs and save families. I'm so grateful to that.
The deconstructionist ideologies creating angry blacks and self guilty whites through propaganda is but a tool for the really bad guys.
Imagine you needed a remaining population to be dumbed down on self consumption and lust for material things becoming happy with bigdaddygov handouts.
During covid
Aristotle-“No man is a slave if better off free” meaning if a group cannot contribute to society then they are better off a slave to the state.
A permanent slave will not revolt against being a slave if they believe they are the highest beings in society. Hints “We wuz kangs”
Those who dispersed around the globe can now absorb the technology and culture of those nations.
The more guilt and compassion felt by those nations will make this cultural absorption become more absolute.
Using foresight and reasoning I suggest all humans be ready to defend themselves against the world revolutionaries.
They want what you have and more importantly they want you NOT to have it.
To preserve life and history, we must “Old Yeller” the rabid
Good for you for doing better for yourself 👏
Poverty is a mindset and what you said is exactly what a lady on this app named Tiffany buckner/annointed fire says. Poverty is full of bad money management and victim complexes. I honesty don't like cops either but it's for seperate reasons like what they due to kids.
@@xahnairyztheurbanlegend4889Not all cops are like the bad examples you have seen. The problem is, good cops don't make the headlines that sell newspapers or airtime. Newspapers and News shows sensationalize everything and make it seem like the bad ones are the majority.
This is what I'm talking about. According to society, the only thing black about me is my skin,but what I don't understand is why an order to be black I must talk unintelligent, listen to degrading music all the time, loudly vulgar, mad at the world, and dress like Jezebel. I'm glad not all black ppl are this way because I don't believe in check off boxes to fix no ones idea of how I should behave and look.
I just learned Jezebel is not in business anymore?
Well, ma'am, as a guy who buys clothes from any building with clothes, I happen to be sorta glad Jezebel is out because.....ahhh I dunno, whenever I heard something about them it always left me with this awkward impression...like...... females that are ummm....I have never seen this type or community...like they want to get hurt on purpose...
Omg WALL of text. Ma'am have a good day happy new year and be that explosion of joy
-violin guy from LA
SHE IS NOT BLACK she need to go talk to her mama community who make colonizers by the millions
I’m a white woman. I have never in my life looked at any group of people and saw 1 thing. I believe most white ppl feel the same
The large population of women on only fans are white women, white women dress like jezebel just like black women, there are white women who speak unintelligent and there are tons of baby mothers in the white demographic just as there are tons of deadbeats dads. What you don't understand is demoralization and dehumanization are white people way of calling other people uncivilized while they get to project the white is good narrative. This thing is all mental, if you truly want to understand all this study white people from their time in Europe and you will understand how they think. There are are evil people in all demographic but that doesn't mean racism in America isn't real and black people complain too much.
@@optimisticzebra8498Can you do a better job explaining yourself?😮😮
"I am my ancestor's dream."
Wow. Very thought provoking.
I said good morning to a cop the other day and he said he don't get that much often from black folks. I had to think for a second and switched up my stance. I've been a firm believer in if you protect the bad ones then you're bad yourself. But then we glority not snitching. They're so many times we put ourselves in situations that could have been prevented then we scream police brutality, it's insane. I've been pulled over many times, pride or not it's OK to be respectful.
We all HAVE to stop exposing our kids to the glamorization of sex, crime and the distrust and hatred for authority. Give them a chance to grow with hope and positivity… THEY will be the ones to change the community.
I didn’t grow up hating cops. I was a little afraid of them because I was taught if I did something wrong, they might show up and arrest me and take me jail. Nowadays many young people especially black people think cops are there just hassle you and make up stuff so they can arrest you and it’s total BS .
I 100% agree. It's astonishing to me that it even happens. I understand very well HOW it can happen, but it makes me just frustrated and sad that more people don't stand up children's future and nowadays it can be really tough to be a teacher because young kids are so broken from the lack of socialization during covid. Just such a sad situation to see. I'm honestly very anxious about the future because it's just looking like it will be a sink or swim future for so many.
That's just naive
@@josephmalone253 what is?
Absolutely. My husband and I are about to be parents of two. We are homeschooling. Leading with faith in the home, and practicing our natural gender roles. I wear MY OWN hair, we do not leave our children exposed to adult content or violence or explicit music. We have to do better as a people.
This young man is 100% correct!!! We need to bring back shame, respect, manners, and morals.
It almost seems it's too late 🤦🏽♀️🙏🏾
Exactly, just like back in the 50s when white people really respected us as a people.
We can't bring back shame because we've never had it. The West is a guilt society not a shame society. The distinction is important and there are positives to using guilt as a means of social punishment instead of shame. The problem with our society today is that too many kids are being raised without ever learning and internalizing the universal morality that makes Western culture work.
@@BiggieTrismegistus well the last 3 generations have not been raised to feel shame the prior generations were raised that way.
@@BiggieTrismegistus no such thing as "universal morality " where do you think morality comes from? The Word of God aka Bible , left to ourselves we are liars , perverts and murdering demons... when we don't teach the next generation about our Creator Father God through His only Son Jesus Yeshua the Christ , we teach them to live a life of guilt , shame and sin , pretending it's something different is moral and spiritual death BUT thee is a way OUT John 3:16 Romans 3:23
1John 1:9 Christ keeps it all so simple and free 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💋
Thank you for presenting this video. Honest conversation and real data about these problems is so important.
Much of the problems in today's Black Community are largely self-inflicted. This video is spot on because it candidly addresses the serious issues going on in Black neighborhoods. Contrary to popular view, the worst enemy of the Black Community is not the Police, but is the Black Community itself. A lot of Blacks are finally starting to wake up and come from under the hypnotic spell that these so-called "black leaders", who don't even live in their communities and have often exacerbated this hatred of the Police have put them under for so many years.
They are raised to not respect anyone anywhere anytime but they demand respect when someone confronts them about their shitty behavior.
Because the media is telling them that the people they should be learning to live with and garnering respect are the people with the boots on their neck, therefore they feel they HAVE to demand it. Sickening really
respect must be earned if u demand respect then chances are ur not worthy of respect but if u work hard and earn someones respect then they will give it to u with open arms
Just like a wahman
@@dances_with_incels raised on feminism and generic kool-aid
I don't know why you're putting " They " it feels that you're saying " black people" instead of some "black people" , that wasn't the point of the video be respectful please.
I'm a white guy who grew up in a black neighborhood and I was accused of "talking white" multiple times. But if my mother or the nuns at school heard me "talking street" I'd be in trouble with them. I was more afraid of the nuns than I was of the neighborhood kids so I stuck with "talking white". Ghetto is as mental as it is physical.
Most ppl don't kno the definition of ghetto obviously. Either way most of what's called talking ghetto is just a southern or country accent and then led in the water in ATl.
Nothing is wrong with AAVE to be honest but it's only bad when southern ppl do it it seems. Also Sorry you grew up around nuns in the beast religion.
I had to switch from Church school to public; & it felt like I went from school to juvenile!
--I was too articulate, I was a "snob", "book worm" NOT bcuz I raised my hand or did anything extra. I had a vocabulary & knew the answers(the material was miles behind I didn't have to open a book for years)?!!
--I was freaking out, the teacher just left for over 45mins at any time, kids tearing up books, on their desks, interrupting, constantly going over the same material & no one gets it!!! It's multiple choice testing & the kid that does nothing is just "creative"?!?
--They CANT READ, so the "curriculum" is just the teacher reading the assigned chapters to us ALL DAY?!!
--I tried to fit in, but it's hard to change annunciation & speech patterns.
Thats messed up; in sorry u had to "be on" like that
"the nuns" lol where did u grow up?
I appreciate it a lot when Amala explains terms and colloquial for those who might not know what they mean. I appreciate it a lot who learned english by self taught and not american. thanks Amala, much love ❤❤❤
“Just comply and nothing will happen” is the same as saying “work hard and you’ll be successful”
And both are true in a sense that there are waay many more examples where people did exactly that and it turned out good for them vs the people for who it didn't turn out as good.
Just because something bad happens to a few people or a few times doesn't mean it'll happen to everyone each time.
Putting good intent and effort into something helps with getting a good outcome.
You a damnnn victim ahh lil boi….you got countless examples that working hard will lead to success and countless examples of complying and nothing happening…but you gunna role with the 12 accounts over the 400 million police interactions taking place…..you dumb or ignorant? Math ain’t matching
No it's not.
False equivalency
Loser talk
A co-worker told me that because he was working on getting his Masters in Business, spoke "proper" English and was determined to make more of his life than the rest of his family and friends, he was ostracized and criticized for not being black enough. I just don't understand that mindset. Other friends who are from Africa cannot understand the mindset of Americans. They come to this country and are amazed at the opportunities that are open to them and do not understand why more do not take advantage of the opportunities to improve their lives.
Crab-in-a-bucket mentality. Happens often enough. As for why they don't all take the opportunities, it's called the cycle of poverty and the cycle of crime.
Africans are nothing like African-Americans, except in skin colour.
Be it in African parents doing everything they possibly can to provide for their kids, raising them with the right morals, to seeing education as a ticket to a better life. A lot of African immigrants have the same mentality as Asian immigrants when it comes to work and education.
Same. My siblings would mock me all the time because I went to school in a different district than where we lived and I didn't act like them.
It's part of black cultural ideology. Stems from the 60s. When black people were building their identity, they didn't won't to be associated with white America or mainstream America. They didn't want to be associated with the "other" and so they did everything the opposite to portray that. How we talked, how we dressed,the foods we ate, etc. I'm pretty sure you have seen old school blacksplotation movies or whatnot and saw the difference between how white people dressed vs black people. The afro, the Africa neckless, etc.
That aspect of the culture carried over until today with all its evolutions. Not to be the other.
Why in the 60s? And not earlier in the 30s or 40s? Black americans didn't seem to have a problem with emulating "white" culture to be successful until the 60s? Why?
29:53 I was the valedictorian in my middle school and the #4 in my high school, both of which were almost entirely black schools. You can imagine how disliked I was. I was told I acted white from day one because I was smart and did my homework. How gross is that behavior?
Crabs in a bucket mentality.
Very gross. Being intelligent and caring about your education isn’t a “white” trait. That’s a good human being trait.
It’s the pick me “black” people that comment this stuff to just provide ammunition for white people to continue to hate all of us. Ma’am white people who don’t know you personally will still discriminate against you regardless if you are intelligent or not. Climb the corporate ladder in any Fortune 500 company and ask any black person who has made it to middle management or above if they deal with racism from their white counterparts and an overwhelming majority will say yes.
@@caleighhraeeit’s funny because these same black people who stay stuff like that see themselves exactly as a white supremacist sees them. They say the same things.
I think the ghost of a certain Booker T. Washington would like to disagree that striving to get the best education you can is "acting white." That trope is such a insult to the legacy of all the black pioneers who fought tooth and nail for the right to go to school and better their lives.
Thanks for sharing Amir’s video, and for your comments.
I came across your show by accident, the two of you are totally amazing.❤
This guy is speaking facts. I feel bad for the amount of hate he will probably get from ignorant people calling him racist, or an Uncle Tom.
Most of his attackers will be politicians and media 😂😂😂
@@yourlogicalnightmare1014 Politicians and the media won't pick it up. It will be from other black people and woke white people
Probably more hate from liberal whites than anybody.
@yourlogicalnightmare1014 Sadly, that's not true.
Ironically it's them who are doing the tap dancing...
“She think she somebody cause she in the smart people class but she as black as the bottom of my shoe” is what I dealt with whenever I interacted with my black peers in school. It caused me to have anxiety whenever around black ppl because I thought I was going to get verbally jumped for being “too black” and “acting white”
Envy.
This is a big reason why many black intellectuals, professional athletes, and celebrities opt for white spouses. I was shocked to find out that Ketanji Brown-Jackson and Kamela Harris were married to white men. I bet they got the same treatment as you did growing up. But what saddens me about these women and others like them is that they can't or won't be honest about the real problems in the black "community." They could have helped you and others who are dealing with the same problems, but they chose to blame everything on "systemic racism."
I had this at school too. My school in inner London was predominantly black and I’m white. I was bullied relentlessly and it got so bad I was scared to answer questions in class or to say anything much. Home time was a nightmare. Racism works both ways but I refuse to be a victim or hater because of the treatment I got. No more excuses.
That mentality is sad. Sorry you had to deal with that.
Envy.
These 44 minutes are some of the best The UA-cam community has to offer. just so well thought out and intelligent and as a minority myself, if I were to create a podcast or UA-cam channel, I’d want to be just like this one. These people have such intelligent and powerful voices and are so innocently honest. You don’t sense any malice behind what they’re doing they’re so positive.
Amala, you are amazing! You are so articulate and honest it's a pleasure to watch and listen to you. Thank you.😊🎉
I agree 100% that this victim mentality is doing nothing but hurting us. Blaming everything on others will never save you from your problems. You're right on the money Amala.
I have a moral right to blame the people and organizations that harmed me the most. Which is the medical establishment, US government itself and a certain "chosen people" that cannot be criticized.
@@LordMalice6d9 Gonna be honest here, this comment is weird LoL. Very cryptic and screams basement dweller. Just wanted to be honest. No disrespect though. 😇🙏
She’s not right, accepting your fate as if “nothing can be done”, is a logical fallacy. The only reason many aren’t taking action is due to the fact the current system works for those who are the majority and that’s the real issue. They don’t want to give up the “power” that comes from the atrocities committed, they understand that sacrifices must be made for “progress”, they just don’t want it to be them…
@@TheeKing7 That’s why they hire people like Amala to spout these narratives to get people to stop thinking and fighting the system because they want to keep it as it is. They use “Black” people like Amala and celebrities to be the new “blackfaces” of WS and give false hope because “some” Black people made it. Meanwhile, they hand pick these contract slaves just like they did in the past, these tactics are nothing new. And most of the time these so called “Black” people are African immigrants with no history of American slavery or oppression in any form.
@@TheEmpiricistNetworkyou really are working hard to push back and make excuses. Your comments suggest you don't want it to change. It would mean taking responbility.
Do you know that the black vote, while only comprising a low percentage of the base, normally decides who is in office?
Stop voting for shitty politicians. Stop voting for rascists.
Biden, "if you don't vote for me then you ain't black".
Stop voting for the same bullshit locally as well.
But you wont.
A lot of the black community needs to hold itself accountable and be more mindful of what they allow to entertain them and let the victim mentality go. It’s just that time.
Never going to happen.
@@ChristopherNegretti exactly I remember singer India Arie chastised a group of young Black women for twerking disrespecting/disecretion of a former slave house in Africa and what did she get for it tons of backlash from her own community, a Jamaican buisness woman stating that she doesn't want ghetto Black Americans in her establishment because of past negative experiences with them again backlash, Tommy Satomayor speaking on the destructive path of the Black community pure hate from his own kind, Kevin Samuels on Black women being more feminine and submissive to their husbands they literally danced on his grave it's sickening, the young woman snatching the microphone from the College Administrator in the graduation crying racism instead of checking her on her behaving like a complete ass what people of her community do, cheer her on saying go "Slay Queen", many many more examples why they have no damn shame yet expect other cultures to respect them smh it's insanity with this community they are beyond help.
A lot? All. There’re PLENTY of black conservatives complaining about “MUH past traumas”, and they’re even in this comment section. I have zero hope for them.
*black American.
This is uniquely a black American issue.
@@noonesishomeAs an African (Senegalese and Bissau-Guinean), I disagree. This victim mentality also exists in the former French-speaking colonies. And also among many black people living in Europe (I live in France).
You young people that I see waking up to this really gives me hope for humanity. One new subscriber here.
Thank you, extremely informative.
I was bullied growing up because I was a black person who was raised in a predominantly white neighborhood. once I started to get a bit older (middle school) I had black kids ask "why do I talk white" and white kids tell me "you don't act like other black people". In all, I was just being myself. It stung hard though and took me awhile to finally process everything (at the age of 28=29)
Same, on point. To this day many Black folk can't understand that I don't act a "Certain stereotypical way". I grew up in a mixed neighborhood to some extent; definitely the school system I attended, and Boy! Man, the comments I got about the way I act, talk and what I liked.
The only one acting like that.. The whites dont call other to be not white because of this or that..Stupid cultural mentality that lead to what we saw today.. @@binoyandpinay777
Been there, done that as well. Still going through it whether at work, in society or black culture in any form. I wasn't raised like that, or socialized with anyone of that ilk. Rather be called an Uncle Tom
I am so sorry that you were bullied, I had a conversation with my friend not that long ago and she said the same thing. She is 33 like me. She is an artistic person and joined a group of black writers, just because she thought it would be fun to be a part. And they ended up telling her she wasn't black enough, because she wouldn't smoke weed with them.
She happens to be a Christian. And I tried to encourage her, and told her Christ is counter culture and that is what they are rejecting. I dont fit in with every white person nor do I even want too. I am not into partying, country music or getting drunk. No thanks. Lol
I think Amala is right, using terms like "black community" is not helpful, you are expected to all think the same. Everybody has their own mind and perpspective of life.
I dont know your beliefs, but I am Christian as well, and have been very convicted of the words I use. I dont say "race" anymore. Because I dont actually believe that different races of people exist. I think it came about because of evolution and people used it as an excuse to say that they were more evolved than others, and that others were closer to animals, therefore they could dehumanize them without having to feel guilty. I reject that. I think we are all the same. We are just diverse, multi ethnic, multi culture, multi national. And every single one of those things has been every changing since the beginning of time.
The bible says you are beautifully and wonderfully made. God bless.
The deconstructionist ideologies creating angry blacks and self guilty whites through propaganda is but a tool for the really bad guys.
Imagine you needed a remaining population to be dumbed down on self consumption and lust for material things becoming happy with bigdaddygov handouts.
During covid
Aristotle-“No man is a slave if better off free” meaning if a group cannot contribute to society then they are better off a slave to the state.
A permanent slave will not revolt against being a slave if they believe they are the highest beings in society. Hints “We wuz kangs”
Those who dispersed around the globe can now absorb the technology and culture of those nations.
The more guilt and compassion felt by those nations will make this cultural absorption become more absolute.
Using foresight and reasoning I suggest all humans be ready to defend themselves against the world revolutionaries.
They want what you have and more importantly they want you NOT to have it.
To preserve life and history, we must “Old Yeller” the rabid
Im an Asian girl and moved to the the lower wards of nola at 14. The other girls targeted me because "their" men talked to me. I was raised on a farm in a small town and was thrown into that world. I was really naive too. The only thing that saved me was helping others with their schoolwork. I would help the teacher's explain stuff in a way they could understand. One boy was 17 in the 7th grade. He had the reading level of a 2nd grader. I worked with him the entire year and we are still friends in our 30s. I dropped out of school because I was transferred back to my small town where i was made fun and bullied every day. I got my ged and went to lsu for nursing. At 25 I realized my true calling was teaching. Applied for scholarships and got one for Tulane. Got my bachelor's in early childhood education.
DoNT COME TO RHE US TO TEACH PLEASE....IM begging you 🙏
U dont wanna teach these animals!😢
So, you were put into terrible situation amd you made the best of it. But, you were more accepted in the black community than the small farming town you came from is that right? Black people were mean at first and untrusting of you but they eventually got iver it right. That proves that what this commentator is talking about is misinformative. Black communities are they way they are because of centuries of racism, police brutality & misconduct & goverment. There's a whole opiod crisis in All of America that All communities are faceing. It's not a black and white issue. It's rich vrs poor. Nobody knows about middle class & upper class black communities so they assume the poor ones and gangsters are all we have.
Gen alpha as a whole in an education crisis because of techology, overworked parents covid & inflation. The POC communities jusgo through the BS before it hits the whole country.
Everything is bad everywhere.
But congratulations on doing your best to rectify the situation. I'm a black women that comes from an educated family. We live amounst many educated black people who care about our community & our children. And we still deal with racism.
Awesome🙌🏼 Congrats on accomplishing your goals by being strong and resilient. Sounds like you have had some unique experiences that give you great perspective..
On a side note out of curiosity, were you bullied in both places, the small town as well as Nola?
Congratulations you seem to be a good human being with decency and common sense
I had the same issue as a white girl in an 85% black and Latino area. I ended up helping a lot of the other kids with homework, and they stopped picking on me so much. Still got in fights/got jumped if one of "their men" tried to talk to me, even tho I never dated anyone from my school before we moved in 10th grade.
I love seeing these conversations happening in my country I've been waiting almost 60 years for this thank you
My grandmother told me this and it has work for me all these years and I ain't going to change now
If people would just treat people the way you want to be treated you'd be surprised how much you'll get along.
My grandmother also told me that is so hard to stay on the right path and so hard to stay on it because you're going to come with some hard times that'll make you want try no more
And it's really easy to go down the wrong path and it's fun
Not hard at all
So I can see these kids picking the fun route probably because of the lack of education to
Thank you for this! Love you all so much. 🫶♥️
Good video
Love you too ❤. Keep up the good work
Keep up the great work your doing Amir. Its peeps like you and Amala, and some others, that will hopefully get the right msg to the right people and gradually help turn the tide
He’s soooo right! Thanks for introducing him to me. I’m half Nigerian, and nobody on my dad’s side (the Nigerian side) behaves like this. I understand that they are not from this country, but a few of them have lived here for decades. The mindset is completely different. They are all extremely successful university graduates, doctors, lawyers, etc. and rave about how many opportunities this country has to offer!
Back when I taught in high schools, African kids (or kids with African parents) were generally always some of the best students. They were polite, respectful, hard-working, and intelligent kids with great family support. Kids like that are a joy to teach.
@@michaelstein7510 I love that! You could compare African households to typical Asian households in terms of discipline and respecting those with authority
@@Brii98 Absolutely. The difference in work ethic and discipline is noticeable, compared to the average US-born kid of any race, in my experience. And their parents might work 12+ hour days, but would still take the time to be involved in their kids’ development. It’s great to see families like that, as a teacher. That’s the type of parent I aspire to be.
Check them new york Ivorians and guinean@Brii98
Tell me something. Why is it that almost none of you so-called progressive foreign Blacks can never do in countries where you're the majority what Black Americans did as a minority? Black Americans were lynched, beaten, and had our communities bombed by racist regularly. Black Americans started over 100 colleges and universities less than a century removed from chattel slavery yet none of you have been able to do so where most you went decades without seeing a white face. We had people killing and running us off millions of acres of land we bought and paid for. They burned and bombed hundreds of prosperous communities out of spite. Nigeria has over 200 million Black people, but many still come here to be educated in schools built by Black Americans. What's the excuse for not developing Nigeria when you clearly have the numbers? Black Americans have been at a far bigger disadvantage than Nigerians for a far longer time. No other group of Black people anywhere on the planet has been as prosperous as Black Americans, and we made up a far smaller percentage of this country's population than any of you did in yours.
What you just said at the beginning of the show I'm So glad you put it out there thanks
Well this video just popped up in the line of videos that were playing on UA-cam. I normally don’t watch videos like this because of the negativity that some in the community have said about this young lady. Normally I don’t allow others to impact how I feel about others but unconsciously I actually allowed those points of view color my opinion of this young woman. I am so glad that god really told me to not swipe past but instead hear out her voice. I thought I would be moving on fairly fast based off of misinformation but I was wrong. And I am so glad that I set back and enjoyed and agreed with everything said on this video. Being completely honest I can agree with everything said in this piece. And I have always felt the same way about our community. Because of all the negativity I made sure to become successful and stay away from urban areas and staying in my suburban communities. I hope and pray that more adults will get involved with their children and stop all of these horrible situations that there children are involved in. And also the only way to improve urban areas you must be willing to cooperate with law enforcement when necessary.
Great video!
My niece had to leave 3 jobs last year. She was constantly harassed and followed home a few time. Why? Because she did her job with perfection and they accused her of showing off. All because she was doing the job she was hired to do.
It's not just because of her race. I'm not denying it's a factor. Because it is.
But that not the big issue. It's because of your niece's spirit. Darkness doesn't like light and will try to always put out the light. People that are dark (and I'm not telling about color I'm talking about their character) are very insecure and jealous of people they are what they are not.
Unfortunately the corporate structure no matter how small or large is darkness. And most of those at the top have that spirit of darkness as well. So the policies, processes, and work environment aren't design to uphold the integrity of and protect your niece. It's designed to try to break her so that she decides to be just like those coming against her.
Please continue to uplift her and make sure she knows that God sees everything. He will never have you do through anything alone and will not present her with something she can't handle. Everything happens for us, not against us.
@@z_123SO VERY WELL SAID 😇🙏🏼🙌GOD BLESS YOU AND EVERYONE 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼PRAY UNCEASINGLY 🙏🏼 🙏🏼🙏🏼
You are so right its nice too hear I've gone through a similar situation
Amala, people like you can fix the world .. profound respect to you
Fix the world huh? Like stopping hamas and fighting in Ukraine? Like missing children and sex trafficking around the world? You've gotta be 18 years old.
I grew up on Soul Train and love songs. I saw Rap and Hip Hop for what it was when it came out ine 90s -- a toxic stew for youth with predictable consequences. Now, more than a generation has been exposed to this poison and we see the results.
It will take an army of soldiers to make a change, and eventually Amala will get tired like so many before her I hope she can recruit more to open eyes. It will take a movement to make a change but we're losing fast!
How does anything she said fix 4 centuries of damage which caused all of these disparities?
@@TheEmpiricistNetworkit's not supposed to. Get over it. Live in the now, take responsibility and do you. Challenges have been there and overcome for generations and opportunities have never been better. We stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. I had exceptional parents and grandparents and they had it way harder than me. This victim parasite is recent. Let's get rid of it
I love Amir. He is so smart and rooted in common sence. I highly recomend his channel....and yours 🎉
great video....always enjoy your honest conversations! good to see Taylor, he is looking good, not seen him or Will Witt since the Prager U video days.
My ex-friends were so affronted and flabbergasted and offended when I said there are problems in Black culture.
They are not your friends
As an independent thinker, what if I came to you as an outsider and I say there are problems with white culture? Every culture has their problem.
I’m a white girl in high school and I’ve experienced so much crap just for being white. Like people make fun of me for being white and say “oh that’s white peoples shit” and “y’all white people weird” and just blanket statements and I’m like… is that not racist? But yk I can’t defend myself bc that’ll make me racist. It just never ends. Like when will it actually not matter the color of your skin. Martin Luther king jr litterally said to not judge people by the color of their skin but by their character… so why are we going backwards? I have black family, Indian family, and Hispanic family and it doesn’t mean anything. We’re still family no matter the color of our skin.
Yeah, it was like that for me in the 80’s here in NYC. Almost everyday I’d hear, “hey white girl!”, and a punch would come flying at my head. Or a full lunch tray. I was robbed multiple times, beat up, pushed down the stairs. It happened to the few of us in the school that weren’t black or Hispanic. Complaining made it worse for us. Thankfully I made it out alive. I’m 55 now, and I don’t even remember those days until someone mentions something or i see a video.
It’s unfair; I wish I could tell you otherwise. Hang on as best as you can. Try to join something outside of school where you can make friends - a gym, guitar class, dance class, city sports team, martial arts classes, church, or maybe volunteer at an animal shelter, or food pantry. Did you know the FBI has a Teen Explorers program that gives you the opportunity to intern with the FBI? Check them out on the web.
Remind yourself these years will pass and you won’t even remember them, that’s how unimportant they will become. Please never believe the bad things spoken about you. It’s harder for this generation because schools, media, and entertainment teach hatred of white people. Don’t believe it! And my best advice for your career is DON’T GO TO COLLEGE for liberal arts! Find a well paying trade or technical job like electronics, dental hygienist, radiologist. If you really want to go to college, study a hard science, not a social science. I went into electronic engineering, but physical therapy and sports medicine, veterinarian sciences, and forensic pathology are areas I would consider now. Best of luck to you in 2024! 🤞🏼
You have to get rid of race to get rid of racism and no one in America is prepared to do that, and you don't have to be racist to defend yourself, you can just say you don't appreciate that or tell them it's a blanket statement with no basis you don't have to say the n word to defend yourself lol, but I feel you people are like openly racist towards white people lately and as a black dude I don't like it either
@@DepDawgTHAT IS INSANE! I'm so sorry you went through that were you in the hood or something?
@@erievhs yes, Brownsville in Brooklyn.
It is going backwards because, at the end of the day, the only way the Democrats will stay in power is to stoke racial division. Plus, social media and left wing news is forcing us to judge ourselves based on the worst of society. 99.9% of society may be decent people in the USA, but that leaves us with about 330,000 absolute evil/stupid jerks and all it takes is a few jerks per week to feed the narrative.
It is not just blacks who cling to victimhood but other races including white. What we have to focus on is not necessarily the color of the skin but the personality and good points of each culture including our own. And to learn from but let go of the past. It may be hard to do but worth it in the end. To me personality matters more than race or anything else.
"Black" has taken on a life of its own. No longer is it just a group of people easily identified by degree of skin pigmentation but a specific mindset strongly identifying as perpetual victims amongst other toxic mindset.
Narcissists making narcissists, dunno what happened exactly, but I hear many stories of black ppl not being allowed to take their own path.
Its also like that white other cultures and races, but less destructive.
Accountability is necessary for blacks to progress 👏
For everyone lol
Idk how the huge line between Indigenous and African hasn’t been drawn, it’s all generational trauma yes but it’s OUR responsibility to fix ourselves and be accountable for our mistakes, maybe in part caused by that trauma but ULTIMATELY caused by our own actions. We shouldn’t belittle ourselves by blaming everyone else, because we are all better then that.
I’m white passing Ojibwa lol I know I’m very pale and look like idk what I’m talking about but I assure you I do
@@Virgomamatoacapricorn The deconstructionist ideologies creating angry blacks and self guilty whites through propaganda is but a tool for the really bad guys.
Imagine you needed a remaining population to be dumbed down on self consumption and lust for material things becoming happy with bigdaddygov handouts.
During covid
Aristotle-“No man is a slave if better off free” meaning if a group cannot contribute to society then they are better off a slave to the state.
A permanent slave will not revolt against being a slave if they believe they are the highest beings in society. Hints “We wuz kangs”
Those who dispersed around the globe can now absorb the technology and culture of those nations.
The more guilt and compassion felt by those nations will make this cultural absorption become more absolute.
Using foresight and reasoning I suggest all humans be ready to defend themselves against the world revolutionaries.
They want what you have and more importantly they want you NOT to have it.
To preserve life and history, we must “Old Yeller” the rabid.
@@Virgomamatoacapricornua-cam.com/video/ByFU-qLPQso/v-deo.htmlsi=CCQqLSmsA7CMruPY
We have to repent , and acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord ...that's how we will progress 🙏🏾💋without Christ none of us can do anything good .
@@ladyk7317-AMEN sister!!!❤🙌🏼🙏
Thank you for going back to the baby pics! I really wanted to see them, too!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. As a nearly 70-year old Black man, I've seen our culture go from one of hope and success to hopelessness and despair. We may not want to be associated with it, but the truth is that the rest of the world laughs at modern Black Culture and want nothing to do with it. And it's all OUR fault. My generation has watched this all go down -- crime, gangs, single motherhood, poverty, thug culture and the celebration of illiteracy and stupidity -- and has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I say all of that to say that the only hope for the future is you, and Amir, and the hundreds of young Black people waking up to the reality and saying STOP. Something has got to be done, and WE are the ones who have to do it. You are our only hope now.
I graduated in 1987. We had studious black students harassed and bullied by other black students for “acting white”. Some gave into the peer pressure and stopped getting good grades and started acting like those who harassed them. The few who refused to cave into the pressure went on to have successful career. One is a major in a local police department as he was a detective and the other became a teacher and moved up to college professor and university dean.
Congratulations to those who fought hard for their grades and didn't cave in to those who harass them for acting White
135 unarmed black people killed in 2015. We invoked change. Y’all acting like without calling it out, it would be at 12. Yall are sickos. Convenient for you to make this video AFTER WE DID THE WORK.
And yall not gonna address poverty and the historical media representation.
We can’t “take accountability” BECAUSE THEY GAVE AWAY LAND FOR FREE TO WHITE PEOPLE and redlined us from it. Goofies. Burned down towns. So we just dealing with it. There’s damn near nothing to bootstrap on a micro level, to the macro.
It would have to come from the macro, just like the root causes of the environment came from.
Hold the powers that be accountable.
Cowards.
I got that same treatment when I was in school. No self-respecting person would give in to a culture that demonizes them for striving to be better.
I was just starting middle school when the Trevon Martin case happened. Went to a all girls liberal hippie school (we had classes outside, were taken to protest, and girls were taken to planned parenthood and put on birth control without parents knowledge or consent). They had a assembly about racism and police brutality and as a Nigerian I had no idea of these concepts. I went home crying and shaking thinking I was going to get killed. My mom admonished the school so hard, and sat me down and told me the TRUTH. I thank God she nipped that in the bud so fast, allowed me to continue to live peacefully and freely from the narrative.
Sounds like you were lucky your mom lives in reality and not hype.
Blessings for a good life! One without media-produced, liberal agenda-affirming fear!
What was the truth and what was school telling you
Nice try😂 an American school can't take middle school students to planed parenthood and put you on birth control. Neither can they take you to protests. This comment is just weird.😂
@@sandrasteele976 yeah the story sounds hella sus
@@Parrallaxatives Fr these imaginary scenarios have me dead
Thank you for this informative video.
So much respect to Amir. I admire anyone who will take a stand and criticize their own group (whether they want to be considered part of that group or not), especially in these heavily polarized and tribalized times.
Amir is just jumping ship to make mo' money since the MAGA Trumpkin Cult, also known as the GOP, pays more and the line in much shorter - and so much more gullible. Candace has jumped, Amala, Tatum, the Hodgetwins and quite a few others. Keep the bamboozle going. (lol) QED
As an African, from Angola 🇦🇴, I've been asking these questions for so long. I can't understand why almost all music, movies and tv shows represent black people like they don't have a social structure.
Because unfortunately in the USA or English speaking countries That’s exactly the case. No social structure. My sister married into a family from Togo Africa and the differences are huge. They were made fun of by black Americans for Not acting the way black north Americans act. Which translated into they had self respect and respect for others, they found it important how others viewed them, they took their education seriously, they dressed more traditional, and so on. I have notice though this is common in English speaking countries like the UK as well. I’m Not sure why this is a common occurrence amongst black people in English speaking countries but it is unfortunately. It’s really Not fair to the many black people who have sense and structure that those who do Not are representing them as a whole.
There was two black cultures in America for a long time until the civil rights movement fed blacks that they can live off the government as long as the mothers kick out the fathers.
There was black businesses and even a black ecosystem where blacks in the north were educated and even wealthy. The other culture was found in the south where poverty was prevalent and lack of education was elevated. In the 1920s-30s there was an integration of the two creating the black culture we have today.
@@shelbysittig1047 ya I’m gonna say that’s Not why the majority of black North Americans today create the majority of the issues here in the USA. It sounds nice but doesn’t validate what’s going on
Well who do you think are in charge of these media companies portraying us like that it sure ain’t no black folks
Great show and powerful observations. I'm glad I found this show.
The only family to live intact. That’s incredible. I’m so appreciative to watch this. Thank you Warwick for working on this.
When I worked in retail, I had a couple coworkers (both black- 1 around my age and one of an older generation) always mock & tell me "you sound white", "you sound like a valley girl" and at the time I would low-key get annoyed, but then I just realized, NO! I just know how to speak proper. And honestly it came from watching alot of white shows bc I hated watching black movies growing up where it was many times hood movies of watching other black people get shot or act ghetto. So I started to observe my coworkers life vs mine. And realized, I'm perfectly fine being told "you sound white" by someone who has a life that I wouldn't dare want to trade places with. I do not affiliate myself with people just because we share the same skin tone. I affiliate myself with those that share similar values! (Ps: my black card was "revoked" since I was in HS & I'm over 30 now..but I live in a gated community that's clean and has great amenities... soo I guess they can keep my "black card")
I always got the “you’re not like the rest” when it came to comparing me to other black people. Because I’m well spoken, educated, and I make sure to smile very often and genuinely when speaking to people, even strangers. I love to make people’s day with kindness. And that’s not a trait that black women are known for. I also hate black movies/tv about the hood/drugs/drama. Why do I wanna see that on tv when it’s happening right outside my door? I grew up loving syfy like twilight and vampire diaries. And I think that shaped me alot when it comes to media, style, music taste, ect.
Great post. Being illiterate, knowledgeable, or striving to live in a safe neighborhood doesn't make you white, a sellout, or anything else. It makes you a productive member of society. And the minute we start pretending that any skin color is smarter than another, is when we truly give in to racism. The main challenge, here, is not skin color, but progress. When you take any person and make them dependent on the government, there are others who are in the same boat. This happens everywhere in the US and it is not limited to skin color. So....when you climb out of that dependency, your peers are going to be jealous because you have the drive and ambition they do not. Hence, someone giving you grief for you wanting to be more than a victim. As unfortunate as it may be, people form very strong bonds through alleged victimhood and envy. Bonding over values vs. slights is always going to win out, in the end. Best of luck to you.......your values will take you far, my friend.
But who makes the hood movies an who owns the media? 😉 You guys let the serpenr seed elites social condition you with BET.😂😂😂
@@Yosoydom Yep. As far as poor people, I know far more poor whites than poor blacks.
😂💪🏾
If more black people would actually start listening to his video
They’d finally realize just how MUCH these Politicians have been using them, abusing them and playing with their emotions
This video is a mixed race women, talking with a white guy about a guy black guys video. None actually represent black people
"If you haven't figured out if you're for me or for Trump, then you ain't black."
-President Joe Biden
It’s as Malcom x and Fredrick Douglass said
They made up over a tenth of the population so if they could make a mass vote together they could shift the vote in any way, they all said that they need to vote for those who would look out for them as a unified unit vote, but as they even listed in all their speeches that they very much feared, the vote quickly stopped going to those who under well educated review, but rather were easily able to be exploited for those who punched holes into the peoples’ insecurities
@@innocentbystander3317 I really and truly thought that sealed his chances to win, and people still gladly voted for him 😂
"Poor kids are just as smart and just as bright as white kids"
AND HE STILL WON THE ELECTION??? WTF 😂😂
Wow this is the best video I have seen all year!
I love Amala & Amir.😊
When I was in college, I interviewed a black Alderman who had just been voted in for our North Minneapolis district. He said one of the biggest problems in his community was that parents raised their children to get out. They wanted them to succeed and move out which left only those who they deemed 'worthless' or 'a failure' the neighborhood. He wanted to encourage those that succeeded to stay in the neighborhood and to be an example and improve it. Over the next 3 years he worked tirelessly but was eventually pushed out by someone that spoke the language of " you just can't succeed because of something outside yourself. "
Most people in all cultures are jealous of those with success. A handful will be inspired.
As a person that lived in the area...not surprised Minneapolis as a whole has a very victim mentality. The more established would probably stay if gun crime could be brought down but last I checked its just as bad as its been for the last few years. Minneapolis has ALOT to figure out before I ever move back there.
!The deconstructionist ideologies creating angry blacks and self guilty whites through propaganda is but a tool for the really bad guys.
Imagine you needed a remaining population to be dumbed down on self consumption and lust for material things becoming happy with bigdaddygov handouts.
During covid
Aristotle-“No man is a slave if better off free” meaning if a group cannot contribute to society then they are better off a slave to the state.
A permanent slave will not revolt against being a slave if they believe they are the highest beings in society. Hints “We wuz kangs”
Those who dispersed around the globe can now absorb the technology and culture of those nations.
The more guilt and compassion felt by those nations will make this cultural absorption become more absolute.
Using foresight and reasoning I suggest all humans be ready to defend themselves against the world revolutionaries.
They want what you have and more importantly they want you NOT to have it.
To preserve life and history, we must “Old Yeller” the rabid
I think it’s less raising them to get out and it’s more like your 18 now and i can’t get paid for you anymore.
My little 85 year old grandmother was at a liquor store getting wine recently in Atlanta & told me how a younger black girl called her racist because she gave her a funny look. My gma is from Sicily and doesn’t even speak English well & she told me i gave her the look because she was screaming the F word across the store to her friends and was wearing a bathing suit in public….its so much more often about behavior.
Really well put together video and you also added some great additional commentary! I wish I can share it with my black friends but I feel like they will feel disrespected. 🤷🏻♀️
A girl followed me home from school in 6th grade with a group of other girls because she didn't like the way I acted. Which was doing what I was supposed to be doing as a student and not being rebellious. She stood outside my door when I went into my house and a guy down the street came by and asked her what was going on. He went to school with us too. She told him she wanted to fight me and he was very confused by it because I stayed to myself. So he went and got his cousin to beat her up outside my door. It made me feel even more confused because who just beats up someone because someone says so but she left me alone for the rest of my days in school there and I was very grateful for that.
Maybe he was trying to protect you? That would make sense to me tbh
@ivaveljovic9386 have you ever done something like that for someone else? I went to fight for my sister after she told me she was jumped. I always had to have a reason to fight. I remember a cousin asked me to fight a girl because she wouldn't talk to him and I said no and he got mad. It has to make sense for me. What does tbh mean?
@@ashleyvaughn5213 I am afraid we live in completely different countries, so racism wasn't a concern for me growing up (I am white, Slav). However, I was bullied so bad I tried to take my own life (stupid, I know, don't judge me). I had friends who defended me one night when my bully would come and tried to hit me. It never finished well for the bully bc I hit her in stomach hahahahah, but you can guess. Tbh means to be honest
@ivaveljovic9386 thank you for sharing. I'm glad you overcame that time in your life.
@@ashleyvaughn5213 and thanks for reading! Enjoy your school / college days!
My son played football in high school. They had a running back that probably would have gone pro or at least got a scholarship to a great school. Instead he was shot to death two houses away from his home coming home from practice one day. It hit the team and every parent of that team so hard. He was 17. I took my son to his funeral and there were a whole bunch of big football players just crying. He was an amazing person and was gone way too soon. My son said practices just wasn't the same anymore because he really was a nice and funny guy.
My motto is...do what takes to get your kids out of the hood
That is heartbreaking..cant give it a "like" because it is true but so sad
Wow that reminds me at a 4 of July party my friends brother shot a guy that was one of the best football players on the HS team. Everyone was shaken up ab it, he had a bright future ahead of him. But, he was accidentally shot instead of someone else.
Bad families create killers.
I don't know what that has to do with anything but why don't you tell us who shot him. Another black boy or the police
Same in France from African family.
My black wife (I'm white) was rejected and mocked because she speaks a very good French, love to read and educate herself, she was listening to heavy metal, she was 'acting white' and they told her that her whole life
I watched Amir’s video about a month ago and found it to be incredibly insightful and introspective. On an unrelated note: where did u get your rings? 😅 I couldn’t stop looking at them during the video.
Amir's video needed the ETHER behind it because bruh cooked his ass off with that video. Kudos to the brotha.
There was a documentary about athletes that go broke. One of the athletes they interviewed that didn’t go broke was Jamal Mashburn. He said “People can call me an Uncle Tom, or Oreo, or whatever. I don’t have a bunch of baby momma’s and child support checks to pay. Got one wife who’s the mother of my kids. I don’t have a crew of people that just hang around and expect me to pay for their good times. I’ve got a chain of car dealerships and employees who depend on me. Too many of us get in that mind set that when we make it, we have to take all of our friends out of the hood with us. And it just doesn’t work like that.” Same documentary, Leon Searcy, once the highest paid lineman in the NFL, got with a girl, and in less than a year put her name on the bank account, with his multimillion dollar signing bonus in it. Goes to buy a truck and is told he has no money. She cleaned it out because “If you leave me, I want to make sure me and my mom are taken care of!”
The Leon Story, He Threatened to Leave her, that's why she Took half of his Money
Great commentary guys!!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. NO LIES TOLD!!!!
Tremendous content and so important! This is America!
This video was spot on! I’m Nero divergent, and during the time when TikTok had the fake mental disorder crowd going on, it made everyone skeptical of whose real and who is not. I am sick and tired of people thinking that having a mental disorder is playing the victim. I have a TBI epilepsy, and aphasia, yet I fought tooth and nail to go to college, and become an average person in society. Come on people. Pull up your boots straps, raised your head, high, and get to where you wanna be!
I am Caligula divergent, lol.
It is neuro dude, as in neurology, related to the brain.
Hadrian here. And there we go discussing the Empire again.
I have epilepsy and 8 concussions under my belt and I am living a wonderful banana.
I'm Caesar divergent personally
One of the most disgusting things I’ve seen came from my own home town of Baltimore. These awesome young Black kids, strait A’s, advanced classes and they get attacked by adult gang bangers. They ripped up their books, beat them and basically threatened them that they better say “F school” and join the gang or else. I rarely ever tear up but that was it for me. I was heartbroken! I felt so bad for them poor kids bc they probably did throw a great future away.😞
those communities are "crab buckets" for a reason. the people climbing out get pulled down.
😳! That can’t be true!!
Black folks need to have enough spine to fight for our kids, and uplift our brightest. We need to encourage our people to rise.
Ya black people are very envious of each other and love to bring each other down to their level instead of coming together and uplifting each other
When I was in high school in 1995, I remember having black friends complaining about not being allowed to listen to white music. I had one black friend that I thought I was really close with, but she told me that we couldn’t hang out because she couldn’t have white friends. I still miss her. This was in St. Louis.
I grew up with my grandparents. He was a doctor and i grew up like Carlton in Fresh Prince. I don't have my "black card" anymore, but I'm a Christian first, so i looked for a spouse based on shared values and I'm happy with my white Christian wife and four homeschooled mixed kids. Trying to raise my kids to look at character and not race.
That’s the best way to do it, character and culture first.
@ Yes, and accountability for character, not culture. The latter is a group and there's no collective salvation. I ask forgiveness for my sins, not for those of another.
Hear hear brother. Good on ya
May God bring many blessings to your family!
Bless you and your family
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Hey now I'm 28 and I agree 🎉
Umm I’m 13 almost 14 😂
@@Smolchildslays you'll get it when you get older.
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Keep up the great work young lady. Your doing a very good service.. God bless
Amala, I’ve seen you on pragerU but never saw any of your podcasts….inhave to say I’m impressed….yourself and your sidekick/cohost there are excellent…..I really enjoy both of your insights
I’m a white woman and when I was 18 I was pulled over for my license plate light being out. The cops were white males who hastled me, patronized me, insulted me, accused me of having weed in the car when I had never smoked a day in my life and it was a new car. They ended up searching my whole car and myself on the hood of a patrol car crying begging them to let me go because I was leaving for the Army in 3 days and this could ruin my chances. They found nothing, still wrote me the plate light ticket and let me go. Very traumatizing experience that made me hate cops. I’m so tired of hearing that it’s only black people that the cops hassle.
Agree 100%.
Not “THE” cops. “THOSE” cops.
Relative was harassed 20 years ago when someone claimed he assaulted them. despite relative having proof he was miles away at time of the alleged assault the cops just wanted to make an example of him, he even had CCTV proving he was miles away and they claimed he could of got in a car sped there and still been there in time for the CCTV footage even that he went into a store to get himself a alibi, he was unemployed at a the time and they tried making stereotypical judgements of him despite him doing a lot of charity work, they also interviewed people who knew him and twisted their statements i.e he liked to go to a bar became "he liked to drink often" he was a flirt became "he had no respect for women" etc etc but even worse was when a complain was made against the local force for their behaviour I was with him when some men came up to us on the street claiming to be off duty policemen and saying relative got their colleagues in trouble and to watch his back and don't show his face in any local bars/shops etc or they will "find a way" to get him arrested. We are white btw.
Your comparison to black ppl cop trauma is laughable
@@mogetit5999 Oh please! Trauma is trauma.
Mothers are marrying the government and there are too many fatherless homes.
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Yep, ever since 1965.
The government is evil.
@@juniorvonclaire3576Immigration act as well.
Black fathers who do the job need to really start shaming the black fathers who don't. It's up to them.
Amazing episode!!!
First time I heard of Amir Odom, and my thoughts about him are that a) he is a fine young man, b) he earned my respect, and c) he’s got what it takes to be successful and can be anything he wants to be. He is a likable guy, full of common sense, logic and reason. He didn’t reveal much that I didn’t already know, but at least he’s talking about it and I give him credit for putting his thoughts out there, as I’m pretty sure the nasty and profane comments will be aimed at him, but he has the confidence and wherewithal to shake it off. I think we need more people like him speaking out.
One of the things I've noticed over the years of my life has been the fact that some people want to elevate and glorify trashy parts of their 'culture', instead of shaming, ridiculing, and mocking it into the dirt. If people of any race promote the trashiest parts of themselves, should it really be any surprise that other people look at them and view them as the example that is being promoted and glorified? Why is this concept so lost in today's time period?
It happens a lot in latino culture as well. People become social media famous for their problematic and excessive lifestyle.
Because it only tells half of the story, why do people from outside those communities embrace the lowest part and shun the excellence?
Who pays for this push??
!The deconstructionist ideologies creating angry blacks and self guilty whites through propaganda is but a tool for the really bad guys.
Imagine you needed a remaining population to be dumbed down on self consumption and lust for material things becoming happy with bigdaddygov handouts.
During covid
Aristotle-“No man is a slave if better off free” meaning if a group cannot contribute to society then they are better off a slave to the state.
A permanent slave will not revolt against being a slave if they believe they are the highest beings in society. Hints “We wuz kangs”
Those who dispersed around the globe can now absorb the technology and culture of those nations.
The more guilt and compassion felt by those nations will make this cultural absorption become more absolute.
Using foresight and reasoning I suggest all humans be ready to defend themselves against the world revolutionaries.
They want what you have and more importantly they want you NOT to have it.
To preserve life and history, we must “Old Yeller” the rabid
There is one race Human... we are many ethnic groups
And I agree the trashy people in my group do not represent me and I'm disgusted by the fame our media gives them 🤦🏽♀️
I asked a teenage student to please lower the volume of her voice. She said, “Naw, I don’t want to sound white.” She surprised herself with that one (did I say that out loud?) and laughed, somewhat embarrassed. I asked her if she planned to say that to her future employer.
Lol doubt she'd even make it anywhere if she showed that kind of attitude and tone
She's just practicing for her future job, gonna need o speak loud to be heard over the strip club music
No you didn't and to be fair she knew what she said and didn't give a fuck the new generation has some weird ideals and agendas that are dumb as fuck. Let them go for it and complain later when everyone else is gone. Be careful what you wish for you might get it
I always find it ironic how the movement was plastered as this new wave that would shed light onto and help support struggling families and persons, but in the end it just hurt people already struggling more. Stores leave making it harder for families to feed and clothe their children, making people jobless, making it harder for them to use public transportation methods to go to work. It's so selfish, but even worse that when people point out the struggles a blind eye is turned to the lootings and stealing that prompt stores to leave.
Love your channel and love Amir
You give me hope for the future. As an ex bleeding heart liberal, age and a questioning mind turned me centrist/moderate. Statistics and common sense debunk BLM beliefs and white liberal whining. Glad more people are seeing this!!!
statistics are fact, ideology is a lie we do need more people seeing the statistics and realizing mainstream medias have lied to them for a long time
Same! I'm by no means conservative, but the left has lost its collective mind
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So, you're only half fascist. You still vote for inhuman oppression.
I used to get the "You speak White" all the time as a kid. I love reading, and I voraciously consumed every sci-fi and fantasy book my parents (who also love reading) had in the house. Sometimes when my aunt came to visit, she'd accidentally leave her books there, and I'd read those, too. When I didn't understand a word or know how to pronounce it, I'd either ask about it or look it up. Those moronic children who mocked me had equated being *educated* as "being White." We are indeed doing this to ourselves. Fortunately, I learned to not give one flying flip what they said about me, and I'm doing well for myself. I'm now homeschooling my own kids, and my eldest wants to be a teacher. I think we're gonna have to get her to become a black belt if she wants to teach _public_ school, though...Maybe we'll encourage private school. 😅
I agree I was accused of acting white because I love to read, pronounciate my words without ebonics, and aspire to have a future.
Every time someone said this to me it pissed me off. I went to a college prep school I’m educated. I started saying back to people what that mean? What does a black person talk like ? Next thing you know the stuttering realizing how dumb they sound.
Especially when I’ve been told that that way I speak has helped me achieve certain jobs and things in life.
135 unarmed black people killed in 2015. We invoked change. Y’all acting like without calling it out, it would be at 12. Yall are sickos. Convenient for you to make this video AFTER WE DID THE WORK.
And yall not gonna address poverty and the historical media representation.
We can’t “take accountability” BECAUSE THEY GAVE AWAY LAND FOR FREE TO WHITE PEOPLE and redlined us from it. Goofies. Burned down towns. So we just dealing with it. There’s damn near nothing to bootstrap on a micro level, to the macro.
It would have to come from the macro, just like the root causes of the environment came from.
Hold the powers that be accountable.
Cowards.
So, there is a stereotypical accent that a lot of black people have, too, that's a cross between Midwestern inner-city and Alabama. It's not that black people sound uneducated. I have heard people talk using big words over the phone and I could tell that they were black. I probably would sound more white if I tried to sound black because I couldn't pull it off.
"Flying f***s of several styles are available on Etsy, as are rat's a**es. I can vouch for the quality of the rodential hindquarters.
Such an interesting point about academic achievement and popularity. I have also heard this sort of thing from people who grew up in areas of my city which were classed as “bad areas” where gangs and crime was rampant. He actually was a very good student , but actively tried to do badly at school so he wouldn’t be bullied and beaten up everyday. This was an area that was ethnically diverse, but could not be called black, and race wasn’t really a factor.
Really love Amir and Amala! Amazing communicators of TRUTH 💜
I like when you made the point about saying “we” because it ISN’T all of us who are assisting in tearing the community down… a lot of us are doing out part by not engaging and raising our kids differently
That’s why I still have hope that maybe the next generation would be so much better.
And if you've had that fear of the police instilled in you, the cop, if he sees your fear, might suspect you've other, illegal, reasons for being fearful.
I am a white woman trapped in this vicious cycle. 😅 I've had a few traffic stops that were very scary for me, which escalated for no apparent reason. I've had guns pulled on me TWICE. Once it was because my "license plate didn't pull up in the system" and the second time was because I opened the door and extinguished a cigarette without announcing that I was going to do it. These instances where a gun was pulled on me has made me extremely anxious, shaky, and scared during routine traffic stops and cops treat me like a threat because of it. I've had to take time to literally teach myself how to calm down just for traffic stops. Last time I was pulled over, the guy was nice and asked why I was shaking and if I had something in the car he needed to know about, so I told him "no sir, I am just afraid of traffic stops" which made him change his tune. He was very polite and unimposing when I said that.
Anyway, just wanted to say that I'm absolutely fkin terrified of being pulled over, so I can relate to those who feel like they're going to die for speeding. 😅 Deep breaths are critical!
I've often thought there's a dangerous spiral regarding this. They're trained to pick up on body language, and when you automatically are distressed it makes you look suspicious.
Huh. That actually kinda makes sense. That could be a legit aspect to the stories behind those pullovers escalating for some reason.
As a white man speaking to a woman of any color, you need to do what you are told, especially when armed thugs have pulled you over in your car and might write you a ticket for being disobedient
Excellent job, everyone.
One of the darker skinned (I don't like using the term black) girls in my hiphop class (this was a while ago) requested a Doja Cat song and I looked it up later to find out that it was.. not great. It just hit me that the situations are the same. 😢
Thank you 🙏🏾 you don’t know how much the world needs this . Keep up the great work, identity with being a human and not a race ❤
Unfortunately most of these single mothers beat the crap out of their kids, some are literally infants when it begins. LA County and Sacramento County have abysmal records for CPS enforcement, a California judge just ruled CPS officials aren’t responsible for failure to actually protect the children. Most of these kids come from homes with generational single motherhood, with multiple males contributing to the children of the household.
How dare u spit facts? How dare you try to hold up a mirror to a growing problem? How dare you say what anyone with an iota of sense knows? You must be racist
I grew up having to fend off gangs and stupid kids trying to be gangbangers in my neighborhood. It was honestly exhausting being someone who had no interest in that life but grew up in that environment. I got in fights constantly and especially because my neighborhood was predominantly black and Mexican. I am mexican, but i look white and as they said i enjoy "white things" such as music and entertainment. so i was getting messed with everyday by both groups and getting my ass kicked alot for really no reason other than racism and people being dumb.
In high school, I was a hardcore Republican. But as time went on, I realized that most Republicans I would listen to would be harsh, would generalize, and would dehumanize others. So, I started watching videos by Democrats to see what they were saying. Same exact thing. I stopped being so invested in politics as an adult because it’s so polluted with ‘winning’ and ‘dominating’.
But I really enjoyed your video. You see the nuances and the grey areas which I haven’t really seen many political commentators get into. And to hear you when talking about the number of deaths due to different reasons touched my heart. You didn’t use it as a winning point because it’s not.
You expressed that it’s distressing to reduce people to statistics. It’s also important to recognize that something can be done to reduce the number (impact) of those statistics (the amount of suffering and pain caused by the tragic situations people are in).
I really appreciate your views and the way you express empathy and understanding of people’s struggles. I also appreciate that you allow your empathy and reasoning to flow together, creating a meaningful conversation. Winning arguments doesn’t stop these issues, but productive conversations do.