She’s Right: Black American Culture is Dying. Ghetto Black People Are to Blame.
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
- This video from UA-camr Zarria Simmons hit my feed and I couldn’t agree more with her takes on black American culture. Let’s watch and react.
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I'm black and I was raised in the hood, but my parents DID NOT LET ME GO THAT ROUTE. They wanted me to get out and be a good human. I thank them for that everyday!!
The hood mentality is a crippling disease. Your parents were good people. As a pro-White I sincerely hope that more Blacks are like your parents. Pro-Whites will be your allies if you seek to turn Black culture around. At the end of the day, we're all God's children.
Sounds kind of like Ben Carson’s mom who encouraged him to read. And that encouragement led him to being a brilliant neurosurgeon
Yes parents plural
may God bless them !
MY BABY DINDU NUFFIN😢😢😢😢 LOOKIN AHH😂😂😂😂😂
As a black man from Zimbabwe, I can tell you that "Ghetto" culture does not just embarrass African Americas. It disgraces us all. I'm tired of being thought of as criminal when I travel abroad.
True. After growing up in a ghetto community, I did not trust a person who looked like them for decades after I left the area for lighter digs. I did not know that decent people from their r*ce existed.
With all due respect, if Black people weren’t so consistently tribalistic in favor of their own race then people wouldn’t associate black people so much.
When black people see themselves as “people who are black” rather then “black people” maybe something will change.
As the tribalism continues then people will judge you as such.
Black people just need too let it all go
Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 gang here too. I feel that. But as long as you do the best you can to separate yourself from that stuff, ur alright. ❤
True, we are one regardless of geographic location
wtf are you talking about. African have their own short comings that foreigners judge you on. lmfao nothing that African Americans do has in reflection on Africans or vice versa. For some reason you seem to have the idea that Africans have no issues of their own and African Americans are making you look bad when this is a ridiculous notion.
I’m black and I agree 100%. I’m sick of being called white washed because I come from excellence and I speak proper English. I never wore a bonnet outside the house and I worked to get where I am today. Now I’m a SAHM mom raising kids with those same traditional values that were instilled in me.
Congratulations pickme you are inherently smart because you sound like Barbra Walters. In reality I have met some many people with perfect pronunciations that are completely out of touch with reality and borderline psychotic.
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Lmao triggered
It's like they think black culture is part of being an inferior race, yet they defend it. Therefore white culture is a superior race. From their point of view.
I only see black people attacking those who are black and speaking out about this, and it pisses me off.
Keep going in this world. Raise your children with love, and raise them with your values.
Do not let anyone's hatred or harassment dim your light. You are here to shine, and there is nothing wrong with feeling how you feel. Your feelings are there to help bring you clarity and to propel you forward on your path.
Fuck everyone who stands in your way and tries to stop you.
As a Black Male, I am called a Sellout for NOT acting ghetto.
The Prison Mentality in the Black Community needs to stop…..
Pretty sure your a sellout for other reasons if you think that. Yall are making up narratives that you have to act ghetto to be black and thats not the case. I live in the hood and I'm respected as a citizen. Her talking points don't even scratch the surface of black issues. Calling blacks ghetto is yall first mistake. You don't like to be called coon right? They don't like to be called ghetto, because they know when your being derogatory.
When I hear people tell black people 'You sound white' it just makes me facepalm. It's like acting educated at all is a 'white person' thing. It's incredibly weird to me.
Yes exactly but then black people are offended if you assume they aren't educated enough for something 🙄
Yeah... it's really sad.
No kidding right! In fact I shouldn’t automatically be able to tell the race of a person over the phone! Go to a drive thru in England I guarantee you won’t be able to immediately tell if the person is black based on their voice! Sad how blacks shame other blacks for speaking the Kings English properly! It’s an American black phenomenon! So bizarre and harmful! They call each other white for doing well in school and enjoying reading. It’s actually “white supremacy” when you believe intelligence = “whiteness”
It’s actually incredibly racist and self hating.
Let me 🪓 you somthin
As a professional Black woman working in education I have witnessed rebellion at the highest in the Black community. Black young ladies refuse to stop wearing hair bonnets in public, young Black men refuses to pull up their pants. The rappers have became the role models! I am disgusted.
As a young black woman working in education, maybe you should some pride in yourself and not cater to white people think is acceptable behaviour?
@@JohnDoeDa3rdnot just white people think you should keep your pants up. Who tf wants to see your underwear, regardless of race.
Along with grown black males dressing and behaving feminine is demonic as well
@theresathompson4367 Thank you for saying that! Those "bonnets" (they look like shower caps) look terrible, and the men's pants hanging below their hind parts IS disgusting!
@@JohnDoeDa3rdWhat?? How is she catering to white people? You sound like the exact problem.
I was born and raised on a military base, the suburbs. After high school, we moved back to queens ny. To b near my mom's family, me n my older sister got jobs in 2 days. I was shocked that none of my older cousins had jobs, graduate from high school, or could drive. They were doing drugs, selling drugs, n doing crimes. They were were having babies, going to jail, n getting shot. After about a year n ny, I joined the air force. Now I am happily married with a great wife with two beautiful sons. Who will be raised on a air force base, like their dad!😅. Oh yeah, my cousins used to make fun of me. Cause I talked white 😢😂❤
You sound good to me brother. Pushing Texas builds character. Been there and done that.
Me as well. I talk white too and I've obtained so much information from white people who don't know I'm black! It's a great thing.
Your kids have a good father. Equating success with whiteness isn't doing your cousins any favors. Stay strong and stay the course. Thank you for your service. 👍
I'm a white man (61yo), and I have 3 close friends of a similar age who are black (2 men, 1 woman). A couple of years ago one of the men (who I've known since college) told me that most of his close friends are white "by default." I asked him what he meant by "by default." He then explained that most of his black friends disassociated from him many years ago because he occasionally befriended white coworkers and neighbors. In other words, they left because he didn't limit his inner friendship circle to black (and only black) adults. I was flabbergasted. I've had others tell me similar stories since. I'm sure that this is all "anecdotal," but since learning about this type of discrimination, I see it more often... almost weekly. TBH, it's heartbreaking. It's 2024... this should NOT be happening anymore!
Apparently, black people are racist.
As a Black person, I pray for the day the black community starts taking responsibility for their actions instead of blaming it on "systemic racism". Once this happens, the black community will thrive
Same for the feminist, lgbt, and the small hats too....
@azure8696 No don't care them to black
They were thriving post slavery during the late 19th & early 20th century - but jealous whites burnt down their towns 🤷🏿♂️. They thrived again during the 50s & 60s but were sabotaged AGAIN.
Black people did ,8 successful Black communities like black wall street and what happen to those beautiful black successful communities ?...............I'll wait self-hatred demons.
Praying will not help.It didn't help the slaves,when they prayed and it won't help now.
My father was a language tyrant. He wouldn't let us use slang or mispronounce words.
He drilled into our heads that it didn't matter how brilliant your ideas are. If you can't effectively communicate those ideas to other people, you have nothing.
He's totally right.
Your father was absolutely correct. He has served you well, as a roll model.
True!!! My mom is the same way.
Sorry, but I will take a person that makes sense over a smooth talker who does not have any substance. Bob Marley is a great example, he spoke in broken English, but his music and message is universal.
@@garthreid5088 Not to be the A-hole but, what was his message?
A loose conglomeration of biblical alliteration, enlightenment and postmodern philosophy, and Marxist principles, All set to music
Oh, and he smoked weed.
Stop deifying popular artists as great thinkers.
Thank you so much for sharing this young woman’s video! I just turned 30 and I’m a black woman who spent a lot of my childhood with my grandfather who was from Alabama. My grandfather was hard working and very intelligent, not only that he always carried himself in a respectable manner. He taught me so much but he always told me you better look and talk like you got some sense because people are going to take one look at you and place you in a box with everyone else who looks like you. Now more than ever I understand exactly what he was trying to teach me. I see so many of our black youth idolizing perverts and criminals and it’s heartbreaking. Young black people need to understand it’s okay to stand up for morals and it’s okay to not follow what everyone else is doing in fear of being criticized by other black people today. Don’t be a victim be a victor!
My granny has been a Swiftie since she started in Country music. A few years ago we got her tickets to see her live, she was through the roof, she talked about how her grandkids got her tickets to go see Taylor Swift with the biggest smile she could have.
One day this “thug” heard her talking to the cashier and told her, and I quote from her, “You ain’t no REAL n-word.”
My grandma slapped the shit out of him and said she didn’t let people call her that when she was a little girl, and she wasn’t going to let some hooligan do it now. Then she bawled all the way home.
We had to convince her to keep her tickets, and I can happily report she had a blast.
I just can’t imagine what could possess someone to be so hateful to a little old lady, smiling and chatting about her birthday gift. It’s pitiful
Being classy should not have a color or a social class. It’s self respect.
Yo yo yo. Wickedy wack. West siiiiide. Bro.
That is true. We should start with the presidency. 🤷♂
@@nathanknight6042quite frankly the frequency of your energy will make you perish my good sir.
Is that a manner of speaking you can relate to my good sir? Excellent excellent
@@AldiAldiFPen I get your point, but governments are unhinged, irresponsible and out of control. The only thing we have left is what we can achieve together. For that we need to respect each other and live a diligent life to improve society as a whole. Since I moved to Japan, I changed my mindset and became much more disciplined. There is no excuse to become a burden to others. Ghetto is not a valid culture.
When have whte ppl been classy? At what point in history have whte ppl been peaceful and civilized?
The problem is half the black community adopted that behavior as "the culture"
I’d wager to say it’s closer to 75% when the fatherless rate hovers around the same?
@@crazyralph6386 regardless, it started way before as you can see in the Thoma Sowell videos, but when the ones that sign checks realized how influential hip hop was then heavily promoted gangster rap, then club music, trap, mumble, trap again to where now these artists are outright talking about demons. And saw the impact, on the youth (keep them dumb) they promoted harder....the degeneracy, lustiness, sagging is fagging, prison culture being adopted as "black culture"....y'all remember whenn'Orange was thr new Black?. I know most of y'all grew up listening to 70s 80s hip hop, most of y'all saw all those videos of every color listening to the music.....then it became "black only" because of what was promoted to the public..............
It’s nowhere near that much lol. Y’all just only pay attention to the ghetto black people and ignore everyone else.
It’s occurs most often within the community so…
...with the encouragement of white Leftists, many wanting to treat POC as pets.
I am 57 years old and I am so proud of the character from Stranger Things Lucas Sinclair. He is the first black character that I can say was me growing up in the 1980's. Athlete and geek play DND.
I'm A Black Man Our Community has become A Laughing Stock
Change the culture
Looking from the outside in, it really has become a laughing stock.
Has been since the late 80's honestly.
More of an embarrassment..
I'm a southern white man. I go to a black church. Every single one of them welcomed me with open arms and basically adopted me in like family (mostly thanks to my neighbors influence, God bless her). I can guarantee you that a good majority of these people would agree with every single word this woman said. Trust me. She's not alone in her thinking. A LOT of black folks are angry about this particular topic.
Now if he can get jethro to stop cooking meth we can all be on the same accord.
Yes because unfortunately the majority of us Blacks are put into the same category as the criminals.
It seems to be an urban cultural problem. It seems like the once great American city, in general, is on a trajectory to decay. I think we can all see what is happening, but have no clue how to stop it, or at least slow it down. Cities like New York, San Francisco and Detroit used to be what Dubai, Singapore and Shanghai are today. Our cities have become husks with a rotting culture, regardless of their racial makeup.
@@lionblood1268 dont drown Jerome.
Yo, who you callin' 'these people'?
I'm black and I grew up in a two parent household. My father had two graduate degrees and both of my parents were responsible, decent, and good people who raised us in the suburbs in the 1980s. We did not and were not allowed to associate with blacks who debased themselves. We had a saying in our family..."You may be my color, but you are not my kind."
That is awesome but you are a minority in the black community ;)
Well said.
It's bad enough you have black people who tried to say you're not black because of the way you grew up but you also have the Democratic party who denies the existence of people would like you because they want everybody to believe that America is just as racist now as it was during the days of slavery.
It all started with poor Irish & Scottish culture. Look up Thomas Sowells "The Origin of Black American Culture and Enonics". Elites wanna divide people.
@@craigpridemore7566 A two parent household has nothing to do with people promoting classism through Education and wealth. Only silly people think this way because most people don't even point out such a ridiculous statement. Self hatred runs here in order to be great instead of building nations to live in.
my bf lives in an apartment complex that had mixed housing. when he first moved in it was so nice and clean and well kept. now people smoke in the stairwells ashing their blunts on the walls, leaving trash everywhere, there’s been shootings, you name it. i hate when the stereotype are reflective of people. it’s so disappointing that they shit where they eat and ruin a good thing. i don’t get it at all and i hate to see it.
Stereotypes are not given but earned
N they cry when gentrification happens when they shitted all over it
I’ve seen what you describe here with my own eyes!
I am Puerto Rican, and I am seeing the ghetto culture taking over in my culture as well, and it's heartbreaking.
That’s like saying “white trailer trash is white culture”. We can all strive to better ourselves, to be our best selves, no matter the skin colour, no matter the income.
But white ppl don't allow them to be the face of THEIR! CULTURE! 🙄
One of the most intelligent replies yet. Individual behavior is just that individual. If more that one individual is behaving a certain way you have to those individuals no matter if it's 1 million of them.
I’ll never judge a person’s character from skin colour alone. When I meet you, you’re a blank slate to me and you speak for only yourself and not any given community.
No... it's like saying that white culture is dying... and white trash culture is taking over.... not the same thing guys.
All this, and you think it’s about skin color? You didn’t listen one bit. They’re addressing culture!
What better way to control people than to convince them that engaging in self-destructive behavior is actually 'being authentic'?
Media loves it and encourages it. What are the only tv shows and movies that get made now? Downtrodden blacks or ghetto blacks. Hollywood loves pumping out slave and ghetto culture movies. Rare if something outside of that gets made. Music industry an even bigger culprit. End of the day we can only blame ourselves for continuing to fall for it and not raising our kids better to avoid this lifestyle
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You hit the nail on the head.
hell of a mind screw. I wouldn't feel bad about it though. They fool us all with nonsense quite often. We need to just wake up from it .. and then go to the source and end it. Whatever it is that is allowed to demoralize our communities.
Great insight.
I wholeheartedly agree. It really pisses me off when you hear Black people going on and on about how a certain culture can’t use hair oil or do their hair the same way as us. Stop reducing black culture down to ghetto rap songs, Twerking and box braids. It’s so much more than that.
What is it? Do you really know?
What do you mean by box braids?
What else is it basketball? selling out? Only real one yall got is Kanye and Kat Williams and you all abandoned them….bunch of losers.
A three strand braid is called a Dutch braid. A four or five strand braid is called a French braid. Holland & France are in ....wait for it...Europe!
Agree Agree Agree. Black woman here. 100% accurate, true, and factual.
As a black man, I couldn’t agree more with this video 💯👏 I’m SICK of seeing the degradation of our culture
Blame single Black moms who Get knocked up by bunch of thugs. They raise bunch of out of control kids.
Based. Be a role model, bro. Be a husband, be a father, and mentor the youngers the best you can.
What's black culture to you?
You are a dwindling number. Let me explain.
What we call "black culture" was actually redneck culture. White rednecks were less numerous than their more civilized peers. But the reverse is true within blacks (because initial black population was centered in southern USA), black rednecks were more numerous than their more civilized peers in the north.
As time went, it's a number game at that stage. White rednecks culture were pressured by their more civilized whites to extinction. At the same time, black rednecks pressured their more civilized blacks to extinction.
The situation was made even worse by white liberals with savior complex. They preserve, venerate, promote, and impose the redneck culture among American blacks. That's how we end up with today's mess.
You can read it in "Black Redneck and White Liberal" by Thomas Sowell.
Most black people don't behave the way we are portrayed on TV. These large companies find poor people and pay them for their bad behavior.
I’m a black man from the ghetto and I couldn’t wait to afford a better life for my family. There is nothing glorious about some of the things black culture is portrayed as 🤷🏿♂️
Black woman I work hard not to live in those neighborhoods. I live amongst people who have good morals. Black culture kills us who are trying so hard to be represented like this. I come from a single mother home with different fathers, and from a young age I said never would be me at 27 and I have won. I carved my path. I changed my future. We need to do better as a community.
*black AMERICAN culture
It's a dangerous a ridiculous life style it's why my mom moved us out of North Mississippi and Memphis people are so easily influenced and brain washed and have no respect or common sense
It’s not „black culture“. It’s ordinary tribalism. And was cultivated as a antithesis to civil culture which many black people considered as „white“. Which is not. It’s just culture. Culture is a decision
Especially this Gangsta culture. The entertainers made their capitalist money trying to convince young people that acting like little criminals will be accepted by society. They, young people, think having a good vocabulary or speaking proper English is trying to be white. I hear kids all day long speaking as if they never saw a classroom, no manners, no politeness, acting as if theft is O.K.. They have no fear of getting arrested not even realizing that getting arrested goes on their records and can hinder getting good jobs in the future. This Gangsta culture is an embarrassment to good, moral, hard working black people and Hispanics.
I remember when i was in gradr schools and ive always loved dance. I remember an older cousin of mine was dancing and trying to teach me to "drop it like it was hot" and to pop my back. My mom very quickly informed me that it was a dance i was no allowed to learn or do. And for that, I am grateful. My mom didn't mind me dancing, i would spend hours on choreography in the living replaying the same song over and over again and she got me into ballet in the 6th grade. She made sure to let me know when i was doing something that wasn't tasteful or age appropriate even if i was just at home in our living room. I still dance and im grateful for her correction at an early age.
I'm so sorry no one has liked or even acknowledged your comment young lady! That is an astute observation. Twerking has taken over and "fun" or not there are actual forms of dance. And having an opportunity to experience what dancing _really_ is & have an actual background as a dancer is wonderful. Your mother was wise and you are more worldly and cultured on account of her good guidance. Trashy trends are not the real deal 💯
You ladies are so correct. I’ve been saying this for decades. Regular black folks NEED to step up.🤨
Yes baby you are black. And you carry yourself with dignity. Keep setting a good example.♥️
They need to wake up
I’m black and I was born in New York. my mother homeschooled me as a young child. I started going to public school in the 3rd grade. There were not many other black children at my school when I first started going there, so many of my friends were of other races; However, There were these 3 kids who were considered to be the most “cool” kids in our grade. They were black. These kids did not like that my mother taught me how to speak with proper English, so they confronted me about it one day in the hallway when our teacher stepped into a classroom. One of them asked me “is you black?” I was confused by the question and replied “yes I’m black”. I’m 30 years old now and I’ll never forget his next words “oh. Cause you don’t act black.”
To this day I’m astonished that people think that you can “act” like a race of people. And that some people cannot tell what race you are by looking at you, but determine that by how educated you appear to be, how you wear your clothes, or how you speak.
By the end of the school year, two of those students were held back to repeat the 3rd grade, and one of them was required to complete summer school and was able to continue onto the 4th grade with the other kids.
When I was in high school I Rand back into the kid who asked me those questions all those years ago and he actually remembered what he said and apologized to me. The kid was a completely different person. I heard that one of the other kids had been in and out of jail during high school for selling drugs and I’m not sure about the third kid.
This is a long winded story to say that black people glorifying idiocy is affecting their kids in ways that the parents may not understand at first until it’s too late
Your "long-winded story" was actually great at highlighting a few points.
1. It confirms the idea that some black people are actually taught that lack is what black culture is (lack of success, lack of education, lack of morals, etc)
2. Being faced with another black person who kills that idea and unintentionally exposes their limited mindset is often offensive to some for many reasons. I believe it may trigger insecurity, as it is easier to dismiss you as "ain't one of us" than to recognize that you embody a "better version of us" and I need to get myself together.
3. With the right exposure and revelation (the guy who circled back and apologized), change can be achieved. And THIS is what I have the most hope in.
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@@TomekiaLloyd very well said! It was shocking for me to see that type of mindset as a young boy for the first time. As an adult I obviously can fully see and understand where that attitude comes from. I just wish that the media and some of our role models were not encouraging this behavior. It’s definitely not helping
"You ain't black." - Joe Biden
@@Dualex_Builds Well, this is where I will probably fall back on my faith in dissecting this. I think this is all by design. A spirit of destruction and degradation has gone out in this world, especially America, the "City on a Hill".
I think we all have to remember that evil abounds when good men do nothing.
This is why I think these types of videos stirring up these conversations are great for fighting back against this Imposter Culture.
THIS IS NOT MY BLACK!
Loved the story. Especially the one that apologized years later. Good on him.
Yes!! As a Black woman (yes, a descendant from slaves) I am sick of this. My Black family has always been educated and classy. That’s MY BLACK CULTURE!! I love being Black! I never wanted to be anything else, but enough is enough. Whenever I see a Black personal do something extraordinary, I always rush to show my children what they should aspire to. Funny, none of my kids want to be rappers or ball players. They want to be doctors, nurses, my one son wants to get his PhD…YYYYYAAAAASSSS! This is what MY culture is!! More of this please!!
Be just as sick about white folks having 400 years to solve these racial issues. They can pass DEI laws in a matter of months. Yet, it takes George Floyd's death for Black people to get body cams that cops still purposely don't use. You need to read this two quotes by Malcolm X.
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
- Malcolm X
“If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't pulled the knife out; they won't even admit the knife is there.”
- Malcolm X
"yes, a descendant of slaves..."
Every single person living on this planet is descended from slaves, AND slave owners. You are not special because your culture had it happen so recently in history.
I couldn’t agree more! Even though my parents had me very young, they both had solid upbringings and my family was very classy (rough around the edges in our own ways) My mothers mother was a CPA, and her father was a truck driver who always held down a side gig to help pay for private school for all of their children. My dad’s mother was a Nurse and Father an X-Ray technician whom also put all of their kids through private school and owned 2 houses. My mom valued education and took it very seriously when raising me. My dad works in entertainment and encouraged creativity without getting involved in the wack ghetto drama and antics. It’s sad that I didn’t think this was a flex growing up because all the black kids wanted to embrace the most deplorable behavior, so bad!!
There's nothing wrong with wanting to be a rapper or a ballplayer and those can be respected positions. You can also have a PhD whilst doing those things. Something tells me, tho that you want your children to do jobs that are held in hight regard to white people 🤔
@@JohnDoeDa3rdwhile I 100% agree I think he point was more to the fact that a lot of black people think that’s the only way to success and it’s not and doesn’t have to be you can work other jobs and be just as successful it’s almost become a stereotype that the only way “out of the ghetto” is to become a rapper or ball player when that’s just not true so many black people are brilliant and can do and have done amazing things and the mindset you have to only do those things needs to change and we need to just encourage our kids to reach for their dreams no matter what race they are
As a white southerner, I know how it feels to be stereotyped.
Indeed...I have taken great pains over the formative years of my life to "adjust" my accent to a more acceptable sound...just because the majority of people outside of my native state automatically consider the accent to be indicative of ignorance.
Part of the issue there is the stereotype, and part of it is perception...but, as this video says, a small part of the culture is being expressed as the majority.
As someone who grew up and tried to treat everyone equally after the blm riots and all the subsequent acts i have to agree with Scott Adams. Even if they ARE a small section of that community i will no longer take the risk.
I am a white man, a working musician. I can only comment from the standpoint of this art form. Black culture gave us the Blues out of which came rock and roll. Black culture gave us Jazz. Who were the musical visionaries of the 50's and 60's? You gave us John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Jimmy Hendrix, just to name a few. You have changed music forever. These people lived in much worse times than now and yet they have created art art thats immortal. The music that went from seedy clubs to concert halls. Fastforward to now. Enough said.
Thanks ✨️
I don't understand why this comment doesn't have more likes or comments. But I appreciate you acknowledging what blacks have contributed to music and the culture overall. Peace and love.❤
Ice Cube said record companies also own prison systems. I don’t know if that’s true or not. But if true, who’s running the record companies? Who’s perpetrating and profiting off of these depraved images of Black people? And to what end?
@@markgreen9567 We all know who owns and runs the record companies. I refuse to elaborate, IYKYK.
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Of course you do. It’s because we’re spoken of in a positive light and actually appreciated. That ruins the internet dragging and the pity party.
Rap music is probably the main culprit in glamorizing ghetto.
Well, originally when rap was created it was to uplift the oppressed people... To spread some knowledge about certain issues, but the powers that be seen the power it had and they contaminated it with money! All this is by Design, this just didn't evolve and happened... There are EXTREMELY EVIL PUPPET MASTERS PULLING THE STRINGS!✌❤💪💪💪
No. The ghetto glamorizes rap.
@@roderickcortez138 Seems more like a vicious cycle to me.
nope it is the idiots listening to it
I agree.
Protect that sister at all costs. Thank you for your commentaries.
She needs a bigger platform- Bill Maher, are you listening??
I'm so glad to hear you speaking up like this! I'm a white woman and
I came from an all white neighborhood in the 70's and really 80's. I guess I was blessed but I was never taught to hate anyone no matter what their color. I know people nowadays would think that was crazy that I had never talked to a black person, but I hadn't until I was about 21 years old and married. I was so excited to find out that I had neighbors and that were black. I know my next door neighbor probably thought I was crazy, but the first time I spoke to her I told her she was the first black person I had ever talked to. She laughed and we went on about our day. I think some people were not raised in good homes and they were raised to hate other races. I can't make up for their their ignorance, but I always try to be respectful of everyone no matter who they are or where they've came from. Rich, poor black, white or anywhere in the middle.
I’m a white woman whose “second mother”( mom’s best friend) was a black woman who lost her husband far too early in her late 30’s. She used to cry nearly every day about the way four out of her six children fell into ghetto culture once she had to move to another neighborhood after her husband’s death. It broke my heart to see how desperate she was to pull her kids back from the culture in their new surroundings and lose the fight. Two wound up in jail and two wound up dying and it changed her forever. The stress of it killed her at the age of 57 and broke my heart even further and forever.
Do you think a white family would have fared better? This isn’t a trick question, I promise. My instinct is that it would be less likely to produce such a tragic outcome.
@karigirl3569 Oh, my gosh, this is so sad! I am so sorry she went through such a tragedy, and now her remaining two upstanding children (now adults, I do realize) are left without their mother. And you (and probably other family members or yours) are left to mourn.
Truly tragic, how one event (the death of her husband early on) led to such a rippling of misery and sadness and loss.
I hope you are okay, or will be, soon.
That’s devastating but beautifully written like a screenplay
@@mikeydflyingtoaster I do. :(
That is so sad 💔
I’m really light skinned, and so many black people always told me “don’t worry, you’re black, we come in all shades” but the second I started criticizing the culture, I was white and should shut it
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@@jasonvoorhees5640 🦄
Me being told I don’t count as black 😅
@@jasonvoorhees5640🤡🤡🤡
Very true
Have seen about 3 videos of you, well done. Disabled Army Vet here, the only concern I had when serving was "Can this person do the job?" That's it.
As a 22 year old black man I hope to see our community come together one day and break this cycle.
As a born Jamaican who grew up in New York (black Immigrant) I approve this message start to finish! We are literally normalizing BS and calling it culture!
Born Jamaican (mixed race), moved to San Diego, we were all so confused about these strange rules about how black people were “supposed” to act (ie not too “white”) in JA most of our friends were black but here they’re mostly white.
You are only complain about yourselves because those are Black Caribbeans descendants living in New York only! Wait 4 or 5 generations and y'all be the same boat just like they are. When they came during the 1960's their lives were pretty much the same as yours. When y'all get reclassified as Black Americans and stop being honorary whites immigrants without those unearned benefits, you will start to decline as a people. Yale has done a study on Black Caribbeans in America for years and stated the same results. Why don't y'all fix yourselves and stop running here talking about yourselves! This is happening in GB and Canada as well. What is the excuse there?
true
Jamaican here it's just so embarrassing to see what is promoted in the media
@@mchammer5592 good point! Funny, I now live in San Diego as well.
Black American culture started to die when the dregs of society started becoming accepted. Not popularized, ACCEPTED. I'm talking about pimps, hustling, scamming, etc.
It started to die when we allowed *fmnzm*
_Unwin also stated "In the past, too, the greatest energy has been displayed only by those societies which have reduced their sexual opportunity to a minimum by the adoption of absolute monogamy (para. 168). _*_In every case the women and children were reduced to the level of legal nonentities, sometimes also to the level of chattels, always to the level of mere appendages of the male estate._*_ Eventually they were freed from their disadvantages, but at the same time the sexual opportunity of the society was extended. Sexual desires could then be satisfied in a direct or perverted manner... _*_So the energy of the society decreased, and then disappeared."_*_ He points out that "No society has yet to succeeded in regulating the relations between the sexes in such a Way as to enable sexual opportunity to remain at a minimum for an extended period." - _*_and thus all societies have collapsed._*
- J. D. Unwin, _Sex and Culture_ circa 1930s 💊
Black is a color , not a race.
It was always a dream.
Yes
The blacksploitation era started the shift. There was still a balance of positive things out there though. Now it’s like being ghetto is the standard
@user-ux3qu7mr2m so what is your race.
Did you hear about Howard having to close their graduation? This is exactly what you are talking about. Nice to hear some black Americans speaking up!!
Definitely right, media and celebrity has done a job on us
Dysfunction is not a culture, white or black or any skin color.
It is with this group!
@@c.s.440 It's not because more whytes in America listen to hip hop than the average American Blacks. This is just more of y'all petty generalization of Americans like you really know that we are not monolithic like y'all are.
I love this statement
It most certaining is.
You're right. It's an adjective.
Black people have made it something to emulate. So the pursuit of something on a wide spread level becomes the culture.
Black people themselves are taken aback by black people putting emphasis on being organized, being in pursuit of quality.
So because pop culture is the predominant influence and image that is out there, pop culture is black folks main culture. And it celebrates dysfunction.
So I'm black and live in the Caribbean. Let me tell you that this woman's video hit the nail right on the head perfectly. I went on Twitter and saw tons of people agreeing with this woman's takes but of course, you have black people deflecting like crazy, refusing to take any semblance of accountability and it's sickening.
Why do you care you Caribbean they have their own problems?
Why are black Americans expected to take “accountability” for three centuries of damage they never caused? How is that remotely considered “personal responsibility”?…
I completely agree fellow Caribbean man
I'm trinidadian i really wish more people had this view about the culture in my Caribbean country
Owning one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors is personal responsibility and allows for assessing oneself and though we influence others and are influenced by them? There are those that are ready and willing to intercede on our behalf, due to a genetic or economic or other actual or perceived affiliation, whose assistance may not be requested nor helpful. It may even be self-serving or harmful.
Kinda reminds me of the Protestant Reformation. A priest wasn’t always desired and, in fact, was sometimes resented. 🙏🏻🫵🏻✌🏻
As I listen to Ms. Simmons, I'm reminded of Alfonso Ribeiro's Carlton character on Fresh Prince.
There is an episode where Carlton is rejected from a Black fraternity because he doesn't act hip-hop/ghetto Black enough.
It's so refreshing to hear that you are not generalizing all blacks! I love this video and enough of us are not speaking out on this topic. Unfortunately, it seems that many of us are in the minority in speaking out on this issue but there are many that think this way.
It’s not just degrading black culture, it’s degrading all of Western culture.
And it's being exported around the world to Russia, Asian countries, etc. Blacks in London now act like blacks in America. A troubling trend.
We are the culture
Yo yo yo. Wickedy wack. West siiiiide. Bro.
Very true!
This
When many black churches changed from a place of worship to Democrat recruitment buildings, that's when it started to change
No.
So true. Same goes for the low income high-rise old folks homes scattered all over Chicago. I live a few blocks from one of them. The Democrats actually send people to the lobbies of these buildings and pick them up in large busses and drive them to the polling places to be told who to vote for. They then drive them back and give them a small box lunch or pizza or whatever the local restaurant is serving. The numerous write-in reverends that have storefront churches do the same thing. It’s all a racket. Tax exempt my fanny.
Good point.
I agree
The sincere conservative Christians in the black community were discouraged by the manipulative politicking and secular low-class behavior and decided to join regular churches.Then they get called "acting white". Meanwhile, many black churches were taken over by progressive enablers of toxic self-destructive behavior.
I have noticed the younger black generation are standing up, showing true positive values, it really makes me happy to see, young respectful people on utube❤
Many years ago, I noticed that whenever a southerner was on the news for anything, they were either toothless, with such heavy accents that even other southerners like me couldn’t understand what they were saying, OR they were saying something that could at least be interpreted as racist, if not outrightly so. As I approached my 20’s and 30’s, I really began to notice how northerners treated me, as well. I don’t have a heavy accent, I might say a few words here and there “in southern”, LOL, I’m just an average, middle class woman who you wouldn’t KNOW was southern unless I told you, and yet I was constantly treated like I was a stupid racist who had married her brother (needless to say, none of which is true). An example-I was talking to a new transplant from the north, and didn’t quite hear the last thing he had said, so I said “pardon?”, and he replied “oh, I need to remember I’m in the south, I should probably use smaller words”. I wish I was making that up, but that’s exactly what he said. I can’t tell you how many times someone has assumed I was racist simply bc of where I live. My point is, the same thing is happening with black culture in the media. This is what they do when they want to hold ppl back-they hold up a caricature of you and tell the world that this is the norm. They put toothless meth addicts on the news to represent “the south” in stories about deadly tornados, and encourage the ppl commenting on those stories who say “this is what the south gets for its legacy of slavery”. It’s no different than plastering stories of black teenagers all over the news, getting shot for carjacking ppl, while ppl comment about how they “had it coming”. The worst part is that the ppl harmed the most by this are the ones who seem happiest to play along, it’s propaganda and they’re the stars of the show. But make no mistake about it, the powers that be WANT certain subsets of the population in this country held down and looked down on. Always. It may not even be anything “personal”, it might just be expedient for them to choose certain groups, but whatever it is, it’s not accidental.
Yankees love to say how they aren't racist and demean the South.
It is not just black American culture that is dying, America is dying.
so is most the world tbh
America will inevitably die because it's built on stolen land and Indigenous people to the North American continent have almost been erased frm mainstream society. People want to bring their version of Eurocentric values and religions and superimpose that classicist church-going nonsense and pass it off as culture. Land Back, Culture Back, Languages Back, Everything Back.
@@gnostic268You go 1st. The 2.791 million indigenous Americans can have all this land to themselves and the other 331 million people that live in the US can just go back to wherever their ancestors came from even though most of them have no idea where that is. In addition to that most people are mixed. Even white people. I'm German, Italian & native Cherokee. Do you want to chop me up into 3rds and send 1/3 of my body to Germany, 1/3rd to Italy & 1/3 can stay here? Do you see how silly of a concept this is?
Except China..
it is done on purpose
I'm black. Growing up I primarily lived with my 👵grandmother. We did not have a whole lot 💰💸when compared to the other kids, but, one thing we did have in my house were STANDARDS. I can remember being in the 6th grade and a friend of mine coming over. We remained outside in my front yard talking and laughing... Because I was so used to it, I did not pay much attention to the amount of 🤬profanity he used. So, once he left and I went back inside, my grandmother came to me and calmly said, "Don't let that boy come back to my house. All he does is curse." That taught me real quick, there were certain things that were not going to be tolerated in my home and ANYTHING does NOT go!!! I am now 40 years old. I am a college 🤓educated graduate , homeowner , and I have a career. Many of my friends and family members that were given "everything" and had far more laxed standards than I had in my house have done far less with their lives 😢. There seems to be a huge correlation in how parents can destroy their children with a lack of standards and structure. 🤨🤔
You are absolutely right ; and many times first time parents because they have suffered poverty, deprivations, etc want to make up by giving everything to their kids producing not good results; I'm 65 years old, and I've seen enough; if you pay attention, kids raised by grandparents are much wiser.
Wow! Yeah, good standards still matter.
I wish I could hug you. God bless ❤️
Yes indeed
I need to start being more strict with my daughter. Hearing this re enforces this thought.
Same page, young lady; same page. Thank you for stepping up to the mic.
DC native, here. THANKs for this. I did most of my medical training at Howard University and DC General hospital. I saw Black men, brought to the trauma bay, EVERY week! They had been shot, stabbed, and/or beaten to near-death (always by other Black men). There were also many drug ODs 💉and abandoned single mothers in the NICUs. It is tragic to see the behavior that leads to these results, promulgated in gangsta and hyper-sexed porn rap (keep n' it "real"🤦🏽♂️). I know folks have to make money. But, I am suspicious about who FUNDS this filth, knowing that it destroys our community.😓👋🏽👨🏽⚕️
I’m black and my extended family don’t like when I talk like this and I’m ok with it. If you believe in family and all family values there is no way you can see what’s happening in our culture and be ok with it. I don’t even debate them anymore. I been married for 12 years and I have 3 kids. It’s super important to me to raise my kids in excellence like how they did in the 40’s 50’s and 60’s! Even when faced with adversity we still prevailed. Instead they want us to continue to believe that something is holding us back(racism). I refuse to believe that! Not when there is soooo many black excellence around leading the way!
Family can sometimes just mean they are an inconvenient and annoying friend bound by blood. Don’t feel obligated to be around people you don’t relate to ideologically.
You are very smart and already a success. I’m glad you are aiming for excellence. Your kids will be way better off for it.
Wow! That was so well said, Thank you for that! Very inspirational✅
Yea it's kind of like Alcoholics Anonymous, the first step to recover is what? Telling people they are powerless???
That's not the type of message you give to someone you want to succeed. (You ain't shit and nobody likes you that's why you'll never get anywhere)
uhmm.
It's all politics, black culture was sabotaged intentionally for a voter base in urban cities.
Destroy the nuclear family, create a welfare state that discourages fathers, destroy public education, and get the CIA to bring around some crack.
Instant voter base.
Oh how right you are. I'm Pretty sure around where I live I see black judge's, lawyers, Dr's, politicians, teachers, policemen, firefighters etc....
I told a black coworker about that part in Thomas Sowell’s book where he says saying “axe” instead of “ask” is actually from poor white people and he wanted to fight me.
Discussing Thomas Sowell with the average black man is similar to when Morpheus explained to Neo not everyone is ready to be removed from The matrix because the mind will not except reality.
@@fullmetal71481I really enjoy listening to Thomas Sowell, he isn't afraid to tell it as it is.
@@bobhill3941the things Sowell says is based on research from census information and other data. He’s just expressing the story that the real-world data tells.
Should have read him the part where instinctively wanting to physically fight about issues was a redneck thing while he "beat yo ass."
Wow I didn’t know that.
Amala for president. Keep doing what you're doing
Truth over lies period 💯
I need a shirt that says “ghetto culture IS NOT black culture”
Get them printed and sell them.
I feel like people would buy them tbh
But the media and democrats say it is
@@LittleJack-qe1ft true but thankfully not everyone listens to them and gives them authority over their mind
Whoever is selling them, I’m buying. Ghetto is not our culture but they sure are trying hard (and sometimes succeeding) to convince us that it is. We have to push back….harder.
Problem is our society can not deal with them. We can deal with all hooligans of all races except black. Mainstream media and democrats use them to keep America in an uproar.
We will have equality when bad choices can be criticized without automatically triggering accusations of racism.
You’re absolutely right, its ridiculous
But why only criticize choices that black people make?
@technoloverish i def see what ur saying. I think everyone needs to be called out. But that side of the black community is just put forth so much, along with liberals calling things racist. As a society, we need to point out ALL problems. ❤
@@technoloverish Only Caribbeans descendants are considered Blacks since the 1960's.
@@technoloverishwhite culture has been on the hot seat for quite awhile now. I mean, society is more criticizing of “Karens” than of gang members.
Exactly right. And the black majority has to and is starting to rise up against what has been done to black culture in this country by the few who have made money off of trashing black culture. Very brave. Amala should seriously consider running for public office some day. She's got a very good mind and presentation.
Definitely agree with the first part if we don’t want to see it we have to push back on it stop making it a pass that it’s OK
This is an excellent video. Honest comments....finally. Good luck, Amala.
When she speaks about every race having an undesirable subculture, thats the truth, but they are not glorified they are shunned
We call ours "white trash", which is cruel and a term I don't like to hear (but sometimes think it), but can you imagine the outrage if people started referring to "black trash"?
This is a very important piece to the puzzle.
It's very much the same thing as using a particular word that only black people are permitted to say.
Black culture, at least the American faction of it, is strongly based on the ability to adapt and survive.
It's a survival technique to own and take pride in terrible things, to take control rather than let it take control of you, at least in theory.
It makes sense people would take pride in coming from and surviving a rough place, it's like a badge of honor.
Other cultures and races do it too, probably all of them, but black culture is very persuasive, just look at modern American vernacular, or Black Twitter. There are various reasons why black culture is so persuasive, but it all comes down to survival and doing what gets results.
The interesting thing about black culture is what you see with Tupac, in which he came from a very cushy upbringing compared to the one he represented, and still represents to this day. Again, it's a matter of doing that which gets results. Glorifying the these parts of life is not much different from riding a rollercoaster and then buying a shirt that said you survived that rollercoaster.
I've been called an "Oreo" my entire life, I grew up in the 70's so its been 50yrs of African-American's calling me an African-American Woman an "Oreo". My family has always just been what many would call Upper Middle Class in the midwest. My Sisters and I had Ballet lessons, musical instrument lessons. We were in the Girl Scouts and went camping. Our family had family vacations, our neighborhood had doctors, lawyers, insurance firm owners and the like, Middle Class Family neighborhood. My family moved to San Francisco when I was 13. Some of the people I met in the late 80's in college had the nerve to insinuate I'm NOT "Black Enough" because of how I was raised and how I am. The "you sound white" again all of my life, I just let it go because I always stood on the grounds that you are not paying my bills, you don't buy my clothes you do nothing for my existence. And I knew once I graduated from this college we will not be around each other and I hadn't seen those people since. My son has experienced the same and I let him know that that is their malfunction and has nothing to do with him.
this is all too common in many communities. i am not trying to take away from your experience, just commiserating.
similar thing happens in poor white communities. it seems like poverty and the behaviors that cause it make people like crabs in a bucket. i was really good in school but a child of a single mother, went to magnet program schools where most kids came from upper middle class or upper class two parent families, i wasn't bullied but there was a divide socially. they all lived in the same few neighborhoods and i was bussed "Across the tracks". my friend group at school and my options for a friend group at home were night and day. i couldn't socialize well with my school friends outside of school because of logistics and not having the money to engage in the activities they did. the kids in my neighborhood were rough and i was basically having to fist fight regularly for the right to go out and play. was made fun of and looked down on for going to the "smart school" and enjoying "nerdy" activities. was seeing drug use in elementary school, kids engaging in theft, kids family members insane high on drugs or drunk.
i think alot if this is an economics based problem as much if not more than a "color" issue.
@@user-in2qx7cv3s “smart school” code word for where the not poors go to school. I went one year to a smart school upper class suburban DC area and it was night and day to the other public school. Kinda wish I had gone all 4 years to the smart school lol.
You may have more influence than you will ever know just by living your life. Some girl or boy will look at you and see that there's more than one way to live and will make decisions that will take them far.
@@TaiyouArt ya it was a magnet school that was city wide. you had to test to get in, but most all the kids were well off with a sprinkle of us brokies. i really enjoyed it until we had to move to another city and i got stuck in a public school. i redid my math book from the previous year and it was all downhill from there.
i am convinced the trajectory of my life woulda been different had i been able to stay in that system for my entire childhood.
Madame you're 100% right.
I witnessed it THOUSANDS of times everywhere, from schools to businesses.
I remember one time a bkack classmate asked me to explain him algebra...
He was mercilessly bullied and ridiculed by his OWN peers!
🔥🔥 Love the knowledge and perspective that you brought. 👏🏽👏🏽
As a 75 year old white male who lived in Texas in the '60s, this video and a few other similar ones, give me hope that things may improve for my grandkids. Thank you for your channel.
I am a speech therapist assistant and I work at an elementary school. I’m white and had a black 6th grade student ask me how I made money in MIDDLE SCHOOL if I didn’t sell drugs!? He also asked another teacher when she first saw his parents do drugs? She obviously said never. This kid can’t read and his parents don’t care and are doing drugs. It’s heartbreaking.
So this is about all black ppl, remember there are irresponsible ppl of all races, ma'am!
That’s really sad
This situation is not exclusive to melanated peoples. There is a socio-ecomomic problem in this country and it affects all communities. I see a big movement to fight drugs in this country now that so-called white kids are dying from drugs. The drugs were never intended to be outside the melanated communities. So all the problems associated with drugs only affected us. Well now things are changing. Until the people stand up as one and say no more injustice, no more inequality, no more hatred, no more.... This will keep going on and on and on, until it destroys us all. We are seeing the effects of this now.
Not being able to read 😪 in the six grade 😒. Where is any young person going with that in the age of technology 🤔
Why was this shared?
It’s like what Huey said in The Boondocks… Even if it is your culture, “Then the culture is destructive!”
We really need a show like this now to show us how ridiculous we all look!
we also need shows like The Cosby Show and Fresh Prince as well
FACTS
Uncle Ruckus did nothing wrong and was right about A LOT.
I love the boondocks
Love Amala-she gives me hope! ❤
I’m also half black and half white and what I experienced growing up in black culture is large families, bbqs with a whole lot of kids running up and down the street, good food and a strong mother and father leading the whole operation. Nowadays it’s the cool black thing to do to be disrespectful, hardheaded and unintelligent
It’s NOT cool though😂 MOST blacks are NOT like that, dear❤ who told you it was cool??
@@essies4294not cool to him but cool to all the knuckle heads taking over the streets.
@@essies4294and it depends on where you live
@@essies4294 a lot are your just around the wrong ones
i am a black woman that works in tech leadership making six figures and a army vet.. worked HAAARD. bronny james (not ghetto black person) came up in a discussion with my family. I said i couldnt understand why the child of a billionaire is being brought up to be a player and not a owner of a team or an executive. i said blacks should aspire beyond playing sports and doing entertainment. i offended the whole house. everyone yelled at me so bad i had to leave. They didn't understand whats wrong with Bronny wanting to play pro basketball, even though he got a heart problem, a billionaire father, and access to education and mentorship by black business people.
I say it all the time., it’s almost expected that black people aspire to be sports and singers. It’s crazy
That's a sad story. You play chess, they play checkers or connect 4.
ua-cam.com/users/shortsIDkQ9tPmwDk charles barkley speaks the truth.. sad but true...
You don’t understand why insulting someone and their passion would make people upset with you?
I see where you’re coming from but it is entirely possible (and likely) that he just has the dream of being a pro like his dad. When he’s done playing he can get an executive or front office role. Idk what he wants exactly but I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say he shouldn’t play basketball
Someone give this young woman an award! She’s doing award winning journalism here. Thought provoking, interesting, unique topics and overall just really impressive to me, looking forward to more videos 🌸
Thank you for being courageous enough to make this video. Yours is a powerful voice and your message is incredibly important. You've earned my subscription and I'll make a point of recommending this channel to others. Stay strong and keep talking.
Whenever someone seriously uses the phrase "black bodies" I immediately stop listening to them.
Right? It sounds sort of dehumanizing, doesn't it?
Exactly! I was just discussing that term with my husband yesterday. We are people and using the term “bodies” is very dehumanizing.
can someone explain what it means? i’ve always been so confused. like is there a reason people just don’t say person?
Omg me too! Out or any "'insert group name here' bodies"
Black bodies
Women's bodies
Brown bodies
Trans bodies
I hate it all!
LMAO I agree. And the you think your better then reverse psychology empty insults when intelligent facts are stated respectfully i get up and walk away.lol I can't waste my time on anyone that don't have signs of potential or on my level.lol Most i believe are to far gone and brainwashed but their ignorance and upbringing. There is no culture. What was culture was in my parents day and yes married and those times. This shit today is literally not culture. Its nothing. I still don't even know what it means body.lol Seriously. I never could relate on the community phrase or considered myself in it to be serious. Total different mind frame and lifestyle and upbringing. So i understand fully her irritation on that silly ass word. lol Like wtf seriously. And i agree with every god damn thing she said but i don't and never will address this shit unless asked because the ghetto black types are TOOOOOOOOO far gone to even have a conversation to see anything wrong with so much of their lifestyle or character or morality etc. Amala I agree as well also they are a small percentage but be eeeeevery damn were acting a donkey and more. smfhlol While majority educated or even middle class dont matter if not rich but done well for themselves sitting back watching the foolery and not wanting no part that's many and even if they aren't afraid the ghetto type to damn far gone i say this again with soooo much observation and when i have picked their brain. By how they think and weird warp thinking that self-destruction and violence or etc is good and being the best you can be career wise HUMAN being wise and health wise like all that WELL rounded the good the hood types seen as white or proper stupid immature stuff i was called.lol Like being good different pperson is NOT good to be and simply enjoying life but acting like you got some damn sense is hard and not good to do. Lol Make it make sense Amala?lol The CULTURE tgats not culture in my opinion Its weird and twisted its like who can do the most damage and be bad and live out a hip hop video or hurt others. lol Smfh I lost my black card or never had it long ago.Thats fine ill stay Goth like pop and a tiny bit the not murdering type 2000s hip hop and not rob and kill folks because most minds so weak and they have NO SHAME which is part of the problem and yet worried about being mixed with other races. Man that ghetto culture or chaos is nothing to SAVE let it die off by any means if it takes a new generation of people and minds hopefully but i doubt it.
"The Boondocks" pointed all this out a decade ago.
ua-cam.com/video/G3bnvZAUpEc/v-deo.htmlsi=wVc4jnEkqD1GNeWO
Too bad they did show the ghetto in NIGERIA!
Omg Amala I did not know you were half Nigerian. My 2yo is half Nigerian too, and I am Spanish but blonde af so he is very much in the middle in terms of color. I hope he grows up to be like you :)
Amala, I appreciate your take on things and always click on your smiling face...I was raised in the '50s by parents whose friends and associates included people of many hues and stripes...so I'm a content of characters kinda gal...I also spent time in Hawaii and can tell you humous (and tragic) stories of "racism" that would curl your toes...
there is one word that stands out in this video, media...the evil, the tyrants of our world use this internet medium to divide, distract and deceive...people that fall into this trap are people who, in various ways, affect our lives...others. like you, converse ideas that promote thought, make us smile and look around at our world...I first saw twerking on tv while watching the Disney channel with my grandchildren...I'm sure we've all tried it as it is a great lower back exercise, I just don't see the advantage of doing it on top of a police car...luck and love to you dear lady...
I am white in my late sixties and I remember the blacks "back in the day". There was a great respect within the black community, respect for each other, for values, honesty, for work, education, and their neighborhoods. I was raised in a family that made no issue of race and I was taught to treat EVERYONE with respect and I saw blacks within my community on a daily basis. Blacks around the 1950's-1960's were teachers, stay at home wives, carpenters, merchants, all types of professionals. You rarely saw a black person unemployed and they took great pride in their jobs, home, family, church, and community. It's sad to see what the elites who are now brainwashing the races and manipulating people to lower their standards. I wish people (all races) could recognize this culture is being engineered by a group of elites using us as their experiments and toys. Wake up people. btw I love your show and have such good feelings about your future
I’m not in that age bracket but I could totally see it. Every single person back then were taught and raised to be respectful and had basic manners!
Black women were NEVER stay at home wives in the 50-60s, black males couldn’t afford to provide for their families
💯. They claimed the tavi.stock institute (and others) were shut down but it just kept operating in the background.
@461Jacque You are talking about the American Negros, who are still here living in certain regions in America and those Black Americans ancestor's came from the Caribbeans in the late 1960's due to LBJ immigration policies. We notice the same with them and now they are 4th or 5th generation living in America they have become the breeders of corruptions. Yale has been studying them for years and stated they are worst off culture wise than the American Negros of the deep south regions, who have been here for centuries. We are not the same people and nor are we monolithic with them nor the Africans either.
Hmmm, coincidentally, *fmnzm* was also allowed at that time too...how strange. 🤔
_Unwin also stated "In the past, too, the greatest energy has been displayed only by those societies which have reduced their sexual opportunity to a minimum by the adoption of absolute monogamy (para. 168). _*_In every case the women and children were reduced to the level of legal nonentities, sometimes also to the level of chattels, always to the level of mere appendages of the male estate._*_ Eventually they were freed from their disadvantages, but at the same time the sexual opportunity of the society was extended. Sexual desires could then be satisfied in a direct or perverted manner... _*_So the energy of the society decreased, and then disappeared."_*_ He points out that "No society has yet to succeeded in regulating the relations between the sexes in such a Way as to enable sexual opportunity to remain at a minimum for an extended period." - _*_and thus all societies have collapsed._*
- J. D. Unwin, _Sex and Culture_ circa 1930s 💊
The sad reality is that dysfunction is celebrated and dignity is frowned up
And it's lowering the standards of education, and entry of professionalism and acceptable conduct in other areas of society, yes. Proper English is called colonialism, and so forth. In other words "Lower standards, we don't like learning new things, especially if they're challenging us or making me look bad."
One has to wonder why.🤔
Thank you for touching on this! 🙌🏾 This has been a very touchy subject I’ve personally been afraid to bring up in conversations with the fear that I might offend. I’m glad this video was made and hopefully will spark more constructive conversations with black people. ❤️
As a black women I am disgusted and embarrassed by this “culture.” It’s so sad
As long as rappers are making money off the "ghetto culture" this type of behavior will continue. 💔 This video is so on point!
Thanks P-Diddy 💖
As a black mother...my three year doesnt listening to anything with a curse word in it because she repeats everything she hears. Parents need to start putting their childrens first and do what it right for them
Be careful of the schools you choose. I see it in my mom groups, kids will attract to the stereotypes in school even though their parents did everything right.
Same, that's why my kids can't be around just anybody. And I plan to homeschool.
Bless your beautiful heart, you are a great Mum.
good mom
Amen
Thank you for talking about this - it is a tough topic
Your comment at the end about most black people actually being afraid of people with that ghetto attitude reminded me of that skit with key and peel where they both put on the affect of a thug as they pass each other then once out of ear shot go “oh my gawd, I was almost MUGGED!” 😂
As Chris Rock says, there's a difference between blacks and .....
"and [they] have got to go".
Exactly!!!!
First thing I thought of. And that was in 1996.
"There's black people, and then there's VAMPIRES. And the VAMPIRES have got to go!" -Donald Glover
Chris probably feels ten times as strongly about this now.
I’m so happy you brought light to this issue!! I’m a black woman who has been labeled as “whitewashed” my entire life by both black and white people, however most of the time it’s by other black people. In high school, I kept my mouth shut about how I really feel and never identifying with ghetto behavior. I was rejected by many of the black kids and I was labeled as most of the things listed in this video: “you sound white”, “Uncle Tom”, “you’re not really black” etc. I also feel uncomfortable around ghetto black people as I’ve been disregarded or rejected by them because I’m an educated black woman.
Now, at 23, I’m confident in my skin and have no issues voicing my concerns for the black community and holding our people accountable. This madness is outta control.
I’m white and my friend/former boss is a VERY educated black man. E-8 in the Army Reserve, and a City Councilman in Ohio. He used to tell me how he heard it all the time, how he was “talking white”. And often called a “sellout” or “Uncle Tom.” It’s awful. I work with some of the finest people of all races. And am proud to say it. Keep getting yours everyone!!!!
@@turtle19dadit’s a shame that speaking properly is primarily viewed as a “white” thing. Education has no limitations as it pertains to race.
Whitewashed is related to the detergent one uses, correct?
It's because you're intelligent and other people felt threatened by that and didn't want you to succeed. It's their problem, not yours. Go get your success. 💪
Go watch Trading Places again... What is educated? Perhaps you are just well trained.
Very wise and interesting contents!❤ As foreing (european citizen) I owe much about afroamerican culture: music, politic, cinema... all those happened in 60-70 made great contribution on my way to see the world. It's sad losing all this rich heritage in terms of culture.
When I was younger I dated a ghetto girl. (I’m white and not from a city) I took her out of the city and into a small town. She thrived after several weeks of learning how life can be. She was the best thing to happen to me.
🤢🤢🤢🤢 Did you take her for walks and feed her too? Was she properly trained on “how life can be”?
Thank you. Life is more than ghetto living standards
@@AlexisDavis16 I get where your disdain comes from. Yeah, they worded it weird, but their intentions seem pure. I spent my whole life in abuse and pure chaos. When I left that environment, I became a whole new person who didn't live in fear and had a reason to smile. No one, regardless of background deserves to live in fear. Have the beautiful day you deserve 🩷
Your whole attitude towards your good deed is disgusting.
@@AlexisDavis16Dumb response.
The opinions of this woman is shared by a lot of black people, look at the comments. Just want non black folks to know not everyone is lost and we aren’t all “victims”
Trust me.. anyone who has any sense knows it isn't all American blacks. Hillbillies and sheltered suburbanites aside.
It seems to be about 50/50 among black americans. Refreshingly, all the actual Africans I've met seem to be really nice, open people, not worried about race.
Why do you need non black folks to know anything? If they have been living their lives as not racist as they claim to be, they should have a plethora of evidence that the vast majority of the black population aren’t what’s discussed in this video. Or is it almost like no matter what, they are still going to learn these harmful stereotypes in elementary school & compare real black people to them throughout their whole lives, & 5 generations from now it’s going to be the same conversation like we are having right now🤔
@@Bookhermit They need to stay home and build up their cemetery. They earned no respect from actually people who stay home and build.
I think you are right. Oddly enough I live in Mississippi. Work for the largest school district . We all seem to get along pretty well.
Preach sister. Can I get an AMEN
Keep sharing the truth. Your videos make a difference.
No one is hated as much as those who tell the truth
‼️‼️‼️‼️ especially in a world full of lies. This is exactly how they treated Jesus
Yes, people hated the “heretics” from medieval times, now it’s the “race traitors”
@@Truth_teller724sì e anche i profeti prima di lui cui predicavano la stessa cosa.
That's why you all love her so much...
@@childofgod9124 Amala is completely and totally AWESOME and she nails it every time. I know you think you are clever and ya got me but really you come off as a three year old
As a black man in America in Texas, I completely agree with this video. so many African-Americans live in great homes, but they act so disgraceful it’s disgusting. Every time I bring this up with my friends or anyone in my age, I’m 25 no longer kid but I wouldn’t classify myself as a old man, and it hurts to see my community like this. eventually, I truly believe everybody will turn their back on us because worse so unmoral and it hurts. I want to have good roll model and all of us to make great CLEAN money
Believe it or not, good character reveals itself very clearly. Just be a good person and people will treat you as you deserve.
it's been the illuminatti culture wars. As you can see with Puff Daddy and all the revelations about the CIA and the prions pipeline. We as a society must come together in righed unwaivering resistance to the antichrist's forces . BTW the Antichrist is a real person, it's the head of a cult created yb Sabbatti Tzevi. the first Antichrist. for real.
We we're taught this way of being, if you can break the cycle with you and yours then get far away before you all get re-infected! You'd have to be damn there rich to get away from it!
Short story:
10 Years ago me and my wife would to this really upscale restaurant maybe twice a year, it was 99% of the staff was white and 90% of the diners we're white... My wife would whisper sometimes like "we the only black folks in here" and I'd be like "just chill we having a good dinner and enjoying eachother, damn everything else"
Waiters we're smiley and proffessional..... Now fast forward 10 years... We go back to the same restaurant, staff is 50%black and 80% black diners, maaaan oh man... I damn there got into 3 fights with other diners, waitresses tripping talking to folks like "is that all you going to get cause i gotta go catch this big table"😮... My blood pressure up, i had to go get my revolver just to have it near me when we ate... Horrible experience, and i whispered to my wife "don't you wish we was the only black folks here now"😂😂😂✌
I absolutely adore the fact that you are destroying the narrative on this. THANK YOU❤
Thank you Amala & this very intelligent young lady. I wholeheartedly agree. One thing for people to realize and remember about is that my grandmother in law, whom born in 1912 & several others in the same generation in the heart of southside Chicago didn’t act nor talk like modern day generations at all. They were intelligent, wise, dressed formerly and very conservative in today’s standards…. Something must have happened in between The Greatest & The boomers generations. I definitely saw the degradation of wisdoms through my mother in law and to my wife’s generation and onwards… Many should think on is “why that is”…
Great video. I will also add that if you don't see yourself as a victim, you'll be labeled anti-black.
Like JB says something like well if you don’t think like he wants you to think and vote how he wants you to vote then according to JB “you ain’t black” 😳 🥱🙄
No 👎🏾
Lie
But doesn’t Donald Trump act like a perpetual victim too?
Trump has been under microscopic scrutiny since 2015. Every word, every action, every movement.
Imagine attributing debauchery, degeneracy, and a general lack of morality as being immutable characteristics to your race.
Who is doing that?
It's what happens when the ♀of the species is allowed to do so.
_Unwin also stated "In the past, too, the greatest energy has been displayed only by those societies which have reduced their sexual opportunity to a minimum by the adoption of absolute monogamy (para. 168). _*_In every case the women and children were reduced to the level of legal nonentities, sometimes also to the level of chattels, always to the level of mere appendages of the male estate._*_ Eventually they were freed from their disadvantages, but at the same time the sexual opportunity of the society was extended. Sexual desires could then be satisfied in a direct or perverted manner... _*_So the energy of the society decreased, and then disappeared."_*_ He points out that "No society has yet to succeeded in regulating the relations between the sexes in such a Way as to enable sexual opportunity to remain at a minimum for an extended period." - _*_and thus all societies have collapsed._*
- J. D. Unwin, _Sex and Culture_ circa 1930s 💊
@@wtfdtreatsz interesting. Had to read that a couple of times. It would be interesting to hear what he means by "the energy of society". It sounds like he means the sort of upward progression of society. Increased production, innovation, etc., but I'd be interested in a deeper explaination to better contextualize that statement.
Left wing black Americans are doing it. They identify being black with the culture of violence, poverty, gangs, drugs, and all the other negative black stereotypes. In fact, it is the POLICY of the democrat party that blacks must be assumed to be like that and must uphold those stereotypes
Yo yo yo. Wickedy wack. West siiiiide. Bro.