Me and my brother are on our way to do the same. Mom, Dad, Grandma, never owned a home and my Granddad is too busy working that I never grew a relationship with him and he has a home that I believe is crippling him in interest because after 30+ years he still says he’s paying on it.
You're right its a mindset. I've seen how persons with that mindset transform beautiful and friendly neighbourhoods into no go zones and chaos. Such that some communities chase them away.
Right I’m from the “hood” which is like a village in my eyes😂. It can be a paradise honestly but it’s the mindset and the wrong foods and chemicals all around the people daily there’s also bad frequencies in the music and all around us daily.
I grew up getting evicted from apartments with my parents who were violent and on drugs/alcohol and eventually my dad died and we had to move into grandmas house while my mom worked two jobs. We were in a shitty area in south Florida and I knew from a young age that skills bring opportunity. I didn’t get involved in drugs or crime and I learned welding and construction skills and now I’ve got a good life and my own place. Everything is about perspective.
I grew up in South Florida too in the early 90s and early-mid 2000s, but had a completely different experience. Life was grand. It wasn't until I went away to college that I realized that I grew up in VERY sheltered bubble.
Not really because it does, but not as much because also they get into an attitude. They have to deal with customers that are rude and then ruined themselves, and then realize their car was broken into a lot but always pray to God that you keep your stuff safe though and make sure you be very vigilant
@@ZNZNUKE Going to jail pays worse. Would you rather work a 9-5 or build a life as a career criminal while in and out of jail? Get a 9-5, build your skills so you can earn more money and be able to create your own businesses. Take baby steps.
@@brucepower3429the foolishness of some people is mind boggling and you then realise why as a race we are fucked and bottom of every society anywhere 😢😮
The US needs more intelligent young men like this to continue speaking out. We still have the opportunity to change things for the better for anyone in this country and the first step is taking personal accountability for our parts in this and taking actions to change that. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
So I will say this. I agree 1 million percent. But a lot of people these days, especially those on the left want to just cover their ears and stop listening when people such as myself (a young white, middle class, male) start speaking because "you're born more privalleged than everyone else. You dont know how hard it is." Ive spent hours each week on the shelf I sit on at my factory job, reading history books and listening to professors and historians to learn the history of so many events and such to be better equipped to present an argument. But no one wants to listen to you no matter how intelligent you are. My ex girlfriend did it all the time. Everything was always "yeah but." And after so many times of hearing yeah but I would get so frustrated because she wanted me to listen but didnt give me the same luxury. Thats the case with so many people these days. So ive kinda fallen by the way side. Ill let some gentleman of a different minority make my points for me
They are trapped, they can’t just step out. That’s like being trapped in a room with no windows and a door that’s locked from the inside. You can feel the walls closing in, but the key is hidden in the very darkness you’re trying to navigate.
@@divine3096cap I was raised around that bs it's definitely escapable most just don't want to work amd prefer non conventional means resorting to theft, killing and selling hard drugs.
@@divine3096 They're trapped IN THEIR MINDS. But their minds can make a plan like the brother says. My folks got out. We moved to mid Hudson Valley NY. Went to good public schools. You can guess what happened to me when we went back to visit my parent's old friends. "He sound White. Why he talk funny? You a Oreo!..." That's coming from THEIR kids. Well as the story goes, They're still THERE and I'm still OUT.
I'm from New Orleans and sometimes it's a family thing. I had to cut my family off because they were still with that street life. I refused to be stuck there.
My family isn't "street" a trad Latino fam. The big buuuuut is that they're incredibly bad with money and taught me to be bad with money. They'd screw up and need to be bailed out and have bills paid. I'd do the same, take risks, be broke have my bills paid by family. Everyone's perpetually broke. I separated from accepting favors. Still gave them. Even took care of Grandma until she died. Then I made it clear I owe nobody anything, I won't do this for you.
@@danielescobar7618Good for you. Maybe see about getting them involved in Dave Ramsey’s budgeting-banking program. Maybe get their church involved in teaching it.
Change will come when there is accountability at the community level. When black communities stop letting people that are a menace to it, do whatever they please without going unanswered it will be a step in the right direction.
The glorification of everything that’s self destructive. A snaring enticing mindset that’s introduced into a community that doesn’t understand what life truly is.
@@Tonk.a77 it’s sad and it shows the adversary Satan’s grip on not only the black community but the world. People glorifying stupidity, impulsiveness and degeneracy. A black man calling another black man a “nigga” use to be an insult. Now it’s glorified
@Tonk.a77 thats a trauma response. Shame you first before you have a chance to shame me for my poverty. It comes from a place of envy which then turns into hatred.
It’s no one putting God first. It’s fatherless homes. It’s being too prideful and proud. It’s refusing to take responsibility & accountability for their actions. It’s the not wanting to collectively trying to change the whole community as a whole for the better.
Pushed on to us by the white man … who making gangster movies and allowing gangster rappers to be paid ? Black people don’t own record labels or Hollywood. Cia own diddy to percentage pimp his own people and control a narrative in hip hop . Just like wack100 . This all a part plan that was put in place years ago systematically to destroy us . The mental destroyed from self hated , than manipulate by music and movies , on top broken homes . We going through psychic warfare …..
The stats have shiwn already that it is Black Women that have more children then Black men currently as if TODAY in America so I’m going to break it down for if you can’t do math
Damn brah you speaking the sad sad truth that so many of us know and have escaped from only to tell others how to leave the chains of ignorance and the will not unshackle themselves. The hood really is a mindset. Peace be unto you
Ngl it is insane to hear somebody say “once blood is shed, there is no going back” and then right after “they want us to kill each other.” I’ve realize no matter the situation, the race, the age. Everybody has something they like to put blame on to make them selves feel better about they situation and choices.
The true answer is Ego. Once folks in gangs and people from the hood realize that they are being controlled by their ego and understand that they are not their ego, true change can begin to happen.
Yup, all ran on emotions and irs mostly because men being raised by single mothers with no decent men around. Men don't act on emotions but all hood guys do
Can't do that if the women still in bed with Margaret sangar and her plot to depopulate the nuclear black family and the willie lynch letters (get the N out the house and WE will pay you more and your child ) endless cycle
uhuh if only they could read your message. The problem is black folks tend to keep problem people around just because. Ole "Uncle" Clarence done touched 3 generations of little girls in one family but he's at the cookout with all his victims giving him hugs and allowing their kids to be around him. Every other race on the planet throws away their trash and everyone accepts it, except black folks. Black folks trash 10% has gone mainstream and now represents them and the other 90% sits on their hands and lets that bs continue. The sub culture has won
Mindset is a powerful thing, being a product of your own environment wouldn't exist if everyone who grew up in the hood understood how unpleasant living there truly is. Never fall into the wrong trap.
When you live in the hood you don't realize how bad it is, you accept reality and hope for the best. Some never leaving. Confined to a small area for life
Some blacks have accepted poverty as their culture and there is nothing that you can do but sit back and watch. You cannot "solve culture" it is what it is.
It can change. You just have to produce a COUNTER Culture. Humans will ALWAYS lean towards HOPE, you just need something strong enough to PIVOT the current culture that is filled with PAIN. Humans like Pain too...but Hope always wins in the end
Professor Thomas Sowell has shed great light on this issue. It's very troubling to see many members of this community continue to express this hopelessness.
“Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.” Isaiah 59:7
A lot of them do make good decisions everyday in the hood …theses dudes want to be gangsters frf gangsterism is an American way….this square mentality try n to figure out why they do what they do is fruitless…
I think the only solution is to start proper education for kids that are very young, the older people are not going to change cause they glorify that lifestyle.
Good schools are very important, we need to change the culture of glorifying being entertainers and start glorifying intelligence and knowledge. Doesnt matter if we build the school if being a "nerd" continues to be "lame"
Honestly an abrasive approach is necessary. Compulsory 100% school attendance, removal of kids from dysfunctional households, mass incarceration, increased policing and sentencing, harsh punishments, and police checks and inspections of homes/vehicles. Yes it sounds bad but if you actually want to fix this it requires an intense very invasive approach.
@@judekivNone of this fixes the school to prison pipeline. If anything, it strengthens it. Where’s the investments into the communities? Community centers? Where’s the resources? What about positive role models?
Pushed on to us by the white man … who making gangster movies and allowing gangster rappers to be paid ? Black people don’t own record labels or Hollywood. Cia own diddy to percentage pimp his own people and control a narrative in hip hop . Just like wack100 . This all a part plan that was put in place years ago systematically to destroy us . The mental destroyed from self hated , than manipulate by music and movies , on top broken homes . We going through psychic warfare …..
Ignorance, Enviornment, Trauma, Lack of will to do better… I’m from the hood (west side of Chicago) and I witnessed my family scratch and claw to make a better way which we eventually did. It was no easy task but we had the will to do so. All I can do now is continue to count my blessings, lead by example and educate my kids on the do’s and don’ts of life.
I wouldn't say that I'd say it's culture and our animalistic traits to be what we're surrounded in Cause Africans who are in Africa don't quite act as odd as African Americans
@@Astaarboi Yeah, otherwise there wouldn't be exceptions. But outside of America, we're progressively seeing a similar behavior in Europe. In my country that is France and the UK neighbor got wild communities on hoods, which are mostly young blacks and arabs whose parents came from immigration. Crazy things happening with black people in Europe too.
as a haitian born in america i am grateful to be here with my dual citizenship and i escaped this ratchet culture at a very young age (currently turning 13)
Bonswa vwazen mwen! Bondye renmen ou an non de Jèzi. I am a Haitian born in America as well and i've seen witchcraft and heard about Haitian secret societies like bizango, sanpwel and zobop which the last one i heard some relative of mine were in. God is with me and if you trust in Jesus Christ He will always be with you and you'll have no one to fear although our lives might be tough at times. Again Bondye renmen ou!
We need the righteous ones of the communities to call out all bad behavior no matter what. Fight back against the gang mentality, even physically. Many of them see doing the right thing as cowardly. Shame
This already happened, the righteous are called squares and they'll tell the women to try and play you due to the kindness of your heart etc we tried already the best thing to do is pray they repent from this madness.
Nah clean up your own mess. The community stayed clowning the corny dudes who were doing right while celebrating the actual clowns and their gang mentality. Now we're expected to "be real men" and risk everything we worked for to save a community that didn't want us in the first place?
Pushed on to us by the white man … who making gangster movies and allowing gangster rappers to be paid ? Black people don’t own record labels or Hollywood. Cia own diddy to percentage pimp his own people and control a narrative in hip hop . Just like wack100 . This all a part plan that was put in place years ago systematically to destroy us . The mental destroyed from self hated , than manipulate by music and movies , on top broken homes . We going through psychic warfare …..
Dude I made a comment about how our communities could be so much better off if we just made better choices and held people like this accountable. So many people were pissed at what I said
Definitly a choice. I see it in my own family and with people who went to school with me. You dont just go from 2 or 3 generations of home ownership and semi-private school to running in the streets and low-income unless you're making deliberate mistakes.
Before I even watch the video. Policies that targeted black people. Replacing fathers with welfare. Affirmative action putting people into positions they were not ready for and couldn't handle. Materialism.
@@hxyzazolchakThere are a lot of rappers that rap about positive things or the struggles in the community and that help inspire people to help each other. But sadly, the degenerate ones get most of the fame and money like Drake and Sexy Redd and other degenerate rappers. Makes the genre and community look bad.
Conservatives revising history again.. - Welfare doesn’t stipulate fathers can’t be in the home. Black people were struggling to survive before welfare. - Are you arguing that Affirmative Action created hood mentality or poverty..? come on now..
At 13:00, When you explained the cycle of violence, it reminded me of a saying that was taught to me by some bad cats I used to hang out with when I was growing up in NYC.. I asked homeboy why it was so important to get revenge and he told me "because beef is eternal... and you will die before it does" I'll never forget thinking how irrational and unhinged that dude and his mentality was
It all starts with education and accountability. We gotta stop condoning the nonsense in the black community and take a hard look on why we are behind everyone else.
@@Ezana001they are human beings at the end of the day however misguided. They should be given a chance to repent but not everyone can be saved bro. We can’t look at them as animals tho fam.
@@Ezana001 You & people like you have no clue. How do you expect people to grow when the resources are minimal. Right here where i live. 4 schools closed due to budget. Then they built 2 state of the art Police stations and 3 sub stations. 🙄 budget wasn't an issue then. 😢
It's funny because I remember people getting laughed at for saying gangster rap was a bad thing, not laughing now are we. Pretty much everything elders were laughed at about came true. Turns out maybe previous generations did know something.
I think a lot of the black community have to understand you can acknowledge the role white people and outside factors played but also take accountability for our situations RIGHT NOW. And doing that is how we start taking the steps to PROGRESS.
@@billmorrison9068well not totally agree, we have to acknowledge that yes racism have a hand in this but we also have the power to change this ourselves without any external help.
I (Latino) had a black gf a while back when the whole Black Lives Matter protests were going on and we had insanely heated arguments about this exact topic. Pretty much all my points were the same as in this video whereas hers were more like the ppl in the video. Always blaming white ppl, calling me racist for simply trying to educate and show the flaws in her views, etc. I often wonder if she’s still thinking the same way sometimes 🤔 lmao
Trust me she is. I was in the same situation. And when you drop the knowledge they say "well it's black people problems". Its all our problem. We're all country men we share this land.
I dont agree with police officers killing innocent people and getting away with murder but I agree with you about the street lives of black people. (I am a black man). I have a few skills under my belt and I'm pursuing more. I stayed away from committing crimes and disrespecting people. I just mind my business and stay home.
Not surprising that you only would deal with the women of another race , and never the men. Typical colonizer. And I can say the same thing about your Latino culture as well, whereas there are generations on top of generations of gang members and Latino families. They practically groom their children from the time they're 3 years old on up.
people love blaming the system but also the people who live there are responsible as well when I moved into the suburbs and came back to visit the hood my mindset completely changed things that used to be normal didn’t feel like it no more. People throwing trash all over the street not respecting their neighborhoods, people standing out there houses doing aboutsely nothing but smoking weed and disturbing other people, crackheads and homeless walking all over place causing problems etc.
I work in law enforcement and have met decent, honest, hardworking people who live in the worst areas of my city. Sometimes they will speak to us because they want to do what's right. And sometimes they pay a price they shouldn't ever have had to bear. Some people are too afraid to speak to us because they've seen others receiving retaliation for doing the right thing. Unfortunately, putting the most violent people in prison isn't always enough, even if you were to remove lenient bonds and sentencing from the equation, some of those people have a lot of influence on those in their circle, and even if they can't retaliate directly they find a way to orchestrate it from inside. It's sad that so many people live in fear, and i suppose some of them choose to live with the potential for accidentally being hurt as a byproduct of some feud that doesn't involve them rather than speaking up about it and becoming a target for those people who otherwise would largely ignore you. The worst part is that you're right; the biggest changes will have to come from within the communities that live like this, which means the good people in those communities will have to be the ones to take those first steps, which could put them in danger and make life even harder for them.
From Detroit here. Its scary not knowing if you gone make it through the week cuz all the violence. Its definitely a mindset. Once my mindsent changed. Life changed. Almost like a game a spades and you have no face cards or aces you just feel like you got a bad hand. Walk around with the poor me attitude. But, Its up to us to love each other with the Love of God.
Hosea 4:6 King James Version 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
The problem is that the culture they live is one of the most profitable. Consumerism is a core tenet. Who has the biggest, flashiest thing? What rapper is THE MOST poppin? Champagne wishes and beer pockets. Murder, sex and drugs promoted through every avenue of entertainment. When these ideals are promoted as the norm, we can’t be surprised when we yield negative results.
facts. this is what sets someone apart- you can talk about the issues, but how are you bringing a solution to the table? we were here before bro blows up fr lol
It isn’t fatherless homes. Fatherless homes don’t help the situation but ultimately it boils down to the individual. Unless your mother taught you to be hood, it isn’t her fault either. These dudes are falling for peer pressure from negative influences, trying to be down, and prove themselves as “real”.
Umm it is. Your parents are supposed to teach you right and wrong. As a parents your job is to raise your child not expect them to know just cause they were born.
How do you fall to peer pressure? When you don't have strong value Parents or parent that 'trained up a child in the way they should grow' Getting influenced by the outside of home- is easy... because there was no knowledge no wisdom no discipline no respect no ambition taught at home.
@@MadSUPANOVA you fall to peer pressure from lack of confidence to stand on your own. Parents can help with confidence but you have to make your own decisions.
Being from Baton Rouge myself born and raised I see this a lot I didn’t fall into the circle of that mindset I’m young myself and I’m doing pretty good for myself just keep focus and believe and you will make it
My question is this--how do you change the psychology these individuals have? Where are the black role models intervening for these disenfranchised youth? Where are the parents trying to change the trajectory?
Being Caribbean American gives you a different perspective on life in general I wish we could show more Americans the reality of how it is in the islands when there is no other race to blame for the situation your in you realize it’s not a race thing it’s a education and culture thing
@@cartercarter2837not necessarily. But the US still lurks over the Caribbean to make sure they don’t get any bright ideas and try to empower themselves. Check out the invasion of Grenada
Yall foreigners have some damn nerve leaving your fked situations and coming here to critique BA, if yall don't get yall @sses on somewhere yall AINT that mthfkr to be pointing fingers. 😂😂YALL JUST AINT!!!
Recognition 🙌🙌 See the world for what it is, not what it is meant to be. Escape from delusion and ground yourself in reality. Thank you for sharing your voice.
I may be young but the more I look at our community the more I see the lack of accountability, we simply refuse to acknowledge where we go wrong the main issue is mindset because the surroundings I grew up in are not much different from theirs but one glaring difference. The morals I was raised upon. But at the same time it also feels as though there's a power that literally prevents change in black community it's as though as soon as theres beginning of change there's 1 thing that brings us back into this ghetto gang mentality.
The media sells an image of blackness that is destructive to black culture. It glorifies degeneracy and the sad part is that so many people have bought into this image and started to believe in it.
If that's true, and they are in fact brainwashed or ignorant, then they are at a disposition, disadvantaged, or at a position of desperation. We can't say it's a choice while acknowledging they are put in disadvantaged positions @donreborn
Coming from a fellow Caribbean, I also come from a place with a lot of violence (Guadeloupe). I emigrated to France, since I come from a French colony. And I never understood the whiny demeanor of the self professed tough local delinquents about the French police so-called « racist » behavior. Police where I come from (depending on the crime of course) will have no problem beating you during and after the arrest. And nobody complained about it, not even the offenders. « It’s just the game » they would say. I think migrants in the western world, mostly of Arab and African descent don’t want to admit that they got it better and reform themselves. Because it’s actually hard to do it. There is nothing easier than being a perpetual victim. Especially in the soft and weakened western nations of today.
Yes, bad things have happened to us. However we are still capable of building and surviving with or with out. Our ancestors did. The white liberal is a sick individual and so is the republicans but at least they don’t make these bs claims and are honest about their racism.
We are actually victims with the amount of systemic racism we've had to endure. Farms stolen, money stolen from banks, high interest rates, not receiving business loans, communities burned down continuously etc. If you don't think these causes have affected the black community you're sorely mistaken
Well, people can be “victims” in life. The real issue is the victim mentality and disempowering language that black people tend to be the recipients of. The over emphasis on outside solutions, the reluctance of analyzing our own culpability, not focusing on what can be done and what is in our power to initiate change, etc. regardless of whether you are a “victim” or not, the responsibility will always be on you to fix your situation.
As a 25 year old black guy I was born in gerogia in a middle class family me and my mom moved to Kansas moved to Minnesota then moved to Oklahoma. Then when I got here all the black people told me I had a voice they didn't expect they said I'm not really black because I sound white like what ... I never really had racism until..I got back to the Midwest.
Some people are breaking those curses by not perpetuating by not bringing children here to continue being slaves to this worldly system... they call themselves #Childfree and #Antinatalist.
This is spiritual warfare. Black people in these situations are spiritually oppressed. When that young man found Jesus, it was so easy for him to forgive. Why isn’t the black church combating this?
@@jwtrucker5402 your theory would suggest that let’s say the black community is at fault for there misfortune given to them since the Dawn of a new nation, would you suggest that crime committed by black folk ultimately created the large number of poorer hoods
After watching your channel and reading the testimonies in the comments secrion from those who were born into this culture and escaped, gives me hope for not only the black community, but for our country as a whole. Keep speaking the truth my friend. Your voice makes a difference!
There is just as many, if not more black people praising Jesus! Churches are all over the place in the hood but our condition as a whole is worse than ever. Soooo, clearly Jesus ain't the answer cause no group praise and worship Jesus harder than blk ppl!!!!
I think the biggest issue is when people have a lack of understanding about history, especially of their own and their successes. It does hinder the people of that current time to see no hope in the future.
What creates mindsets, idiosyncrasies and schools of thought, are the people that live in those communities. Not it’s gastronomy, Not it’s music, Not it’s landscapes or views,but the people that lives there. The idiosyncrasies that make those societies simply begin at home. Complex, yet very simple at the same time.
You are completely correct, SIR... Many of these kids talking are within 15 mins or so of the best college in this state. I used to go down Plank Rd in Baton Rouge, to EXXON/MOBLE, right down the road from where this guy is. I helped a young lady from this neighborhood learn how to TIG weld. When she got to where she could pass the test and ready to move up and out, they killed her. Left 2 kids without their mother. For what, the dude that killed her is in Angola for life and now her kids can never taste that different life she was working for. That's why we ellected Landry. I know his family, personally. One can only blame another for so-long. Something has to change here in La...
I really like you Don, you’re a man’s man and God has blessed you with wisdom, from a white man I say with love…. Keep speaking truth to power brother, you ARE making a difference !! When God is with you, who can stand against you !
partly through the video rn but something I'd like to touch on is how a lot of black people worldwide are so quick claim to be free and refuse to exercise said freedom meaningfully. do some people get less optimal choices? sure but it's not like we don't all have free will. that's even partly why "the lesser of two evils" exists as an expression
fathers in the home raising children is the most Prominent aspect of a child’s life and the fruits and blessings grow when we as men stand up and protect and love and show the upcoming generation what It means to be a man/husband/father. I am blessed by God to have 3 healthy children and in today's world it is so hard to stand up and be strong but I pray everyday for strength
You’re absolutely right Don, it HAS TO BE A CULTURAL CHANGE, if the community focused on raising productive, responsible children and invested your time in their futures a change would come.
Honestly I just think America needs adequate therapy for everyone including the rich, poor, and in between. It’s not just blacks it’s being poor in a most likely abusive environment in and outside the home.
It all starts with being called the term “black”, synonymous with bad and wickedness. Being named something is very important to anything with a conscious. Especially when the names counter to theirs (like white) are synonymous with light, and good. Generations growing into these things gives somewhat of an obligation to stand up to the name.
Pushed on to us by the white man … who making gangster movies and allowing gangster rappers to be paid ? Black people don’t own record labels or Hollywood. Cia own diddy to percentage pimp his own people and control a narrative in hip hop . Just like wack100 . This all a part plan that was put in place years ago systematically to destroy us . The mental destroyed from self hated , than manipulate by music and movies , on top broken homes . We going through psychic warfare …..
The main reason these folk don't change their circumstances is "fear." Fear of failure and putting out the work it would take to succeed, but fail. They think, "It's better to not try than to try and fail."
My dad is the first his family to own a home. I've never known poverty. I'm ever grateful for him.
Me and my brother are on our way to do the same. Mom, Dad, Grandma, never owned a home and my Granddad is too busy working that I never grew a relationship with him and he has a home that I believe is crippling him in interest because after 30+ years he still says he’s paying on it.
Exact same situation. Doing my best to take advantage of what he provided for me
When you get into politics and find out that you don't really own anything then it just hurts more but congrats.
Keep thinking that way,and you really won't own anything. @@danteshollowedgrounds
Bums like in this video are the problem for the community and immediate threat 4 other kids, adults and old ppl. No excuse 4 bums
"The hood isn't a place, it's a mindset"
Its both!
You're right its a mindset. I've seen how persons with that mindset transform beautiful and friendly neighbourhoods into no go zones and chaos. Such that some communities chase them away.
@@dehhota we are built to adapt to survive.. so if your in bad environment some bond to adapt to survive..in ways you might not have .
The ghetto comes from within
Right I’m from the “hood” which is like a village in my eyes😂. It can be a paradise honestly but it’s the mindset and the wrong foods and chemicals all around the people daily there’s also bad frequencies in the music and all around us daily.
I grew up getting evicted from apartments with my parents who were violent and on drugs/alcohol and eventually my dad died and we had to move into grandmas house while my mom worked two jobs. We were in a shitty area in south Florida and I knew from a young age that skills bring opportunity. I didn’t get involved in drugs or crime and I learned welding and construction skills and now I’ve got a good life and my own place. Everything is about perspective.
I grew up in South Florida too in the early 90s and early-mid 2000s, but had a completely different experience. Life was grand. It wasn't until I went away to college that I realized that I grew up in VERY sheltered bubble.
Smart!
You are also White.
Way to go! Best Wishes
that's fucking insane man, props
Working a 9 to 5 can help a young man stay off the streets
@@ZNZNUKElol these street guys don't make what you think they make 😂
@@ZNZNUKE depends on the 9-5, this is where skill trade or education come in.
Not really because it does, but not as much because also they get into an attitude. They have to deal with customers that are rude and then ruined themselves, and then realize their car was broken into a lot but always pray to God that you keep your stuff safe though and make sure you be very vigilant
@@ZNZNUKE Going to jail pays worse. Would you rather work a 9-5 or build a life as a career criminal while in and out of jail? Get a 9-5, build your skills so you can earn more money and be able to create your own businesses. Take baby steps.
@@brucepower3429the foolishness of some people is mind boggling and you then realise why as a race we are fucked and bottom of every society anywhere 😢😮
The US needs more intelligent young men like this to continue speaking out. We still have the opportunity to change things for the better for anyone in this country and the first step is taking personal accountability for our parts in this and taking actions to change that. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
So I will say this. I agree 1 million percent. But a lot of people these days, especially those on the left want to just cover their ears and stop listening when people such as myself (a young white, middle class, male) start speaking because "you're born more privalleged than everyone else. You dont know how hard it is." Ive spent hours each week on the shelf I sit on at my factory job, reading history books and listening to professors and historians to learn the history of so many events and such to be better equipped to present an argument. But no one wants to listen to you no matter how intelligent you are. My ex girlfriend did it all the time. Everything was always "yeah but." And after so many times of hearing yeah but I would get so frustrated because she wanted me to listen but didnt give me the same luxury. Thats the case with so many people these days. So ive kinda fallen by the way side. Ill let some gentleman of a different minority make my points for me
You’ll never help someone who doesn’t want to help themselves. They’ll just end up hurting you in the long run.
How would you know if no one tried to help them.
@@cynthiaali3175 That’s not the point. They have to start with themselves first. Then they will attract those who can help. That’s how it works.
yeap don't even bother !
@@IntrovertidoTieneFlowThat is not how stuff work and everyone knows it also have you ever lived in the hood.
@@briss8297 I Have and I still live here.
As a black man I'll say this, they can get out of the ghetto but alot of them refuse to
They are trapped, they can’t just step out. That’s like being trapped in a room with no windows and a door that’s locked from the inside. You can feel the walls closing in, but the key is hidden in the very darkness you’re trying to navigate.
@@divine3096 victim mentality.
@@divine3096cap I was raised around that bs it's definitely escapable most just don't want to work amd prefer non conventional means resorting to theft, killing and selling hard drugs.
they feel wrong if they leave their “hood” its unfortunate
@@divine3096 They're trapped IN THEIR MINDS. But their minds can make a plan like the brother says.
My folks got out. We moved to mid Hudson Valley NY. Went to good public schools. You can guess what happened to me when we went back to visit my parent's old friends. "He sound White. Why he talk funny? You a Oreo!..." That's coming from THEIR kids. Well as the story goes, They're still THERE and I'm still OUT.
I'm from New Orleans and sometimes it's a family thing. I had to cut my family off because they were still with that street life. I refused to be stuck there.
My family isn't "street" a trad Latino fam. The big buuuuut is that they're incredibly bad with money and taught me to be bad with money. They'd screw up and need to be bailed out and have bills paid. I'd do the same, take risks, be broke have my bills paid by family. Everyone's perpetually broke. I separated from accepting favors. Still gave them. Even took care of Grandma until she died. Then I made it clear I owe nobody anything, I won't do this for you.
@@danielescobar7618Good for you. Maybe see about getting them involved in Dave Ramsey’s budgeting-banking program. Maybe get their church involved in teaching it.
My dad side is in New Orleans still lives in the ghetto and I’m glad I don’t live there, I might consider leaving this state as well
i live in baton rouge and its definitely a mindset thing and cultural thing. So many young people think that being hard and gangster is cool.
Change will come when there is accountability at the community level. When black communities stop letting people that are a menace to it, do whatever they please without going unanswered it will be a step in the right direction.
The glorification of everything that’s self destructive.
A snaring enticing mindset that’s introduced into a community that doesn’t understand what life truly is.
you know this is true when im shamed for not being impoverished as a black man, i get called white for having parents and an education.
@@Tonk.a77 it’s sad and it shows the adversary Satan’s grip on not only the black community but the world.
People glorifying stupidity, impulsiveness and degeneracy. A black man calling another black man a “nigga” use to be an insult. Now it’s glorified
@@Tonk.a77 it’s absolutely racist of them to use another person‘s ethnicity as a form of insult
@@Tonk.a77or for "talking proper"
@Tonk.a77 thats a trauma response. Shame you first before you have a chance to shame me for my poverty. It comes from a place of envy which then turns into hatred.
It’s no one putting God first.
It’s fatherless homes.
It’s being too prideful and proud.
It’s refusing to take responsibility & accountability for their actions.
It’s the not wanting to collectively trying to change the whole community as a whole for the better.
🙏🏾
Pushed on to us by the white man … who making gangster movies and allowing gangster rappers to be paid ? Black people don’t own record labels or Hollywood. Cia own diddy to percentage pimp his own people and control a narrative in hip hop . Just like wack100 . This all a part plan that was put in place years ago systematically to destroy us . The mental destroyed from self hated , than manipulate by music and movies , on top broken homes . We going through psychic warfare …..
Your god has nothing to do with it.
Amen 🙏🏾 this is exactly why.
@@billmorrison9068you wouldn’t understand the difference unless you’ve actually tried to form a relationship with God
It all starts with the father being home for his children 😢
Well you know what they have these things called condoms but these guys refuse to use them because apparently that’s “acting white”
A GOOD father in the 🏡
Nah we’re not letting y’all “sistas” do this anymore
The stats have shiwn already that it is Black Women that have more children then Black men currently as if TODAY in America so I’m going to break it down for if you can’t do math
Women in our community are seeing the men who are unfit fathers and have multiple kids AND STILL GET PREGNANT
Damn brah you speaking the sad sad truth that so many of us know and have escaped from only to tell others how to leave the chains of ignorance and the will not unshackle themselves. The hood really is a mindset. Peace be unto you
Ngl it is insane to hear somebody say “once blood is shed, there is no going back” and then right after “they want us to kill each other.”
I’ve realize no matter the situation, the race, the age. Everybody has something they like to put blame on to make them selves feel better about they situation and choices.
Keep the BO1 vids up bro 🙏🏽
The true answer is Ego. Once folks in gangs and people from the hood realize that they are being controlled by their ego and understand that they are not their ego, true change can begin to happen.
Yup, all ran on emotions and irs mostly because men being raised by single mothers with no decent men around. Men don't act on emotions but all hood guys do
Can't do that if the women still in bed with Margaret sangar and her plot to depopulate the nuclear black family and the willie lynch letters (get the N out the house and WE will pay you more and your child ) endless cycle
uhuh if only they could read your message. The problem is black folks tend to keep problem people around just because. Ole "Uncle" Clarence done touched 3 generations of little girls in one family but he's at the cookout with all his victims giving him hugs and allowing their kids to be around him. Every other race on the planet throws away their trash and everyone accepts it, except black folks. Black folks trash 10% has gone mainstream and now represents them and the other 90% sits on their hands and lets that bs continue. The sub culture has won
This is wisdom.
Mindset is a powerful thing, being a product of your own environment wouldn't exist if everyone who grew up in the hood understood how unpleasant living there truly is. Never fall into the wrong trap.
You think people are so stupid they dont understand the "hood" isnt a pleasant place to be🤦
This is true it takes someone on the outside to be an example but even that is a stretch
When you live in the hood you don't realize how bad it is, you accept reality and hope for the best. Some never leaving. Confined to a small area for life
Some blacks have accepted poverty as their culture and there is nothing that you can do but sit back and watch. You cannot "solve culture" it is what it is.
I think you can change culture
@@youngdonrebornthe amount of inner work needed and individuals needing to change thru god is far to many at this point. I don’t see it changing
Individuals can make decisions perhaps but unless you can demonstrate where culture has changed because of some persons effort it doesn't happen.
@@malachibenyisrael4621 well was poverty always black culture?
It can change. You just have to produce a COUNTER Culture. Humans will ALWAYS lean towards HOPE, you just need something strong enough to PIVOT the current culture that is filled with PAIN. Humans like Pain too...but Hope always wins in the end
Professor Thomas Sowell has shed great light on this issue. It's very troubling to see many members of this community continue to express this hopelessness.
History doesn't determine what you do today. Only today determines what you will do tomorrow.
“Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.”
Isaiah 59:7
Funny how the chapter doesn't end with bootstraps but God stepping in to save people who can't save themselves
Great Googly Moogly !
@@SJ.J2 Amen
@@SJ.J2 the story of the world right there
Isn’t that verse talking about our oppressors??? But it also fits this narrative.
A lot of them don’t want to change
The light has come into the world, but the world loved darkness, Jesus Christ
A lot of them do make good decisions everyday in the hood …theses dudes want to be gangsters frf gangsterism is an American way….this square mentality try n to figure out why they do what they do is fruitless…
I think the only solution is to start proper education for kids that are very young, the older people are not going to change cause they glorify that lifestyle.
Good schools are very important, we need to change the culture of glorifying being entertainers and start glorifying intelligence and knowledge. Doesnt matter if we build the school if being a "nerd" continues to be "lame"
@@youngdonreborn Agreed
Honestly an abrasive approach is necessary. Compulsory 100% school attendance, removal of kids from dysfunctional households, mass incarceration, increased policing and sentencing, harsh punishments, and police checks and inspections of homes/vehicles. Yes it sounds bad but if you actually want to fix this it requires an intense very invasive approach.
@@judekivNone of this fixes the school to prison pipeline. If anything, it strengthens it. Where’s the investments into the communities? Community centers? Where’s the resources? What about positive role models?
Pushed on to us by the white man … who making gangster movies and allowing gangster rappers to be paid ? Black people don’t own record labels or Hollywood. Cia own diddy to percentage pimp his own people and control a narrative in hip hop . Just like wack100 . This all a part plan that was put in place years ago systematically to destroy us . The mental destroyed from self hated , than manipulate by music and movies , on top broken homes . We going through psychic warfare …..
It's not just because of missing fathers. They don't have God in their lives. The creator is the only one who can guide His creation.
Facts.
Or if they do have God in their lives, it's in name only. As the Bible says, they honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
@@XXNerdzillaXX Biblical facts!
Ignorance, Enviornment, Trauma, Lack of will to do better… I’m from the hood (west side of Chicago) and I witnessed my family scratch and claw to make a better way which we eventually did. It was no easy task but we had the will to do so.
All I can do now is continue to count my blessings, lead by example and educate my kids on the do’s and don’ts of life.
Evil spirit passed down through generations
yes!
Generational curses
It's called being on the democratic plantation
I wouldn't say that I'd say it's culture and our animalistic traits to be what we're surrounded in
Cause Africans who are in Africa don't quite act as odd as African Americans
@@Astaarboi Yeah, otherwise there wouldn't be exceptions. But outside of America, we're progressively seeing a similar behavior in Europe. In my country that is France and the UK neighbor got wild communities on hoods, which are mostly young blacks and arabs whose parents came from immigration. Crazy things happening with black people in Europe too.
as a haitian born in america i am grateful to be here with my dual citizenship and i escaped this ratchet culture at a very young age (currently turning 13)
Bonswa vwazen mwen! Bondye renmen ou an non de Jèzi. I am a Haitian born in America as well and i've seen witchcraft and heard about Haitian secret societies like bizango, sanpwel and zobop which the last one i heard some relative of mine were in. God is with me and if you trust in Jesus Christ He will always be with you and you'll have no one to fear although our lives might be tough at times. Again Bondye renmen ou!
The ratchet culture in haiti??
@@bettyboopsie9836stop it 😂
@@bettyboopsie9836 lol I meant in America
@@HolySpiritIsSatanOfSinDethHell thank you I just got baptized this summer may Christ be with you too
We need the righteous ones of the communities to call out all bad behavior no matter what. Fight back against the gang mentality, even physically. Many of them see doing the right thing as cowardly. Shame
"You're not one of us" would be their reply, it's like they all share the same body with separate heads poking out.
This already happened, the righteous are called squares and they'll tell the women to try and play you due to the kindness of your heart etc we tried already the best thing to do is pray they repent from this madness.
Nah clean up your own mess. The community stayed clowning the corny dudes who were doing right while celebrating the actual clowns and their gang mentality. Now we're expected to "be real men" and risk everything we worked for to save a community that didn't want us in the first place?
Pushed on to us by the white man … who making gangster movies and allowing gangster rappers to be paid ? Black people don’t own record labels or Hollywood. Cia own diddy to percentage pimp his own people and control a narrative in hip hop . Just like wack100 . This all a part plan that was put in place years ago systematically to destroy us . The mental destroyed from self hated , than manipulate by music and movies , on top broken homes . We going through psychic warfare …..
I see what you mean. Those who continue on that path end up losing later on. The issue is when they recruit younger people into their mentality.
Dude I made a comment about how our communities could be so much better off if we just made better choices and held people like this accountable. So many people were pissed at what I said
"Crabs in a bucket" mentality is rampant in the Communitah. Not worth trying to save those fools.
Definitly a choice. I see it in my own family and with people who went to school with me. You dont just go from 2 or 3 generations of home ownership and semi-private school to running in the streets and low-income unless you're making deliberate mistakes.
Before I even watch the video. Policies that targeted black people.
Replacing fathers with welfare.
Affirmative action putting people into positions they were not ready for and couldn't handle.
Materialism.
Promoting rap music and culture and calling it African American culture. On top of that, it's incredibly insulting
@@hxyzazolchakThere are a lot of rappers that rap about positive things or the struggles in the community and that help inspire people to help each other. But sadly, the degenerate ones get most of the fame and money like Drake and Sexy Redd and other degenerate rappers. Makes the genre and community look bad.
What are some policies that targeted the black community I'm honestly just ignorant and I should know about my own history
@@momelendez9691 i dont want to be that guy but Drake is Veggie Tales compared to King Von and other drill and street rappers imo
Conservatives revising history again..
- Welfare doesn’t stipulate fathers can’t be in the home. Black people were struggling to survive before welfare.
- Are you arguing that Affirmative Action created hood mentality or poverty..? come on now..
At 13:00, When you explained the cycle of violence, it reminded me of a saying that was taught to me by some bad cats I used to hang out with when I was growing up in NYC.. I asked homeboy why it was so important to get revenge and he told me "because beef is eternal... and you will die before it does"
I'll never forget thinking how irrational and unhinged that dude and his mentality was
It all starts with education and accountability. We gotta stop condoning the nonsense in the black community and take a hard look on why we are behind everyone else.
They don’t care. Animals and thugs thrive off of chaos.
@@Ezana001they are human beings at the end of the day however misguided. They should be given a chance to repent but not everyone can be saved bro. We can’t look at them as animals tho fam.
@@Ezana001
You & people like you have no clue.
How do you expect people to grow when the resources are minimal. Right here where i live. 4 schools closed due to budget. Then they built 2 state of the art Police stations and 3 sub stations. 🙄 budget wasn't an issue then. 😢
it all started after civil rights movement when goverment got heavily involved
@@shyquildurham9695that’s crazy
This is everywhere. Yet black social movements and leaders either ignore it or justify it. Without looking inward, nothing is going to change.
Nobody wants to admit it but it’s the music that glorifies the culture and keeps the cycle going
It's funny because I remember people getting laughed at for saying gangster rap was a bad thing, not laughing now are we. Pretty much everything elders were laughed at about came true. Turns out maybe previous generations did know something.
@@SpartanArmy117 I’m laughing at you. Y’all shouldn’t speak on the hood of y’all not from the hood.
@@allenlavine1351bro your name is Allen Lavine you are not from the hood bro
@ what the hell that supposed to mean?
I think a lot of the black community have to understand you can acknowledge the role white people and outside factors played but also take accountability for our situations RIGHT NOW. And doing that is how we start taking the steps to PROGRESS.
I agree with this but I’m not gonna act like the cia introduce crack
Fault vs responsibility
I agree
Stop blaming it on white people.
@@billmorrison9068well not totally agree, we have to acknowledge that yes racism have a hand in this but we also have the power to change this ourselves without any external help.
It's always a good day when my favorite construction worker uploads a video 💯🔥🗣️
I (Latino) had a black gf a while back when the whole Black Lives Matter protests were going on and we had insanely heated arguments about this exact topic. Pretty much all my points were the same as in this video whereas hers were more like the ppl in the video. Always blaming white ppl, calling me racist for simply trying to educate and show the flaws in her views, etc. I often wonder if she’s still thinking the same way sometimes 🤔 lmao
You might be black on blood crime is a myth . Everybody fights each other just look at around at the world.
Trust me she is. I was in the same situation. And when you drop the knowledge they say "well it's black people problems". Its all our problem. We're all country men we share this land.
I dont agree with police officers killing innocent people and getting away with murder but I agree with you about the street lives of black people. (I am a black man). I have a few skills under my belt and I'm pursuing more. I stayed away from committing crimes and disrespecting people. I just mind my business and stay home.
Not surprising that you only would deal with the women of another race , and never the men. Typical colonizer. And I can say the same thing about your Latino culture as well, whereas there are generations on top of generations of gang members and Latino families. They practically groom their children from the time they're 3 years old on up.
Victim mentality
people love blaming the system but also the people who live there are responsible as well when I moved into the suburbs and came back to visit the hood my mindset completely changed things that used to be normal didn’t feel like it no more. People throwing trash all over the street not respecting their neighborhoods, people standing out there houses doing aboutsely nothing but smoking weed and disturbing other people, crackheads and homeless walking all over place causing problems etc.
I work in law enforcement and have met decent, honest, hardworking people who live in the worst areas of my city. Sometimes they will speak to us because they want to do what's right. And sometimes they pay a price they shouldn't ever have had to bear. Some people are too afraid to speak to us because they've seen others receiving retaliation for doing the right thing.
Unfortunately, putting the most violent people in prison isn't always enough, even if you were to remove lenient bonds and sentencing from the equation, some of those people have a lot of influence on those in their circle, and even if they can't retaliate directly they find a way to orchestrate it from inside.
It's sad that so many people live in fear, and i suppose some of them choose to live with the potential for accidentally being hurt as a byproduct of some feud that doesn't involve them rather than speaking up about it and becoming a target for those people who otherwise would largely ignore you.
The worst part is that you're right; the biggest changes will have to come from within the communities that live like this, which means the good people in those communities will have to be the ones to take those first steps, which could put them in danger and make life even harder for them.
They are going to have to fight for what is right and not be passive/cowardly. You fight for law and order, so can they. No more excuses.
From Detroit here. Its scary not knowing if you gone make it through the week cuz all the violence. Its definitely a mindset. Once my mindsent changed. Life changed. Almost like a game a spades and you have no face cards or aces you just feel like you got a bad hand. Walk around with the poor me attitude. But, Its up to us to love each other with the Love of God.
Hosea 4:6
King James Version
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Well said
People will tell you this is about the fake white Jews tho the folks who had all the knowledge since the beginning of time because of there ancestors
Selah
WOW!!!
You could expand that to the whole chapter
Don the Builder strikes again 🔥
Ts is wild 😭😭
The problem is that the culture they live is one of the most profitable. Consumerism is a core tenet. Who has the biggest, flashiest thing? What rapper is THE MOST poppin? Champagne wishes and beer pockets. Murder, sex and drugs promoted through every avenue of entertainment.
When these ideals are promoted as the norm, we can’t be surprised when we yield negative results.
And then that industry is protected through cries of ray-cism. Yeah, idk the answer.
I like how well you criticize and aren’t just insulting people and also giving solutions
facts. this is what sets someone apart- you can talk about the issues, but how are you bringing a solution to the table? we were here before bro blows up fr lol
Don, it's gotten worse in Jamaica. They're pulling banks heist out here now. I desperately want to leave but I'm in university.
Hope you make it out
its not that bad just the money situation
@Ze-sr5ov some may say it's not bad cause they've gotten used to it but I can't bro
@@caldonroyal9625 I just see problems everywhere bro you right we just got two different mindsets on it world a big place a lot of places you can live
Are bank robberies unique to Jamaica?
It isn’t fatherless homes. Fatherless homes don’t help the situation but ultimately it boils down to the individual. Unless your mother taught you to be hood, it isn’t her fault either. These dudes are falling for peer pressure from negative influences, trying to be down, and prove themselves as “real”.
Exactly. Being fatherless is not an excuse for lacking common sense.
Umm it is. Your parents are supposed to teach you right and wrong. As a parents your job is to raise your child not expect them to know just cause they were born.
@@coolme241 blame the parents, blame the system, blame society, blame everyone but themselves
How do you fall to peer pressure?
When you don't have strong value Parents or parent that 'trained up a child in the way they should grow'
Getting influenced by the outside of home- is easy... because there was no knowledge no wisdom no discipline no respect no ambition taught at home.
@@MadSUPANOVA you fall to peer pressure from lack of confidence to stand on your own. Parents can help with confidence but you have to make your own decisions.
They should see what El Salvador is doing🇸🇻
Being from Baton Rouge myself born and raised I see this a lot I didn’t fall into the circle of that mindset I’m young myself and I’m doing pretty good for myself just keep focus and believe and you will make it
My question is this--how do you change the psychology these individuals have? Where are the black role models intervening for these disenfranchised youth? Where are the parents trying to change the trajectory?
You don’t, you can’t change them all you can do is what Scott Adams said, separate yourself from them .
Wouldn’t it be crazy if they were literally just that dumb on average. Lol. Lmao
12:50 check out how El Salvador fixes its crime and its prision.
Facts I just made a comment about El Salvador😂
Chill .. Trump is already saying that the reason why that country is safe now is because THEY sent EVERY CRIMINAL to the U.S. LOL
Short answer: ignorance
zionism
@@Cc10373islamism
@@Just_a.Fightfan misinformed
@@Cc10373 nope just speaking facts
Judaism 🤐
Being Caribbean American gives you a different perspective on life in general I wish we could show more Americans the reality of how it is in the islands when there is no other race to blame for the situation your in you realize it’s not a race thing it’s a education and culture thing
@@Prod.K2 Then why is the carribean so f'd up??
I have people in my family from the carribean the white supremacist decimated Jamaica
Aren't they kicking y'all out of your own beaches
@@cartercarter2837not necessarily. But the US still lurks over the Caribbean to make sure they don’t get any bright ideas and try to empower themselves. Check out the invasion of Grenada
Yall foreigners have some damn nerve leaving your fked situations and coming here to critique BA, if yall don't get yall @sses on somewhere yall AINT that mthfkr to be pointing fingers. 😂😂YALL JUST AINT!!!
They cant escape because they dont want to escape lol
You’re speaking some facts Don I can’t lie. We need to start looking at the menaces of our communities as exactly that
Recognition 🙌🙌
See the world for what it is, not what it is meant to be. Escape from delusion and ground yourself in reality. Thank you for sharing your voice.
I may be young but the more I look at our community the more I see the lack of accountability, we simply refuse to acknowledge where we go wrong the main issue is mindset because the surroundings I grew up in are not much different from theirs but one glaring difference. The morals I was raised upon. But at the same time it also feels as though there's a power that literally prevents change in black community it's as though as soon as theres beginning of change there's 1 thing that brings us back into this ghetto gang mentality.
The media sells an image of blackness that is destructive to black culture. It glorifies degeneracy and the sad part is that so many people have bought into this image and started to believe in it.
You got traitor in your community (Gang leaders) who made deals with the CIA... They have informants, undercovers and collaborators everywhere
satan loves you guys. he really does.
Simple. Fatherless homes.
*degenerate culture
There, fixed it for you
False
True,a lot of fatherless home with buggie mothers
Not exactly fatherless homes was a result of stupidity and ignorance
If that's true, and they are in fact brainwashed or ignorant, then they are at a disposition, disadvantaged, or at a position of desperation. We can't say it's a choice while acknowledging they are put in disadvantaged positions @donreborn
And still after seeing this video a lot of black people will be like: yeah but the white man this, the white man that !! 😮😮
Fantastic analysis !!
Thank you Sir
Coming from a fellow Caribbean, I also come from a place with a lot of violence (Guadeloupe).
I emigrated to France, since I come from a French colony. And I never understood the whiny demeanor of the self professed tough local delinquents about the French police so-called « racist » behavior.
Police where I come from (depending on the crime of course) will have no problem beating you during and after the arrest. And nobody complained about it, not even the offenders. « It’s just the game » they would say.
I think migrants in the western world, mostly of Arab and African descent don’t want to admit that they got it better and reform themselves. Because it’s actually hard to do it.
There is nothing easier than being a perpetual victim. Especially in the soft and weakened western nations of today.
Not only is it a choice but on top of it you're told (by certain individuals or groups) that you are also a "victim".
The white liberal
@@AceW0rld not only. There are plenty of black individuals and groups that perpetrate the same agenda.
Yes, bad things have happened to us. However we are still capable of building and surviving with or with out. Our ancestors did. The white liberal is a sick individual and so is the republicans but at least they don’t make these bs claims and are honest about their racism.
We are actually victims with the amount of systemic racism we've had to endure. Farms stolen, money stolen from banks, high interest rates, not receiving business loans, communities burned down continuously etc. If you don't think these causes have affected the black community you're sorely mistaken
Well, people can be “victims” in life. The real issue is the victim mentality and disempowering language that black people tend to be the recipients of. The over emphasis on outside solutions, the reluctance of analyzing our own culpability, not focusing on what can be done and what is in our power to initiate change, etc. regardless of whether you are a “victim” or not, the responsibility will always be on you to fix your situation.
None of yall are first🗣️
Fax
I’m last 🗣️
I always come last ask your girl
Ion think anyone cares
Get a life
If you don’t love yourself how are you gonna love your community?
As a 25 year old black guy I was born in gerogia in a middle class family me and my mom moved to Kansas moved to Minnesota then moved to Oklahoma. Then when I got here all the black people told me I had a voice they didn't expect they said I'm not really black because I sound white like what ... I never really had racism until..I got back to the Midwest.
"Cardius Bius." Man you're too funny😂
generational curses so real bro
generational curses after civil rights act and goverment being involved yes
Some people are breaking those curses by not perpetuating by not bringing children here to continue being slaves to this worldly system... they call themselves #Childfree and #Antinatalist.
Honestly don as a black guy myself we have to change as a people. If we want respect and change we have to do better.
"there is no perfect solution only trade offs" facts
It makes me so happy to see more and more young black people opening their eyes ❤
This is spiritual warfare. Black people in these situations are spiritually oppressed. When that young man found Jesus, it was so easy for him to forgive. Why isn’t the black church combating this?
They are. You just don't see it on TV
Most think its the white mans religion... and it doesnt help that you have race hustlers on t.v pushing that trash and keep ling them suppressed
You’ll be happy to hear, BBG Dee gave his life to Christ. And left the streets🙏🏾
Keep these videos and conversations going
Poverty does not cause crime crime causes poverty
That makes no sense
@RodriXav1 sure it does, if you have the sense to grasp it. You either don't have that much sense, or you want an excuse.
It dosnt make sense
@@jwtrucker5402 your theory would suggest that let’s say the black community is at fault for there misfortune given to them since the Dawn of a new nation, would you suggest that crime committed by black folk ultimately created the large number of poorer hoods
After watching your channel and reading the testimonies in the comments secrion from those who were born into this culture and escaped, gives me hope for not only the black community, but for our country as a whole.
Keep speaking the truth my friend. Your voice makes a difference!
We need Jesus, we all do. A relationship with God.
They don’t wanna hear that the problems of the world started when humans decided that they don’t need God ex-Garden of Eden
There is just as many, if not more black people praising Jesus! Churches are all over the place in the hood but our condition as a whole is worse than ever. Soooo, clearly Jesus ain't the answer cause no group praise and worship Jesus harder than blk ppl!!!!
How? 🧐
They’re brain washed enough with the hood mentality, no need to pray to an imaginary person.
@justhavealittlefaith77 beliving in jesus has nothing to do with poverty.
I think the biggest issue is when people have a lack of understanding about history, especially of their own and their successes. It does hinder the people of that current time to see no hope in the future.
When a community is in love with its dysfunctions it will never get better.
Keep having the conversations Don, thanks bro
What creates mindsets, idiosyncrasies and schools of thought, are the people that live in those communities.
Not it’s gastronomy, Not it’s music, Not it’s landscapes or views,but the people that lives there.
The idiosyncrasies that make those societies simply begin at home.
Complex, yet very simple at the same time.
Young man it’s the government and environment. Nature vs Nurture
my question is if it’s so easy to put an end to cultural violence then how come people don’t do it in Jamaica???
Exactly! Misguided tether babble.
Who ever said it was easy?? Doing the wrong thing is what’s easy.
Victim mentality and others are comfortable in the real life GTA.
Haven't seen one of your vids in forever. Hope you and your family are staying blessed.
You are completely correct, SIR... Many of these kids talking are within 15 mins or so of the best college in this state. I used to go down Plank Rd in Baton Rouge, to EXXON/MOBLE, right down the road from where this guy is. I helped a young lady from this neighborhood learn how to TIG weld. When she got to where she could pass the test and ready to move up and out, they killed her. Left 2 kids without their mother. For what, the dude that killed her is in Angola for life and now her kids can never taste that different life she was working for. That's why we ellected Landry. I know his family, personally. One can only blame another for so-long. Something has to change here in La...
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First like!!! Wow that notification was fast!!!…. Anyways happy Sunday Don… praise Jesus Christ 🙏🏽✝️
driving thru the hoods of America thinking it looks like middle class Jamaica 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
that really puts it into perspective tho
Thr intro is looking solid, Don!
You made a steady point there bro! Very elaborated indeed.
I like this video. It gives a more in-depth description of what usually happens. Keep it up
I really like you Don, you’re a man’s man and God has blessed you with wisdom, from a white man I say with love…. Keep speaking truth to power brother, you ARE making a difference !! When God is with you, who can stand against you !
partly through the video rn but something I'd like to touch on is how a lot of black people worldwide are so quick claim to be free and refuse to exercise said freedom meaningfully. do some people get less optimal choices? sure but it's not like we don't all have free will. that's even partly why "the lesser of two evils" exists as an expression
I wonder what black America would look like if kids who’s parents were not together were forced to live with they father instead they mother
I think it will definitely stop men from impregnating multiple women...after the second child... he'll definitely go get a Vasectomy.
fathers in the home raising children is the most Prominent aspect of a child’s life and the fruits and blessings grow when we as men stand up and protect and love and show the upcoming generation what It means to be a man/husband/father. I am blessed by God to have 3 healthy children and in today's world it is so hard to stand up and be strong but I pray everyday for strength
You’re absolutely right Don, it HAS TO BE A CULTURAL CHANGE, if the community focused on raising productive, responsible children and invested your time in their futures a change would come.
Honestly I just think America needs adequate therapy for everyone including the rich, poor, and in between. It’s not just blacks it’s being poor in a most likely abusive environment in and outside the home.
yo im a big fan of you love you bro
It all starts with being called the term “black”, synonymous with bad and wickedness. Being named something is very important to anything with a conscious. Especially when the names counter to theirs (like white) are synonymous with light, and good. Generations growing into these things gives somewhat of an obligation to stand up to the name.
Wow, never thought of it like that. Makes sense because African Americans ain’t even “Black” just a darker shade of brown
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Pushed on to us by the white man … who making gangster movies and allowing gangster rappers to be paid ? Black people don’t own record labels or Hollywood. Cia own diddy to percentage pimp his own people and control a narrative in hip hop . Just like wack100 . This all a part plan that was put in place years ago systematically to destroy us . The mental destroyed from self hated , than manipulate by music and movies , on top broken homes . We going through psychic warfare …..
Yup. The word "white" + "black" has their own different hidden meanings in the black law dictionary book that's including the court room of law.
Black Metal is satanic by definition.
I built a cabin in the woods, named Tom… he’s my uncle.
The main reason these folk don't change their circumstances is "fear." Fear of failure and putting out the work it would take to succeed, but fail. They think, "It's better to not try than to try and fail."