{"id":515,"date":"2007-07-23T08:48:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T15:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2007-12-08T22:13:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T05:01:26","slug":"setting-back-the-cause-of-black-people-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Setting Back The Cause Of Black People 100 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sister Fister writes: "Whoever put this video<\/a> together, thank you for setting your race of people back 100 years."<\/p>\n

Tritone posts:<\/p>\n

It’s trying to promote self-improvement. Indeed for many of us, the "advice" in this vid is just common sense: E.g. – brush your teeth, read books, wear deodorant, own things instead of rent, take care of your kids.<\/p>\n

But you’d be surprised (or maybe not) at how many of our black male youths don’t really have a caring authority figure to teach them these life lessons. This video attempts to reach them at "their level". It does come off as a bit condescending and presumptuous, though. The rather generic name of "black people" is off-putting as well because the audience it is targeting is a specific type of black person – namely young black males growing up "urban ghetto" style without fathers, rules, or discipline.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

William posts: "…[I]t is tragic that so many blacks are passionate about embracing a deplorable history of hardship, misfortune, and forced illiteracy as their "heritage". You don’t see young Jewish teens running out and getting numbers tattooed on their arms – "Jus’ keepin’ it real Shlomo!" – so why do so many blacks take perverse pride in a legacy of poverty and ignorance?"<\/p>\n

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Sister Fister writes: "Whoever put this video together, thank you for setting your race of people back 100 years." Tritone posts: It’s trying to promote self-improvement. Indeed for many of us, the "advice" in this vid is just common sense: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}