Originally Posted by
kix4kix
Originally Posted by TruthGetsBusy
Is being a black man the hardest job in America? I honestly think so. And before anybody gets all riled up I know that every other race and gender has problems too. Not every white person was born rich and not every black person is from the hood. I know that but I'm talking on average.
And let me get all the basic, simple minded responses out the way.
Great you "didn't read"
Yes this is another race thread.
Yes slavery happened and no I'm not going to get over it.
Yes WSHH and BET suck.
I feel like we areled to worry about all the wrong things in life. Its not even our fault half the time its just how we get raised. Then once we hit the real world we're not prepared AND we have to overcome and battle other obstacles. You can say we are at fault for aspiring to be athletes and entertainers right? But why aren't the parents leading the kids in the direction of actual careers? Because the damn parents are just happy to have a job and support a family. They can't tell a kid to start building a resume and prepare them for college when they never went through that experience. They just want their kid to be happy and if football or singing makes them happy so be it.
The problem is that cycle is killing us. We really need more professionals to get out here and show us how its done at a young age. We are at a real disadvantage when it comes to networking. And lets just say we do get a good job right. Can we recommend our friends to get hired too? Naw you can't be the black guy that brings the other black guys to the party. You just gotta be happy you got invited. It's really crazy out here.
I could go on for days about different problems but I'd like to hear from ya'll.
Chris Rock said it best in his last stand up. In a nutshell he gave the example of where he lived and how he lived next to a dentist. Chris Rock...Arguably one of the most recognizable black men in the planet, lives next to a (white) dentist.
More professionals is such a vague term though. I urge NT, to seperate from perscribing the source of the problem, and focus more on the solution aspect. All too often these threads are filled with arguments of semantics and how something REALLY happened ect......Who cares? Am I the only one out here who seems more motivated by finding rational answers, than the actual reason the problems exist in the first place?
I doubt the answer to the problem is as simple as more professionals, and the source as simple as parenthood.