Finally free for blogging! Today I begin with my first blog on black people.
I've long since said I am only black when I have to fill out a form for school and Jamaican every other time. I believe there is a serious cultural difference between African Americans and people of Jamaican decent. So my comments are from a 2nd generation Jamaican guy observing black culture.
As I was leaving walmart I heard the loudest thump I've heard in a while from a car stereo. I expect to see an old Cadillac on 20's (or some white boys in their BMW - this is Gainesville..), but no, I see an old 2 door Pontiac Sunfire blastin the lastest joint out of Atlanta.
It is then that I realize that somewhere between the Emancipation Proclamation and 2006, black people have been led astray. Striving for the best is no longer a goal, just getting by with a ghetto substitute. Instead of working hard and saving up for that BMW on 22's, we settle for the 1985 Honda Civic, add some spinner wheel covers from K-Mart, and throw another G into the stereo.
Like a typical American, I need to blame somebody. Too late to blame Bin Laden. It'd be easy to blame D White Man, but really we ( as in black people ) need to blame ourselves. Yes Blacks had to do everything for themselves during that previously mentioned time people because of segregation and jim crow. But having our own business because white people wouldn't hire us and putting spinners on a mini-van are 2 different things entirely!
Maybe I should blame BET & MTV. They bombard us with iced out grills everyday. And what do we do since we don't have Jay-Z money? Its like when you're in 3rd grade and you want a ninja sword so you can be a ninja turtle but the $5 a week your dad gives you aint enough to buy a real one, so you make your ninja sword out of popsicle sticks... This is essentially what black folk have been doing since 1865... Popsicle sticks!
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def a difference between the different subcultures under the umbrella term black. I've always tried to explain to my american friends that as a Jamaican i view my culture and lifestyle completely seperate from theirs.
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