Do you agree black people are regressing?

Question

I see lately with the music it seems they deplict black women as trashy sluts and money hungry mongers. They have come so far in getting the world to reconize the n word as derogatory but yet they will all call one another by that name. I dont understand or am i wronge in my perception.

Answer 1

Yup, they surely are mastah, but not as quickly as you.

Which "black people" are you looking at? The constant parade of crackheads, welfare, ghetto, perpetually incarated streoptypical black person as portrayed by our great media or are you looking at the fastest growing middle class in Americanada?

Are you looking at Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, and Barak Obama?

As far as the so called "N" word is concerned, black people can call each other whatever they want in whatever manner they want just as other people and cultures refer to each other using outwardly negative terms but between friends is understood as something else.

Don't get me wrong, a black person using the "N" word for the same reason and effect as anyone else is just as wrong. The difference is in who can use a term such as the "N" word in a neutral or positive way. If you happen to be white, and your name happens to Eminem, and your close friends happen to be Dr Dre, 50 cents, and the rest of the "posse" then you can do it because the understanding exists that the intent is not to wound. And it's all about the intent.

Now if you happen to be just an acquaintance or it's a first time intro, then I would not suggest greeting a black person with, "what's up my n*gga?" you might get in a bit of trouble.

Now judging from the conversations I have had with my friends, some white people are not mad about black people using the "N" word, they are mad that they cannot liberally use it. They cannot parse that the word could be anything but a derogatory slur...or maybe they can and feel that they can wiled the power of the word judiciously.

I still say what I have always said, I invite any person who is not black to use the word at their discretion when speaking to black people. As you're walking down the street, feel free to say, "hello N*gger, nice day isn't it?"

Answer 2

No. I disagree. At least, I disagree with the thought of music being the demise of black people. The music that you speak of is basically mainstream rap, etc. There is plenty of music out there that is positive, that uplift women and that do not promote money hungry mongers. However, that is not what is popular right now. If it wasn't for the rich white people who own the radio stations and record labels, that music wouldn't see the light of day. They are making money off the hip hop culture. So, as long as there are white people buying these CDs, etc.... it will continue.
Furthermore, people need to realize that music is a form of entertainment, regardless to what genre it is. Entertainment is not here to teach kids how to act. Thats what parents are for. If the parents stepped up, there would be fewer girls with insecurites, low self-esteem, and "daddy issues", there for less of them would turn into trashy sluts. If the parents stepped up and taught their kids that rims, nice cars and flashy jewelry is not what is important in life, then maybe things would change in that respect. I think blaming music is just a cop-out for those who are unwilling to accept their own issues.

Answer 3

I have to agree with you in respect to this. People obviously got off the subject and thought you were referring to all black people but I see that you are referring to the rap music and the deragatory way the men talk about women in these videos as B****es and H*s. When you turn to the BET channel a huge percent of those videos display the women in a very negative way. This sends a negative message to the young eager open minded generation of followers . Thus they go on to imitate what they are shown.
As far as that N word its used in many of those songs. Thats disrespectful for even the black community to repeat among themselves that word was used during the slave times to degrade the African-American and for their own race to repeat it today as a greeting is just plain ignorant.
There are many ppl in the black community who believe the youth are falling back from what there ancestors fought for. Bill Cosby is one that has very strong feelings against this regression as you call it. And for those on here who get defensive about this question I just have to say how would Martin Luther King Jr. feel listening to todays rap artist and the way they represent the African American People the people he and all others behind him fought for the dignity of being treated equal.

Where is the dignity in this rap music when the messages clearly refer to women in deragatory words and murdering your fellow brother, and calling your fellow brother the N word?

Answer 4

I agree! I don't understand how they can put up with that being the image they put across to the rest of the world. I understand that there are lots of blacks who don't behave that way, and completely disapprove of that particular sub-culture - but why don't they put forth an effort to make sure the rest of the world knows it?

Answer 5

First off it's DEPICT secondly stop generalizing all black people because if you go to the corner there are just as many if not more white hookers selling their *** as black girls so who are the trashy sluts.

Answer 6

no ur wrong ur only jealous because they have made it and become something in society, black people actually no where they r going and want something good for them selves, where as people like you don't u r the people in society who need to get a life and stop judging people by the colour of their skin. and as for them using the word n!gga it ain't none of ur business it is used and so many different concepts and situations so u should just mind ur own business bacause it ain't affecting you in any way. so please do ur self a favour and get a life a real one i mean

Answer 7

There an angry resentfull ignorant people.will take offense with you over nothing. at all. I have been around them alot, they are the ones that's racist. not any of my family. friends. or fellow workers, we never even talk about them,I am from South Carolina. but they assume we are. there mixed up in alot of ways, by the time a black boy is born till he gets old, he has about a fifty % chance of being murdered by a another black man. its 12 % for whites. they were trained in the slave days to turn on each other and not to turn on there masters.a man named lyncherly wrote books and conducted seminars to train slave owners how to train there slaves.to hate themselves.for the different shades of skin they have. to field hands against house servants.and etc. it will take many 1000s of years for them to even Begin to get normal. or civilized.I pray for them is all I can do.Its best not to associate with them I have been hurt in so many ways by them I have learned better then to have anything to do them one of them. at all.

Answer 8

I think it's just the way that they are portrayed in the media. I don't actually think that they are regressing, it's just a ploy to make it seem that way and bring them down.

Answer 9

No dip u dont understand cuz u not black i mean were not sluts how would u like it i called u a sl$$. i want u to go to the ghetto and say that boy. And dont u ever go and say that about a black person u here me.Cuz im black wat u gon do

Answer 10

Do you think ANYBODY would agree with you with a suck question when you GENERALISE all Black people, by saying.. "Do you agree black people are regressing?".. Black people?


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