What is going on with the black community? Why so much violence and negativity? What could change it?

Question

There was a time when petty theft, gang related violence, and low-income area crime was about all you had to worry about within our community. There still were singing groups that sang about black problems and black experiences without half naked females in the videos. The violence is getting worse and we are undoing everything MLK died to create. What can be done? I'm so tired of seeing us having adults that can barely read, youth that can't think of anything to be when they grow up but a rapper or basketball player, and either a man-less family or a man that would rather put rims on his car than food on his table.

Answer 1

Have you ever read "How to Make a Slave?" It was a pamphlet that was given to slave owners as they bought Africans off of the boats. It literally tells the slave owner step by step how to take free people and to break them mentally and make them submissive. The mental destruction and selective programming of African slaves has created the current culture of black people in America. Yes, the slaves were all physically set free - but like a soldier coming back from war, they needed to be deprogrammed - to mentally set them free.

I think this, along with a lack of understanding of this are the fundamental problems of the black community. Everything can be traced back to this.

Answer 2

I'd like to see a change too and I am not sure where it should start. One would big one would be "Education", but how to get to educate the majority of people when their other daily problems are so much bigger? Is it the lack of interest in anything? How come there is no thrive to become something decent? Only a few black people seem to have it. I read a statistic that 50% of black men in Washington DC have been in jail. How come? Well, just like you....I am asking myself that question what is going on with the black community?

Answer 3

You couldn't be more right. With everything that is happening in the world today, it is amazing that no one has stood up and said anything about it. I'm so sick and tired of hearing racial stereotypes stemming off of the problems you mentioned. I hate the fact that it's "cool" to not be able to speak clear English, or to talk about degrading women.

MLK died trying to make it so that none of this would happen. He marched his way into better living environments and more togetherness as a people. But it seems that we have gotten away from that.

I feel almost as if we are still in slavery. Not the same slavery that our great great great grandparents lived in, but a NEW slavery. We are bound by chains of materialistic values and shackles of women shakin' their behinds for a camera. We have lost our dignity. We have been forced, not by someone else, but by ourselves, to be enslaved in MINDSETS. We have been carried by boats over an ocean of predjudice to a land where we are not what we were supposed to be. It truly is slavery. And it may take just as long to fix this as slavery before the 1860s.

So, my brothers and sisters, how do we fix this?
It's simple. We must do just what our ancestors did. We must fight back against this mindset. Spread the word! Tell your friends and neighbors! We must change our own community! After all, if we don't change it, who else is going to?

Answer 4

I understand deeply where you are coming from but yoiu have to understand that certain individuals undergo trials and tribulations in which they cannot overcome, because from personal experience i can honestly say that some african american feel that they cannot compete in the real world because they feel oppressed, i mean i remember way back in elementary school i was in the gifted program and ranked in the 99th percentile on a standardized test in both reading and mathematics and i still felt inferior to my classmates because i was the only black student in that class, and all of the other students always had more money then me, had their mothers pack their lunches and their fathers drop them off to school. It wasnt like that for me, i had to get the lunch the school provided because i couldnt afford anything else, and instead of comming home to a loving family, i came how to an emotionally and physically abusive father. and i cant tell you how many times i wanted to kill myself or runaway because it would get that bad, while i was in elementary school. so taking into consideration what i have gone through you must understand that the next person probably had it worse. Especially going to the inner city schools you were guaranteed a bad education and uninpspiring educators. the only reason why i got a chance to go to a good elementary school was because it was in a predominantly white neighborhood and my mother had to lie about our address, because depending upon where you lived thats the school you go to, and we were dirt poor and the school closest to us was even worse. so we are taught about all these incredible black atheletes and rappers and seem that thats our only outlet to living the american dream or rather our version of the american dream.


To answer your last questions i personally feel that it is ridiculous to put rims on a car before food on the table, but coming from that life i see that they usually do this because they are insecure about their financial situation, they want to feel better about themselves and what they can show the world. idk thats my perspective and from my 16 years of live thats what i experienced.

Answer 5

I believe in the power of a man to choose how he wishes to be a man and to choose what characteristics define him. Too many either don't want to define themselves or they are too scared.

Scared can take on many reasons, but what it really means is simply this, "No, I am not going to be different. I am going to copy whoever looks like they got success. It doesn't even matter if they actually have success. Looks are where its at, baby. I gotta' seem like I'm doing real good."

It is this illusion that so many men live under and they are addicted to it. The illusion is the drug of choice for the men too scared to live a life according to their own terms.

Answer 6

you are very right,unfortunately there aren't so many role models to follow and for those youths born in the poor areas,hip hop and basketball is all they know they r surrounded by negative stereotypes and live accordingly, i believe that the government should be more strict on gang violence and more opportunities should be made available for black youths by successful black people, no one is going to help the black community if the black community does not do it first.

Answer 7

Umm how about laying off? In the black community? WHAT THE HELL! I live in a middle class neighborhood with whites asians hispanics and all other races mixed! My parents can afford things that most black families wouldnt think of touching! 1000 dollar trips to one of the most beautiful islands in america. KIAWAH ISLAND! But im not trying to say im a rich black person. But there are black people who arent living in poverty and maybe you should think about that. Instead of trying to fix our lives go find one for yourself. Your worrying about how you can fix "the black community". Man get a damn life. AND by the way if you want to help shove it up your A.SS!

Answer 8

What a terrible stereotype. I think that the only way to chenge that outcome is to uproot and move all of next generations children OUT of the troublesome situations. You can't change someone when they grow up only knowing that lifestyle. It happens in all races, not just african americans. I don't know why it is more publicised then any other race.

Answer 9

Until we collectively repent and seek God, nothing will change.

Answer 10

There is nothing we can do, just wait till they kill eachother.