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Originally posted by Professor
My Brother is a bad seed but I love him. He did not take advantage of opportunities provided by my parents. My family is very middle class and the seed had the clothes, associations, love and supports just like other middle class families. He just took a wrong and different path. He is a member of the rap generation and I really attribute many of his behaviors with that thug culture.
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Have you asked him if that makes him think he's a man? Maybe he is trying to "fit in" to the definition of what is a man???
Really what is a MAN of African descent in America? Given our history, given our trials and tribulations, etc.
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Originally posted by Professor
While my brother has several kids, he supports them, spends time with them and is actually a caring parent. He lacks in the area of providing example by education and culture. I don't have time to think of the best way of describing things better but I want the girls to be in the clubs like jack and jill, the deb balls, top ladies and take dance and so forth. He does not understand the importance of shaping a child and presenting positive relations to children. He hated this type of thing which he calls middle class supreamacy while I am very supportive. Anyway, I give the girls culture and exposure to things that I value. I don't have kids and so my brother's kids, in particular two of them, are like mine.
Again, while my brother is not what he should be, he is a caring loving and supportive parent.
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My brother is a caring, loving and supportive father to his ONE son, too...
But his world has been turned upside down at his vice principal job recently due to some ('scuse my language) dumbassed fucktard who he supervised and choose to only verbally reprimand... You can PM me for more details, but to make a long story short, he got all the African American parents at his school pissed off with him because he allowed this dumbassed fucktard infect the environment...
All the while, he lives in SoCal--housing ain't cheap and his 1600 sq. foot shotgun shack runs $500K, forget the taxes, he has a new baby, his baby's mama wants more outta him and homie is in school for an advance degree...
I think your brother may have issues with the bourgeoisie [sp?] because he found it segregative and did not see a "benefit from it directly"... He also saw it as "selling out"--or acting white... So to fit in what he identifies with, he has to be a playa, pimp, mackidocious, with baby's mamas dramas and thug life fo' real...
What will happen when he gets arrested for being in the wrong place and the wrong time?
Better yet, it sounds like it is BETTER to have males of African descent in America actively pursuing a thug life--'cuz look at the money that gets made off of them? That you have a permenently developing, self-perpetuating underclass--justifiable because when one is impoverished, their brains do not develop properly--so what kinds of jobs could they do??? And the less available resources you give them, the more "extinct" they can become... I just read an article in the newspaper from "Newshouse" that Black men are droppin' off like flies--either when they are younger or when they reach early 50's---even 40's...
Things that make you go hmmmm?