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I hear you but is it that they didn't focus on success or is that they didn't focus on prioritization of US as a community? Wouldn't you say that they bought into the intersectionality/integration philosophy which was then used to get us away from focusing on ourselves? We started to advocate for anything and everything BUT ourselves and we saw how in the process the "US" disappeared and slipped into the abyss. We don't have to agree I just want to say that. I feel like without a shift in mentality into prioritizing one another all the school, college, good job, etc won't save us. Because we'll just be prepping our kids to go into a world that hates them.We need to start behaving as a community and see each other as brothers and sisters. We have to think from a perspective of "I'm responsible for my well-being and not White Daddy" [USER=1118]ProMoatBlack[/USER] and [USER=1167]Mrs. BLACKRADICAL[/USER] IMO are setting the example. We need to take the meager resources we DO have and start cooperating with one another. Because a lot of the things you say the previous generations didn't teach us are present in White communities but they have a whole system set up that protects them when they fall. White people have set up a system where they can fail upwards. We in the Black community have nothing like this because we don't own anything.I think more than "get in a white academic institution and get good grades to get a good job at a white institution" we should be teaching our kids the importance of building our own. Because when you have your own it is harder to take away. If we are trying to thrive in a society that's built for us to fail we will have what we have today, not a got damn thing.
I hear you but is it that they didn't focus on success or is that they didn't focus on prioritization of US as a community? Wouldn't you say that they bought into the intersectionality/integration philosophy which was then used to get us away from focusing on ourselves? We started to advocate for anything and everything BUT ourselves and we saw how in the process the "US" disappeared and slipped into the abyss. We don't have to agree I just want to say that. I feel like without a shift in mentality into prioritizing one another all the school, college, good job, etc won't save us. Because we'll just be prepping our kids to go into a world that hates them.
We need to start behaving as a community and see each other as brothers and sisters. We have to think from a perspective of "I'm responsible for my well-being and not White Daddy" [USER=1118]ProMoatBlack[/USER] and [USER=1167]Mrs. BLACKRADICAL[/USER] IMO are setting the example. We need to take the meager resources we DO have and start cooperating with one another. Because a lot of the things you say the previous generations didn't teach us are present in White communities but they have a whole system set up that protects them when they fall. White people have set up a system where they can fail upwards. We in the Black community have nothing like this because we don't own anything.
I think more than "get in a white academic institution and get good grades to get a good job at a white institution" we should be teaching our kids the importance of building our own. Because when you have your own it is harder to take away. If we are trying to thrive in a society that's built for us to fail we will have what we have today, not a got damn thing.
