tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12869083.post1755057358020951903..comments2023-11-03T07:47:05.286-05:00Comments on Blogging While Black version 4.0: Old Surly BastardThe Brown Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892123380005014339noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12869083.post-6892491209880454742008-05-21T11:29:00.000-05:002008-05-21T11:29:00.000-05:00"We are better than this but legend, entertainment...<I>"We are better than this but legend, entertainment and cultural conditioning would have us to believe that we are less..."</I><BR/><BR/>You said it ALL when you made that statement right there.<BR/><BR/>Why are we the way we are? Because we are conditioned to be that way. Plain and simple. We are followers and never leaders. And as you say, we are better than this, but we are products of our environments. Plain and simple.LadyLeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14895667783148669410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12869083.post-43402728997673733332008-05-19T19:59:00.000-05:002008-05-19T19:59:00.000-05:00Strange you should bring this up.My Son is a produ...Strange you should bring this up.<BR/><BR/>My Son is a product of his environment. The only child of a White Father and African-American Mother. As I have said before, literally the ancestry of the Slave and the Slave Owner.<BR/><BR/>His world was never clouded. He knew the evil that one half of his family inflicted on the other. He knows that not every man has always been pure at heart.<BR/><BR/>I was proud this year that he decided to attend Morehouse College. However, he has informed me that during the semester he has not always been happy.<BR/><BR/>Apparently he has experienced a culture gap. When asked the question, "What's up my nigga?" He replied. "Who the hell you talking to? No one in my family has been a nigga in 30 years."<BR/><BR/>He told me that although Morehouse was a fine institution and he was "getting along", he felt that many had the "BBB's" (busy being black). He was depressed that so many complained, but did little to change the circumstances of the day. That he had never seen his race be so full of excuses and doubt for who, and what, they are.<BR/><BR/>"I only see a false sense of pride here Dad", he said. "We are only a short distance from where one of our greatest Alumni is buried and no one understands what REALLY happened during his life. I mean, we call each other nigga's Dad. I might have expected that back I the streets at home, but not here. Never here."<BR/><BR/>It appears my young Son has learned far more than I paid for.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps the old men are getting younger. We can always pray such is true.Bananashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176853633460981781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12869083.post-7546285328028748812008-05-19T16:46:00.000-05:002008-05-19T16:46:00.000-05:00"the greatest tool of the oppressor is the mind of..."the greatest tool of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." - Stephen Biko. <BR/><BR/>Those who try to "free" others end up disappearing in the night or die of "accidental" deaths.Aly Cat 121https://www.blogger.com/profile/16546872299549844249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12869083.post-49984832715894262712008-05-16T22:24:00.000-05:002008-05-16T22:24:00.000-05:00Yes indeed Old Man Johnson, much has changed since...Yes indeed Old Man Johnson, much has changed since great grandpop's day. Not all is good.The Second Sixty-Eighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16484994957248204069noreply@blogger.com