1. At least 2-3 nights a week I drive around aimlessly blasting Rick Ross "Rich Off Cocaine"
2. I don't smoke, but every now and then I'll burn a joint, not a blunt but a joint and relax to Jay-Z "Party Life" on repeat and drink ciroc berry with simply raspberry lemonade and cranberry juice.
3. When I have gas, but need a car wash I will get .50 cents or lower worth of gas so that I can get two dollars off. You call it ghetto, I call it extra money in my savings.
4. I will refuse to buy a woman a meal, unless I'm really interested in them, but I have no problem throwing money at random strippers.
5. I have a fetish for women in Brazilian weave.
6. I lust for curly haired women, wearing black dresses, sporting thick black framed glasses.
7. I try not to pre-judged, but every time I see a woman with a titty tat I assume she's the type to take her shoes off in a club.
8. I'm addicted to life stories of prominent drug kingpins and gang members.
9. While drunk I tend to have intellectual discussions on problems and progression within the black community with people im with.
10. I dont really clubs in Omaha, or Gary, In in those places I'd rather get a couple drinks, dap some hands, and get some hugs and go home to a red box with somebody.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Black is the New Ghetto
My darker skin people are the ones that I adore, even though black seems to be the new ghetto it's our responsibility to show that we are so more.
From birth to about to the ending of high school I've never experienced myself as being looked at as ghetto. As a black male growing up with the Gary, In and North Omaha influenced I always reserved the term "ghetto" for those people who were addicted to dope, and hard alcohol, or those loose women that my grandmother would warn me about. It really wasn't until the ending of high school, early college when I realized what some outsiders defined it as.
I've never been the type to shy away from congregating with those from different backgrounds or ethnicities than mine. I always felt being around those of opposing cultures and viewpoints of your own allow you to grow and develop more mature intellectual viewpoints. Of course that comes with its downsides. Like in any relationship once people get a little comfortable with you they start to let out more of their views to you, or expose their true selves. You start to get those remarks such as, "you're not like most black people," or "you're so well spoken and don't come off as ghetto." It makes you wonder.
What are black people suppose to act, talk, and look like? Who made these rules, and governed them to society? Why is anything that is perceived as different, or less than the caucasoid norm deemed ghetto? How are these epistemological ideologies changed, is it a matter of economical class, or is it a race thing? People have been mentally conditioned to believe anything that black American culture makes popular or is known for is bad. Has this ideal of black being bad manifested itself deeper into our own people today?
Ask yourself have you slaved many overtimes hours at an average job just to afford what entertainers advertise through music and television just to make people believe that you're in a class that doesn't reflect your tax bracket? Have you purchased latest hi-techs phones just so you can stunt on those with pre-paid phones, droids, or blackberry's? Do you try to push foreign cars, with local lower tier car lots income? Has your life become a charade to avoid being categorize as those "other niggas?" Their is nothing wrong with achieving economical elevation, but are you showing that we are more than being ghetto, or are you just joining the discriminating group of some who look down on those ghetto blacks?
From birth to about to the ending of high school I've never experienced myself as being looked at as ghetto. As a black male growing up with the Gary, In and North Omaha influenced I always reserved the term "ghetto" for those people who were addicted to dope, and hard alcohol, or those loose women that my grandmother would warn me about. It really wasn't until the ending of high school, early college when I realized what some outsiders defined it as.
I've never been the type to shy away from congregating with those from different backgrounds or ethnicities than mine. I always felt being around those of opposing cultures and viewpoints of your own allow you to grow and develop more mature intellectual viewpoints. Of course that comes with its downsides. Like in any relationship once people get a little comfortable with you they start to let out more of their views to you, or expose their true selves. You start to get those remarks such as, "you're not like most black people," or "you're so well spoken and don't come off as ghetto." It makes you wonder.
What are black people suppose to act, talk, and look like? Who made these rules, and governed them to society? Why is anything that is perceived as different, or less than the caucasoid norm deemed ghetto? How are these epistemological ideologies changed, is it a matter of economical class, or is it a race thing? People have been mentally conditioned to believe anything that black American culture makes popular or is known for is bad. Has this ideal of black being bad manifested itself deeper into our own people today?
Ask yourself have you slaved many overtimes hours at an average job just to afford what entertainers advertise through music and television just to make people believe that you're in a class that doesn't reflect your tax bracket? Have you purchased latest hi-techs phones just so you can stunt on those with pre-paid phones, droids, or blackberry's? Do you try to push foreign cars, with local lower tier car lots income? Has your life become a charade to avoid being categorize as those "other niggas?" Their is nothing wrong with achieving economical elevation, but are you showing that we are more than being ghetto, or are you just joining the discriminating group of some who look down on those ghetto blacks?
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Random thoughts
1. Whenever a woman disses her child's father on a social network site it's always some girl saying, "You don't need him, you can raise that child on your own"...Kids need both, you don't want a child being angry at 23 because of a lack of love.
2. Why do women lie about being pregnant? Who lies about being an unwed pregnant woman. Boy how have times changed.
3. If a girl dresses like a man (stud) does she expect to get in the club free on ladies night? (stole from #BlackTwitter)
4. How come is okay to hate an established artist, but it's deemed as treason to hate a local one? I mean if you're wack you're wack.
5. How come people will complain more when channels (VH1, BET etc) are canceled, but not use that same anger towards problems within their own community?
6. Why do ppl think that going natural makes you more pro black than the sister that uses the creamy crack? If you perpetrate the notion that natural hair makes you better than the girl you claim is submitting to the Eurocentric standard of beauty doesn't that make you a hypocrite?
7. How can you have an iPhone and put down bb and droid users if you don't have a working computer at home? Like for real how you got flat screens on the wall, but your only web access is your mobile phone?
8. How can girls throw around the term thirsty when as soon as they lose attention they ironically lose clothes?
9. Why do ppl make it known as social sites that they are doing illegal things? I thought real G's moved in silence like lasagna?
10. Why aren't you following me on twitter on instagram? @blove402
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Facebook Brandon Lovelace Omaha, NE
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2. Why do women lie about being pregnant? Who lies about being an unwed pregnant woman. Boy how have times changed.
3. If a girl dresses like a man (stud) does she expect to get in the club free on ladies night? (stole from #BlackTwitter)
4. How come is okay to hate an established artist, but it's deemed as treason to hate a local one? I mean if you're wack you're wack.
5. How come people will complain more when channels (VH1, BET etc) are canceled, but not use that same anger towards problems within their own community?
6. Why do ppl think that going natural makes you more pro black than the sister that uses the creamy crack? If you perpetrate the notion that natural hair makes you better than the girl you claim is submitting to the Eurocentric standard of beauty doesn't that make you a hypocrite?
7. How can you have an iPhone and put down bb and droid users if you don't have a working computer at home? Like for real how you got flat screens on the wall, but your only web access is your mobile phone?
8. How can girls throw around the term thirsty when as soon as they lose attention they ironically lose clothes?
9. Why do ppl make it known as social sites that they are doing illegal things? I thought real G's moved in silence like lasagna?
10. Why aren't you following me on twitter on instagram? @blove402
Twitter/instagram blove402
Facebook Brandon Lovelace Omaha, NE
bran.lo1027@gmail.com
Sunday, July 15, 2012
What I Learned in School That The Teacher Didn't Tech Me
Every now and then I'll come across an debate about education among some of my black peers. I always get the argument that it's a "debt sentence," a waste of time, doesn't guarantee you a job etc. I'm sure you heard those and others.
One person brought up Henry Ford. It made me think, do black folks that don't attend really think that all black people go to college just to get rich?
I always had the dream as kid that I would go pro in sports and get my mother a big ass house and she would never struggle again. One day I realized that wouldn't happen and I changed that aim and decided that I would go into business and become this big time CEO and stunt on everyone whoever picked on me in school and throughout my life. I always wanted to be rich and successful out of spite and not of the sense of accomplishment for the greater good. After about two wasted years in college I took a course that changed my whole outlook on life.
Black Women in America taught by Dr. Margaret Jones forced me to take critical look on oppression on black women. Not only did it make me appreciate them, but all oppressed groups around the world. I realized that to get the top people never focus on the people you have to climb over. While CEOs are pulling in millions, their are millions of people at the bottom working for them barely making sustainable income to provide for the families. Sometimes I like to think as them as "the forgotten." What's the point of climbing up when you refuse to bring others up. A million dollars sounds nice, but is it worth it at the end of life if that's all you're remembered for? Money is nice to have, but to be loved and respected for who I am from others means more.
I changed my major to education and sociology in hopes of becoming a guidance counselor for secondary students. I wanted to be the one that motivated those who have every going against them and it would be understandable if the gave up, even it was one child that that caught on to the idea of self educating or institutionalized education was the the way to go. I believe in the "Reach 1, Teach 1" theory. You help one and he will help others which in turn will turn into a domino effect.
A year ago I went to Chicago for a couple weeks and participated in a Project Clean-up this project went to different violent projects and neighborhoods in the city and showed children alternate lifestyles, registered adults to vote, and provided mentoring to some of the young children in hopes that they wouldn't fall into traps that poverty in America can bring (drugs, gangs, violence etc) but if you want to find a way to get racks, on racks, on racks then maybe invest that "debt sentence" into something with a higher payout.
If you read through all of that hopefully you understood my view. School wasn't a way out of poverty, it's gives more than a degree and thousands of dollars in debt. It gave my mind a different direction, it made me more tolerant of people that I deemed different, and introduced me to part of me that I've never met.
"As you grow older you will realize that you were born with two hands, one to help yourself and another to help others"
One person brought up Henry Ford. It made me think, do black folks that don't attend really think that all black people go to college just to get rich?
I always had the dream as kid that I would go pro in sports and get my mother a big ass house and she would never struggle again. One day I realized that wouldn't happen and I changed that aim and decided that I would go into business and become this big time CEO and stunt on everyone whoever picked on me in school and throughout my life. I always wanted to be rich and successful out of spite and not of the sense of accomplishment for the greater good. After about two wasted years in college I took a course that changed my whole outlook on life.
Black Women in America taught by Dr. Margaret Jones forced me to take critical look on oppression on black women. Not only did it make me appreciate them, but all oppressed groups around the world. I realized that to get the top people never focus on the people you have to climb over. While CEOs are pulling in millions, their are millions of people at the bottom working for them barely making sustainable income to provide for the families. Sometimes I like to think as them as "the forgotten." What's the point of climbing up when you refuse to bring others up. A million dollars sounds nice, but is it worth it at the end of life if that's all you're remembered for? Money is nice to have, but to be loved and respected for who I am from others means more.
I changed my major to education and sociology in hopes of becoming a guidance counselor for secondary students. I wanted to be the one that motivated those who have every going against them and it would be understandable if the gave up, even it was one child that that caught on to the idea of self educating or institutionalized education was the the way to go. I believe in the "Reach 1, Teach 1" theory. You help one and he will help others which in turn will turn into a domino effect.
A year ago I went to Chicago for a couple weeks and participated in a Project Clean-up this project went to different violent projects and neighborhoods in the city and showed children alternate lifestyles, registered adults to vote, and provided mentoring to some of the young children in hopes that they wouldn't fall into traps that poverty in America can bring (drugs, gangs, violence etc) but if you want to find a way to get racks, on racks, on racks then maybe invest that "debt sentence" into something with a higher payout.
If you read through all of that hopefully you understood my view. School wasn't a way out of poverty, it's gives more than a degree and thousands of dollars in debt. It gave my mind a different direction, it made me more tolerant of people that I deemed different, and introduced me to part of me that I've never met.
"As you grow older you will realize that you were born with two hands, one to help yourself and another to help others"
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