Crabs In A Bucket

Niggas keep other niggas down. Every white person has been dying to say it and its muthafucking true and everyone knows it but nobody says it. People rather live on with this mystical figure of "the man" (I imagine a stern heft white man balding in the middle of his head) keeping niggas down when NOPE niggas do it themselves. I wouldnt doubt it at all that people in the past conspired in the past to keep blacks down (out of nice neighborhoods, schools or programs etc) but if anyone where doing it today they'd be wasting their time and energy. Niggas have created a self sustaining cycle of keeping themselves down, its called CULTURE. Almost everything and anything that is related to black/african american culture is bad and if there is/was any good it is either overlooked or forgotten. (btw i credit rap music for 50% of this)

Let me just list a few things that you could be called "gay" for as a 12-18 year old black kid

1)smart

2)good grades

3)speaking well

4)interest in art

5)interest in anything outside of your immediate environment (animals,nature, math you name it)

6)helping someone you don't know

7)doing somebody a favor for no gain

8)telling on someone who did a bad thing

9)saying no to a bad idea

10)respecting your parents authority

11)being nice. Just fucking being nice, whens the last time you heard a kid from the hood tell another kid, wow that was nice vs. "your gay"

12)having alot of friends

13)listening to other types of music

14)saving money

15)really liking a girl

16)seeing drug dealing as a bad thing

I mean jesus fucking crist the list goes on and on some of the most ridiculous things are frowned upon by black culture and if you think some of the things on this list are a force you really arnt exposed enough to it.

Look at that list.......now it may really hit you when i flip it and you see what your looked up for in black culture.

1)nonintellectual (nobodys, even niggas, wanna be proud of being dumb)

2)bad grades (and i know this cause i had bad grades)

3)speaking in slang

4)calling anything artsy gay

5)only concerned with things going on in your environment (fights, ball games etc)

6)only helping "my fam and mah niggas"

7)everything's a hustle nothings done without reparation

8)not snitching 

9)"down for whatever"

10)not listening to your parents

11)being rude 

12)small circles. often given a name

13)listening to only rap. (which is a harmful cycle all on its own)

14)BMF (blowing money fast)

15)getting alot of hoes

16)seeing drug dealing as a good thing. Glorifying it at that.

These are no the sixteen most detrimental things i just write as i go and hope you get the message. but still take that list as an example and honestly try and tell your self its not true. This does not mean everybody of course it may not even be a majority (though i think it is). but that is black culture and we got to face it. Even as a kid when i used to live in boston i kind of seen over it. i probably couldnt have put my finger on it or explained it eloquently but still i would think something along the lines of "wtf these motherfuckers are stupid, they got it all backwards"   

I really didnt want to accept it at first, i always said it was economic/social factors but nope. Asian/Indian/African and other minorities come to America and usually by the first generation get out of poverty. Why is it these minorities in the same economic situations, often living side by side (EVEN HARDER FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY DONT SPEAK ENGLISH) prosper? the answer is the culture. they value the good and shun the bad. The only reason i think African/Caribbean first Gens dont do as well is that their children,because of their physical appearance, easily identify/accepted into African american culture.

So yea back to my point, niggas are like crabs in a bucket and they have created a whirlpool of bad values.