Should Successful Black Ppl Help other Blacks?

I don't necessarily have mentors but I have peers/colleagues who are also rocking it in their industries who happen to be black, or minorities.

And I think that for me has been helpful as well. In addition to me being a hard worker and making leaps and bounds. I think ppl in general are more willing to help you when they see you working hard and making strides.

It sounds cold, but why should someone have to:

1. lead you to the water
2. force your mouth open
3. force you to drink
4. force you to swallow and sate your thirst?!

That's the only biggest problem I've always seen. I'm not going to give a side eye to someone who wants more but maybe doesn't know how to get there. But I DO get mad/annoyed when I hear ppl looking for someone to just give them something without having put in any effort.

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Side note:

With the people I've come across, aspiring rappers tend to be the ones who assume they should just "get rich quick" and you should fast track their careers because they're "spittin hot fiya" when they really sound like they recorded something in their shower. Yet they don't want to put in the effort and go through the pain to make it happen.

And their fall back line is always "well you know, you should help a brotha out because we're fam." No we're not. I have one sister. And I don't promote crap or misogynistic music. Posting a reckless and craptastic track on Soundcloud doesn't make you dope.

*rant over*


Edited by modelbusiness82 - Jan 28 2013 at 7:58pm

People who think blacks will stab them in the back and whatnot should help black foster kids by mentoring them or helping them out once they age out. Those kids have no idea what the world has to offer; most only know pain, abuse and neglect and a supportive adult can really change their lives.


I do think that the very successful blacks (and I am talking about the millionaires and multi-millionaires) could and should help other blacks by either offering jobs or offering some kind of program in the area where they were from (they would know best what the area is lacking) like child care/play time services on weekends for kids of low income families or Summer/Winter/Spring break camps, offer some kind of scholarship yearly for a young adult or a single parent to take classes somewhere to get more opportunities in the market, etc.

jonesable wrote: Yes yes yes. There are a lot of folk back home who do this and I love them for it. When they see us trying they give us that extra push and have positions for us back home

 

ThoughtCouture wrote: i generally side eye people who claim that they don't want to help blacks because they have been stabbed in the back embarrassed by ect.  as if yt folks are so effing loyal and on point.   anyway, of course, i feel i should help others who look like me...been where i've been...ect ect ect

I don't know, being African I've been brought up to understand the value of giving a helping hand. It's something I will always do and a value I will instil in my future kids..