Watched the second half of the Black in America special on CNN....this one focused on the black male.....the injustices they have suffered.....the cycle of teenage fatherhood growing......no 2 people are alike.....Dyson proved that......he, a professor.....his younger brother serving life in jail......educated black men are scarce.....growing up in the hood doesn't mean that u have to stay there.....your struggles should encourage you to better yourself.....i guess this is were role models come in.....grew up in a single mother household......but i think i came out ok.....can't say that for everyone else though......
No 2 people are alike....
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black men face terrible challenges, even the successful ones. people in the hood do not start there by choice, but remain there by choices they did or didn't make. everyone has that "potential" to become great...some are content and will not become great. as far our black fathers or lack thereof, there is no excuse for children to go father-less if there fathers are still alive. that segment was the most embarrassing because it showed how young we are having babies at. black women need to not make it so easy for a brother to get in between their legs, especially with no protection. thats all for now...this night was clearly more intense than last night.
this is a good point. it's so interesting how you can grow up with people, have similar upbringings, and yet end up in totally different places. There is something about how we choose to think that seems to have a deep affect to me. We can choose to think that we are disadvantaged, or we can choose to not accept them. We can choose to think life is about having fun and doing whatever we want to do, or we can choose to believe that we can make a change. That our lives have essence that needs to be express. What saddens me in our culture, is how so many talented creative individuals get sucked into the lies of the past. When will we learn that success sometimes means that we'll have to fight for it, not physically but most of the times mentally. We've all had hard times. I thought it was interesting in the part two how many of the men even admitted that they made bad decisions that they were so engulfed by their sorrow or their insecurities that they let it dominate them, making them feel like they were nothing good to man. But this is where we have to fight, we have to fight past this type of thinking. Because in the end we sacrifice so much more when we don't accomplish or true potential, ourselves.
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