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Clearly this dude is hanging out in the *wrong* places. Otherwise, I'm not buying it. There's no shortage of places that a white man can be without having to see, deal or communicate with Black folks.😁😎

@jollyrogers that is an interesting post, and one that is hard to believe. If you did not write you were a 6-foot-tall white guy I would have assumed you were a dark-skinned Black man, a gay man, or a Brother with a white girl on his arm 🙂 I've never read any account of a tall white guy being harassed on a regular basis. Tall white guys lived a charmed life in this country -- phenotypically speaking you have it made -- globally! Maybe there is something else going on with your appearance. Do you regularly sport a red MAGA cap?

https://aalbc.com/pdf/growing up in east harlem.pdf This article was originally published in May of 1990. The PDF file is 25 printed pages and can be leisurely read in 35 minutes. I was raised in this community when I first read the article in the 90s it did not feel like it was my old neighborhood. It was a very limited perspective and completely ignored everything that caused the community to end up the why it did. It was basically poverty porn to me.

Professor Black Truth has something to say on this issue:

ProfD I agree that Will probably was taking a lifetime of frustration at being called soft, a bitch, and a cuck all out on Chris that night....but still....he DID smack the dude. It wasn't fake or set up....he had the balls to walk up and steal on him (not really a steal because he saw him coming....lol) on live televison. I agree that it wasn't a good look for Black folks collectively, but in my opinion it did raise Will's manhood by a few points in my opinion. But most Black folks ain't giving him NO pass....lol. Poor Will can't win for losing. Not sure how Chris Rock could come out looking good after having the shit smacked out of him on live television and he did nothing but stand there in shock and tell jokes to ease the situation. Would most of us have done differently? Not sure....but it is what it is. He got smacked and didn't retaliate. Fuck what White folks think....self defense is a natural right. I'm as pro-Black as they come, however if some fools start busting at my house.....I'm not gonna run out on the porch and start quoting Huey P. Newton to them in hope of convincing them to turn their gun on the "real enemy". I'm gonna bust back and try to get as many of them as I can to prevent it from happening again....lol.

It was a smart move because he's making money off the incident but...... I guess I just think differently than most people because I still think it wasn't very honorable for Chris Rock to get the shit slapped out of him on stage and did nothing, to NOW start talking shit and running his mouth about the incident. And to go after Jada like that NOW when the coast is clear and Will ain't up in his face to check him again for it??? Come on...how can we respect a guy like that? I don't see how so many Black folks born and raised in the hood can look at that and not call Chris a punk. I said over and over again that through out much of his life Will was called weak, a punk, a this and that.....and when he DOES show some aggression and masulinity he's clowned for THAT. Defending his wife's honor was a "stupid move"??? Black America has a lot of shit twisted.

@KENNETH often this argument is simplified into a this or that scenario. There are large groups of Black people who are socially conservative. There are large numbers of Black people who are fiscally conservative. Black people can be in both of the above groups and vehemently reject the Republican party, which never made sense to me. Black people are all over the spectrum when it comes to assessing what is most responsible for our collective and individual successes and failures. If you have the three things below, you will generally succeed in this country: Ability; Drive; and Lucky You really need all three to succeed. That "trifecta" of conditions can be both elusive and fleeting. The legacy of slavery and Jim Crow has diminished our ability obtain some of the lucky breaks white folks enjoy. This of course affects our drive and even our ability. Both of my grandfathers were illiterate. I know other Black people my age whose grandfathers graduated from college. Who do you think benefited more from inherited wealth, educational opportunities, and less familial dysfunction? Who would be more inclined to claim hard work is the way to succeed? I'm one of those people who blame both the legacy of racism and our own behavior for both our individual and collective predicaments. I also believe much of our dysfunctional is a direct consequence of living in a historically white racist country.

I was in the customs line leaving Barbados several years ago and Rihanna was in the line behind me as the line snaked i got a really good look at her. She is average looking. Nothing particularly striking about her in her natural state. We look at the people on the cover of Vogue and make the mistake of assuming that is actually how the person looks in real life. Times have absolutely changed as few men in my generation, or older, would desire that positioning on the cover of a magazine. It is emasculating, but that is considered a good thing today. Let the woman led pulling the “man” along as he nurtures that baby. I’m sure the photo was crafted to stoke that sentiment. I don’t particularity care for the photo, but the baby is cute 🥰