how the “black” culture almost destroyed my life

[@Thatboycj2232]

I’ve been listing to rnb, rap , hip hop or whatever and I never smoked crack or did no crazy shit. Blame your parents.

[@godoftsukuyomi7480]

Yeah that's just insane lol

[@wincheng187]

As a person who loves Hip Hop and listens to it, it is AA culture. Hip Hop used to be about consciousness and teaching life lessons, but now the mainstream loves to push the Sexy Redd’s, Megan Thee Stallions, and King Von’s. Even when Hip Hop in the ‘90s had degenerate artists, it was a balance with rappers like Queen Latifah, Lauryn Hill, and Tribe Called Quest. Even 2Pac at the start of his career was conscious. I know you mentioned that that’s not our culture but I disagree. Not all of Hip Hop is bad. We even have rappers like J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar. Every culture has good and bad. The problem is that the mainstream media loves to push the negatives of our culture. Also, it doesn’t help that a certain percentage of us don’t try to break away from the negatives including me, I still listen to degenerate rap sometimes, but I also make rap music preaching about Christianity. You also mentioned that the AA leaders we have in today’s time our sellouts, I disagree. You might not agree with me on this but I feel like Barack Obama is a good leader just the way he carries himself and his message on hope and Obamacare. Also, do you have a problem with Black History teaching about MLK and the guy that invented peanut butter or because that’s the only thing they taught? Also, what were you saying about Trans and AA near the end?

[@AnnabellaEnko]

@@wincheng187 yes sir I completely agree with you. I personally love Christian rap I like it as an art form. I love the music. I love the beats. It was just the degeneracy that got to me and I didn’t have a problem with them teaching about MLK and Dr. Carver, but where I grew up, that was the only thing they taught they didn’t teach about any other African-American people and what I wanted to say is that as someone who witnessed bad things happen in the African-American culture, the drugs, the poverty, the high rates of suicide. I’m noticing that in the trans culture and it’s making me step back and look and ask myself why is a large part of our population being sterilized and exterminated? And why has this happened more than once?

[@wincheng187]

@@AnnabellaEnkothanks for answering my question. Also, I think your grandma probably didn’t want you in sports because you could get hurt and she probably wanted you to focus on education. I don’t think it had anything to do with Blackness because Caucasian kids love sports as well.

[@AnnabellaEnko]

@ yeah, you’re right I asked her about it after posting lol 😂

[@chrischin380]

Hip Hop is a groovy genre promoted by white ownership to spread a self defecating message among blacks. Hip Hop has always been another tool of black destruction. Yes, there were marginally positive elements mixed in as part of the strategy to denigrate. Promotion of criminality and homosexuality is par for the course of action.

[@godoftsukuyomi7480]

@@wincheng187 "Hip Hop used to be about consciousness and teaching life lessons" No, Hip Hop has always been about speaking about the product of reality. This is why when the west coast adapted Hip-Hop in the 80s/90s, they rapped about Gangster culture, Drugs, Police Brutality, and women because that's what their upbringing was about. In 2012, when the youth in Chicago adapted Hip Hop, they rapped about killing each other because they were born into a generational gang war that dates back to the 70s. Hip Hop has always been about products of reality.

[@greenhousefun3235]

This is very interesting. This is a parental guidance and supervision issue. Parents are responsible for teaching their children about priorities, consequences and culture. Thankfully you can read, and build relationships to gain wonderful knowledge of self. Drugs and sexual deviance has absolutely nothing to do with being black/OrAA. ✌🏿

[@Dworry-lt1dk]

5:00 🤣 riiiight

[@AnnabellaEnko]

You can’t make this shit up 😂😂😂😂😂

[@yg7434]

😂 When didn't grow up in the hood, you'll say things like this... another pick me.

[@babiegirl444]

Very interesting perspective 🤔Thanks for sharing your experience as a mixed race person. 😌For a long time I wondered how mulattos develop their sense of identity. In all honestly, i've never met a mixed race person who seemed completely comfortable with the complexity of their identity. Most of them seem to struggle and ultimately suppress one side of themselves in an attempt to fit in or even stand out. But never fully embracing both sides. Also I’ve heard that the term mulatto is offensive but i’m not sure. It's just the term we use most often to describe mixed people where I'm from so just let me know. As a African American Woman, Texas born and Alabama Raised, I’ve witnessed mulattos struggle with their sense of belonging. From my perspective mulattos raised by white families seem to struggle the most because society provides limited information about the other half of their identity. They aren't raised in a black homes so they miss out on the stories passed down and the overall black experience. Most of them, like youself, turn to hip hop culture as a reference which is sad. It might also explain why you perceive hip hop culture to be synonymous with black culture.. But it is not. Black culture simply gave birth to hip hop in the same way that black culture gave birth to Gospel, R&B, Rock n Roll, Disco, Blues, Jazz, Pop music and just most American music in general 🎶 Even our language ( ebonics ) influences American slang. Whilst some may perceive it as being improper English, some linguists recognize it as a separate and sophisticated language of its own similar to Jamaican patois and creole. Most African Americans learned early how to “code switch” between our language and mannerisms to European American language and mannerisms. However, there are some AA who prefer to speak ebonics only and will not code switch to accommodate people who don’t know. 🤷‍♀ Also, I think its important for gardians of all children to monitor what their children consume on tv and social media. Because believe it or not, as a black child, being raised by a strict AA mother meant that most of us grew up on Anita Baker, Stevie Wonder, Yalanda Adams and Kirk Franklin. We simply werent allowed to consume hip hop until adulthood and any hip hop consumed was done in secret. 🤫 With that said, I am so sorry that you were introduced to SW so prematurely. Nevertheless, it would be inaccurate to blame this experience on the entirety of black culture in the same way that it would be incorrect to blame white culture for pop cultures influence on young white girls to be like Kim Kardashian and expose themselves on OF With all of that said, thank you for mentioning our accomplishments in politics, science and business throughout American history before we were defined by hip hop culture 🤗 Good luck on your journey to understanding true AA culture and its beautiful complexity. BTW I absolutly love the natural lighting in this video 💕

[@AnnabellaEnko]

@@babiegirl444 do you make videos because you should your articulate responses are very very welcome and yes, I do understand that I have a very large gap in my education and understanding of African-American culture that I will be probably the rest of my life trying to fill, but like you said, it is a very beautiful and wonderful culture that although it has some negative connotations aren’t the actual culture itself 💕💕

[@babiegirl444]

Thanks you 😊 Maybe one day I'll make a public video. But for now I am merely an observer and consumer of content.

[@Demo.Preset.Photography-q9w]

Awesome response...Said too that she cannot discern the difference between black social conditioning and Black Culture..

[@morwaze]

I agree with you but I'm also heartened by some of the truly black men and women who while fair complected were unquestionably black. Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit for example. Conversely, I'm also thrown off by unquestionably black people... dark brown complected people who seem to despise themselves... like Clarence Thomas.

[@Dworry-lt1dk]

it seem the only experience she has with the culture is the lack of experiencing it/fitting in. The way she speaking you can tell she aint never been around kinfolk like that and im not talking about being articulate. girl you wouldnt even be comfortable in a black neighborhood but feel like you can talk about a culture you know nothing about outside what u see in the media.

[@AnnabellaEnko]

@@Dworry-lt1dk I’m sharing my personal experience 🤷‍♀️ edit: also I’ve had a couple of comments saying that I simply didn’t experience the right part of the culture if African-American culture is so great then why do you guys continuously allow yourselves to be portrayed as deranged monkeys? If your culture was really wholesome, you would have actual examples.

[@Dworry-lt1dk]

@@AnnabellaEnko why do you have to frame the culture as disgusting, seems like ol meemaw was coming out of you there, the same one who thought playing sports is .. too black? I respect you bring up black culture before jim crow and names like Ida B wells and whoever else but the rest seem lacking nuance and perspective

[@AnnabellaEnko]

@@Dworry-lt1dk i’m not framing the culture as disgusting. The culture is disgusting. I’m not trying to offend you. I’m not trying to insult you but current African-American culture is literally heinous. And it’s up to us and the future generations to return to our original roots not this hyper sexualized, poverty stricken, drug addicted mess it is now. But if we keep pointing fingers talking about who’s black enough, we’re just gonna stay rotting in trap houses.

[@AnnabellaEnko]

@@Dworry-lt1dk and just so you know I know my kinfolk. I know them very well. MY ENTIRE FAMILY is on drugs, on welfare, no one even owns a home. This is the third year anniversary of my father’s OD on fentanyl. So I’ve seen black culture just not what you would have me see.

[@BadTimes-xu4mv]

Facts she is not fooling nobody but these goofys in her comments

[@hikidunm1582]

What you've described is lack of adult supervision & care. Your granny wasn't taking care of you properly & had no arrangements in place to do that. Black music has various genres besides rap, even within rap, there are different types. Many Black kids in America of your generation had grannys who introduced them to books, adults who kept them from trash. Your experience as described isn't culture specific, you'll find similar tales across racial lines - quite honestly, you'll find similar tales almost anywhere in the World.

[@dontedelaney8625]

Thank you

[@johnsonaning7666]

Our culture and way of thinking is destroying our youth

[@godoftsukuyomi7480]

As a historian, I cosign this post.

[@hikidunm1582]

@@godoftsukuyomi7480 🙏🏾

[@cliffbrown4892]

The parent supervision thing is a cop out.. black hyper criminal and hypersexualized imagery is everywhere..The vice president had a person who's song is called wet a** p*say give a speech for her. ..how can a parent protect a child from that..the culture has been hijacked by people that invest in prisons and burial plots...Black ignorance and deth is big business you know that..stop defending bullish...

[@godoftsukuyomi7480]

It seems to me you're misdiagnosing the issue. Rhythm and blues, Rock and roll, Funk/soul, Motown, House, Trap, Techno, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Country, and Pop are all music genres within Black Culture. And within these music genres you'll also have sub-genres. What you're describing is a sub-genre of Hip-Hop which derives from trap or drill which promotes degeneracy. The issue is.. you're categorizing that as the entirety of Black Culture and you're claiming that's what made you go sell yourself and sell crack. I think It's important to understand that black people who are the face of Hip-Hop right now are people who derive from communities that historically had It the worse and now they get exploited for profit. What you're witnessing is Hip-Hop being a product of reality. It's more than just trying to be 'cool'. Going based on your story. It seems to me you were also a product of your environment. You were living in the issue. Music doesn't cause someone to just sell themselves and do drugs. That's more of a psychological issue that was developed from your environment which is something you had very little control of at youth. I also think you should understand that Hip-Hop, Drugs, and Gang culture is an effect of a causation inflicted by white supremacy. Do you research on the origins behind the Drugs, Hip-Hop, and Gang culture. None of these things would exist today without historical context. Remember, a story without historical context is propoganda too. Black people are not biological enemies and weren't like this until all of the events followed after the 1960s.

[@thedame9974]

Exactly.

[@godoftsukuyomi7480]

@@thedame9974 It's wild. She was a product of her environment but blames other people who are also products of their environment.

[@morwaze]

She said "maga" at the end. So you know she don't know wtf she talking about. Ijs...

[@chrischin380]

Don't underestimate the power of music, especially music that is repeatedly listened on a daily basis as a part of the programming. Take another listen to depression music called "Rhythm and Blues," or devil's music called "Rock and Roll," or swinging free sex music called "Motown," or criminality normalizing music called "Hip Hop," or other groovy genres used to carry messages of black denigration, black inferiority, and white supremacy. The young lady is spot on...her message is applicable to all genres of so called black music, spread by commercial white ownership.

[@natesamadhi33]

it really is sad when mixed people, who didnt grow up in strong black communities, end up having identity-crises & misconceptions about our culture, then end up resenting the culture based on their misconceptions.

[@davidfoster5550]

I love the way you articulate and carry yourself now..your mindset will go far towards the black race to teach and heal people who are lost

[@MauriceJuly-ft4qm]

This really hits deep and im sure you had more on your mind to express... Blessings to you and keep up the good work

[@AnnabellaEnko]

I appreciate that ❤

[@johnsonaning7666]

God bless you my sister. I'm glad that you are awake and may God lead you to your journey

[@onceagain6184]

🤣🤣🤣 This sounds like you have terrible judgment. You shouldn't blame that on rap .

[@AnnabellaEnko]

@@onceagain6184 I don’t know any 12-year-olds with good judgment you’re right 😂

[@rubenbarrera7338]

I'm not black but I felt like rap music and gangsta movies in the 90s almost ruined my life too I grew up poor and around gangs so I thought that's who I was suppose to be. I'm glad I was able to shake it off. A lot of kids weren't as lucky as me.

[@AnnabellaEnko]

@@rubenbarrera7338 exactly it’s a really predatory culture, especially to children 👏👏👏

[@chrismobley9040]

rap music and gangsta movies are entertainment not culture u dummy

[@yardee007]

That's just you being weak minded and no guidance in growing up...Don't blame the culture