The Way I See It: “What Happened”

 Your child is outside acting like a fool and when I reprimand them, you have a problem with ME?        

This is the same parent who won’t go to parent/teacher conferences, won’t attend report card pick up day, and won’t return the teachers phone calls, but if they take your child’s cell phone away, you will call off work to show up and get the phone back the next day. 

What happened to black pride?  Instead you are proud of being a nigga.  You are proud of being hood.   

In reality, you are proud of being ignorant. What happened to “working twice as hard to get half as far”? 

Though it wasn’t fair, this mind set is what my parents and their parents used to push them to succeed thru all odds and over all obstacles. 

That has been replaced with “work half as hard and expect twice as much” and “getting something for nothing” and you wonder why we don’t have anything.      

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