Listen fellas, before allyuh get me wrong lemme just clear the air, i said i like tommy, not bc he makes me laugh, or bc he's critical of these ghetto savages, but bc he makes me think.
tommy says things that most of us already know about the community @ large, but what makes him useful is that he puts it under a microscope and breaks down the dynamic thereof, not only the offenders, but the non offenders who just stands by and not get involved (the camera phone recorders and the laughers).
if yuh really examine the black community, whether lower middle or upper class, we tend to follow a lot of street generated values, we never want to be seen as uncool, bc in todays world , being black automatically translate into being cool, in other words, the poster boys for pop culture no matter what class you're from.
we don't snitch, we don't hold our women hands in public, men don't show public or private affection for each other, that is perceived as facking gay in today's black mens reality!!
we are fixated with violent super heroes (mike tyson, rambo, 50 cents,the terminator, optimus prime) just to name ah few, we don't apologize even when we're wrong (that is seen as week as f#ck), we settle all of our disputes with disrespect, name calling, violence and profanity, matter of fact we only call the cops when a vehicular accident occurs, we no longer greet each other respectfully, for instance saying to someone "good morning neighbor", in today's black world that is seen as faggotry!.
all that i have underline is rooted deep in prison culture!! which is prevalent amongst black males mainly men under 50 yrs old from any walk of life, whether fist 2nd or ghetto class. IMO there's no class amongst most black folk, but rather income brackets based on education and ambition.
a lot of these well to do educated blacks have relatives in the hood, matter of fact, when black america was formed there were progressive black neighborhoods in the early south that comprised of highly skilled professionals and hard working folk who wanted great things for their progeny, but like i said, that was more so in the south.
when the south was impoverished by the industrial revolution a lot of black professionals and lay men started heading north to find jobs, particularly in cities like chicago, boston, detroit, indianapolis, LA, st louis and to some extent new york.
despite the fact that there was no jim crowe laws in these states, most of them were segregated by choice and in some cases income zones, thus the formation of some of the first urban ghettos in the north, so black ppl were forced to live in low income areas bc of their income bracket.
after desegregation the ppl with a little more money moved out these ghettos and started moving into the suburbs often being scorned by the white population who would more or less move out leaving these neighborhoods bc it was becoming too brown for their taste, with some of these neighborhoods becoming good black middle class neighborhoods.
as the yrs progressed blacks with a little money started running from these inner city ghettos moving into the burbs joining the first group of blacks to make the move, but they brought the ghetto with them, that's when the progressive blacks started doing like the whites who preceded them, they headed for higher ground leaving these suburbs to the new niggers that moved in.
in reality there's no black upper class, bc there was never a huge black aristocracy, they were too few and too far between like the bryant gumbels, al rookers and tony browns of black america who are anomalies.
most black well to do are new comers to money and societal standards, and they all have something in common, relatives in the so called "hood". ppl like oprah, bill cosby, janet jackson, cissy houston, quincy jones and eddie murhpy are all guilty of this.
IMO, most black men under 40 world wide are all susceptible to this new and "improved" delinquent black hip hop macho "super hero" ultra masculine culture, and they adhere to it's rules rigorously, unless they are nerds like the yute with the 4.0 GPA or the yutes who came from well rounded homes.
it's even spreading to other cultures, just look @ tim goopee singh son, is he from the hood??
