Life in the hood...Life around hood folks...

I hope my new neighbors are quiet...

I suspect it's a single mother, with large, football player sized son...



At first I thought it was Father, wife, and son....a complete family, but after further examination I think it's more like Dad, helping single mom, movie into new place with son.

Cause the man looks to old to be married to the lady, so the older man, with slight beard, must be the woman's father and teenagers granddad.

Which isn't so bad, cause any mans influence is good influence.

The older man seems very responsible, like they come from the responsible era of black men.

Seems like a stern type, but if he's not going to be living there, and only helping his daughter, with foot ball sized playing son move in, then the true test comes when Father or granddad is not around, how will they act?

Will they play loud music?, hold parties? fight and fuss?

Can't stand folks who play loud music in homes, houses, apts, without regard to their neighbors.

Playing loud music in home isn't as bad as playing loud music in apartment, depending on how spaced apart homes are.

In some places homes can be less than 5-10 feet apart...window to window.

Anyways, we shall see how this turns out...hopefully good.

I'm always will to give new people a chance to prove they're worthy of respect.

Sometimes I think I need to embrace a whole different culture, become a different culture in order to reinvigorate self.

Hood culture isn't a culture, it's more like residue.

Lying, cheating, acting tough, hurting others, going to jail, prison, getting arrested, cursing, using profanity, not using turn signals, throwing litter on the ground, eating junk food, smoking blunts, wearing saggy pants, walking like a pimp, none of that is 'culture'...it's residue.

And leads to mental and moral deteriation of the mind, body, spirit soul and body.

All cultures have a 'hood' element to them though.

Hispanics do, Europeans do, Africans do, Asians do...just go to any homeland and you'll see that.

Or ethnic hoods scattered in North America.

East LA, or now almost all of Los Angeles.

Russians, Irish, Islanders, Italians, all cultures have that 'street' element to them.

And as separation between the well off and have not's seem to widen, the 'hood' mindset in all cultures seems to be growing, as people give up traditional honest ways, and turn crooked to make a fast buck, in order to pay the 'system'...which demands money from you until your dead.

Even after you're dead, the 'system' 'beast' demands money from you, or those you know, or knew.

This system has created more criminals than any system before it.

The other side of prosperity is despair.

If things didn't have 'value', no one would steal.

If everyone had, no one would take.

If Satan himself were to design a system, were to run the world, I can't think of a better system modeled after his nature.

Makes you wonder...

Oops, wrong section...

Not sure if this is the right category for this comment or not...but I notice lighter skinned blacks are nicer than dark skinned ones, in general.

Dark skinned blacks raised in the SE or Chicago area, are mean as hell, shallow as hell, when it comes to accepting other variations of 'black'.

But I notice lighter skinned blacks, or mixed people, tend to have way more tolerance for everyone.

Pitch black blacks, tend to be cruel, and mean, and judgmental towards lighter skinned types, from what I observe.

But treat white people and or customers like saints.

Not sure if it's some colonial slave days residue left over in pitch black blacks that makes them treat whites like their masters, and lighter skinned blacks like dirt.

But I notice lighter skinned blacks have more confidences, and better self esteem, and don't treat whites any better or worse than blacks...

But I notice super charcoal skinned blacks despise lighter skinned blacks, and love treating elderly white customers like 'masters'...yes sir, yes ma'am'...yet when lighter skinned black walks in, a look of hostility comes over their face.

As such I no longer cry for darker skinned blacks when they scream white racism...cause I've seen first hand that dark skinned blacks are as cruel and racist as they claim whites to be, if not more so.

I just got a visit from a regular man, it was a service call.

This man was normal, tall, big, polite and knowledgable.

The total opposite of shifty eyed aloof hood types.

The man just so happened to be 'white'...but displayed old time mannerisms that all men use to have, even black men, before having value system turned upside down by the rap onslaught.

Black males around here are short, aloof, never ever seem to mature and grow up...like 35 going on 17, always act shifty, scared and uncertain.

You can see the damage done to the esteem of the black male when you live in hood areas.

You can only thrive, being like that, when you stay within small geographical area in the hood, but outside the hood areas, you become exposed for being totally unprepared to deal with adult world.

Not speaking proper English will totally shatter your self esteem when in environment outside the hood and people look at you like you're retarded.

Street slang is one thing, but mispronouncing words into adulthood, is a whole different arena.

(long pause)

begin again...



Service man brought his help with him when he came back...his help was a black male.

Here's what I observe about black males, particularly ones raised in the South.

Black males raised in the South, at least the ones I seem to encounter, seem to lack initiative, and are more comfortable operating under the authority of a 'boss'.

For instance, whenever I approach a black male on a job or in store, and ask question, I always get referred to 'the boss' or 'the manager' ect.

It's as if the decision making ability has been stripped from the black mans reputar, at least when on a job.

But not by the 'white man', but rather by his, the black mans own self doubt or self definition of self...and or even laziness.

Example..

Me: 'Hi, can you fix this item?'

Black man 'Umm, umm, you gone have to ask Mr Jones, he in charge of dat'...

But what the black man is really saying on the inside is this Ahh schucks man, why you bothering me with your issues, I'm just here to get paid, not to think, I don't need no extra stress.

I think it's a mixture of both.

And even goes back to the whole Southern plantation thing, master/slave dynamic.

You still see those dynamics played out in the South...and both sides seem very comfortable with it...and who knows, if not for Northern intrusion, maybe Southern blacks would still be content being enslaved or living like they did back in the 1940's.

I try my best to empower black males by going to them first, but they don't want to be 'empowered', at least not the ones in the SE, cause whenever I go to them first, they always refer me to their 'boss' or massa.

You only notice this stuff if not raised here...I was raised 2800 miles away from here, in the Pacific NW...so obviously this Southern dynamic stands out to me, cause I wasn't raised around it.

Where I come from a man is a man, regardless of color, and black men act and behave normal.

Where I was raised, the black men acted like John Wayne, rugged, tough, and loved responsibility...the total opposite of the black men in the SE.

And then add the whole destructive hip-hop layer to that, and not sure if blacks have much of a future in America...as Mexicans are becoming more educated, and prominent, and driving blacks from the South West, as link points out.

Nothing can really be done, since most black males have been stripped of power, man hood, and have instead embraced the whole street culture identity, which is no identity at all.

Oh well, more observations to follow...

Living in the hood is such a drag.

Environment is so key to ones over all happiness, the people you see when you leave your place...all that makes up over all environment.

Certain parts of the city just make you feel better about getting up and going out, the people you see are just so much better adjusted. (at least on the surface).

Everything in the hood is like muck.



Just dead, with no color.

People just kind of exist on a basic, artificial street level mentality...

No visions, no dreams, beyond eating for one more day, or exploiting someone weaker than self.

It's just dead and artificial.

People can be dead broke, yet still make fun of you for not having right fashion on.

It just feels very primitive.

Actually worse than primitive.

Primitive I can handle, but destructive I cannot.

Everyone's poor and broke, not do to society, but do to stupid decisions people in the hood make, over and over and over again.

Keep following the same dead end model.

All the males are super insecure, and so act extra tough, void of personality, void of the capacity to smile, just walk around like future jail bait.

No hobby or craft shows, no festivals, no nothing, just stupid people listening to the most vile rap imaginable, which strips them of their humanity.

The hood, it does the body no good.

Also in the hood, or poorer rural areas, it is my belief that you gotta be careful of the type of cheap yet powerful beers they often introduce to area, often at foreign owned conviance stores.

This is just a conspiracy theory

But in the past it was suggested that often times cheap beers that find their way into poorer minority, and sometimes white neighborhoods, contain additives that have drug like effects on the mind, and tear down the body.

I've studied history enough to not put anything past 'The Powers that be', and have studied the scandals of the past, and present, where such things are done to keep certain populations socially inmobalized.

There are very rich powerful people at the top of the Pyramid, who control industry, chemical plants, manufacturing, and not all these people are godly.

I'm just saying, be weary of certain off brand beers that find their way into poor hoods.