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[Rxxf]

socio-enonomics plays a huge part baby
an upperclass black individual and a lower-class individual will MOST LIKELY have different opportunities, resources, interests, friends, and outlook on life

and they both will have stereotypical thoughts about their OWN race... just based on their socio-economics and what they may have been exposed to. same thing with CULTURE. black people with different cultures don't always mix on their views. The caribbean black individuals vs. american-born black individuals can be worlds apart on how they grew up, etc.

[King82]

I called them bougie based off their mannerisms and voices

That's disgusting.

then you'll be disgusted to know I think Kenya is the queen of bougie.

But she's bougie by my definition. It really shouldn't affect you.

I think this is what it really comes down too. People who love Kenya are usually considered bougie also. Similar to how Porsha is perceived as a hoodrat.

It's all about mentality and experience.

[Rxxf]

I can't really blame Timothy for being "bougie" after growing up in a predominately black school system and being outcasted by his community because he liked soccer instead of basketball, preferred rock to hip hop and wore vests and suits instead of jordans/baggy mess.

Alot of people carry that into their adulthood subconsciously.

I won't blame Keisha for being "ghetto" either for being shipped off to private school her whole life not and being able to relate to all the diversity and being outcasted because she grew up and was only exposed to a certain black culture.

People are just different

   

but why the term bougie or ghetto
why not just a person, who happens to be black, living life?

IDK hun but that's why I used quotation marks.

The bigger question is why these are seen as negative traits. Bougie is debatable but why is ghetto always seen as a bad thing?[/color]

both terms are deemed negative, IMO
but good point.
i dunno why

[KING BENTLEY.]

Kenya gorl if you don't can it

[throwintheTAL]

I can't really blame Timothy for being "bougie" after growing up in a predominately black school system and being outcasted by his community because he liked soccer instead of basketball, preferred rock to hip hop and wore vests and suits instead of jordans/baggy mess.

Alot of people carry that into their adulthood subconsciously.

I won't blame Keisha for being "ghetto" either for being shipped off to private school her whole life not and being able to relate to all the diversity and being outcasted because she grew up and was only exposed to a certain black culture.

People are just different

   

The video wreaks of that looking down on others thing you touched on. After watching some of the other clips, I can see these videos were done in jest. But being that black people are some of the most oppressed humans in history, we don't need to be highlighting a bunch of stereotypes for ppl to kii at.

[Rxxf]

I'm watching the barbershop thing on VH1
and DAMN regina Hall

[King82]

socio-enonomics plays a huge part baby
an upperclass black individual and a lower-class individual will MOST LIKELY have different opportunities, resources, interests, friends, and outlook on life

and they both will have stereotypical thoughts about their OWN race... just based on their socio-economics and what they may have been exposed to. same thing with CULTURE. black people with different cultures don't always mix on their views. The caribbean black individuals vs. american-born black individuals can be worlds apart on how they grew up, etc.

Absolutely.

[LOONA.]

I find myself looking at other black people and giving 

but then I look at the gorls desperate for validation from their white counterparts and give a 

guess I'm somewhere in the middle of all the niggerdom.

IDK but I consider myself Atlanta's wealthy elite mess owt


   

[Nyan Cat]

socio-enonomics plays a huge part baby
an upperclass black individual and a lower-class individual will MOST LIKELY have different opportunities, resources, interests, friends, and outlook on life

very true
as upperclass i dnt see things tha way sumone like say...BRAND'N would see 'em 

[Vonc2002]

Alot of these are pretty valid honestly.   

Some of the questions were valid, some of them sound like shit bougie black people bring up to try and distance themselves from other black people.

fvvvv

Anybody that isn't seen as stereotypically black growing up in the black community is automatically labeled bougie though. We probably would be.   

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A lot of black people who get labeled as bougie usually have some internalized resentment from being rejected by other black people in their own communities.

maybe
but not from what I've seen
if anything, people perceive successful black friends/family in a different way and place them in that "bougie" area. not the other way around.

It can go both ways.

From my experience, I've seen some black people taunt and antagonize other black people who are "different" or "alternative". That can lead to bitterness, embarrassment, and wanting to disassociate yourself for feeling rejected by those within your own race.  These people weren't necessarily wealthy either, just working class folk who were perceived as different.

Not that their internalized resentment is the right way to go about things.

!!!!!!!!!!
It's definitely not just some MONEY thing. Alot of black people give other black people these particular characteristics or parameters to stay within. U listen to rock music wtf is wrong with u? Skateboard and Bungee jumping, that's some white people shit. Individualty isn't celebrated in black america and if this was another kinda thread people would be in here agreeing. Let it  had been this uber masculinity thing black men are forced to adhere to, people would be in here disgusted, plea.

[throwintheTAL]

socio-enonomics plays a huge part baby
an upperclass black individual and a lower-class individual will MOST LIKELY have different opportunities, resources, interests, friends, and outlook on life

and they both will have stereotypical thoughts about their OWN race... just based on their socio-economics and what they may have been exposed to. same thing with CULTURE. black people with different cultures don't always mix on their views. The caribbean black individuals vs. american-born black individuals can be worlds apart on how they grew up, etc.

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I'm all for black pride. But this whole "we, as black ppl, gotta do better" attitude is ridiculous. We're all inherently different from one another. Don't assume you KNOW me or can KII with me because we're both black. Have a conversation with a person and see them as a human (not any of their labels) and judge them from those standpoints.

[Vonc2002]

And Ralf while ur sitting in here talking, are u even fckn black? Ive never even seen u fckn embrace that.  People on here talking about u being Hispanic n shit. Nigger can u own being black before u continue a discussion about the things that plague the black community

[Real]

What kind of black people do you all associate yourself with where you're hearing all these basic ass criticisms

[Herb.]

I find myself looking at other black people and giving 

but then I look at the gorls desperate for validation from their white counterparts and give a 

guess I'm somewhere in the middle of all the niggerdom.

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i luv yum

but yea, fuck what a white person thinks of me tbh. lolz

[Rxxf]

and when i say resources
access to healthcare ALONE can change a black person's outlook, opportunities and views life
socio-economics

i have friends from all walks of life, and socio-economics and i get to see it first hand
it's real