Memo to black websites: “America is racist and wants to put all black men in jail”
“Consider the cold, hard reality of growing up in one of these communities where every third person goes off to the penitentiary, where gangs and violence and drugs are everywhere. You can walk proud and tall wearing your colors in your’ hood, but you put on a suit, go downtown, and try to get a job, and nobody will give you the time of day. That’s where these young men are coming from. “
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Over the weekend Mrs. Snoop and I were watching some TV show, (I think it was Meet the Press) another discussion about race and how black folks are fucked, America is racist, bla, bla, bla.
Michael Dyson one of the guests went on this long diatribe about basically this conspiracy that America’s racism and class structure somehow pulls the rug out from under folks thereby keeping people poor.
I know this is a crude synopsis, but I have the gist. I am getting to the point that my brain starts to shut down when I listen to these type of discussions for too long.
I’m a simple dude, with very simple logic. The choices we have all made have lead us to be where we are right now.
I am working in a job that is perfectly suited for my past background.
I make an average salary. Could I be making more, sure. I received my skill sets via the Air Force. I chose not to attend college, because just thinking about school gives me hives.
But I am where I am not because of some collective conspiracy to keep me a middle class working slob, I am where I am because of the choices I made.
The choice I made to not to attend college…
The choice I made to enter the Air Force…
The choice I made to switch career fields…
The choice I made not to take another overseas assignment to Greece…
The choice I made to date a woman with two kids…
The choice I made to move in with her…
The choice I made to marry her, I was only 20…
The choice I made to move my new family to base housing…
The choice I made to move my family off base…
The choice I made to move into a certain neighborhood…
The choice to leave the Air Force and take a civilian job that was offered to me…
The choice to move again…
The choice to leave my job and help start a not-for-profit endeavor… less money
The choice to get involved in my community…
The choice not to run for a congressional seat…
The choice to dedicate more time to community and political issues rather than family issues…
The choice to stay in my marriage a little longer than I should have…
The choice to leave my wife…
The choice to do some really dumb shit for a time…
Finding Mrs. Snoop
The choice to leave my job and move closer to the future Mrs. Snoop…
The choice to move in with Mrs. Snoop…
The choice to marry Mrs. Snoop…
The choice to say at a job I was not completely happy with…
The choice to marry Mrs. Snoop…
The choice not to go back to school… strongly suggested by Mrs. Snoop!
The choice to accept a job making a lot less money that I had been, but got foot in the door so to speak…
My current life.
Now depending on how you look at it, these choices can be considered good or bad, either way they were MY choices.
I’m not a rich man, don’t have a big house with lots of bling, but I’m content.
I’ve made mistakes, done some dumb shit, wish I could have taken some things back, but overall I’m cool with how things are with me today.
If you are poor, broke, chronically unemployed, unhappy, in a marriage or relationship, living in a situation you hate, living paycheck to paycheck, feel like you are bogged down with kids from failed relationships, worried about your future, have no HOPE, what choices did you make that leads you to TODAY?
Nothing in my life happened because of racist white people wanting to keep a brotha down, or America wanting me to fail.
Fucken too many damm people need to find someone else to blame for why their life sucks.
Again, look at the links above and go to some black website and see how many doom and gloom racist America articles you find. Negros refuse to be honest about the choices they make, education, unplanned pregnancy, multiple babies’ daddies, relationships with people who have no hope, no future, no ambition.
All of these articles about how unfair life is for fucken felons are a damm joke.
Out of all the choices I made in my life, one choice was not to engage in criminal activity and BECOME A FUCKEN FELON!
If you want to know why black folks are so angry and pissed off and filled with excuses is because the misery is recycled in the MSM and on these black websites and newspapers and listening to idiot fucks like Rev. Wright or other racial pimps.
Forget my list of choices. If I, Snoop fail then this evil racist society must be the cause.
Misery loves company, Negros love to dwell in misery and apparently they have a lot of company.
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April 8th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Snoop, I spent my younger years gettin’, in trouble, prison, drugs. Just by the luck of the draw, and lying on my application, I managed to get a good job. That was 32 years ago. I couldn’t get my job today. Where I work, they check your background now. When theres 50 people for every job opening, employers can be picky. So yeah, its tough for a felon. And yeah, its your own decisions that make or break you. I came from a single parent home, my mother worked three jobs, was never home. I had very little guidance and I think that had a lot to do with my stupid decisions and that shit’ll stick with you like a tattoo. If I had a cogent point, I’ve lost it. lol Later
April 8th, 2008 at 6:16 am
Ho, ho, what a great post. I made some very bad choices in my life that effected my success as a younger man. Nothing like prison, but having a child at an early age, not attending college, partying way too much. Bottom line is if *one* chooses not to do the things to be successful in society, then *one* will not be successful.
Fortunately, I learned my lessons, and compensated for my earlier behavior. I am now, even at this advanced age, rather comfortable and happy. BTW, I grew up in a white, middle class family, with really no rotten things to report; no disadvantage, no poverty. Must have been race fratricide that held me back all those years ;-)
April 8th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Excellent read Snoop.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Thanks Cookie. Tho I don’t want new folks who come to visit me thinking that I’m a mean constantly ranting dude. I am a really nice guy too :-)
Peace
April 8th, 2008 at 10:24 am
“compensated for my earlier behavior”
Yeah me, I was a pretty good kid, but really did a shitty job in school. When my parents separated and mom and I left for Alabama I started to do well in school.
My granddad got me to go to church and also get involved in the church. I kept busy with positive activities and most of all I really wanted to please my granddad, he was a powerful influence on me. I did not want to disappoint him.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
While I agree 110% that people’s own choices (good or bad) can influence how well they do in life (in many areas), there are other factors at work that can impact many things and people, without regard for what choices they personally made. Things like luck, other people, and the amount of good & evil in society come into play.
For those who made terrible mistakes in the past, there is a price to pay. But when is that price paid in full do you think? For example, if a child of 16 gets pregnant, and does not finish school, should she then never be able to get a good job even if she does eventually go back to school and do well? Of course not! But that is exactly what can happen in some situations, especially if her past is known by those making job or other type decisions.
Thus, just as I believe there should be reprecussions (direct results) from making bad choices, so too do I believe that there should be rewards for making better/good decisions. some youthful mistakes should not condemn people forever after. That way, people can learn from their past mistakes and do better in the future. We want to encourage that, don’t we?
Or should it always be “survival of the fittest?” That demise of that rule - I believe - is one of the reasons society is failing; we have fostered and cared for too many people who under other circumstances would have been long dead. We now have survival of the almost fit enough! LOL.
So which is it? Do we want people who’ve made mistakes to pay for them for the rest of their lives? Or do we want them to get free of the past, eventually?