Changing Stereotypes of Black Men - Tyra (Part 3)

The Tyra Banks Show - ''Changing stereotypes of black men'' (Recorded Feb 17, 2009, WWOR)

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[65waddy]

i'm black and I think that black people need to stop using race as an excuse,if you have the drive and the will to succeed,you will..stop pulling the race card.If race was really the case,we wouldn't have any successful blacks in America..or anywhere else.

[asopaso07]

That guy with the dreadlocks is sooo cute! He looks like a teddy bear.

[humbl3fact]

@aymbot4gaming you can't spend centuries oppressing a group and then after they fight back, take away the colored only signs, put em on tv, and expect them to just get to where you're at. Not that simple. It's not blacks' faults that a lot of them are in "ghettos" or bad schools. We were left scraps to move forward with. So yes, we are owed something for all that we were put through and the scraps we were given. Not every black is as lucky as the lucky ones. But they should be.

[humbl3fact]

@aymbot4gaming Sadly, I think that a good amount of black people, the young children, are growing up in an environment that doesn't have enough visible oppurtunities for them. It's an environment too dangerous and tough to think about anything but surviving. All people want a good house in a safe place and a decent-paying job, ALL PEOPLE. The problem, really, isn't the people, its the communities and the amount of money they bring in to better themselves as a community

[humbl3fact]

@aymbot4gaming I agree wit you that the work ethic in general is low, and I would never deny the amount of laziness in general, but to call out a specific group of people by their race and say, no more race cards, you're just lazy, is wrong and ignorant. The majority of people in America are WHITE, so more poor lazy" white people are in America than black people! They're complaining that affirmative action is holding them back as whites. Now, THERE'S an excuse that holds no water.

[humbl3fact]

@aymbot4gaming Maybe not the majority, but a hell of a lot of people are racist in our society. It's only been a few decades since the end of a centuries-old reign of terror on blacks, and the older generations(white) teach their younger ones the same kind of hate while the older BLACK generations, the ones that i've met, remember too vividly the pain of before to let it go.

We're not allowing them to put us down for our skin, we're calling them out on it.

[aymbot4gaming]

@humbl3fact tl;dr I don't think it's enough for us to just pull the race card without understanding why it's there. We are people like every other race. Without hard work, education and effort we won't get certain things. We aren't owed anything and won't be handed everything on a silver platter. Yes, our history sucks, but it is history. The time has come for us to step up and move forward as a strong, educated, beautiful people.

[aymbot4gaming]

@humbl3fact ...where we have forgotten that we DO have to work harder and try harder to achieve. Not just because we are black but because people in general are more educated. We don't always help our own image either, there are many black people who make it extremely difficult for us to better our image. It's all good and well for us to try hard, but until the majority of us are doing so it'll always be an uphill struggle.

[aymbot4gaming]

@humbl3fact My grandparents lived in a time when they really couldn't achieve, because of the colour of their skin. But still they were able to do their very best, and work their bum off to get things done. My parents generation have a sense of this, but it's nowhere near as intense. I think that nowadays the work ethic, of not only black people, but in general has diminished and though I do agree that racism exists, I'm not that naive, I think that people have become lazy to the extent...

[aymbot4gaming]

@humbl3fact The majority of the people in western society aren't racist, they're not. I'm not going to argue with you, but I'm only 20 years old, and I see that the older generations do indeed use race as an excuse not to do or achieve certain things. You're entitled to your opinion, and I respect that. But the bottom line is, if you allow yourself to be put down because of the colour of your skin it makes you look weak.

[humbl3fact]

@aymbot4gaming if it was just some white person who didn't matter who didn't like me, I'd brush it off. But when it interferes with my life in terms of a job or being traken seriously in the workplace, I have every right to pull the race car when I feel there is an injustice.

I'll allow that there are black who use it as an excuse. But too many of us use it as a legitimate reason to be put into the lazy category.

[humbl3fact]

@aymbot4gaming i respect what your saying, but as a black woman with black friends, I can tell you, when we're told we're pulling the black card out of laziness, we're outraged because the reason black used to be dened jobs by white people is the because we're tied with the word "lazy" by default. It's black people all over the world because all over the world we've been so oppressed that for many of us it feels like no reparations have really been given.