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re: Dude driving through hoods in America
Posted on 7/20/19 at 11:48 pm to JPinLondon
Posted on 7/20/19 at 11:48 pm to JPinLondon
This is the dumbest shite
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Posted on 7/20/19 at 11:52 pm to Fun Bunch
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Drive through any ghetto in America. You will see tons and tons of luxury cars.
I had a black co-worker tell me once that if you drive through a black neighborhood, you will see nice cars parked in front of shitty homes and white neighborhoods have shitty cars parked in front of nice homes.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 2:45 am to Scoop
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I had a black co-worker tell me once that if you drive through a black neighborhood, you will see nice cars parked in front of shitty homes and white neighborhoods have shitty cars parked in front of nice homes.
That isn’t so far off of the truth. Frugality is cultural and socio-economical. Same reason you see corvettes and jacked up trucks in trailer parks.
Easy credit has jacked up the lower class. Rent a centers, payday loans, any sort of promise of the immediate enjoyment of the more expensive fruits of life...they prey upon the poor and ignorant.
Not only that, they have increased the sticker price while decreasing the actual value of our possessions.
For eons, the rule was it took hard work and discipline, scrimping and saving, to be able to afford the finer things in life. Luxury items.
Now easy credit allows the taste of luxury without the sacrifice. And without it actually being yours.
It’s had a damnable effect on us as a society.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 3:19 am to Pesticide
I’ve found my share of ghettos.
BR after a football game thanks to ‘traffic control’ was an issue about 10 years ago.
Prior to google maps and whatnot, my dad and I drove US 41 through the Southside of Chicago. It became Lakeshore Drive, we just didn’t know how bad the hood was prior.
I’ve been to Detroit near the Old Tiger Stadium...not pretty.
St. Louis coming from just north of downtown looked like it was bombed. Many vacant lots, buildings barely standing. That was pretty crazy.
BR after a football game thanks to ‘traffic control’ was an issue about 10 years ago.
Prior to google maps and whatnot, my dad and I drove US 41 through the Southside of Chicago. It became Lakeshore Drive, we just didn’t know how bad the hood was prior.
I’ve been to Detroit near the Old Tiger Stadium...not pretty.
St. Louis coming from just north of downtown looked like it was bombed. Many vacant lots, buildings barely standing. That was pretty crazy.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 4:14 am to BabyTac
I work in some of those areas. In my limited time walking a few blocks in both, Compton was dirty but didn’t feel too weird. Walking through certain parts of Oakland, however, was horrible.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 4:20 am to LouisianaLady
This dude didn’t even get the worst parts of NBR. I could take you down streets with burnt out houses. 13 pit bulls chained in the back yard. Trash bags piled 3 feet high on the street corner.
I don’t even get angry anymore. Just baffled.
I don’t even get angry anymore. Just baffled.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 6:10 am to fr33manator
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hat isn’t so far off of the truth. Frugality is cultural and socio-economical. Same reason you see corvettes and jacked up trucks in trailer parks.
Easy credit has jacked up the lower class. Rent a centers, payday loans, any sort of promise of the immediate enjoyment of the more expensive fruits of life...they prey upon the poor and ignorant.
Not only that, they have increased the sticker price while decreasing the actual value of our possessions.
For eons, the rule was it took hard work and discipline, scrimping and saving, to be able to afford the finer things in life. Luxury items.
Now easy credit allows the taste of luxury without the sacrifice. And without it actually being yours.
It’s had a damnable effect on us as a society.
Pretty good analysis, especially at 2:45 a.m.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 6:32 am to fallguy_1978
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It's funny that all of those hoods in BR had relatively new cars in front of the houses.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 7:23 am to fallguy_1978
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It's funny that all of those hoods in BR had relatively new cars in front of the houses.
I remember this in the early 70's. "Welfare Cadillacs"
Live in a house about to fall apart, but a brand new luxury car parked out front.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 7:47 am to LouisianaLady
Did you work at King Drew Hospital or Oakland Kaiser?
Posted on 7/21/19 at 7:56 am to fr33manator
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That isn’t so far off of the truth. Frugality is cultural and socio-economical. Same reason you see corvettes and jacked up trucks in trailer parks.
Easy credit has jacked up the lower class. Rent a centers, payday loans, any sort of promise of the immediate enjoyment of the more expensive fruits of life...
Consumerism has led to a material addiction. Buying things and perception of luxury is an addiction, even to the poor. People are so easily manipulated into the rat race for material goods. People no longer put time or effort into anything, its all disposable glitter.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 8:20 am to yaboidarrell
No Pleasant Grove, TX... No Care
Posted on 7/21/19 at 8:27 am to Fun Bunch
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Drive through any ghetto in America. You will see tons and tons of luxury cars.
Free housing. Free phone. Free schooling. Welfare. Food stamps.
$600 a month lease on a car
Posted on 7/21/19 at 8:31 am to Scoop
When was 12, I had a black guy at foot locker tell me that the first thing someone looks at on you is your shoes. It makes more sense now
Posted on 7/21/19 at 8:41 am to Fun Bunch
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$600 a month lease on a car
Most of them aren’t on a lease, except the middle class folks that have good jobs. They may have a lease.
To lease you need good credit. The poor white and black folks alike buy 2-4 year old vehicles off a lease from the shady AF used car salesman that have insanely high interest because they sell to shady AF people with poor credit. There’s dealers and loan places that specialize in this both outside of trailer parks for white people and ghettos for blacks. People scoff at the 9% interest loans or whatever they are at the shady used car places but those places specialize in selling and loaning to the poor, it’s the only way some of them can buy a vehicle because they can’t save up enough and spin the wheel on poor credit and repossession.
This post was edited on 7/21/19 at 8:47 am
Posted on 7/21/19 at 8:50 am to Pesticide
Once took a shortcut to get back on the interstate in Chicago. Drove over the Chicago River towards an overpass thinking we could get on. Went passed the greyhound bus station. Kept going towards the overpass when all of a sudden paved road turned to dirt and we started passing burn barrels and burned out cars. The overpass literally went over with no on or off ramp. That was the most scared I’ve been. Around midnight but lucky temps were in the single digits and snowing.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 9:08 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Consumerism has led to a material addiction. Buying things and perception of luxury is an addiction, even to the poor. People are so easily manipulated into the rat race for material goods. People no longer put time or effort into anything, its all disposable glitter.
Buying things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, for reasons we can’t justify.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 9:14 am to fr33manator
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Buying things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, for reasons we can’t justify.
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“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shite-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
- Terence McKenna
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“I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don't want, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they don't like.”
-Emile Gauvreau
This post was edited on 7/21/19 at 9:17 am
Posted on 7/21/19 at 9:22 am to yaboidarrell
He should come to west Birmingham.
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