CrazyDogg77
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I figured. I've sent in my scholarship agreement 3 fucking times and they haven't gotten it once.
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The Black Culture Thread |OT2|
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I figured. I've sent in my scholarship agreement 3 fucking times and they haven't gotten it once.
My time at FAMU has taught me to always give them documents in person.
CrazyDogg77
Member
Well I live 8 hours away so I can't really just take it to them.
Devolution
Member
How are you sending it in?
CrazyDogg77
Member
By mail.
Devolution
Member
Yeah I get that much but USPS or another service?
CrazyDogg77
Member
USPS.
soundscream
Member
No they are not.
I went to Syracuse my brother went to Morehouse the experiences were night and day. My mother and brother would tell me horror stories about just trying to get normal shit done.
Devolution
Member
Send UPS with tracking number. Next time they tell you it's not there, tell them it is, UPS can back you and that they're full of shit.
USPS is shit, don't trust them sending important shit. Use UPS or DHL or Fedex
I am not into sports that much, but I think this is the greatest thing I have heard all week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOynq6NKYx0&feature=player_detailpage#t=81s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOynq6NKYx0&feature=player_detailpage#t=81s
MWS Natural
Member
Watched Good Hair last night with my girl. She was blown away, there was so much she had no clue about that was common knowledge to me. So far we have watched (re-watched for me):
Good Hair
Do The Right Thing
Jungle Fever
Black Dynamite
A Tyler Perry flick
..in that order. As you can see I am slowly easing her into heavier stuff, going to get The Color Purple in there somewhere. I will probably finish up with something like Roots and Rosewood. There really should be like a blog Required Reading for Interracial Relationships lol.
Good Hair
Do The Right Thing
Jungle Fever
Black Dynamite
A Tyler Perry flick
..in that order. As you can see I am slowly easing her into heavier stuff, going to get The Color Purple in there somewhere. I will probably finish up with something like Roots and Rosewood. There really should be like a blog Required Reading for Interracial Relationships lol.
A tyler perry flick?
Bay Maximus
Banned
Which Tyler Perry flick?
I would consider slipping Malcom X and Bamboozled in there as well.
I applied to the London School of Hygiene and tropical medicine they lost a hand delivered application. Hand delivered!
MWS Natural
Member
Why did I get Married one and too. Which she really enjoyed.
Great recommendations. She loves Denzel so Malcolm X would be good but Bamboozled might go over her head a bit, I probably would have to explain some of the less obvious points of the plot. She isn't from here so she doesn't even know what blackface is.
CrazyDogg77
Member
Howard finally got their shit together. About time.
So you wanna finish up with hating your girlfriend (and all white people) for about a week.
Watch it with the Perry flicks, she will start looking for that lightskinned brother to come solve all her problems.
Jathaine
Member
This is exactly what I need. I'm actually trying to get with this female right now but she clearly has no clue about black culture... stuff that seems so obvious to me flies right past her.
She didn't even understand the pic of a 40oz of malt liquor in response to someone asking what makes a good BBQ... like, at all.
Maybe that's not as 'common knowledge' as I thought but I figured everyone would get that so figured she'd get a kick out of it but that totally backfired as I had to try to explain the joke. I already know that if I do get with her... I'm gonna need to bring her up to speed.
MWS Natural
Member
After a few experiences together I don't think she is the biggest fan of white people at the moment, curious to see if she will actually be able to finish Rosewood.
That's ok I am/was fairly caramel (pre-Key West).
You would be surprised how many things are cultural that other people have no clue about. My uncle literally had no idea what a Loufa was lol.
I actually haven't seen most of those but I've seen enough of the staples. Good Hair was actually mind-blowing for me. Made me start to mistrust every girl I knew.
Oh she's not American? Well that kind of explains things.
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Mandingo
MWS Natural
Member
Never lived with a black woman??
She's an american citizen but her dad was in the army so she was raised in Turkey.
She sees that every night.
Jathaine
Member
captmcblack
Member
#swag
Also, sort of along this topic, I had my girlfriend watch Juice and New Jack City with me yesterday. I mean, I don't know if those would be on any "required viewing" list...but I just wanted to show her the hood, I guess.
Until I get this out of my system, we're gonna watch all the classics - Menace 2 Society and Boyz N The Hood are next!
How's learning Turkish treating you? I'm taking a stab at french, I always thought English was anicquated, but French is just archaic as fuck. Should've done Japanese or something.
Speaking of hood classics, I only saw Fresh earlier this year. Why didn't anyone tell me about this movie?
MWS Natural
Member
lol you guys.
Ok, she teaches me little words here and there. From my experience it seems as though Spanish and French are the only languages that sound hotter than English during sex lol.
Yeah she sees enough of that hood shit from TV and music so I really am steering her away from that. Especially here in FL where it's really bad, I was one of the 1st non-ghetto black person she met.
Damn really?
Watch "Don't be a menace" with her.
Yes, do this!
Devolution
Member
Watch Fear of a Black Hat after all of those other movies.
*sigh*
Why does the hood have to be so... hood? Dumb shit like this pisses me off, especially when I have family that doesn't live too far from where this happened.
http://www.startribune.com/local/160378955.html
Why does the hood have to be so... hood? Dumb shit like this pisses me off, especially when I have family that doesn't live too far from where this happened.
http://www.startribune.com/local/160378955.html
I need to see this again. So much fucking gold. The Asian woman getting attacked by the black woman over vocal talent was hilarious.
Check out cb4 too. If only for I'm black y'all.
blame space
Banned
Malcolm X is so fucking good.
Denzel should have won an Oscar for that. His performance was much better in Malcolm X than Training Day.
MWS Natural
Member
Did you totally miss my ban on "hood shit"?
FL has the worse HS graduation rate for black males in the entire US. The only jobs you see black people in here are in the service industry =/.
I'm embarrassed to say that I have never seen this.
Guys I want to get this off my chest. Weird shit but here goes.
My pops (white/puerto rican) and mom dukes (black) split up when I was 1 years old. I'm 24 now. All I know is my mom side of the story on why they split. I don't know anything about my Pops side of the family other than his mom was Polish and his father was Puerto Rican. The reason my Mom split up with him was because he was an alcoholic and she wanted both of them to move on to a Christian path. Which he didn't want to do.
I do remember and it's sick. I didn't want to say this to anyone because it was embarrassing to say and see people's response. But after my Mom split up with my Father he then talked to one of my Mom's sisters. They got into a relationship and a cousin/brother was the outcome. Well my Mom was forgiving to my Aunt but not my Father. My Aunt took it upon herself to allow my cousin/brother to have a relationship with our Father because my Mom refused me to have any time with my Pops. So my cousin/brother was the one that had the more experience and Father figure in his life rather than me. My father would give little gifts and notes to my cousin/brother to give to me when we were kids but my Mom would take it and throw it out. Crazy shit guys I know.
I recently went in the basement of our house and found all the pictures of me as a baby and shit and him and my Mom. Good pics.
Well just a week ago my cousin/brother told me to search his name on Facebook and told me to add him. So I did and saw him on there. Weird, so I message him and he writes these long ass paragraphs about how he misses me and shit. He then gives me his number to call him. Well I didn't that day because I feel like I don't owe him anything.
I want to talk to him because I want to know my family tree and have my biological father in my life. I don't need anything from him financially but my father in my life to have a somewhat relationship. Because I don't want to live in regret for the rest of my life knowing I had the chance to talk to him and having his number and I didn't take advantage of the situation.
Has anyone been in this predictament before. And how should I go about it. I haven't told my Mom that I recently contacted him. She is very understanding after we had this talk about me wanting to see my Pops a year ago.
I don't know what to do though.
My pops (white/puerto rican) and mom dukes (black) split up when I was 1 years old. I'm 24 now. All I know is my mom side of the story on why they split. I don't know anything about my Pops side of the family other than his mom was Polish and his father was Puerto Rican. The reason my Mom split up with him was because he was an alcoholic and she wanted both of them to move on to a Christian path. Which he didn't want to do.
I do remember and it's sick. I didn't want to say this to anyone because it was embarrassing to say and see people's response. But after my Mom split up with my Father he then talked to one of my Mom's sisters. They got into a relationship and a cousin/brother was the outcome. Well my Mom was forgiving to my Aunt but not my Father. My Aunt took it upon herself to allow my cousin/brother to have a relationship with our Father because my Mom refused me to have any time with my Pops. So my cousin/brother was the one that had the more experience and Father figure in his life rather than me. My father would give little gifts and notes to my cousin/brother to give to me when we were kids but my Mom would take it and throw it out. Crazy shit guys I know.
I recently went in the basement of our house and found all the pictures of me as a baby and shit and him and my Mom. Good pics.
Well just a week ago my cousin/brother told me to search his name on Facebook and told me to add him. So I did and saw him on there. Weird, so I message him and he writes these long ass paragraphs about how he misses me and shit. He then gives me his number to call him. Well I didn't that day because I feel like I don't owe him anything.
I want to talk to him because I want to know my family tree and have my biological father in my life. I don't need anything from him financially but my father in my life to have a somewhat relationship. Because I don't want to live in regret for the rest of my life knowing I had the chance to talk to him and having his number and I didn't take advantage of the situation.
Has anyone been in this predictament before. And how should I go about it. I haven't told my Mom that I recently contacted him. She is very understanding after we had this talk about me wanting to see my Pops a year ago.
I don't know what to do though.
Jathaine
Member
What do you have to lose? What reason do you have not to contact him?
I mean, he's clearly been trying to be a part of your life so I don't think he's trying to get to you to 'use' you for anything.
At least give a relationship with him a chance even if it is kinda 'late'.
If anything starts to feel uncomfortable you can always back away but there's no reason not to at least put yourself out there.
I mean, he's clearly been trying to be a part of your life so I don't think he's trying to get to you to 'use' you for anything.
At least give a relationship with him a chance even if it is kinda 'late'.
If anything starts to feel uncomfortable you can always back away but there's no reason not to at least put yourself out there.
GhettoGamer
Member
Its a damn shame that black comedies from back in the day (house party, coming to america, etc, etc) shits on the recent ones. Black comedies theses day all seem to follow the same routine, shit is sad. Also what is the name of that movie with Braxton from The Jaime Foxx show acting like an gangsta. It had Pam Grier, and Jim Brown in it
Devolution
Member
Talk to him at the very least. Get some closure. It's possible he matured a bit, saw the error of his ways and wants to reconnect. Of course that's up to you. Take it slow. This shit's complicated. MY ex is still estranged from his own father and my mother doesn't even know her birth parents but I'm sure they would still love the chance to just talk to them.
What do you mean?
These reality TV shows...
Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta
Real Housewives of Atlanta
This Real Mistresses of Atlanta shit.
And it doesn't help that a lot of ATL has developed a wannabe Hollywood mentality. These shows just help make it worse and I know more are coming.
I just don't like the area I grew up in being portrayed as nothing but a club hopper's paradise and a haven for stuck-up, no class having-ass women.
I'm not sure how it makes it worse. I'm missing something.
Ahh, I see with the edit.
The Faceless Master
Member
i'm sure that people in NJ feel the same way.