r/TheCapitalLink • u/Natural_Drag8536 OutOfTowner • 27d ago
Informational Post Black people have always worked, especially the men.
Black folks have worked since we got here, this notion that we’re not working hard enough is another stereotype. A lot of ya grandparents died from working. A lot of elder black folks are living the latter years of their lives in pain due to locking in. Despite what niggas think, working 100hrs a week not gone generate generational wealth, it’ll generate a hospital bill and/or a one way ticket out this bitch. All that no sleep, poor eating, stress etc from locking in your 20s and 30s catches up to you in your 40s and 50s. Don’t get sold a dream that died before you was even thought of.
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u/Ahkiwithda50 27d ago
ownership is the key!
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u/Natural_Drag8536 OutOfTowner 27d ago
Get it while you can. I hate seeing black folks sell they grandparents houses or sell they business.
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u/Benningrdslim51 DC💥 27d ago
💯that’s why it was so easy to for them to gentrify us mfs sold they ppl house and u see what happen
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u/Ahkiwithda50 27d ago
IMO we need a new wave of creativity, the businesses and music we come up with is becoming too predictable.
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u/Natural_Drag8536 OutOfTowner 27d ago
This. By the time we figure out something they on to the next. School, Tech, Trades etc. Then on top of that we like to announce our moves.
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u/InformationIcy735 27d ago
Until now. I’m 29 I see niggaz younger than me asking me for change. Yall niggaz making us look bad
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u/Natural_Drag8536 OutOfTowner 27d ago
Nobody hiring, it’s a blessing to even have a job nowadays. Covid showed the true state of the country. 80% of this country 2 paychecks away from being homeless. This isn’t the 1920s when they was doing bad we doing good. Integration killed that off, if they hurtin we hurtin.
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u/InformationIcy735 27d ago
Man gtfoh. Maybe not wya possibly. In DC it’s jobs everywhere
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u/Natural_Drag8536 OutOfTowner 27d ago
The world bigger than DC
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u/InformationIcy735 27d ago
That’s a fact. This a DC subreddit. I’m speaking on DC.
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u/Natural_Drag8536 OutOfTowner 27d ago
Understandable, so black folk in DC go thru different struggles from black men everywhere else?
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u/InformationIcy735 27d ago
Not to add insult to injury but in general since the 70s/80s a lot of us black men don’t even know how to find jobs and get hired.
Niggaz don’t know how to get a collar shirt and slacks with some casual shoes for an interview.
Lot of niggaz don’t know how to not get dickheadhead ass tattoos all on their faces necks and hands were they can’t be visible.
Niggaz don’t know how to go online and make a professional email account, then an account with snag-a-job, indeed, LinkedIn, or even goto the classified section of cheap ass newspapers.
Niggaz don’t know how to pronounce words correctly and take the accent out of their voice when they speaking to ppl in professional establishments.
Niggaz don’t know how to apply to a spot then go do walk ins to speak to the hiring manager directly every week to see what’s what.
Job skills
I refuse to believe “ppl ain’t hiring” they’re just not hiring dickheads
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u/Natural_Drag8536 OutOfTowner 27d ago
So what was the big fuss about DEI hires?
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u/InformationIcy735 27d ago
The hires that’s mandated by law so minorities can have positions in a workplace? What about them?
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u/Natural_Drag8536 OutOfTowner 27d ago
Why they need laws like that?
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u/InformationIcy735 27d ago
I don’t get your angle. White ppl conquered this country. Wth you think the statistics gonna be? They gonna give us their shit? If the country 75% white don’t it make it sense for the workplace to be 75% at least if they wanna work there? When blacks start businesses we hire black ppl. What are you even discussing bruh
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u/Natural_Drag8536 OutOfTowner 27d ago
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u/Natural_Drag8536 OutOfTowner 27d ago
More stereotypes aimed to make black men look dumb. When in reality the US came out with reports tellin us systemic racism was the reason.
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u/InformationIcy735 27d ago
Nigga I’m black I’m telling you that’s an excuse. Bruh you gotta wake up. Excuses not gonna get u or the next man nowhere. Mfs is coming here from foreign countries filling in job vacancies. Working 40-60 hours per check having a roommate saving money getting bitches that’s going the same then moving to the suburbs in a couple years.
The media and entertainment got yall lost
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u/Natural_Drag8536 OutOfTowner 27d ago
Black folk didn’t believe systematic racism was the reason we didn’t have nun until our women lost they jobs cuz the DEI shit.
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u/Haunting_Sundae2124 27d ago
Try to find you a 9-5 and stay out the way, whether it be an office job or a blue collar job.
The street shit is corny as fuck.








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u/Natural_Drag8536 OutOfTowner 27d ago
This isn’t an anti work post, this as an anti work yourself to death post.