Seventy-Five Things Black People Won’t Stop Doing …
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Black on Black Oppression
This is a thing that is a constant in some homes, even throughout some communities. In these homes parents … drown themselves in the day-to-day running of these homes … and by such activity the teaching of certain social skill is overlooked; even the enforcing of certain standards gets passed by. Children are allowed to do their own type of living and their own type of dressing, not to mention the talk that they produce. And so the children become what they want to be—thereby becoming a repeat product of the many failed institutions already filling so many parts of society. Such activity can be seen as the root of the many problems that arise out of such individuals, as they become just like the failures that have gone before them. Such scenarios are blamed on the working of the daily job to put food on the table.
In this way, so many end results are viewed as okay in such households; in many cases children start to live hectic lives in their circles long before the aspect of earning money is a must for them. Whereas if a set formula were introduced very early, then maybe so many of the black youth wouldn’t be doing a repeat performance of those that have gone before them. You see, if a bit of care and nurture were applied from the start, then the light of progress would be seen in the child from early in his or her life. Maybe through such things we wouldn’t be allowing our children to become repeat performers. … All that is needed is applied time and direction; we can and will make something of our most valued commodity: our children.
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Randy Simons was the last of eight siblings, growing up with many of his nieces and nephews on the island of Bermuda. Growing in Bermuda, he wasn’t a big fan of school and spent lots of time absent from primary school. In high school, he enjoyed the constant social activity, although he didn’t emerge from it with degrees or qualifications.
He began doing a laborer’s work on a construction site, learning the trade. After eight weeks he started painting and decorating and went on to run his own business, the proceeds of the which he used to bring up three of his five children to the age of graduation from high school.
After graduation he brought four of the children to London, England, to further their education and get them out of a somewhat fast-changing environment. Having reached London, he quickly found life to be not much different from anywhere else.
He found that there was very little difference in the mannerisms black people used toward one another in their social interaction. He made some inquiries, and by June of 2010 he had confirmed seventy-four of the seventy-five things listed in his book.
He is a black man living in London. He has come to find that there is very little camaraderie among people of black skin color, both financially and socially and in London as well America and the Caribbean. He determined that if black people could acknowledge of some of their faults, then maybe they could find ways to change them for more progressive thinking and action.