Big chains, big whips
‘Round your neck and our wrist David Banner – Malcolm X (A Song to Me)
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My folk dont understand so they dont take us serious David Banner – Who's That
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Some poor black people have equated shiny and large things with success, because they were unable to get the things they saw regular white people having.
This is where we get the concept of “Hood Rich”. Because they could not ever reach the unattainably high ceiling of upper class living, they created their own ceiling that is attainable to them. This usually results in getting things that look expensive but are not(large gold plated jewelry), or pieces of expensive things(Like expensive rims on a car that is garbage).
This is also a reference to the fact that as people who were slaves, then generally hated, and having as a whole not really risen from the economic hole that job discrimination put them in, compared to white people as a whole(who in that same time, founded America, Won its independence, maintained its independence, and achieved economic dominance over the rest of the world, largely without the help of blacks) do not have much to brag about.
This is technically a logical fallacy, given the forcible contribution of blacks, first as slaves, then as low income workers, due largely to “zero” regulation of wages during this period.
America’s economic supremacy, in many ways, was heavily influenced by our abuses of people of color throughout our history.
The more appropriate way to phrase the portion in the parenthesis would be stating that the people of color did not get their share.