< insert title here >: SINCE WHEN IS BEING CALLED 'SUCCESSFUL' A DISS?
I'm highly upset with Tariq Elite's podcast response to the "Nightline" piece on single, successful black females.
< insert title here >: SINCE WHEN IS BEING CALLED 'SUCCESSFUL' A DISS?
In response to that I ran off a quick response as well. It is in the comments, but here I get a much better way to respond.
I find the response here really interesting. Not because I hate on people, but I WAS THAT DUDE they wanted. I was that nice guy, I was that person that would try to do what ever was needed; know what kind of play I got for it? Hardly any; I was the "friend" people did not want to loose. Why is that? I was success in school, I was a success out of school, good in sports. Know what it was? 2 thing; Game (you see I was what they call a SIMP) and Money (gangsters and players got all the ladies you see). Simple as that. So when you try to make the points above and some black women try to get outraged, I just laugh cause the psychology and the knowlege Tariq puts out is REAL. Women say they want the fairy tale and the castle, but end up with welfare and the hood. Also to be fair I checked what these ladies would be making (since society will judge success not by what you are trying to get, but what you got) from my research the MAXIMUM for the attorney was 150000. The "Payroll Specialist" was making no mare than about $18 an hour. This is not what society would call success. They call that a cool job. Not a success. Youngsta brought out some points as well. When you are working "FOR" somebody you are emplyed at their will. But when you are employed by you then you are your work.
Then to a point made earlier:
"Finally (as I told J.salty already), I HATE that he calls us the opposite of loyal. What do you call yourself right now? Furthermore, being independent is the opposite of DEPENDENT, which means I GOT MY OWN WITHOUT YOU, STOP HATIN MR. "BEST-SELLER" cuz you ain't providin. There. Said it. You're jealous because your success is fleeting and their's is here to stay, it's on paper. "
The problem with your statement is that if you were SO independent, would you be even looking to be married? If you are SO independent would you feel the need to be-little what black men are out there and trying to do? He is saying in the podcast to wake up and understand all the subtlities of the Game and how it works. You may have paid your bills but you still feel the need for a man so stop with the INDEPENDENT stuff and realize that you have to adjust your thinking if you are truly looking to be that COMPANION to someone. An independent person only has to be loyal to themselves, ant THAT is his point. The INDEPENDENT black woman has no loyalty to the black man.
And one more thing:
"And for once, they weren't equating blacks with poverty and lack of intelligence, but quite the opposite. You should be proud to be represented that way, that this is your people."
Funny but you saw 1 black man on the show, Steve Harvey. But any other scene of black men were in jail, were without jobs, were not even interviewed. Did you wonder why was that? Why not get "average" or "successful" black men on the show? Why not ASK THEM?
Go back and LISTEN one more time to really pull apart what he is saying. Then listen to the older show to understand even more. At the CORE Tariq is right. You may not LIKE how he says it, but he is right.
http://www.archive.org/download/TariqNasheedMackLessonsRadioShow4246/macklessonsradio46.mp3
http://www.macklessonsradio.com/index/episode-220-response-to-abc-report-why-successful-black-women-find-it-so-hard-to-get-married-