Go back to previous topic
Forum nameGeneral Discussion
Topic subjecti think i know what you meant.
Topic URLhttp://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=12766338&mesg_id=12767663
12767663, i think i know what you meant.
Posted by SoWhat, Tue Mar-31-15 09:07 AM
you were expressing your frustration that so many white ppl seem to 'get it right' when it comes to money yet so many of us seem to 'get it wrong'. it's like...'damn! are they being taught something we're NOT taught???'

the answer is yes. some of them are taught and more importantly some of them listen and apply the lessons. i disagree w/the idea that they are any different from us when it comes to this issue though - but there are MORE OF THEM than us (we're only 13% of the population in this joint) and so much of what they do seems magnified i think. but there are plenty white ppl who are broke as shit - broker than us - and don't know shit about money. most of the social services you know of exist b/c WHITE PPL need that help. the gov't wouldn't create most of that shit if it were just for us. it's for THEM. they broke too. they poor too. they make awful decisions w/money too. and plenty of them come from nothing and never earn it and die broke and miserable and poor and disenfranchised. that is the reality of much of white america.

anyway, i get what this whole post is about, i think. it's all just venting about THEM having more than US. and i have little patience for it b/c i don't play the Keep Up With the Joneses game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONYuyY9FM2Q). i don't care what money some white ppl have or why. i don't care if they have more than i do. b/c i think caring about that shit would drive me mad. i fight enough 'forces' in my daily life that feel unmanageable and unconquerable. i don't need to take that one on too.