Parents or Enemies ??
The generation of our time is all about drugs, sex, drinking, fighting (mostly jumping), being in a
gang, shooting, killing, etc. But it's all in the way you perceive a black male/female. See you
dont know half of what you think you know. Like lets say for instance my mom has been telling
me Im bad ever since I was three years old, what do you think Im going to be when grow up?
Bad, right? Thats the point its the parents fault because they dont properly teach the children
about life, sex, relationships, etc. Most black parents dont teach their kids the right way, but
instead they teach their kids as of how society perceives black young people which is as wild
black animals. If parents just keep their kids in check and teach their kids about how NOT to act
the way society wants you to act and what it really means to be black.
The modern day black isnt where it's at, black people werent behaving the way they do today,
back then they were not twerking, having sexual intercourse with random people, getting
pregnant outside of marriage as often, wearing revealing clothes and so on. For example gangs
were not made to shoot and kill people in your own neighborhood, gangs were supposed to
educate and inform the youth on how the streets are not a good place to be and also to be
helpful in their neighborhood or community. So what has happened from then to now? Society
has gotten a hold of the youth without the parents even knowing. Technology has developed a
lot sense back then and it has its pros and cons.
One of the pros are that we have easier access to information that helps us throughout our
daily lives, Also through technology we have updated medicines, antidotes, vaccines on
different types of diseases, viruses, etc. Technology also helps people get things done quicker
and better, like me typing this article, if I didnt have the technology to do this article I would
have to write it and that would take much longer.
The cons are of modern day technology are how we abuse it. We get on our phones, laptops,
iPad, etc. and completely zone out everything around us. We stay on our phones all day
scrolling down Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and watching silly videos on YouTube. Thats why
the youth behaves the way they do, because of how they see others behaving on social media
and they think its cools they go and do what they see. The problem is that parents are letting
social media teach their children how to act.
Sometimes parents get so caught up in contributing to our society that they aren't teaching us
how to function so that we can keep up this same society they are working towards. They
working to provide us with things that arent really worth more than quality time. If parents could
sit down and talk to us, eat meals with, go on field trips with us, be more involved at our
schools, and have teach us how to have fun with and without technology more often, I think this
world would be a better place. Because black parents have to work so much, the youth doesn't
get that one-on-one time with parents that creates the connection that they need in their daily
lives. If parents didnt have to work so much to make ends meet, they would have more time
with their children to teach them how they should really should act in society.
So black parents come back into our community so we can change the society and the way the
black youth of today acts in it because all it takes is a little time to cause something big enough
to change the way the black youth is viewed.
-Trevon Ellis
those decisions for us because theyre afraid for us. At the end of the day you have to live your
life for you. Yes we should learn from those mistakes but we cant get so caught up in avoiding
their mistakes that we miss out on the best parts of our lives. What was best for them may not
be best for us. Just whatever you do dont do it out of
fear.
-Josephine Grant
-Azurah C. Faison
-Anonymous