Generational Gap
As I get older I can further understand what it was like for my parents raising children when I am around people younger than I am. It is no secret that I hang out with more pigment challenged people than my own kind and that my own think me a bit odd. I am me. But could it be that I just cannot relate to my own people? I was giving a ride home to some younger (junior) to me sailors the other day and the music of that day was Paramore. Paramore is a young band that made some decent songs that I happened to enjoy. One of the younguns riding in my car just happened to be black and the other two white. They are just buddies, people I know, not really friends but we all get along just fine. As I started for their home the black kid asked me 'what the fuck are you listening to?' or something to that effect. I told him it was Paramore and his comment was I am not sure what I am supposed to do listening to this music, am I supposed to nod my head, jump up and down. The two white kids explained to him that they had heard some of their songs and explained to him that this band was a pretty big deal as far as young bands go. He asked me if I actually like this? My reply to him was 'would you rather I played something a bit more ethnic for you?' Nobody aside from the few people on my friends list will ever read this post, and even fewer of them will read it as myspace has become old news to them and they have moved on. Facebook is also becoming old to them and some of them have begun to move on. Black people, don't forget where you came from but really, you need to leave the hood behind. Move to the suburbs or smaller towns away from the cities, those cities while our homes, are nothing more than cultural prisons playing on ingrained guilt of community that was passed down to us from generation to generation. There is more to life than hypnotic bass beats, girls wearing tight clothes, pussy, money. Establish yourself away from the hood if you really want to say you made it.