She’s Right: Black American Culture is Dying. Ghetto Black People Are to Blame.

This video from YouTuber Zarria Simmons hit my feed and I couldn’t agree more with her takes on black American culture. Let’s watch and react.

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[dc]

As a black man raised in rural NC, pride and humility were instilled in me by my parents (and five older siblings) at an early age. I obtained my BS and MS in chemical engineering, worked for 35+ years, retired at 61, and continue to carry myself as my mother and father intended and taught.

[derekvinson]

I'm black and I was raised in the hood, but my parents DID NOT LET ME GO THAT ROUTE. They wanted me to get out and be a good human. I thank them for that everyday!!

[PaetynPeebles-tgcb]

I grew up with a black stepsister. She was constantly called white by other black people because she was smart, well-spoken, and wore nice clothes. Telling a young black girl that her identity as a black girl is invalid because she's smart, etc etc is implying that black people cannot be those things. Anyone can be anything.

[thatkajunguy]

I'm an older white guy, 66, who has a younger black couple as a neighbor.
He works in law enforcement and she's a school teacher and they have recently had the cutest little baby boy.... We bbq and hangout together often and they are great neighbors... We listen to everything from rock and roll to blues and jazz.... There's great and bad people in all races, colors and cultures, choose wisely and you will be rewarded..

[mina_chiba]

Being classy should not have a color or a social class. It’s self respect.

[Cyneweard]

As a black man from Zimbabwe, I can tell you that "Ghetto" culture does not just embarrass African Americas. It disgraces us all. I'm tired of being thought of as criminal when I travel abroad.

[turkeyman]

When I hear people tell black people 'You sound white' it just makes me facepalm. It's like acting educated at all is a 'white person' thing. It's incredibly weird to me.

[jayjones]

My doctor is a black woman from Nigeria. She absolutely has zero tolerance for American black culture. She’s the classiest woman I've ever met.

[Kennyurstruly]

I'm black. Y'all aren't being honest. It's not a small part of our culture. It's the majority share of black America. We need to clean up our own. It's embarrassing.

[lancetheb.m.c]

As a Black Male, I am called a Sellout for NOT acting ghetto.

The Prison Mentality in the Black Community needs to stop…..

[oribyul]

As a Black person, I pray for the day the black community starts taking responsibility for their actions instead of blaming it on "systemic racism". Once this happens, the black community will thrive

[waynecerne]

My father grew up with a working class accent. He lost it because people assume he is uneducated. Black people shaming black people for sounding educated want to keep black people down.

[jonathannelson]

My father was a language tyrant. He wouldn't let us use slang or mispronounce words.
He drilled into our heads that it didn't matter how brilliant your ideas are. If you can't effectively communicate those ideas to other people, you have nothing.

[theresathompson]

As a professional Black woman working in education I have witnessed rebellion at the highest in the Black community. Black young ladies refuse to stop wearing hair bonnets in public, young Black men refuses to pull up their pants. The rappers have became the role models! I am disgusted.

[Dualex_Builds]

I’m black and I was born in New York. my mother homeschooled me as a young child. I started going to public school in the 3rd grade. There were not many other black children at my school when I first started going there, so many of my friends were of other races; However, There were these 3 kids who were considered to be the most “cool” kids in our grade. They were black. These kids did not like that my mother taught me how to speak with proper English, so they confronted me about it one day in the hallway when our teacher stepped into a classroom. One of them asked me “is you black?” I was confused by the question and replied “yes I’m black”. I’m 30 years old now and I’ll never forget his next words “oh. Cause you don’t act black.”

To this day I’m astonished that people think that you can “act” like a race of people. And that some people cannot tell what race you are by looking at you, but determine that by how educated you appear to be, how you wear your clothes, or how you speak.

By the end of the school year, two of those students were held back to repeat the 3rd grade, and one of them was required to complete summer school and was able to continue onto the 4th grade with the other kids.

When I was in high school I Rand back into the kid who asked me those questions all those years ago and he actually remembered what he said and apologized to me. The kid was a completely different person. I heard that one of the other kids had been in and out of jail during high school for selling drugs and I’m not sure about the third kid.

This is a long winded story to say that black people glorifying idiocy is affecting their kids in ways that the parents may not understand at first until it’s too late

[bernardweaver]

As a black man I'm disgusted by the fact that often times when a young black man commits crime and it's caught on camera the comments are always "the usual suspects." This mentality then perpetuates throughout the country, to the point where I basically have to prove I'm not a threat when entering a new space. For any other group you're seen as a person first and only as a potential threat if your behaviour warrants it. However for black men it's the opposite. As a community we need to clean up our culture.

[Michael-ksl]

I'm a bm. 63 years old. We have normalized violence, guns, babies having babies, lack of education, and killing each other with impunity. What other culture does this?

[denisrichard]

Ghetto rap is a HUGE part of why all American blacks are seen as all the same. It is extremely popular so a lot of people hear it and believe that it is black culture. Movies don't help with that.

[markaym]

I'm black and I grew up in a two parent household. My father had two graduate degrees and both of my parents were responsible, decent, and good people who raised us in the suburbs in the 1980s. We did not and were not allowed to associate with blacks who debased themselves. We had a saying in our family..."You may be my color, but you are not my kind."

[benzelfranklin]

I applaud and appreciate your courage in even being this up on your channel