Why must Blacks conform to the whites way of life in order to be considered successful?

You hear all these people talking bout black people don’t know how to spend money. How we ‘waste’ money on certain things. I was watching ‘I think I Love My Wife‘ and they was saying “spending money on spinning rims, you would think Steven Spielberg has spinning rims”. Just because white people don’t put money into rims, and expensive cars, does that make it wrong or something? Why is ‘making it’ equivalent to living like white people? Apparently ‘street dreams‘ are considered ignorant just because a young black male wants to be a basketball player football player or some sort of entertainer, why is that wrong? In a sense it is wrong because most if not all have that ‘get-rich-quick mentality and very seldom it works out how they play it out in their heads. Anyway, why is it considered right only if he wants a ‘safe’ career?
since when has individuality and ‘the sky is the limit ambitions’ flew out the window? Why must we conform to the whites way of life in order to be considered successful?

Is it because they don’t expect much from us besides what they see on BET? Not only is that foolish but simple-minded. I seen some white guy with a Volkswagen Beetle yesterday with huge 22″ rims on it and sounds that should of been in a bigger car. He is pretty much living what other whites besides him would call ‘a wasted lifestyle’. I’m sure his peers probably think because he didn’t have to sell drugs or rap to get those things, he’s considered successful. That’s bullshit. Destroying your car with concrete cracking sub-woofers and putting abnormally large rims on a tiny ass car isn’t successful, it’s absurd. If anything, I feel sorry for the car. What I’m pretty much saying is, how can the average black guy’s lifestyle be wrong to anyone who isn’t black but when they do it, it isn’t?

I’m not on the fence here. Wasting money no matter who does it is pretty stupid. You can be black and have chrome rims and sounds that can stop a heartbeat or white and I would look at you the same way. Except one is actually a nigga and the other one is trying to be one; and pretty much achieving that feat. The only other difference in that is, one will get pulled over, and the other one won’t.

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