Rickey Smiley Saying What Someone Needs To Say

[Tito_Jackson]

Wtf?!?!

Ricky being a hoe for this. How you gonna dictate what hairstyle that man wear for a job and the job itself don't require the youngsta to cut his hair.

Sick of these old niggas who think they special cuz they went to school and got some money.

Ricky sound as bad as that hoe nigga Steve Harvey.

Bro, have you ever been to a real yacht club? Not that small town ish with 22' sloops. I'm talking 60' plus sunserkers, mavericks, etc. Reservation dining for non-members with $100 plates. You can not expect to work at a high caliber establishment like this with notty dreads. You would never be tipped or trusted. Is it right? No. But it is what it is. I work in healthcare. Just imagine if your doctor came to see you with hair like kodak black?? You would get up and leave. You wouldn't care about his education or experience. Presentation matters in many occupations. To even work at chick-fil-a there is a dress code and standard. With all of these opportunities, you either say "yeah, I will play the game." Or " f dat. My personal expression is more important than increasing my social and economic value."

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

You're not wrong

but bro...

can you....

learn how......

to type in.....

complete sentences....

reading...

your shit.....

is exhausting

Are you referring to the double spacing

Or the grammaticals...

The double spacing is my style so you are

Gonna have to get over it...

The grammaticals well sometimes I proofread most of the times I don't...

Sooo theres that

Lol

Thanks for sharing your two cents tho

 

[militantmidget]

Bro, have you ever been to a real yacht club? Not that small town ish with 22' sloops. I'm talking 60' plus sunserkers, mavericks, etc. Reservation dining for non-members with $100 plates. You can not expect to work at a high caliber establishment like this with notty dreads. You would never be tipped or trusted. Is it right? No. But it is what it is. I work in healthcare. Just imagine if your doctor came to see you with hair like kodak black?? You would get up and leave. You wouldn't care about his education or experience. Presentation matters in many occupations. To even work at chick-fil-a there is a dress code and standard. With all of these opportunities, you either say "yeah, I will play the game." Or " f dat. My personal expression is more important than increasing my social and economic value."

I agree 1000% with u IF...the job required him to cut his hair.

But that wasn't the case. RICKEY said he needed to cut the hair off since the kid was a representation of him.

Now to that I say is some hoe shit to do to someone. If you all about helping someone, then just help. Don't put your own prejudices on the young man. That's why I say Ricky just the old nigga mad at the kids today, rantin about the "good ol days".

Man miss me with that.

Now he coulda made a suggestion, but a mandatory requirement???

Dude's disingenuous and full of himself

 

[Tito_Jackson]

I agree 1000% with u IF...the job required him to cut his hair.

But that wasn't the case. RICKEY said he needed to cut the hair off since the kid was a representation of him.

Now to that I say is some hoe shit to do to someone. If you all about helping someone, then just help. Don't put your own prejudices on the young man. That's why I say Ricky just the old nigga mad at the kids today, rantin about the "good ol days".

Man miss me with that.

Now he coulda made a suggestion, but a mandatory requirement???

Dude's disingenuous and full of himself

It is not a requirement to cut your hair to be a doctor or executive either. But, you facilitate your success by doing so.

Also, you can not ask someone to help you and except them to put their social capital on the line without knowing that they are in a good position to succeed. The man, who was 30+, was wearing wild ass dreads. Not even the neat kind. The wild ass scare white people kind. Sending him to Miami to work at a yacht club looking like that would have been setting him up for failure. None of the owners would talk to him. They would skimp on the tips. They might even ask for him to leave. Florida is an "at will" state. Meaning you can be fired or demoted without explanation.

Looking like kodak black or lil Wayne is not the best way to get ahead. Is it fair?? No. But, life isn't fair. We have to deal within the reality and do what's best for us.

Plus, an unemployed 30 something year old with nappy dreads living in Birmingham should be grateful for an opportunity to earn 6 figures. Cutting hair ain't ish. It will grown back.

Any unemployed person who refuses to cut their hair for a 6 figure job is an idiot and obviously is not capable of making sound life decisions anyway.

 

[shaddyvillethug]

Woodchuck has dreads like Stevie wonder and he’s one of the smartest brothers in the world.

stfu tito

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Dude's disingenuous and full of himself

This is quintessential American behavior. You can’t be disingenuous without a hint of sanctimony.

 

[godofwine]

Not that other cultures don't do this, but black people Harbor and even celebrate their killers

I stated before that one of the worst things even worse than drugs in a black community are the bodies. Just like the wire

If somebody is trying to sell some fucking drugs I don't really give a shit, but if somebody wants to shoot up a goddamn Park... motherfukers are shooting up funerals nowadays

We've got to stop harboring our murderers. Cold-blooded Killers have no business out on the street. Absolutely none

I don't give a good goddamn if they are your son, your nephew, your friend, anybody willing to go Superfly TNT guns of the Navarone on anybody for any reason doesn't need to be out in general population

There needs to be something done. Rather than go to the hood to get my haircut I decided to cut my own hair bald just so I won't have to go. There's no place that's safe

What's worse about all the shooting is these motherfuckers can't shoot for shit. More often than not it's a spray and pray, like the playing fucking Grand Theft Auto or some shit

In the process they are killing Somebody's Daughter, somebody's kids , somebody's babies and not even hitting the motherfuker they trying to hit.

I moved up out of the hood and I'm so glad I did. In this country ass neighborhood I live right now I go walking between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. just a 3 Mile Walk around my neighborhood. I'm more likely to run into wildlife than a car or another human being. I couldn't do that shit if I live in the hood

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Not that other cultures don't do this, but black people Harbor and even celebrate their killers

I stated before that one of the worst things even worse than drugs in a black community are the bodies. Just like the wire

If somebody is trying to sell some fucking drugs I don't really give a shit, but if somebody wants to shoot up a goddamn Park... motherfukers are shooting up funerals nowadays

We've got to stop harboring our murderers. Cold-blooded Killers have no business out on the street. Absolutely none

I don't give a good goddamn if they are your son, your nephew, your friend, anybody willing to go Superfly TNT guns of the Navarone on anybody for any reason doesn't need to be out in general population

There needs to be something done. Rather than go to the hood to get my haircut I decided to cut my own hair bald just so I won't have to go. There's no place that's safe

What's worse about all the shooting is these motherfuckers can't shoot for shit. More often than not it's a spray and pray, like the playing fucking Grand Theft Auto or some shit

In the process they are killing Somebody's Daughter, somebody's kids , somebody's babies and not even hitting the motherfuker they trying to hit.

I moved up out of the hood and I'm so glad I did. In this country ass neighborhood I live right now I go walking between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. just a 3 Mile Walk around my neighborhood. I'm more likely to run into wildlife than a car or another human being. I couldn't do that shit if I live in the hood

What an awful post.

 

[godofwine]

What an awful post.

What's awful about it? I didn't really get a chance to proof it and I'm a little tired being that it's 2:30 in the morning

I'm sick of the bodies. I'm sick of the murders. I moved out of the hood because it was dangerous and it's still dangerous. I don't get my haircut at the barber shop anymore, I cut it myself because I don't want to go to the hood

Here where I live, these little boys set around with guns in the store forcing people to pay for their little snacks or get shot. They do this in Akron 30 minutes from where I live

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

What's awful about it? I didn't really get a chance to proof it and I'm a little tired being that it's 2:30 in the morning

I'm sick of the bodies. I'm sick of the murders. I moved out of the hood because it was dangerous and it's still dangerous. I don't get my haircut at the barber shop anymore, I cut it myself because I don't want to go to the hood

Here where I live, these little boys set around with guns in the store forcing people to pay for their little snacks or get shot. They do this in Akron 30 minutes from where I live

What’s awful about your post? I know it’s 230 but maybe you should get some rest before you reveal your inner Clayton Bigsby.

 

[godofwine]

What’s awful about your post? I know it’s 230 but maybe you should get some rest before you reveal your inner Clinton Bigsby.

First of all, it's Clayton Bigsby

Secondly, what's wrong with what I said? Did I tell any lies?

Thirdly, what's different from what I said then from what Rickey Smiley said?

I don't go to the hood because I don't have a reason to. I've had bad experiences in the hood since I've been an adult. I've had my apartment broken into, and one of my good friends had her boyfriend shot and killed

NOW

When I get the funds, I do have a plan for the black community that can help the black community save itself but it's going to require a lot of money.

It would be nice if I could win the lottery so I could do it on my own without having to do fundraisers and shit like that, but I have a plan to take on the Arab stores in the Asian stores in the black community.

 

[Heavenlywings77]

woooooooooooooooooooooooooow, I stopped at a grown man saying he's scared.... Nigga clip up

 

[Tom Slick]

When I get the funds, I do have a plan for the black community that can help the black community save itself but it's going to require a lot of money.

It would be nice if I could win the lottery so I could do it on my own without having to do fundraisers and shit like that, but I have a plan to take on the Arab stores in the Asian stores in the black community.

You gonna post more tranny porn for rapidshare points so you can get the funds to save Black communities? Is that, was that your plan all along?

 

[Heavenlywings77]

Coon talk...

You can't have it both ways bro, if you don't want the crime you gotta change the whole culture... no N word, no rap music, no independent thought and dating and all that stuff, no disrespecting your fellow brother or sister over appearance or income...

Until you ready to do all that these videos are just coon talk... same nigga will turn around and pick on black people, broke niggas, use black culture for money for whites, no cap

None of these hollier than thou negroes is gonna sacrifice to really fix the community so it's just coon talk until then

Didnt this dude used to dress up as an old woman?

 

[blackman80]

100% facts on this!!..I agree with Brother Smiley!!

 

[Heavenlywings77]

Bro, this is say off. The older generation is supposed to share the mistakes that they made as well as other knowledge gained with the next generation. This is partially why Asian, Indian, and whites are so far ahead, because the things they have been able to pass along. We are so traumatized by pur past that we do not pass along anything. Most of our families can not complete a family tree back 4 or 5 generations post slavery.

Nothing wrong with saying, " when I was your age, I f'd up doing x, don't do x, do y. This is what we need more of.

You are either an agent or brainwashed. Telling kids that they are f n up is coon talk??? Our communities are falling apart right before our eyes. The government is not going to fix it for us. Why is this so hard to understand? Politicians will keep selling you this dream but this will never happen. We have to do it. But, doing so means you are a coon or a conservative??

It is not an all-or-nothing situation. We need to brick by brick build up our communities and right the wrongs of our community. This may mean starting with the low-hanging fruit. So what?? We have to start somewhere. But, we can not wait for Thanos to snap his finger to make everything happen all at once.

BGOL Bizarro World strikes again.

We wouldn't need a "Pound Cake #2" if we would have listened to Pound Cake #1. Every single thing that Cosby spoke about in that speech has come to past. EVERYTHING. And black folk were so stupid to be tricked into thinking that he was the enemy because he said that cursing in front of elders was bad. That mothers are doing a shitty job with kids especially boys. That our emphasis on education in the black community is lacking. That we need to pull up our pants and dress for success. That we need to at least master the language of business in order to change our situation.

Nothing wrong with any of that. Dumb negros were just upset that he said it in a public forum.....which was exactly where it needed to be said.

The fact is this. 80% of our kids are being raised by just our black women. They have proven that they are incapable of doing the job without us. No diss. Just facts.

Its sooo much more deeper

 

[Day_Carver]

Yeah my Colin Powell instincts started kicking in after five minutes. I understand what he is saying because he’s been having some issues with some people from his family.. whats that the old saying...oh yeah “you could take the horse to the water but you can’t make the horse drink the water”

 

[Tito_Jackson]

Woodchuck has dreads like Stevie wonder and he’s one of the smartest brothers in the world.

stfu tito

Yeah, but @woodchuck also isn't a homeless weed smoking unemployed 30 something with no money either.

It's not about intelligence. I know some genius brothers and sisters with dreads that work at the NIH, others who are brilliant scientists at other prestigious institutions.

Rickey Smiley tried to provide an opportunity to a brother who literally had nothing going on. Take him from zero income and no home to a 6 figure job and apartment.

People tend to believe that people owe you something. No one owes you anything. If you ask for help(and this brother did ask for help), a person can offer help and set conditions on that assistance if they wish. You can choose to accept or not.

We are doing black men and black boys a disservice by coddling them and not preparing them for the real world.

I can also tell you this, even in the music business, the more successful music executives are groomed well and have the ability to maneuver in various environments. It's the duality of being black.

 

[militantmidget]

It is not a requirement to cut your hair to be a doctor or executive either. But, you facilitate your success by doing so.

Also, you can not ask someone to help you and except them to put their social capital on the line without knowing that they are in a good position to succeed. The man, who was 30+, was wearing wild ass dreads. Not even the neat kind. The wild ass scare white people kind. Sending him to Miami to work at a yacht club looking like that would have been setting him up for failure. None of the owners would talk to him. They would skimp on the tips. They might even ask for him to leave. Florida is an "at will" state. Meaning you can be fired or demoted without explanation.

Looking like kodak black or lil Wayne is not the best way to get ahead. Is it fair?? No. But, life isn't fair. We have to deal within the reality and do what's best for us.

Plus, an unemployed 30 something year old with nappy dreads living in Birmingham should be grateful for an opportunity to earn 6 figures. Cutting hair ain't ish. It will grown back.

Any unemployed person who refuses to cut their hair for a 6 figure job is an idiot and obviously is not capable of making sound life decisions anyway.

You dont see it but its it's cool.

Not that other cultures don't do this, but black people Harbor and even celebrate their killers

I stated before that one of the worst things even worse than drugs in a black community are the bodies. Just like the wire

If somebody is trying to sell some fucking drugs I don't really give a shit, but if somebody wants to shoot up a goddamn Park... motherfukers are shooting up funerals nowadays

We've got to stop harboring our murderers. Cold-blooded Killers have no business out on the street. Absolutely none

I don't give a good goddamn if they are your son, your nephew, your friend, anybody willing to go Superfly TNT guns of the Navarone on anybody for any reason doesn't need to be out in general population

There needs to be something done. Rather than go to the hood to get my haircut I decided to cut my own hair bald just so I won't have to go. There's no place that's safe

What's worse about all the shooting is these motherfuckers can't shoot for shit. More often than not it's a spray and pray, like the playing fucking Grand Theft Auto or some shit

In the process they are killing Somebody's Daughter, somebody's kids , somebody's babies and not even hitting the motherfuker they trying to hit.

I moved up out of the hood and I'm so glad I did. In this country ass neighborhood I live right now I go walking between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. just a 3 Mile Walk around my neighborhood. I'm more likely to run into wildlife than a car or another human being. I couldn't do that shit if I live in the hood

I disagree. Society facilitates this bs in our communities. Poverty has been an institutional root of racism in our communities since blk folk became free. INTEGRATION was the power punch that allowed all this wildness to flourish. Divide then conquer.

Remove men from their families, add drugs and guns, then when things get hot lock up all the men. Rinse wash repeat.

We're in a new crack era, but the drug isn't crack, it's clout on social media.

Every wonder how everywhere on the planet where we've been enslaved (America, Brasil, Colombia, Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, etc.), we're still in poverty.

But magically we get access to drugs and guns, even though there aren't any black gun manufacturers and we don't own any real land in the Americas to grow drug crops.

Let me ask you this. If blk ppl used the guns solely against non blk ppl in this country, do you think we'd still have access to illegal guns like it is now?

 

[Gods_Debris]

The first sign of you are getting too old? complaining about what young people do today as if the same shit wasn't being done when when you were younger. This dude don't remember the crack era? People getting shot because someone scuffed their shoes by mistake.

Jeri Curls....enough said

Not knocking his message. But us older folk need to stop pretending like we didn't do dumb shit when we were younger too.

That and the op sounds like clarence Thomas

 

[totto]

Not that other cultures don't do this, but black people Harbor and even celebrate their killers

I stated before that one of the worst things even worse than drugs in a black community are the bodies. Just like the wire

If somebody is trying to sell some fucking drugs I don't really give a shit, but if somebody wants to shoot up a goddamn Park... motherfukers are shooting up funerals nowadays

We've got to stop harboring our murderers. Cold-blooded Killers have no business out on the street. Absolutely none

I don't give a good goddamn if they are your son, your nephew, your friend, anybody willing to go Superfly TNT guns of the Navarone on anybody for any reason doesn't need to be out in general population

There needs to be something done. Rather than go to the hood to get my haircut I decided to cut my own hair bald just so I won't have to go. There's no place that's safe

What's worse about all the shooting is these motherfuckers can't shoot for shit. More often than not it's a spray and pray, like the playing fucking Grand Theft Auto or some shit

In the process they are killing Somebody's Daughter, somebody's kids , somebody's babies and not even hitting the motherfuker they trying to hit.

I moved up out of the hood and I'm so glad I did. In this country ass neighborhood I live right now I go walking between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. just a 3 Mile Walk around my neighborhood. I'm more likely to run into wildlife than a car or another human being. I couldn't do that shit if I live in the hood

have to disagree with the first sentence because all those old white mafia guys are praised. Sammy the bulk John gotta even thatMichael dude blowing up on YouTube white people just know how to separate themselves from it. We’re judged more harshly.

probably a skill the gop has is the white Christian thing is so loud it drowns out the other thought in the room, one of the gop true skills.

white folks seperste from their bad guys quick look how the media reports white crime? Lone wolf, isolated, they’ll blame Twitter and social media. We don’t have them excuses.

 

[godofwine]

have to disagree with the first sentence because all those old white mafia guys are praised. Sammy the bulk John gotta even thatMichael dude blowing up on YouTube white people just know how to separate themselves from it. We’re judged more harshly.

probably a skill the gop has is the white Christian thing is so loud it drowns out the other thought in the room, one of the gop true skills.

white folks seperste from their bad guys quick look how the media reports white crime? Lone wolf, isolated, they’ll blame Twitter and social media. We don’t have them excuses.

True.

Still, we've got to do better. Yes those Mafia guys are praised on the down-low by their culture and publicly by us

We are affected most by the dredges of our backed up sewer. The smell gets so bad that it drives out many of the food ones who would like to stay

If you have anything worth anything and you want to keep it you don't stay in the area you grew up in , where your parents used to live in the house that's already paid for because the area is not what it used to be.

Fuck White flight. Since Integration, Black success existed the hood and the sewer backed up so much that folks who can afford to leave often do.

For some its how dangerous many of our neighborhoods have gotten, for others it is the security of knowing, or rather not knowing if our belongings were safe in our homes while we were at work AND if the police would come if our alarms went off

 

[shaddyvillethug]

Yeah, but @woodchuck also isn't a homeless weed smoking unemployed 30 something with no money either.

It's not about intelligence. I know some genius brothers and sisters with dreads that work at the NIH, others who are brilliant scientists at other prestigious institutions.

Rickey Smiley tried to provide an opportunity to a brother who literally had nothing going on. Take him from zero income and no home to a 6 figure job and apartment.

People tend to believe that people owe you something. No one owes you anything. If you ask for help(and this brother did ask for help), a person can offer help and set conditions on that assistance if they wish. You can choose to accept or not.

We are doing black men and black boys a disservice by coddling them and not preparing them for the real world.

I can also tell you this, even in the music business, the more successful music executives are groomed well and have the ability to maneuver in various environments. It's the duality of being black.

Do u know woodchuck has sons and grandchildren with dreads who are also successful

We saw a father son graduate together with dreadlocks.

you can’t tell me shit nigga