The youth in this country are out of control may be the understatement of the year. If you turn on the news despite where you live you'll definitely see something is drastically wrong with today's youth. The young girl in the video below is but one example of the hundreds of thousands of youth headed for disaster. The girl admits to liking being disrespectful to her elders and loves to fight. She's so disrespectful she even cussed out her own mother. This type of behavior was virtually unheard of years ago (before the government's interference in how U.S. citizens raise their children) especially in the traditional black home (specially when it's understood that you'd be swallowing your own teeth if you ever disrespected your elders.)
Take a look at the video below and consider the question... Is it too late to reach our youth?
Everyone has at least one hater in their life. A hater is a person who hates your happiness. Typically someone who is jealous of you, they will stop at nothing to turn your joy into dismay. Haters make it their business to try and sabotage any amount of success you may experience.
Watch the video below and find out why you shouldn't let haters get you down. Eric Thomas shares why you should actually love your haters and convert their negative energy to do positive things in your life:
Mission: Our primary focus is to provide our readers with
music created by talented artists, producers and DJs across
the globe to balance out the monotony of today's mainstream
music. The secondary focus is to provide a means for these
talented individuals to discover and work with likeminded
individuals.
Let's face it, everywhere you go you can catch someone shamelessly taking a selfie. Children, adults, senior citizens -- they all do it. The point of taking selfies is to capture a special moment (for the most part) with friends, family, and in many cases strangers, but the question is are we making memories or are we taking selfies just for the sake of taking selfies? Check out Youtuber Superwoman's take on sefies and memories:
This week's message given by Eric Thomas explains why you should never be against the idea seeking or receiving help from others. Check out the video below (video starts at 2:11):
Mission: Our primary focus is to provide our readers with
music created by talented artists, producers and DJs across
the globe to balance out the monotony of today's mainstream
music. The secondary focus is to provide a means for these
talented individuals to discover and work with likeminded
individuals.
By now most people are familiar with the Rachel Dolezal scandal that's sparking plenty of discussions across social networks. The opinions seem to vary mostly due to people's focusing on different aspects of her story. Many non-blacks (and a few blacks sprinkled in there) started using terms like "trans-racial" and compared apples and oranges Rachel Dolezal's choice to live as a black woman to Bruce Jenner's choice to pretend to be live as a woman. Some found the whole situation to be outlandishly brazen as pretending to be black undermines the horrors of what black's ancestors had to endure and what black folk have to deal with today -- residual affects of slavery, racism, bigotry, prejudice, and discrimination. Then you had those who simply called into question Ms. Dolezal's integrity since she lied and lived out the lie for years. Their question is the same as today's think tank question -- can she be trusted?
Welcome to another beautiful Monday. If you've ever allowed your fears to prevent you from achieving goals and reaching your highest potential, then this motivational message is for you. Watch the video below and listen closely as Eric Thomas explains why you need to face your fears and why having an attitude where you'd rather die trying to reach your goals and failing is better than not trying at all:
Mission: Our primary focus is to provide our readers with
music created by talented artists, producers and DJs across
the globe to balance out the monotony of today's mainstream
music. The secondary focus is to provide a means for these
talented individuals to discover and work with like-minded individuals.
When the Daily Dot wrote an article about 18 year old Kyemah McEntyre's ethnic prom dress and titled the article 'High schooler slams white privilege with beautiful, badass prom dress' they certainly stirred up a hornet's nest in the Facebook community where the article was shared. The comments section absolutely exploded mainly because people took offense to the mentioning of white privilege in an article they felt had nothing to do with race:
It's Monday and time to get back into the swing of things. Whether you're heading back to the grind or just starting this week this is a message you need to hear. The key to today's message is you need to start sacrificing things in your life in order to get to where you want to be and/or to obtain the things in life you desire. Some things will have to be given up in order to get to the next level of success. Check out the video below:
So many people hit me off with their projects I thought it would only be fair to share their material and have it critiqued by my readers. My only warning is there may or may not be some extremely wack stuff here, but on the other hand you might come across the next big thing; so be patient and fair. After you check things out, let me know what you think. Leave a comment below, or send me a tweet letting me know if the project is a smash or if it's trash.
Then go let the artist know and tell them Big Jye sent ya! The whole point is to give the artists some feedback on their work. Let's go!
Mission: Our primary focus is to provide our readers with
music created by talented artists, producers and DJs across
the globe to balance out the monotony of today's mainstream
music. The secondary focus is to provide a means for these
talented individuals to discover and work with like-minded
individuals.
It's no surprise the image of black men in America today needs a massive overhaul. You'd be a fool to think otherwise. When you consider just about every representation of black men in the media deals with some sort of negative portrayal of them as uneducated savages, it's no wonder people who have never been around black people before dread their first encounter with them.
In film, black men typically play roles that either aim to emasculate them, or portray them as uneducated, pimps, gangbangers, crooks, deadbeat dads, cheaters and other notorious types of individuals. In music, young black males are encouragedprogrammed to make negative records that further perpetuate the criminal, sexually promiscuous, violent stereotypes repeatedly generated by Hollywood.
Finally, the news media further solidifies these stereotypes of black men, by constantly bombarding viewers with negative stories and imagery of black people (men specifically) as if this is all black males as a whole contribute to society. Even when the news story isn't about a "black crime" have you ever noticed how the reporters always seem to get witness accounts from black folks that are obvious embarrassments to themselves and their communities? I'm willing to bet that if two black men witnessed a crime, one well spoken and well dressed, and the other a crack head who speaks with severely broken English, they'd put the crack head on air and not the well spoken brother. This is done strategically to embed these images into the minds of the viewers. To non-black viewers they'll become weary of black men and see them as inferior, incorrigible and worse of all a major threat.
Even though the media plays a large role in how society views the black man, we can't hold it completely responsible for how the black man is viewed by the world. Realistically the media can only show what we as black folk put out there good and bad, the challenge is to produce more good than bad. If black actors refuse to play stereotypical roles in movies, and rappers refuse to make degrading/destructive music then that will be a step in the right direction. If we can reach children in our communities and expose them to movers and shakers across various industries then they'll know there are many more career options then what's typically shown to them. They they need to know that they we as black men don't have to settle for being criminals, rappers, and athletes to "make it" in life.
So yes the image of the black man needs to be changed... but how do we go about doing it? Check out the video below for a couple of examples of how brothers are helping to change the image of black men:
What are your thoughts? What are some ways to better represent the imagery of black men?
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Have you ever worked on a project or had a specific goal but found yourself never finishing what you've started? Chances are you have some distractions preventing you from completing your objectives. Check out this week's motivational message brought to you by Eric Thomas and listen carefully as Eric explains why it's imperative to write out and shut down any and every distraction in your life that may be preventing you from achieving your goals:
Hopefully this week's message inspired and empowered you and now that you're ready to make your dreams become a reality, why not help someone else by sharing this message with someone else? Follow me on Twitter @bigjyesupreme
