Host Larry Higginbottom explains how Boomers have not taught younger generations that America is a white man's country, how youth have adopted disastrous behaviors due to the failure of older generations to teach them the reality of our society, how black youth have been fooled into thinking they are free when they are not, & more.
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Observations From The Trenches
Host Larry Higginbottom explains how Boomers have not taught younger generations that America is a white man's country, how youth have adopted disastrous behaviors due to the failure of older generations to teach them the reality of our society, how black youth have been fooled into thinking they are free when they are not, & more.
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- 25 Sep 2024
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The following commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of the staff and management of WBCA or the Boston Neighborhood Network. If you would like to express another opinion, you can address your comments to Boston Neighborhood Network, 302-5 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02119. To arrange a time for your own commentary, you can call WBCA at 617-708-3215 or email radio at BNNMedia.org. Well, I'm here, Boston. I'm your host Larry Higginberg. My name is Joe. He is After Freedom Trenches. You're listening to WBCA, 102.9 FM, again, WBCA, 102.9 FM here in Boston. Well, it's kind of chilly today out here in Boston. It's going to be kind of chilly all week. I guess you can say fall is the one that's, hope you're nice and warm wherever you are. Have a nice hot tea or something, a very relaxing drink after a hot tea on the job. Again, I've been admitted to the health of the last quarter of a century. I've been in folks' homes. Primary working with Omega Blacks, folks of color, all things providing me to have services. And I've come to really believe that boom is really not all, but too often boomers did not do a great job. A cheap, cheesy, not true in America, the white man's country. I think boomers failed to educate our children to this simple reality, that America is a white man's country. And I don't say that to stir up, you know, conversation, dialogue, or to raise eyebrows, or to be, you know, combative, or even being spirited. And the reason why I say that poses questions, what do you think about? I was born in 1853. My mom was born in 1836 with my father. My mother was born in 1903. My father's father born in 1897. They taught me, in my siblings, the rules of surviving in a white man's world. Given that the relationship is founded on contempt, hate, and disdain of 24,000 years of chalice slavery, continued by another 100 years with Patai, Jim Crow, legend, you name it, whatever they could do, they did with the impunity of no consequences. When I'm out here in this home for the last quarter century, I say it's no way if boomers had taught their children, their grandkids, to the Americans of the white man's country, with a lot of our youth be doing the things they're doing. And so, you can call in, and long as you keep it clean, you know, you can share your thoughts. 617 708 3211, 617 708 3211, you know, long as you keep it clean, no problem. But my thoughts for the day, I want to put out an atmosphere, some of you think about, especially for my group, ADO, stands for American Census Slavery. I come out of that institution, I got no shame in that game. Some might call, some might say, "We're a foundation of black American." I'm okay with that. Some might say, "We're a regional black American." Okay, we're dead. But we are dead up Americans. We the only group who got no other place to claim. We are American. There's no hyphen before our name. And we come out of the institution of slavery. We're not Africans. I've been several times, had a great experience. We'll go back there. I am of African ancestry, but I'm not an African. I'm not an African. So I want to pose this question, because I'm just outdone, when I see a lot of the behavior that Gen X, Gen Z, and Linus are doing, I say, "Who raised him?" It couldn't be boomers. Couldn't be boomers. Because we just talk differently by our parents, who was born in 1930s, 1920s, 1910. How to survive and navigate white America. So my thought for you to consider my topic today is America, the white man's country. And I want to say that for hugging men, or debate, or even to be controversy. Boomers fail to educate our children to this simple reality. America is a white man's country. They own all the resources, all the wealth. These are the institutions that we operate in, the bylaws, the regs, the rigs, everything, do their sense of right and wrong. Don't be deceived by black faces and high places. We don't own those institutions. And so I'm out there to the church. I say, "Why are so many of our young folks creating or doing what I call a self-jealous art behavior? Why of all people, black males, black males, getting into the hustling game, the violent game?" Knowing that from the time we were emancipated, our image was distorted. We had been dubbed the minutes to society, violent. Why would we of all people want to be going in front of that white man's courthouse knowing that their whole indoctrination about us has been sitting on black hate? And knowing the only thing they know about us is what they see on the 6 o'clock news, 11 o'clock news, or so-called urban special, or what their mamas, daddies, and grandparents have told them about the Negroes, which for the most pod is distorted. Why would you, aid those men, males, when they go before that white man's courthouse, knowing he's been taught correctly, that you're never going to get anything called justice or fairness, and that's why I wonder, some of our boomers did a terrible job of teaching our children that America's the white man's country, don't be deceived by that. And boomers failed to educate our children on that simple reality, because there's no way that they would be doing the things they're doing if they had been taught correctly as my generation would. My best friend's growing up, when I was in my team, in early 20th, Victor Johnson, Lester Wheeler, Longstownson, when I went to their house, their mother reinforced with my parents of teaching me about how to survive and navigate out here in the society called, in this world. That's controlling and dominated by the white community. They taught me as a Negro male what to do and what not to do. And it appears since the, since the so-called civil rights era, or from a faction in civil rights bills, all of a sudden them, boomers stopped teaching their children the reality of this relationship about blacks and whites. And so somewhere somebody forgot to teach, the next generation, the rules of survival and engagement in white America is a white man's country. And every group that comes here, right, and strictly knows that. They know who got the power, they know who institutions are, they know who owns the wealth, who sets the paradigm. At one point in our development, our parents used to prepare us, prepare us, how to engage and navigate out in America. And I'm just dumbfounded and just just perplexed why the boomers stopped teaching their children their America's the white man's country. All the rules, institutions are here, the regs that govern our behavior no matter what the institutions are in, be it legal, education, medical, human services, those are his ideal of right and wrong that we are articulating. Why did some boomers stop teaching their children the reality that you live in a white man's world, that they control, that they control? Because in no way, as I'm out here in the 20th of the last quarter century, that many of our young people will be engaged in some of the disastrous, self-inflicted behavior that they are involved in. If they had been taught as I had been taught by my parents, reinforced by my friends' parents by my grandparents, my mother was born in 1903, I believe. My father's father was born in 1897. What you know for them to have survived during the 890 years, they had to know how to navigate in this society dominated by the white spirit, by the white man, by the white community. And yes, you know they had to a swallow a lot of hurtful things in dignity for me to be here, for you to be here. They had to do that to survive. And in 2024, when you look at the horizon, many of the young ADO's men and women are doing things that lead to their own self-destruction. The things I see are the trenches, and I say to young folks and parents of my work with them, these things America to test when it comes to ADO's members, they to test black men educated on skill and lawless. You get the worst of the worst of treatment. Again, the white community to test black men who are uneducated, on skill and lawless, you get the worst of the worst. So why would you want to, of all people, put yourself in a harm's way by doing anything that's criminal knowing that you're going to have all your use taken from you? You lock down your 20s, 30s, 40s, and even your 50s. And the value of a lot of the crime that you, Quinn of Court, have done wouldn't even amount to $5,000, $2,000, because you pose a threat because you had a gun or whatever. Also, now you are a minister to society, but that image has been developed and cultivated and falls wrong wrongfully, since I was so called being emancipated. So let me know that somebody is not teaching our young folks about this white men's country. And I will say that some of our boomers fail to educate our children to this simple reality, because they wouldn't be doing the things they're doing. As you can call in, again, just a live call in show, call and show your thoughts, 617-708-3211, 617-308-3211. I'm going to show you your thoughts on the topic today. I married the white men's country. Some boomers fail to educate our children to this simple reality. Because in my humble opinion, I ain't no way in the heck that our kids would be doing the things they're doing. But they had been probably taught, as I had, as a young man growing up, during the '60s, '70s, and '80s. I'm 71. I'm not giving that one day of my time since they've met the chooses, penal institution. And yes, I want a nice thing like the next cat. We want a nice thing. Me and my friend, Lance Townsend, Vicki Johnson, you know, we want a nice thing, too. But our parents had a steal of nuts. You don't have no business with a woman for that white man's courthouse. That was instilled in me and my house. And when I went to my friend's house, they also reiterated that. What happened? I attended some of our baby boomers, failed to teach their children, who failed to teach their grandkids, who failed to teach their great-great grandkids about the fact that this is an American white man's country. And our young folks have been failed by some boomers to that simple reality. And I'll tell you why I think they failed. In 1970, when they passed, you know, from perfection and all these so-called, you know, laws that allow blacks and arrows, go in the restaurant that it was barred from, keep it to see the same hotel, right, go to movies, you know, some got jobs, you know, they never had to forward the city-state. Some got jobs in corporate America down there in the HR department out of sight, out of mind, you know. Some was put out front on ABC and NBC News at the token. Some was integrated into corporate America. They'll always be stretched out, but it's been paid well, so they said they didn't eat it. Eat that nonsense. Some was able to move it to the suburbs, out of the city. And we went from a collective spirit of resistance for all to get the bag. Get the bag. I got mine. Get the bag. And so, many put that spirit into their children, the way about yourself. Go to school, get you a good job, so you can live good. Not owning thing, controlling thing, but I want you to be able to get you a good-paying job. No matter the psychological or emotional trauma that you had to endure in white America, at least when you come home, you can go to a so-called baby home, a baby environment, et cetera. What they had put it with data, I was just, well, there's a price of elevation. And I contained that many boomers, boomers as a whole, our leadership, they stopped fighting for independence, self-determination, and they opted for contingency and comfort in Master's House. And so, they stopped teaching our children about the struggle that got us here. How since from emancipation on, we have been fighting this white community to the nails, to free our bodies, first and foremost, but also to include us and treat us as citizens of this country. Everything that we've gotten here, it's been, what, protest litigation lawsuits, sit-ins, march-in, talk-ins, you name it. And I believe that many boomers, the boomers leadership, they had the mic during the '70s and the '80s and his fourth had let us down the path of the plea of a impeachment and they stopped fighting for independence, self-determination, and ownership. And they opted for integration and assimilation, but at what price? And so, a lot of our kids do not understand our struggle. We understand that if your grandparents born in 1930, 1890s, as mine were, who I was blessed to be raised by, taught by a measure by, they would share it with me some of the stories of how to survive and navigate whiteness, because America is a white man's country. And in fact, up until they started this thing called multiculturalism, white folks would tell you and boomers don't tell the truth to them, they would tell you to your faith it's white man's country, it's white man's country. If you don't like it, go back to Africa. At the time, we didn't realize we are American. We more American than any of you will ever be. It's the only country we know. My blood and tears are soaked in the soil from Maine to Seattle. So, but we didn't know that. We didn't know that, but we do now. So, what your parents had to endure, your parents of mine, daily indignation, daily insult, lynching, where many of our folks from age 65, like 1966, were burnt alive. Lynching, live burning of our elders would draw thousands of white views to see one of our elders roasted alive. We stopped teaching our kids that when we brought in to form of action, integration, with some got jobs that they never had before. Some would go down town and work in the city hall, state house or corporate America, wearing suit and ties and dresses, able to move out of the hood to a so-called better life. We did not prepare our kids as I was prepared, as most of us boomers were prepared, because our parents born in 1930, 1920, we had grandparents still living, who was born in 1900. My mother's born 1903. My father's father born in 1897. They all died in the 1980s. Can you imagine what they had endured, what they seen, what they had to suck it up for you and me to be here? And as the conditioner out in the trenches, the last quarter of a century, during mental health services, seeing some of the disaster behavior that many of our young folks have embraced, there's self-injurism that harms themselves. Audience says, somebody didn't teach them that this is a white man's country. He set the rule that we articulate and we express, these are his institutions. They're undergirds, white supremacy. Some where boomers stop teaching their children, who stop teaching their grand, who stop teaching their great-grand. This ain't working. This is not working. But I want you to call in and say your thoughts, you know, I'm not in the gloom and doom. I'm never in the gloom and doom, because I believe as long as you above ground, you could always bring about what changed. I'm living proof of that. But again, if you keep walking down the same path doing the same thing, no one's coming to save you, make it better for you or your family or our community. And the first thing I think we have to acknowledge is the white man's country. Every immigrant who comes here, be they black immigrants, Spanish, Jews, Asians, Indians, all know that, it is instinctively implied, they know that. They know the rules of engagement, they know the rules of engagement, everybody seem to know that, but some of our people, because I could tend, they're not being probably taught by their parents, about the kind of country they live in, given their relationship, is founded on hate contempt and disdain because how he came in shackles and chains. For 20, 47 years, we're tall under the worst condition man has ever subjected man to. And when they rolled out a firm of action, integration, I think many of our folks got food that laws change the heart, it doesn't. Laws might change behavior, but laws do not change the heart of how ones really think about you, how they feel about you. Case in point, I was born in 1953. When I was born, members of the white community detested my physical presence, nor did they want my money. I'll say again, pay attention now, when I was born in 1953, members of the white community did not want my physical presence in their presence, nor did they want our money. Because King and I was looking out there and thought, and thought, when you think about it, really, what I call, "crash the party," now in 2024, they would tolerate our presence, take our money, but you don't own no institutions, no factors, there's nothing to hire our people. Think about that. In 70 years, it went from zero tolerance, zero tolerance when I was born in 1953, to 24 tolerance, but people tolerance is not affection, or endearment, or appreciation of respect. I'm a tolerance, because I don't really want to have to be sanctioned by these laws. I'll grain and smile when, in fact, it does not reflect my heart or my true conviction. That's why I say all the time. Those laws of the past, the King was murdered for that past, they changed some behavior, but did not change the heart and the minds of the white collective, because there ain't no way that you'd be treating my community the way that you treated in 2024. It's no way that my community, some of them, some of them, would be doing the things they do if they were taught about how to survive and navigate this white man's world, given their relationship more to the base zone. No way that some of us would be doing what they're doing. If they were taught, as I was taught, as a young man, and my teens and 20s, they wouldn't be doing these things. But I'm only here for you, with your thoughts on it. My topic for today, America's the white man's country, and I'm not here to put down or demean anybody. Here's what it is. And I'm saying that boomers fail to educate our children to this simple reality, because they ain't no way in heck that they had taught them the way I had been taught by my parents and my grandparents and my other caregivers, that they'd be doing some of the things they're doing. I'm going to hear from you, 617 708, 32211, 617 708, 32211, again 617, 708, 32211, we're going live, we're going live, we're going live. You'll always call and share your thoughts, but keep it clean, keep it clean, keep it clean. And I'm just thinking about things I see out here in the trenches for the last 28 years in mental health. The little sirens we do mental health, but we in folks' homes, we go on home to see how folks are fairing, how they are relating, how they're thinking, how they're behaving. We get to see the culture. And I'm saying there's no way that many of our young people would be doing the things they're doing if boomers had really taught them about it's a white man's country. And given the relationship between black Americans and that community that's based on contempt, this day and hate, the certain things you shouldn't do, you shouldn't do. But that training has been withheld or not forthcoming, from what I'm saying. You call and share your thoughts, 617 708 3211, 617 708 3211. My thought for the day is America the white man's country. Some boomers fail to educate our children to that simple reality because there ain't no way to be doing what they're doing. There's no way, if there's probably educated, that many of our young people just so nonchalantly refer themselves as the inward, no way in hell, no way, just so effortlessly in their music and they have glorified a term that my elders, my grandparents fought viciously to eradicate. They would vehemently oppose to you refer yourself as the inward. And they was treated far worse, they had no protection on the law. They could be accused by a white child, white woman, or white man at any time, could even be lynched, and many were, between 1865 and 1970, they're about. But they always put forth their better efforts when he's out in public. To show the white community, you might call on us and think of it as the end, but it's not who we are. And now, the last 30 years, 40 years, many of our children, Gen X, Gen Z, the millennial, so nonchalantly, so effortlessly, everything out there might be either N or B or H or N or B or H. When I'm to the self pride, the self love, my parents' generation, not saying they didn't do what they fucking stuff, but they stepped outside, looking at those folks addressing, look how they was carrying themselves, look at the image that they presented to the world, look at them. And I got to say, being out in the trench of the last quarter of the century, some were us boomers, not all, but some where many boomers fail to teach their kids who fail to teach their grandkids, who fail to teach their great great grandkids, how to conduct themselves in a society that's the white man's country. Given the fact that the relationship between adults and the white community has always been one of tension and conflict, and the reason being because we came here on like all these other immigrants, black immigrants, Spanish, Asians, Indians, we came here shackles and chains, and we've been in constant conflict since 1619 to 2024 because of that foundation of the relationship. And why do some of our youth so effortlessly denigrate and degrade themselves? My parents' group was not doing that. My grandparents was not doing that, no, no, no, no, it's like a cold ethic. You don't do nothing to embarrass the Negroes in public. You don't do nothing to embarrass the race, to shame the race, to humiliate the race. That was totally 10 toes down, in the last 30, 40 years, that teaching has left the room. And all I can say is a provide out here in the trenches seeing for his hand, and he's home seeing the culture, that somewhere boomers failed, boomers say fail to teach their kids, and they kids fail to teach their big kids, and they kids fail to teach their great great grandkids. It's been a complete breakdown. And that's why I say it's putting out the atmosphere for me to think about. I'm mad at the white men's country, boomers fail to educate our children to have simple reality because they ain't nowhere in heck, and they have been taught property talk that many of our adult members will be doing the things they're doing and saying. You see how Cavalier, about the eye on TikTok or Facebook, just exposing their personal lifestyle preferences, just unheard of, unheard of. You might have been the biggest freak going, but the kids didn't know that. These folks come out of here being like, you know, boy, yeah, sharing all that stuff. And all I used to do now is talk about their personal business, but no shame, no shame, no shame at all. They say, we're going to keep you 100. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Anyway, I'm your host Larry Hingham bottom. Listen to WBC 102.9 FM, again, WBC 102.9, the 102.9 FM named the program from the churches baby, I'll speak about things I see out of the last quarter century that needs to change. 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So when we said that the revolution would not be televised, we were saying that the thing that's going to change people is something that no one will ever be able to capture on a film. It would be something that you see, and all of a sudden you realize, I'm on the wrong page, or I'm on the right page, but I'm on the wrong note, and I've got to get in sync with everyone else to understand what's happening in this country. But I think that the black Americans have been the only real, that hard Americans here, because we're the only ones who carry the process through the process, that everyone else has to sort of like skip stages. We're the ones who march, we're the ones who carry the Bible, we're the ones who carry the flag, we're the ones who try to go through the courts. And being born American didn't seem to matter, because we were born Americans, but we still had to fight for what we were looking for, and we still had to go through those channels and those processes. When I'm back, you're listening to WBCA 102.9 FM, again, WBCA 102.9 FM, I'm your host Larry Higginbottom, name of the show, off the Bay from Attrenches, where I speak about the things that I see out of here in my community. Seeing that I've been doing a direct minute to have the care for the last 28 plus years, going to see how folks are tharing in their homes, the culture, the expression, the belief. And my topic today for you to consider is this, America's the white men's country, boomers, some boomers fail to educate our children to this reality. Again, America's the white men's country. Some boomers fail to educate our children to this reality. And the reason why I put it out there, you can call it and give me your thoughts again. Just mind about my belief, you might differ, but you might have a different spin, there's no way we'd be doing so many things we'd be doing last 30, 40 years, if they had been probably taught about their relationship, and the do's and don'ts about how to navigate America as I was, I was born in 1953, my mom was born in 1930, so it was my pop. And my grandmother rose, I was born in 1903, on my dad's side, Lemon Higgin, I was born in 1897, they taught me in my siblings about whiteness, about how to survive and thrive in this white man's country without being annihilated. And I contend, there's no way if some boomers had taught their children about that simple reality that many of our young folks would be engaged in the nonsense, the self-destructive behavior they are doing today in that 34 years. Somewhere boomers dropped the ball, I think they dropped it because why, once they rode out of front of action, passed them laws, right folks took down the signs, stopped calling them inward to your face, you could even marry white women, white men, had multiracial babies, you know, going to their swimming pool, good jobs never had before, moved to the suburbs, that many of our people in our leadership stopped thriving for independence and step determination and ownership, they started thriving for inclusion, diversity, equity and multiculturalism, but you don't own nothing there, they're knowing now. And many of our young folks have not been taught about our struggle, how we got here. Again, my mother's mother was born in 1903, can you imagine how she was treated, what she had to see, what she had to endure, she died like that, in 1987, I believe. My father's father's living here about born in 1897, can you imagine what he had to endure, what he saw, constantly being insulted as a black man, degraded, called boy, my mother's mother called Gail, be it north, south, east, or west, didn't matter. But they taught us the do's and don'ts how to navigate the society that's controlling dominated by our white community. And when I look out in the horizon, many of our folks have failed to teach our young people, that's the white man's country, and this relationship that exists between black American and this community, there was never based on mutual respect, admiration, value, appreciation, none of that, because we came here and shackled and chained. I think that lesson of struggle has been totally lost, and for many of our young folks to their own detriment. Because there ain't no way that prison and the great y'all would be filled with many of our young people if they had been taught that you are in a white man's country and there's a relationship to undergird that there's never been based on mutual respect or appreciation. And when you do something that gives the institution, the institution, to judge you, you always make the worst of the worst. And don't be fooled because of a firm of action or integration, you got a eight-o's man sitting there or eight-o's woman sitting there, or a black immigrant sitting there, or a Spanish person or an Asian person sitting there in those positions of power, because they too are carrying out the will of the white community. Those policies and procedures already been written, not by them and not by us. They don't be deceived by black faces in high places because they too are there to carry out the will of the owners of those assets, which are the white community. And I can tell that many of our young folks have not been taught this harsh reality. And they are foolishly doomed in themselves to a life of gloom because I can tell that boomers opt for conveniency and comfort and stop struggling for independence and stuff determination and to be in control of their own destiny. And so many of our young folks have been fooled in the thing that they're free when in fact they are not, but here's what you guys say, call in now 617 708 3211 617 708 3211. My top of the day is real simple, I marry the white man's country and boomers fail to educate our children to the simple reality because there ain't no way a lot of our kids will be doing what they're doing if their parents are down a better job at educating them as to the country that they're in. No way, no way, no way, no way. There's no shame, there's no racial pride, there's no group pride, there's no nothing. Just get the bag, it's get the bag, get the bag. You go on these platforms, TikTok, et cetera, it's like watching men who are okay being socially demon and women are okay being prostitutes. They okay selling their gorgeous body for this or for that. And men are okay being gangsters. When you look at our people of the past, you look at those clips of those people, about having 30s and 40s and 50s, being hauling, you look how they're dressing, how they're stepping, and they live in a worse time than we were ever living. They had no due process under law, they had no respect at all. None was so ever, but look how they carried themselves. Look how they conducted themselves, because they was determined to prove that you might think this of us, but it's not who we are. The reason why I always play a clip by brother Gil Scott Herron, the revolution would not be televised, he said the most important thing, the revolution first starts in your mind. It starts in your mind, change starts in your mind, there's no group activity, there's no think tank here, there's no parade going down Main Street. When the lights finally click on, you finally understand, "Hey man, I'm going the wrong way." He says, "What's going on about it wrong?" I want somebody to go and know that you know, "Hey, I'm out of order here, hey I'm doing things the wrong way." I'm not paying myself to be competitive out here in America, I'm hurting myself. That's why I love when he said, "You know, being born an American didn't seem to matter. Being born an American didn't seem to matter. It's a fight for everything that we have achieved here, sit-ins, walk-ins, talk-ins, pray-ins, you name it." Although we were citizens, but we the only group who are Americans who are through, had to fight for everything, look at how it used today, it's like they are trying to prove that it's a whole world that they are the biggest in going, and they love it. They take pride in being the biggest, most visible in going with pride. Contrast that to image of our peoples in the 34s and 50s and 60s, totally different. If you want to have a fight on your hand, you call an adult woman, a B or H. You got a licking coming, not just some hair, but from the men, focusing on having that nonsense. What happened? I contend because boomers failed to educate their children who failed to educate their grandkids last 34 years, being the people with no center, no focus, non-standing that we are still in conflict with whiteness because of the relationship based on 24/7 years of the cello slavery coming in shackles and chains, we failed to teach them about our struggle, about our struggle and why we had to civilize, for better word, the psyche of the white community. That's why it was vile and violent, and we were being terrorized with no due process from the law. We failed to teach them that, and so now many are lost, and I'm out here in the trenches for the last quarter century seeing firsthand that many of our young people who are Gen C. Emmeline are just lost because boomers failed to teach them about our struggle in our country. As Brother Gil's got here and said, being born an American didn't seem to matter. We had to fight for everything we've gotten here, although we were citizens with the fight. Going through the courts, sitting, marching, you name it, to be treated as United States citizen has been an uphill battle, and today many of our young folks do not know our struggle. That's why they are so easily led, astray, because they don't understand. No matter how successful they become, you are still being judged as a member of ADO's. You're still being judged as a member of the group who's been a bottom cast since it's been in this country, and we've been fighting for everything they've ever gotten here. Me and my young folks don't know that. They are doing things that are detrimental to their own health, and there's no wonder that they end up getting the worst treatment when they go into these white institutions, because the relationship is based on toxicity from the give-go. Because they were not probably taught about the relationship between the white community and the ADO's community has never been one in mutual admiration or respect. And although in these seven years since I was born, it went from zero tolerance till they would tolerate us and take our money, but we don't own these institutions. They don't reflect our beliefs or our values, all of the work in them, they don't reflect us because why we didn't create them. The boomers in the 70s opted for inclusion, comfort, and convenience, and they stopped fighting to create and control and own. In America, young people, our system of economic is based in capitalism. There's two important components. One is capital, one is labor, but the federal government made sure because of racist policies aimed at ADO's only, only that your elders in mind would be locked out of wealth. So there's no inheritance. The only saving grace that I can see for you and for me and our group, do you possess essential high income skills because now due to tolerance, you can be tolerated while you make tabdala. So that one hurdle you don't have to deal with in 2020 though, if you have a skill. But we need to really understand that America, the white man's country, not being facetious, not being mean-spirited. It's what it is. They own all the wealth, control all the resources. These are their policies. They're their regs. They're their bylaws that we operate in. Don't be fooled by black spaces in high places. Don't be fooled by that now because they are, we are just articulating the white man's views on how you want things to run because why is this country, it is what it is. The only saving grace is your labor for you to live and be comfortable and create wealth for the next generation and your family, you have to be skilled out here. You must be skilled, but you first need to realize the white man's country. And there's do's and don'ts given the relationship that exists between adults and the community. And I can tell you that boomers have failed to teach millions of our young people about their relationship. That's why I love, I love our kids. I just run in the muck out here. And so are your grandkids being taught to run a muck because they're not being taught. It's the white man's country. Always has been, always will be. All the groups know that. They don't come in to change that reality. They come in to participate in the wealth that it generates. And you don't mind keeping you in your place on the bottom of this caste system. Where my time's almost up, again, not here to offend anybody, but also to get the shit lying on what I see. You may or may or may not agree, but it's okay. No one's coming to save a baby. No one's coming to save us or make life better for us. Never have, never will. And if you understand the white man's country and how it works, how it functions and how to navigate these systems, then you have not been properly educated how to thrive out in America. And you and your kids are not going to do well. They couldn't drive, it's just their couldn't drive. So I will have another thought to present to you next Wednesday, you know, again meaning to denigrate nobody meaning to offend nobody. That's what I'm saying out here from the trenches, baby. Again, you've been listening to WBCA 102.9 FM. My name is Larry Hickenbottom, name of the program from the trenches, baby. I'm the big matrices from the trenches. My talk for the day was America, the white man's country. Boomers fail to educate our children to have simple reality. That's fact, they don't fail. Ain't no way a lot of our young folks would be doing what they're doing. It did have been probably taught as I was and my friends and my peers have been taught. Ain't no way that our young folks would be doing what amounts to suicidal behavior if they had been taught about the relationship between white America and the black community, especially black American adults. Ain't no way in hell to be doing this here because it seems nothing but pure genocide that many of our young folks are doing, especially our men. As my father used to tell me, so did my other caregivers, "You got no business, none whatsoever, go on before that white man's courthouse." You got no business going down there and you see that with Trump and Diddy, with Diddy, he and jail, with Trump, deal all around, white man's country. I don't know what it is to say to you, white man's country. But if you've not been taught that, then you believe in nonsense that we are all Americans. No ones above the law, come on now, just fools go, fools go. Go until next Wednesday, God bless you, be safe, and I'll be back with another thought, bye bye. The preceding commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of the staff and management of WBCA or the Boston Neighborhood Network. If you would like to express another opinion, you can address your comments to Boston Neighborhood Network, 302-5 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02119. To arrange a time for your own commentary, you can call WBCA at 617-708-3215 or email radio@bnandmedia.org. [BLANK_AUDIO]