So during the holiday season there was not much “work” going on at work. We spent a lot of time discussing important issues like Yandy Vs Chrissy on love and hip hop, Is Nancy Jones a crack head and the necessity or lack thereof for 3D televisions.
On one particularly lazy day we discussed the phenom that is the Jordan throwback release.
Many of my co workers immediately turned their noses up and made statements about how “they need to spend their money better” and that’s hwy “they are on welfare” and “living check to check” and they don’t own anything and never will.
Okay. I know that Jordans are a “hood “phenomenon but statistics show most of us are living check to check with no liquid or ownership of assets. WE don’t own our houses, our cars and we don’t have the 6 months worth of bills cushion in our savings account that is recommended by most financial planners.
Yet many of us educated new negroes don’t think twice about 50.00 brunches, 50,000 luxury car and shoes and purses well above the going rate for new Jordans. We want to believe that the fact that we have careers and salaries above the poverty line makes us different and we justify our choices as “investments” more so than frivolous spending.
It doesn’t.
I’ve noticed that the new young, black “middle class” loves to look down their noses at ‘them” in the hood and sometimes its deserved but a lot of times its not. Many of us are only 1 or 2 paychecks away from being at the food stamp office.
It wasn’t hood folks borrowing above their means and buying houses they couldn’t afford.
Im just saying, a bad decision is a bad decision regardless. Just as check to check is check to check regardless if its 8.25 an hour or 60,000 a year; If you miss that check you both are in the same position.
Assed the f!ck out.
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