My father was born a poor farm boy. After WWII he started working as a laborer in a Houston refinery, with an eighth-grade education. He raised six kids, sent us to private Catholic school and I am the only person in my lineage that, to my knowledge, has ever graduated from a university. It doesn't take 150 years. It takes one generation to make a difference.

@haihengh

3 ай бұрын

While often time I complain about college is useless. Both myself and my brother graduated from university. My parents were so worry that they can not pay for tuition as they made below minimum wage since there isn’t much job opportunities at the time. It end up both of us don’t need their money to go to college, my brother other is the smart one that get scholarships, I work my tails off to pay for my own tuition. No partying, cooking my own meal, even to the point to borrow text book instead of buying them, or buy them, use a thing called scanner to scan every page then return them.

@nancyjanzen5676

3 ай бұрын

In my family my generation is the first one to go to college. Just working class family. Blue collar factory workers who sent 3 of 6 cousins to university, 1 to trade school for welding.

@scarasara

3 ай бұрын

Almost the same with my dad he went to a 2 yr trade school to become an electrician he and my mom had 3 kids and we all were the first from both sides to go to college. Both my parents came from nothing and now are almost millionaires because they made really good choices

@stephenthomas1492

3 ай бұрын

There are SO MANY EXAMPLES of first generation, non-wh1te people THRIVING in this so called 'rac1st' country. Most have only a loose grasp on English, too. But somehow, it's blck people being 'oppressed' despite being here for centuries now. Make that make sense.

@ericmattar9438

3 ай бұрын

Right on !

I’m white and worked 31 years in a factory. I invested my earnings in buying 6.7 acres in the country and building a house there. One day on the job a black fellow worker was complaining about living in a poor black community. I asked him why he did. I told him, you make the same money I do. Go buy a place in the country and get out of the city. Build something! It infuriated him. You see, his problem was not that he was black. His problem was he would rather complain than change his world. We are all human beings and our world will be what we make it.

@user-pu4bk7bf1g

3 ай бұрын

I'll say that all the time if where you live is all drug deals or Killing this is what I used to hear when I used to work because I'm retired now I say why don't you move where your kids are safer and you are too it doesn't cost anymore money to move to A safer place But they won't Seems like they just think that's all they know and they'd rather live there

@MolaRam19

3 ай бұрын

What I’m about to say doesn’t apply to any one race. IE There are plenty of $60,000 cars parked outside of mobile homes. The point of this comment - what did he drive?

@gweilospur5877

3 ай бұрын

That’s called an anecdote. You could equally find opposite anecdotes.

@logangodofcandy

3 ай бұрын

His problem was that the black people around him and the white democrats told him that he can't succeed. A person trained to fail will carry out that training in life.

@Thinks-First

3 ай бұрын

He likely blames YOU behind your back for his failures.

WHO CARES??? Did he really say who cares? Does he not understand that being born in a single parent household is one of the biggest indicators for poverty in later life?

That kid doesn't care because he is not trying to understand the conversation, he is trying to press a narrative.

@jondspen

3 ай бұрын

He's got to find some excuse for being dumb enough to pay for a college education. That's coming from a guy with Masters in Comp Engr. At least half undergrad classes were a waste. 500 level MS classes were the same 400 BS classes with bachelor/masters students. The only difference in the class I had just taken a few years prior as a senior in my BS degree was the additional $2-3k in tuition per class as a MS student.

@davestuddaman8127

3 ай бұрын

And he in reality does not care.

@stephenthomas1492

3 ай бұрын

Their lives are SO CUSHY and they're SO NAIVE they believe the BS that these people talk about 'rac1sm'. They can't look at all the other non-wh1te people and wonder how they can thrive in this supposedly 'rac1st' country?! FFS, find something else to complain about or actually get off your butt and go to an ACTUAL oppressive country and fight over there.

@joeszymanski3540

3 ай бұрын

Exactly, they have no intention of fixing anything. They need to create problems because they don't have enough real ones.

@bigboicreme

3 ай бұрын

​@@davestuddaman8127exactly he just wants social good boy points with his lib peers

Whenever anyone brings up the 150 year advantage that white people had when slavery ended I want to ask them "Do you as a white person living in America have hundreds of years of wealth stashed away somewhere?" If the 150 year disparity myth were true then every white person who can trace their heritage back to the time of the emancipation proclamation should be extremely wealthy - leaps and bounds more wealthy than the black people who can trace their heritage to the same period. Is that the case - no it is not. Are there some rich people who are white - yes. Are there rich people who are black - yes. Are there poor people of both colors - yes.

@johnschuh8616

3 ай бұрын

Watch the movie “Grapes of Wrath” (1940) the extras in that movies were all real poor people hired by the movies company. They were dressed in their regular clothes when the picture was shot. This was the legacy of millions of whites in 1940. Yet most of them were as decent as the actors portrayed them to be. And as lean.

@BrianHigginbotham-do4hm

3 ай бұрын

Well put sir.

@jondspen

3 ай бұрын

Also doesn't address African immigrants success in the US. Nigerian families are 5-10k above the average white family in the US, 15-25k above native born blacks. If it is racism, funny how it doesn't seem to affect them.

@stephenthomas1492

3 ай бұрын

Ask them if they ever said thank you to whi1te people for abolishing slavery around the world and being the ONLY RACE TO DO IT despite it being practiced since the beginning of time by EVERYONE.

@evalramman7502

3 ай бұрын

Truth.

My son is half black and I'm Hispanic. And having me, his father, in his life is a win for every minority community in the US

@JaeDee66

3 ай бұрын

Lmao not every but i get where your heart is.

@Lillireify

3 ай бұрын

That's a win for every community! :)

@sandraw9729

3 ай бұрын

Yes it is:)🙏✝️❤️

@JohnSmith-mt8fd

3 ай бұрын

🫡

@odysseusrex5908

2 ай бұрын

No, that's a win for the US.

Im 47 yrs old. The ONLY privilege I've ever had was that i was raised by both of my parents and they were each raised by both of their parents and that has been my family's generational wealth!

@MsMercury

3 ай бұрын

I hear ya. I was raised in the south. My family has never been rich enough to own slaves. That’s what people don’t understand. Not everyone in the south owned slaves. You had to have money. My family never did as far as I could tell.

@NashvilleNative3113

2 ай бұрын

Same!! ❤💯

@odysseusrex5908

2 ай бұрын

@@MsMercury Some of my ancestors did own slaves. Some of my ancestors were slaves. I had ancestors who fought on both sides of the Civil War. Going back a few generations, one of my ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence. Except as points of pride, none of that ancient history has anything to do with my life today.

@willow1698

2 ай бұрын

Ummm but you're white, so… millionaire??

@reneesmith1339

2 ай бұрын

@@MsMercury neither did my family. Southern girl here too!! ❤️

My family has been on this continent since 100+ years BEFORE the Declaration of Independence. I was raised dirt poor. No family legacy, no inheritance.

@TheMoonfam5

3 ай бұрын

My family came here from England in 1650. We never had “land”. My grandfather was a sharecropper in Oklahoma, but his kids worked and raised themselves up to good careers. My Dad worked on the Apollo projects. Granted, it was on the assembling line as a Quality Control, but as a kid, I was in AWE going to the plant after the missions were completed and seeing the capsules that had been in space! I was the only one in my immediate family that went to college, graduated and went on to achieve 2 Master’s Degrees. My oldest son has achieved more in his 37 years than I had ever done in my 63 years. The one thing I have seen is that if you work your butt off, treat others the way you want to be treated, you may or may not become rich (money wise), but you will live a successful life.

@gweilospur5877

3 ай бұрын

My family came here during prehistoric times, we used to have a car powered by a dinosaur. Yabba dabba doo.

The system is not making you do all those things, but the culture is.

@jiminauburn5073

3 ай бұрын

Yep. The problem that the black community has now is 100% culture. Something needs to happen to break the circle.

6:10 A very astute point. How is it possible that an immigrant family, refugees, could come to the US with 10 kids and knowing maybe a dozen words of English, become a financial success? One of my colleagues was a Cambodian refugee whose family escaped the "killing fields" of Pol Pot in the 1970s. My colleague's parents put 10 kids through college. They all went on to professional careers in finance, nursing, and engineering. There are no barriers to success in this country, not race, not language, not background.

@user-pu4bk7bf1g

3 ай бұрын

Amen you are so right How would they like to learn to speak a different language Most of the immigrants that come here build their own businesses and work all the time

@talleneagle1974

3 ай бұрын

There's one barrier that blacks fall for overwhelmingly and its getting paid to be poor making welfare a lifestyle. They're not necessarily poor because the fathers bringing in illegal income but on paper they're poor and eventually they end up in prison. The racist demokkkrats use it to keep power by paying for votes but blacks are willfully perpetuating it.

@D-Fens_1632

3 ай бұрын

There are now if you're a white guy. There are all kinds of barriers being put up with the expressed intent being because "too many of us have been running everything for too long."

@sandyreddish1750

3 ай бұрын

People always want to blame someone other than themselves.

@billhartman5120

3 ай бұрын

You would think the pro illegal immigration left would warn these people not to come. They can't go a few seconds without contradicting themselves

"You think you're an advocate but you're really hurting us". Well said. 👏

White guy here. My family has been here since the 1600's. My Father was raised in Detroit. His family lived in an ATTIC. He graduated High school, went into the Marine Corps and put himself through College. He was the first member of our family to attend University since my family came here. We have NEVER owned slaves. We were initially simple farmers and millwrights. I didn't grow up rich, and I inherited no money and no land when my Father passed away. Mom and Dad put God first, and worked hard to give us a middle class life. I graduated HS and put myself through college. I got married, worked hard and have a house for my children. Everything I have- I WORKED FOR. Nothing was given to me. Nothing. I received no preferential treatment. I didn't have any help in school because of my skin color. Too proud for food stamps. Too proud to play the victim role. And honestly- people like me are sick to death of being blamed for all of society's problems. Be a Father. Be a husband. Work hard and PROVIDE for the kids you bring into this world and give them a strong faith in God for their own moral compasses. On a side note- I LOVE these videos. I applaud this man for casting light on these issues from a place of intelligence and rational thought. You, sir, are the future of this nation, and you, sir, are the type of man who will do well in life. God bless you for making these videos and having the balls to question the answers in life.

Over 70 percent of millionaires come from lower-middle class and did not inherit their wealth.

@gweilospur5877

3 ай бұрын

That is impossible to know because “lower middle class” is not quantitatively defined.

@youtuber6185

3 ай бұрын

@@gweilospur5877 yes it is. Research it

@gweilospur5877

3 ай бұрын

@@youtuber6185 If you know it to be true you would be able to provide a source. People cannot make claims and then demand that others research it.

@youtuber6185

3 ай бұрын

@@gweilospur5877 it’s widely know research. Some sources are :” Ramsey’s National Study of Millionaires” or excerpts from “the Millionaire Next Door” and numerous other studies and polls. I’m a millionaire that came from a lower middle class income family. I know how I did it and it’s not as hard as you think. Saving $200 a month in the S&P for several decades is the slowest way to get there but most families can do it with sacrifice. I stayed out of debt, worked 80 hours a week and saved to start a biz. Hard work but mathematically it works if you understand how to do it. Most people don’t truly understand the math and schools don’t teach it

@youtuber6185

3 ай бұрын

@@gweilospur5877 btw I didn’t have to provide evidence. I CAN make a claim and require you to research it. Facts are facts irrespective of you willing to do a quick google search yourself. You haven’t responded yet but I already know you’ll be argumentative, deny the sources and give excuses. How can I tell? The fact you weren’t even willing to google search a simple phrase. It’s the victim mentality that the masses have. Full of excuses, blame shifting , victimization take. Those who can do… those who can’t don’t. It’s not rocket science, just statistics and numbers.

My ancestors for over 400 years were coal miners who left nothing to the generation that followed! No assets, no cash, no skills. Same for my parents who left their children only with a sense of work ethic and integrity. My siblings and I are the first in that 400 years to get a basic education, that was the only wealth we had to journey into life! We didn’t bunk off school, get involved in crime or do drugs, most of us are still in long stable relationships. Am I rich? No! But I live a comfortable life earned by my own efforts!

@linuxd

3 ай бұрын

that's pretty cool. good for you

@user-pu4bk7bf1g

3 ай бұрын

Oh I love you i see how hard Cole minor's work

@stephenthomas1492

3 ай бұрын

I swear they're the REAL rac1sts. They think because I'm wh1te, I MUST be wealthy and have family that are the same. Not like they care about facts that there are MILLIONS more poor wh1tes than them. They're so wise that they can tell how privileged someone is simply by their color. AMAZING. Don't bring first generation non-wh1te people into the conversation and show them how they thrive either. They WANT to believe they're oppressed because that's their excuse.

@himwhoisnottobenamed5427

3 ай бұрын

@@user-pu4bk7bf1g😂😂”Cole minor’s.” I’m sure it’s autocorrect, still funny though.

@jamesTBurke

3 ай бұрын

Ummmmm I don't think coal was even used globally for 400 years

I didn't "own land" until 2015. My parents NEVER owned land. Land is for sale ALL OVER. All you need is knowledge. Knowledge is literally free today.

The money thats thrown away for education when a student says "-who cares"

Dr. Thomas Sowell has already addressed the condition of the black community success EVEN DURING JIM CROWE! Wasn't until 60's it went to trash.

@stephenthomas1492

3 ай бұрын

It really is from being brainwashed and listening to other 'oppressed' people making excuses for their failures. These people are selling out THEIR OWN PEOPLE to defend a lie. I REALLY BELIEVE they think they wouldn't oppress the hell out of him if given the chance. Can he NOT see he's defending people who are OPENLY calling for segregation?!

@glennhelm9525

3 ай бұрын

Read a book titled, "After The Welfare State" It shows how successful "poor"blacks were actually not poor when compared to whites in the same socio-economic class. They had the same, or more, medical, life, property insurance. They belonged to fraternal societies, religious groups, & cohesive & self supporting family groups at a rate the same, OR HIGHER, than whites. What happened? The Demoncrats decided they needed to ",help" blacks, to get their votes. Please, also read the book, "Please Stop Helping Us"

His off the cuff dismissal of the impact of non father families of “who cares” pretty well sums up democrats attitude toward race. As long as black families stay disjointed, the better for the democrat party. Divide and conquer as the saying goes.

My ancestors got their 40 Acres and a mule, we run our own town, store, post office, etc. Each adult home owner produces. One house raises pigs, one fishes & maintains the boats. one raises chicken, one bakes breads, gardens, etc. We even haven't missed a generation of teachers or military service. TRADITIONAL VALUES. Everyone works the property. The parents teach each other's children basic trades. They've all gone onto upper-middle class professions. No reparations. Move on. Black father, White mother and Cree/Seminole American Indian 😉

@gweilospur5877

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like Little House on the Prairie.

Great reaction video!!! I'm just a white "older" woman, my husband divorced me for another woman, we had 2 daughters ages 13 and 16 at the time. I had to start all over which was fine. I didn't want his money and I was smart with my money, I had no generational help from my parents (grew up on food stamps) and 8 years later I own my truck, have a new vehicle almost paid off, helping my youngest with her car payment and insurance (she is still in college) no credit card debt, have money in savings and own my own home on an acre of land (I pay a mortgage payment). It doesn't take 150 years to get to a good place.

I am 67 and my husband is 69. We both have Irish roots that didn't build wealth Both of us came from very dysfunctional families and started with nothing. My husband worked hard, I worked to put him through school. He kept working and got his PH.D and worked hard. Even today at 69 he continues to work at least 60 hrs. I would say we are middle class. We helped our sons go through school as well. Nothing given to us but had hard work and did without a lot that people seem to be necessary.

@jondspen

3 ай бұрын

Irish in America is completely glossed over in these discussions. Chinese treatment as well.

@user-pu4bk7bf1g

3 ай бұрын

I'm not Irish but I love Irish people

@user-pu4bk7bf1g

3 ай бұрын

And I always bring up what about the Irish how they were treated when they came to America

@SittingComfortably

3 ай бұрын

My mum came from an itinerant farm worker, my dad was an immigrant. They worked hard, raised 5 kids, bought a house. But the main thing they passed on to us was the skill of working hard & learning. We're all moderately successful in our areas, but not to any great level because that's not what we want, but the money wealth we pass on to the next generation is due to hard work, not previous generations. Except the will to work hard - the, greatest treasure passed down to us.

@Noneofyourbusiness57817

3 ай бұрын

Why aren’t you working to help him

I have white privilege. It was the privilege of being taught to get a job and do my best, be dependable, and do the job no matter how bad it was. I EARNED my middle-class life. I didn't whine about being a victim because my parents and grandparents were poor farm laborers. My mother told me about her and Dad's first "home." It was a converted chicken coop, and she said it took a lot of cleaning to make it livable! I was talking to one of my co-workers in a machine shop when I was twenty. I told him I wouldn't mind running a machine but knew nothing about it. He replied, "When I was born, I didn't know any more than you did when you were born." My dad had an eighth grade education. I am the only one of my siblings that got a college education and I got that diploma at 55 YEARS old to be a teacher! THERE IS NO SUCH THING, and I can't because._______________

@theonewhoknocks3107

3 ай бұрын

You try growing up in a neighborhood where you watch people die and get shot in your face, then go home to your mom smoking crack in the kitchen, and taking a bath in McDonald’s sinks because there’s no water at home…and then talk to me about “you can’t because”. Now I’m not making excuses but dude the varying degrees of someone’s struggle are VAST, and some things are WAY harder to overcome than others. Growing up POOR and growing up in absolute CHAOS are 2 very different things. Do i believe that anyone can make it if they try hard enough? Sure! But some people start off in a place that most of you couldn’t even begin to understand. You started off poor, and there’s some people starting in literal hell. Try to be a little more open minded.

@Kpars4

3 ай бұрын

​@theonewhoknocks3107 that's a horrifying reality, and I'm sorry if it's your story, it's truly a hard way to start at life. But this story is exactly why "turning point's" single monther/absent father argument is so true and probable. You see how destroying the family and enabling single motherhood has been a powerful weapon to subdue a particular sector of society into a slavery mindset. Keep them believing they are in disadvantage for the wrong reasons, ie.race, and dependant on government handouts to secure votes. All the while pretending they care for you but enabling this horrifying situations where children are born into chaos and mothers are too depressed and desperate to cope.

@theonewhoknocks3107

3 ай бұрын

@@Kpars4 yes, the government has done a doozy on the community. But i still don’t like the fact that people in these comments are talking about how they grew up “ poor” and nothing stopped them. It’s not about being poor, it’s about being in a place that makes being poor look like Disneyland. It’s tiring to talk about because a certain sector of the population thinks they’re always right and they don’t want to listen, they want to tell you what you should be doing.

@doryn931

3 ай бұрын

​@theonewhoknocks3107 then blame your mom, your kin for your situation. What this has to do with race? There are white, black and different ethnic families in the same situation. Yet you talking here about be open minded blah blah. Victim mentality at its finest. Wake up, and do something of yourself and stop blaming others.

@revolutionaryhamburger

3 ай бұрын

​@@theonewhoknocks3107 The sad reality is the working fellow writing above was forced to pay for that degeneracy. The government funds these horrible single mothers. Working white men are required to give them a hefty pay riase for each additional crack baby she birth and raises to be a career criminal. In my life, we had a fellow named Roderick come into our family for a few months. Rod blessed us 19 years ago with one of his bastard babies. The blonde mother was then 16, he was 29. Rod was already the father of 14, but we said nothing, out politeness I suppose. When I last saw Rod, it was at his daughter's high school graduation. This was one of the few times he showed up in his daughter's life. He was there with a very stoned teenaged girl who was heavy with his child. At the time, he was up to 25 children by god knows how many women. Who is forced to pay for that? Not Rod. He can't work at all because the state takes his paycheck for child support. So he just lives with his new baby momma's Section 8 flat and spends a chunk of her government welfare check. He's a part time career criminal on the side, but no matter. Now, who's fault is that? Who is responsible for such proflicacy? And isn't forcing one man to work and pay for another man's children not slavery by a different name? And how does it make sense to pay for one welfare baby if all he can produce over his lifetime is two dozen more welfare cases?

Hi, Jojo I am from the UK and obviously I am not familiar with all of the issues. You speak a lot of sense and I wish you well in your future.

I appreciate your honesty, and reasoning. This video was well done

When I was a kid my dad got up 6am every day. Went to work to feed us. He taught me right from wrong. Put me in my place when I got out of line. Picked me up and said get back in the fight when I fell down. What kind of childhood would it be without one? What kind of man would I be without him?

@molonlabe1509

3 ай бұрын

A lesser man, for sure. Sounds like your pops was a solid one. As was mine, even if I didn't appreciate it at the time growing up

@gweilospur5877

3 ай бұрын

I grew up without a father and turned out fine.

My ancestors have been dirt poor for many generations, at least since 1700's. They were farmers and laborers. My father was a steelworker and mother a SAHM. My parents saved and saved their whole lives. Bought one little house of 1100 sq ft and lived there for over 50 years until their deaths. Us 4 siblings didn't go to college. My brother is a commercial washer/dryer repairman. My sisters were SAHM with laborer husbands. I, a woman, got into tech when my children were all in school. I also saved until it hurt and taught myself about investing. I retired at age 52, 8 years ago, and have more than I started out with. I hope to leave each of my 3 children a good inheritance. Maybe this will be the start of generational wealth if they can manage it well.

@gweilospur5877

3 ай бұрын

I enjoyed Little House on the Prairie.

@gweilospur5877

3 ай бұрын

Are you John- Boy Walton?

Both sides of my family were immigrants. My grandmother is German and moved here when she was a little girl. They lived in a train car.. my dad’s side is polish and came over as indentured servants. I hate hearing the whining excuses of not having the generational wealth as to why they aren’t succeeding... Both sides of my family came over with nothing. They faced hardships and discrimination and worked their asses off to get where we r. I have no sympathy for the victim mentality.

I'm white. I didn't buy my first house until I was 52! I'm now 58. I pay for everything as I should. I work hard. I've earned everything I have by the grace of God and hard work! I haven't had a vacation in 10 years. I work nearly every holiday. Why? Because I chose a career in healthcare at 50! My choice. I don't think I'll ever retire due to my life decisions and impact of those decisions. That's life. It's all about decisions.

It must be a shock to finally realize that the very people that claim to be your salvation just want to use you.

This is a great video, and so are your comments. You're SO right about land ownership. People DO see their house as land ownership. You are SO right. My family were farmers, with my great grandpa owning 20K+ acres, which were originally mostly covered by sage brush. Most of his stage were bought for a few cents per acre. As his family grew the property was divided until it got down to about 1,000 acres. With additional family growth and property division, it got to my level, of a few acres to put a couple of beef cows that provides food for our family. Property is yruly a fotm of generational wealth. The beef we get from these animals and large garden, pays the majority if our grocery bill. The only reason I went thru all that was in support of your excellent observation.

It gives me renewed faith to see our young people paying attention and thinking. 🧙‍♂️

Just a perspective as a 59-year-old white male: My great-grandfather was one of the first pioneers of some land in South Dakota. He was a cattle-rancher. He was also dirt poor. He left some of the land to my grandmother. She and my grandfather were cattle ranchers. They were dirt poor. My father was the first in my family to go to college in the late 1960s. Ultimately, all of my parents' generation (the Boomers) went to college and didn't go into ranching. When my grandparents retired, they sold most of their land, and for the first time in their lives, they weren't dirt poor. My father bought the home in which he and my mother ultimately died in 1977 (on a 30-year mortgage). My father was the first person to own a home. My mother (the last to die) left the house to my nephew. At age 30, he is now the youngest member of my family to own a home outright. At age 59, I have just purchased the last 40 acres of my great-grandfather's ranchland that remains in the family. I don't plan to ranch cattle on it: I'm too old for that, and 40 acres would only support a couple of head. Instead, I'm putting a single-wide trailer home on it and will retire there. The details of that journey will show up on this and other platforms as a travel vlog. There are black _families_ in South Dakota who have had similar journeys. I won't pretend that they wouldn't have endured more discrimination than mine, but a black man who pioneered South Dakota ranchland would have seen two generations of poverty before his first grandson went to college in the late 1960s. Today, there would be nothing to stop a black man of my generation from purchasing 40 acres adjacent to mine and doing exactly what I'm doing. They could even buy much larger spreads and be cattle-ranchers. No law nor systemic racism stops them in 2024. If I had to guess, what probably stops them is what Charlie Kirk talks about: lack of an intact, 2-parent family. It keeps them in the poorer parts of Sioux Falls and Rapid City rather than acquiring the money necessary to get a loan for a ranch. It stops them from being able to get student loans. It stops them being able to leave South Dakota entirely if they so wish. Nothing in the law nor even individual racism stops a 59-year-old black man from doing what I'm doing. Contrary to popular belief, we aren't hicks and racists. I've not heard the N-word spoken by a white person since the late 1970s. Gen-X didn't care at all. Because of how we were raised, we were colorblind. We jumped makeshift ramps on our bikes with every kid in the neighborhood. There is no systemic racism. Period.

@gweilospur5877

3 ай бұрын

Horse was always my favourite in Bonanza.

Victomhood leads you nowhere especially when you're way privileged than your ancestors

@chavezchrissy

3 ай бұрын

When you are overprivilgied perhaps you see more negative than positive.

@chavezchrissy

3 ай бұрын

American are very over privileged facts what country could you go and they have a health crisis amongst the homeless bottom of the barrel population is obesity?

Old white ish guy here. Military x 35 years. Never made a six figure salary. Housing was free, food was free, later PMQ's were free. I was forty by the time I was able to save a down payment on a house. A modest house. Took me 23 years to pay it off. Nothing is ever easy.

Young man spoken with an incredible amount of wisdom.

Just came across your channel by way of this post, all I can say is "Bravo" and Thank You!!! I genuinely pray that more and more people of ALL colors/backgrounds will wake up to what you're sharing here. I've known and worked with partners of "color" in Law Enforcement AND business ventures. They not only refused to play the victim card(s) but also TAUGHT ME a great deal and gave fantastic credit to our communities. I actually become very sad when I hear minorities seemingly stake their lives and futures on the false victimhood narrative. Way to lead, Jojo, I salute you!

"We are men. We are women. We can fix these issues." Bravo!

I love the thoughtful and logical nature of your channel. Your openness is inspiring to everyone

My wife and I worked for the last 10 years so that we could buy land. We are about to move into a camper while we build our house, so that we don’t have to go into and debt. I grew up on food stamps, I grew up with parents that lived paycheck to paycheck. I was addicted to drugs by my junior year, and I had a child my junior year and dropped out. I came from literally nothing. And now I own everything I have, and am building a homestead. But I have never asked anybody for anything, I have never thought anybody owed me anything. I was raised to know if you want something you gotta work hard for it.

Much respect to you. Love your view points. They are spot on. Awesome job

My wife is black and im white. She was born of a mother who had 5 kids who all have different fathers and then the same mom raised 4 grandkids. Of that same mom's 5 kids and 4 grandkids only 2 were a success, my wife and her niece, the rest have drug habits, criminal records, broken homes, and multiple kids by different partners. My wifes dad has 5 kids including my wife and all if them have different mothers. And my wife is the only success. I define success in this context of not having a criminal record, no drug habits, a career, a home, graduated high school(also further). Her family dynamic and connections is just as bad as well. It is the opposite for my family. A nuclear family is a genuine starting step to success for people.

6:00 - you crushed it here! Never heard this idea put out in such a relatable way before… Very concise & effective.

Thanks Jojo, again I greatly admire your critical thinking and your wisdom. You, young sir, have great things ahead of you. 👍

No one in modern America owns land. Stop paying property taxes and find out who owns that land.

@vacayooper4728

3 ай бұрын

Exactly. Many things are perceived as a freedom is just little less hassle for following the rules.

You are a very clever and mature young man. You see through the nonsense. I'm a 50 yr old white man from the UK. Until the BLM movement in 2020 I never saw racism in my country. Now I do see it .not only racism but ageism too. My demographic is on the trash heap. Good for you. Keep your mind open my friend....

Ive live in the U S 18 years. Married young to a great husband also inmigrant. I went to community college, my husbad didnt finish middle school. We have two kids. He worked 13 years as a busboy I'm a house keeper in the bay area. We just bought our second house with a 26% down payment. We are working for our kids future in a stable family, we are not victims we are warriors.

Keep up the good work young man!!! You are on the right track and can be a great leader for not just your own community, but all of our communities!!!

The land thing isn’t really an issue today either. Oprah owns more land in Hawaii than anyone else.

So refreshing to hear a bright young black person awakening to reality and truth.

Thank you! It is wonderful to listen to you it builds hope for a brighter future in this country.

The most important lesson i learned in my life: Take responsibility for where you are and what you are and you will be in control of your life!

Thank you for your responses and your insights. We are all people and should respect and love our fellow man & woman.

My father grew up in the Depression too. Got his first job at 4 on an ice truck. He was the only one of 4 who graduated from HS so his mom would sign a letter of permission to get him into the Navy during WW II. He worked his way through college and ended his career as chairman of 2 committees for the state board of Public accounting. He was one of 10 kids, so I had 20 cousins. At one time every one of them studied accounting. One became a prominent accountant, the others did well in other areas. 8o% of my cousins graduated from college and there are 3 of us with graduate degrees. I started working at 14 and felt like a slacker in comparison. I worked PT through HS and college, full time in grad school. I had $50K in student loans 20 years ago and paid them off in 10. My kids started working PT in HS and both have college degrees, one an MBA. Do you see a pattern here? We aren’t any better than anyone else, he certainly didn’t have white privilege and was quite successful. What did he have the blacks don’t? Nothing but a belief.

We are first generation immigrants to Australia. We came with nothing...well, some money but we were robbed in the second month after we arrived here. We didn't give up...We had our struggles with working visa and permanent residency . There were many times we just could have given up and just break up and go separate ways. At times, it would have been easier. 17 years later we are still here. We have 3 kids, we bought a house. We have 2 cars and have some saved money. You don't have to have generational wealth if you want to lead a happy and successful life. We learnt the language, we adapted to the situations we found ourselves.

90% of all people in prison grew up without their father

I think that you are a very smart young man. I appreciate you looking into these issues, and how you are going about this. I hope that this pushes others to do the same. God bless you ❤

The problem is that people need to be held accountable for their actions!

It’s good to hear your perspective.

You have a lot of wisdom to offer the world. Thank you.

Thank you for thinking sir. God bless 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🎬

My great grandfather was a farmer and owned his farm. He had two sons, when his wife died he abandoned his sons to go play pro football. My grandfather and his brother worked the farm as well as they could until my granduncle one day told my grandfather that he joined the army. My grandfather said "What am I going to do?" the reply was "I don't know.". One of his teachers took him in and raised him. My grandfather had literally nothing, and no one to draw from and no such thing as Social Security. My grandfather worked hard and did well. My father and uncle were both able to go to college, largely on the back of my grandfather (so in that case they benefited from generational wealth). My father however did not help me through college and I could not get a pell grant because he had too much money. Screw the fed. So after struggling for three years I joined the Air Force. I struggled, my parents were so "into themselves" that they wouldn't loan my wife and I $3,000 to help us buy our first house. we were able to get the loan from my father in law (who was much less well off) and paid it back ahead of schedule. My parents, now that they are older, are much more generous, and we appreciate that, but that started when I was 60, not when I was 18. I think my story is much more common that the "generational wealth" stories I get to be painted with. This *rap about generational wealth only happens to a few regardless of skin color. FYI: While my father had a good job, he was also a single dad of two when he met and married his current wife and together they finally started being able to build wealth. That was in his mid 30s. My kids were a beneficiary of our "wealth" in that we gave each of my two boys $6,000/yr each for four years (yes they were both in and out of University in four) which is all we could afford, they are still working off their student debt, but they are working it off, not waiting around for Biden to steal someone else's wealth to pay the debt off.

NO One that begins EVERY sentence with SO, should EVER be given any credence.

@AB-ez4rm

3 ай бұрын

That, and "I feel".

@user-pu4bk7bf1g

3 ай бұрын

So I feel that was really funny

@billyc6678

3 ай бұрын

Oprah😂😂😂😂😂 I totally agree. 🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽

@lamoe4175

3 ай бұрын

That is a "crutch word" used by those who don't have proper speaking abilities. 1964 Sr. year English teacher coached us on proper speaking techniques to "sound educated" when in the business world. On numerous occasions I've been asked which college I attended. LANE TECH HS!

@famousj525

3 ай бұрын

I also think that beginning every sentence with SO sounds very uneducate, but even educated people I hear on TV do the same thing.

It would cool to meet you Jojo, you have so much more wisdom than many of your peers. Metaphorically speaking I’m in Europe and you the US, but if ever our paths crossed!

A strong father in the home is part of the key to a solid foundation for our young people today.

Love your honesty. Need more honesty in the world. You are a breath of fresh air. Love your podcasts.

Love your thoughts!

Much love brother ❤

You are such an exceptional young man. You make me so proud to watch you .

You're a smart and insightful young man. I'm really enjoying your content!

"Who cares?" Is NOT the response I was expecting from that student... 😯🤯

Very good comments. Thanks.

God bless you. Your parents must be amazing people.

You are the bomb! Yes, I’m one of those white people who lived in a car next to the rail road tracks off and on because parents didn’t make any money. MY daughters are the first in my family to get college educations. And we paid prolly 1/2 of their college fees and they got scholarships for the rest. And yes, we paid the interest on their loans! We worked all our lives to earn a very little until we were in our late 50’s and finally started good wages. We are just everyday white Americans who do not judge anyone by their color - just their character!!! Love you young man. So proud there are guys like you out there!

Youve got a good head on your shoulders young man. Stay critical and always have your own thoughts. You earned a new sub today.

Love your videos! You’re doing great work! I’m not in college anymore but I still relate to your videos

My man - respect to you bro. Great commentary

Always enjoy your videos and your very fair and common sense opinions. You are a great American!

God bless you!!

My Mother and Father owned absolutely nothing when I was born. They lived off of a US Navy housing benefit while my Father fought in Vietnam. He then got out of the service and moved us to the Mid-Atlantic, where he used the meager (at the time) VA benefits got him a job that supported a family of five. When I left the nest, I went into the USN on my 17th birthday and became a self-sufficient, taxpaying member of society. At age 25, I married my bride and the rest is history. We're still going strong 34 years later and I've paid at least a half-million in taxes to federal, state and local governments. I credit my life and success to my mother and father, who showed me the path to a good and honorable life........................

Thank your parents for raising such a thoughtful, well spoken young man.

Love your thinking man you are rigth

Gotta comend you on your honest evaluation of the facts, and not doing what the majority do by picking sides depending on skin tone 👏🙌

Thanks!

Truth bombs. Keep up the great videos young man

Just found your channel today🎉 I’m now a subscriber with the bell on. Stay vigilant my friend!

You are such a good guy JoJo! You speak the truth and I love your attitude. Life is hard…..period. It’s a lot easier than 200 years ago but it is still hard for everyone regardless of creed, colour or religion.

New sub ❤just watching a young independent thinker gives me hope 🙏🏼

Young Man. Keep up your journey. It’s people like you that will change the world

I like your way of understanding what being said…….😊

I am so glad you brought up families who are new immigrants having to start from scratch. I appreciate your intellect!

Thank you for speaking common sense!

I’m white; my family has been in this country since the Mayflower (one of the lines-all the others were here before the American Revolution), and yet there is no generational wealth, or any other kind of wealth, in my family. My ancestors were always the ones moving west every generation and have always been poor dirt farmers. I grew up in poverty, I’ve worked my entire life, and I’m still struggling in my old age. I am the first person in my entire family, cousins included, to graduate from college. And I was almost 50 when I did that. Thank you; you are a smart young man. I think you’re going to go far.

God bless you... you sir, are a good man.

Anecdote on sociology teachers. I had a class where I got 0s on the first 3 papers I wrote in the class. I couldn’t figure out why I was failing in this particular class. My writing was good. Then I asked to see the paper of a girl who had gotten 100s on all her papers and then I saw the issue. I had to write my papers to completely agree with the teachers ideology. From that point on I got 100s on every paper I wrote even though I comp,Evelyn disagreed with what I wrote. This kind of thing is rampant in the classes where ideology is the discussion.

It's better to thought of being a fool, than to open ones mouth and remove all doubts.

Young man, I just came across your account. I enjoyed your commentary as it came from a place that was seeking truth. I subscribed. I look forward to your perspective. I foresee a successful future headed your way 👍🏼👍🏼

I live in Las Vegas now but grew up in a tiny town in Northern Arizona. My highschool bf was a first Gen American, his parents are Ethiopian and brilliant doctors. Now MY medical team is mostly from Nigeria and immigrated here. My gen doc is Nigerian, my physical therapist is Nigerian, my OBGYN is Nigerian. Ngl tho, when I met my medical doc, she was the one to turn me onto the others. But I'm pleased as punch with the care I receive and they are flourishing within our community!

My family was poor, poor, poor. They were out picking cotton to put any amount of food on the table. My great Aunt had her children taken away without her immediate knowledge because she was deemed by some rich society person to be too poor for children. She was walking back from the fields and they got home a few minutes before she did from their grandmother's house where they went after school, the woman assumed they were not being cared for in those few minutes and took them to an orphanage hours away. Annie spent her entire life living with others taking care of their children or elderly, cooking, cleaning and picking cotton with only 2 dresses her entire life, never a home of her own, searching for her children. She had it just as bad in rural poor Mississippi as any person of color. BTW, her grandchildren and even a few of her children still made it to college on their own and became much wealthier.

You, my young man, are going places! You have a very level head on your shoulders and are using your talents and common sense to your advantage. You should be very proud of the stance you're taking. It is refreshing to see a young person who understands and takes responsibility. You restore my confidence in the human race! I wish you well. Continue your endeavor for truth. It will carry you far!

Excellent statement: "It's arrogant to think that you have an advantage over me!". You go young man! You have an advantage over this guy that looks down upon Black Americans! Thank You for your perspective and your many videos!