Published by Tareau Barron
Born and raised in San Francisco, Ca, I've been a local sports fan for about 26 years now. Have a passion for the 49ers, Giants, Warriors. Have a respect and a disliking (hahaha) for the Raiders and A's. Following Cal and Stanford College hoops, College football, NFL, WNBA, and NBA. Will be giving you perspective from a young black male growing up here in the bay area. Holding no punches. Hope ya'll enjoy
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So much truth here Tareau! You snatched the words and thoughts right out of my mind and, I’m sure, a lot of other “Baby Boomers”.
I was one of the last of the Baby Boomer generation, and I can attest to all of what you’ve said here.
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Thank you. I’m working on part 2 as we speak. I had to get that knot off my chest. Lol I feel better but I’m still jealous.
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Ron and I talk about this all the time! But I don’t think that the problem started with the Millenials. Baby Boomers, and My generation-Generation X need to shoulder some blame.
My generation gave birth to Millenials too. I have a son that is a millenial. Oh but you know Mama wasn’t having that shit so I made him get a certification in a field that interested him while he was in college studying something else. I did that so that he would always have a side hustle. “Get up, get out, cut dat bullshit out!” (Outkast)
I remember when I was in college and I would visit my boyfriend, his roommate’s Mama would call from Ohio everyday and ask to speak to her son. Baby, he would pick up the phone and say, “Yes Mama.” And she would say, “Eric!!!! GET A HUSTLE!”
Then ole girl would hang the damn phone up! She did it EVERYDAY!!!
YAAASSSSS!
(not a typo)
Lady G
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I’m glad I get to interact with like minded individuals like Ron and yourself. Also that’s why in the beginning I start off blaming generation x. At the end, it says to be continued because It will talk about what you just said. Amongst other things
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Yep! I am glad to my friend.
Check this out…I used to drive my son by houses with dudes standing outside at 11:00am. I’d be like, “Look at them jokers, they need to be working.”
He said, “Mama how do you know that they don’t work at night?” I said, “Because if they did, they’re asses would be sleep!”
LOL!!!
I did that when dude was really young. You gotta teach your kids using real life lessons!
All jokes aside, with my generation, the Vietnam war took away many of our fathers (fortunately not mine) which presented a whole ‘nother set of issues. There were a lot of soldiers who left us at 18 and either died or were so damaged emotionally and physically that they were never the same. Lots of brothers lost to that bullshit.
Anyway, I’ll shut up now!
Thanks for another great post, I’ll be on the lookout for the continuation.
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No thank you. And you’re right, Vietnam did fuck up alot of black fathers, crack, and just fucking around being lazy and irresponsible. At least they weren’t getting shot and killed by each other and by the police. Sheesh
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Okaaay?? You ain’t never lied Bruh!
But you know what? The police been pulling that shit for years! I say that coming from a Dad who was an MP and a brother who retired from State Level Law Enforcement.
Hell, you can pull old Fred Sanford episodes where he said he joked about Police brutality.
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Lmfao when he was in court for the traffic ticket hahahhahahahah yesss. You’re right
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Precisely! And when somebody was talking about heart attacks killing more Blacks; Fred said, I thought it was the police! ROTFLMAO!!!!!
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My friend we don’t have to feel jealous or bad for the new tech generation this is the time to they have to live
We have a different time
We grow up doing everything by our own hands
Hahahahaha but I believe our generation was wonderful
And I want to think they going to say the same thing when they grow old
Don’t worry about it enjoy your life and enjoy your kids because the time never back
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Hahahahah I’m actually working on part 2 of this. And you took the words out of my mouth. Still I can complain, right?
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