1. We think street culture is Black culture;
2. There's a war going on between Blacks and niggaz;
3. We got mad skillz with gadgets but can't relate with one another in a manner that's intimate and real;
4. We still prefer light-skinned sistas over dark-skinned ones, especially in our music videos;
5. We think wearing locks is a fashion sense when it's supposed to be a poltical statement;
6. We need to walk with a pit bull in order to feel important;
7. We stand on street corners because we have nothing productive to offer our neighbors and selves;
8. We don't attend parent/teacher conferences;
9. We're afraid of telling our young boys (and a few grown ass men) that wearing your pants low enough to show your behind is not only tired but sad;
10. We don't hold our local leaders accountable, and they only come around during re-election time;
11. We forget that Obama is still a politician, and therefore can't and won't address our issues as directly and immediately as we'd like him to;
12. We'd rather look good than feel good;
13. We don't see hyper-masculinity as a cry for help;
14. We think the empowerment of sistas means disempowering brothas;
15. We don't support our own photographers and other artists, but get upset when they get love from outsiders;
16. We don't question the contradictions of the Church;
17. We make fun of africentric Blacks to avoid PSP (post-slavery psychosis);
18. We think Reggae and Dancehall music are one in the same;
19. We suffer from internalized racism, religious indoctrination, depression, and denial;
20. We think critical thinking is reading ghetto drama books;
21. We think ethnic and fly is a contradiction;
22. We celebrate the myth of Langston Hughes, but not the man himself;
23. We'll buy an $80,000 truck rather than spend $10 on a self-help book;
24. We'll support a singer who likes urinating on girls to the point where we'll even buy the video, but we think same sex marriage is digusting;
25. We can't handle the truth.
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