I get the impression that people are still dissing Drake as a "soft nigga."*
What I want to say is: who cares? Everybody doesn't have to be hard. Not even all rappers.
In fact, it's worse than that. Criticizing people as soft encourages them to be hard, and it should be clear from where that got us in the 90s and 2000s that this is counterproductive. The tough-guy persona that you dudes venerate has not, and will not, get blacks anywhere. What we need is mental toughness, intelligence and unwearying determination. As black men, the whole world often seems against us. There is something to that perception. But we will not succeed by being hard. Being hard is not going to make you graduate summa cum laude, become a doctor, tell you what you need to run a successful legal business or become a stockbroker, for example. This should be obvious by now.
So quit it with this "he soft" nonsense. I thought we were off that. We should be.
*Note: I'm not a fan of Drake. I'm just using him to make my point.
What I want to say is: who cares? Everybody doesn't have to be hard. Not even all rappers.
In fact, it's worse than that. Criticizing people as soft encourages them to be hard, and it should be clear from where that got us in the 90s and 2000s that this is counterproductive. The tough-guy persona that you dudes venerate has not, and will not, get blacks anywhere. What we need is mental toughness, intelligence and unwearying determination. As black men, the whole world often seems against us. There is something to that perception. But we will not succeed by being hard. Being hard is not going to make you graduate summa cum laude, become a doctor, tell you what you need to run a successful legal business or become a stockbroker, for example. This should be obvious by now.
So quit it with this "he soft" nonsense. I thought we were off that. We should be.
*Note: I'm not a fan of Drake. I'm just using him to make my point.