What is Floyd Mayweather talking about?

His dad was a drug dealer and his mum a drug addict. He didn't live in the Hills and his dad did go to prison. His dad was shot while holding Floyd.

Floyd isn't Escobar or Cookie BUT his childhood clearly wasn't smooth sailing.

 

Please.....!!!!!

Floyd was raised bya combo of Grandma (living arrangements) and Dad which was basically the boxing side:good

From the amateurs on.. Floyd had flash and cash and his own family has spoken on this clearly on the strictness of his upbringing. ****ing Floyd wasnt allowed to play other sports, but he was allowed to run the streets and duck bullets??:rofl :rofl :rofl :nono

****ing floyd's ego has cooked his judgement and he's now falsifying and creating fictional situations/scenario's designed at enhancing a 'gangsta" image.

He's gotta try and keep up, since he wants to hang wit 50 Cent and be a rap star Its BS, none the less:yep

 

you gotta understand floyds dad might have been a drug dealer but he wasn't poor, he was doing it for the big money, he wasn't no street junkie.

i say 50cent had influence on floyd.

 

Your spot on again !!! But the thing these twits don't get is that, its not about color, clothes, or personal preferences. Its about an attitude and a silly image to convey a lifestyle that is pointless at best. Its a totally narcissistic personality disorder and pathetic, regardless of what color a person is. Having said that, the majority of this silly **** is in the rap/hip hop community. That doesn't make me a racist, it makes all the people that buy into that all that fake tough guy persona **** nothing but posers. Black, white, green, or purple, it don't matter to me. It's an attitude, it's trash, and it's one of the main reasons that this country is in the shape its in.

 

Oh, I ain't too worried muttley. Me and this black supremacist have gone a few rounds in the past. He always shows his true color in the end. He's the same guy that sends me PMs saying he wants to "meet me anytime" to dual to the death or some other silly "gansta in a rubber suit" tough guy ****.:rofl:rofl:rofl I get along with most black people, its only the ones that have sunk themselves so deep into the tough guy rapper image that have a problem with me because I don't play that ****. These are the same type people that think that white America owes them something for something that happened hundreds of years ago or that its ok for black people to use the "N" word but if anyone else does, they are a racist. That, my friend is racism in its truest form.

 

i dont get it why guys are proud of being poor? proud of their parents amounting to nothing, being from the hood means your parents not caring about you, bringing you up along with drugs and with no jobs.

 

Cause like that talentless 50 sings, "i get money" or some stupid **** like that. Classless bums with money are still classless bums at the end of the day !!!

 

If you ever read that issue of Rolling Stone Magazine where 50 Cents and Kanye West are on the cover. 50 admits it himself that the gangsta image has become just an image (sure, he was a "gangsta" but from his own mouth, that's not the case anymore). Underneath all that, he's a pretty smart guy with lots of stock options making some serious money. He even admits to checking his myspace regularly for fan opinions and comments :yep.

At the end of the day, it's all about what sells. And we're fools for lapping it up. If you're treating these people as the next street gospel...well you might have some problems.

 

The western slave trade was a racist undertaking for which there was no justification:deal


http://www.africanholocaust.net/news_ah/africa%20before%20slavery.htm

1. Africa before the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Racist views of Africa
In the last 50 years much has been done to combat the entirely false and negative views about the history of Africa and Africans, which were developed in Europe in order to justify the Transatlantic Slave Trade and European colonial rule in Africa that followed it. In the eighteenth century such racist views were summed up by the words of the Scottish philosopher David Hume, who said, ‘I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilised nation of that complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or in speculation. No ingenious manufacture among them, no arts, no sciences”. In the nineteenth century the German philosopher Hegel simply declared ‘ Africa is no historical part of the world. ' This openly racist view, that Africa had no history, was repeated by Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oxford University , as late as 1963.

How Europe learned from Africa

Some of the world's other great civilisations, such as Kush, Axum , Ghana , Mali , and Great Zimbabwe , also flourished in Africa and some major scientific advances were known in Africa long before they were known in Europe . Towards the middle of the 12 th century, the north African scientist, Al Idrisi, wrote, ‘What results from the opinion of philosophers, learned men and those skilled in observation of the heavenly bodies, is that the world is as round as a sphere, of which the waters are adherent and maintained upon its surface by natural equilibrium.' Africans were certainly involved in trans-oceanic travel long before Europeans and there is some evidence to suggest that Africans crossed the Atlantic and reached the American continent, perhaps even north America , as early as 500 BC. In the 14 th century, the Syrian writer, al-Umari, wrote about the voyage of the Emperor of Mali who crossed the Atlantic with 2000 ships but failed to return. Africans in east and south-eastern Africa also set up great civilisations that established important trading links with the kingdoms and empires of India and China long before Europeans had learned how to navigate the Atlantic ocean . When Europeans first sailed to Africa in the 15 th century, African pilots and navigators shared with them their knowledge of
trans-oceanic travel.

It was gold from the great empires of West Africa , Ghana , Mali and Songhay, which provided the means for the economic take off of Europe in the 13 th and 14 th centuries and aroused the interest of Europeans in western Africa . An early historian in the 9 th century wrote ‘the king of Ghana is a great king. In his territory are mines of gold.' When the famous historian of Muslim Spain, al-Bakri wrote about Ghana in the 11 th century, he reported that its king ‘rules an enormous kingdom and has great power' . The king of Ghana was said to have an army of 200,000 men and to rule over an extremely wealthy trading empire. In the 14 th century, the west African empire of Mali was larger than western Europe and reputed to be one of the largest, richest and most powerful states in the world. The Moroccan traveller Ibn Batuta wrote about his very favourable impressions of this empire and said that he found ‘complete and general safety' there.

When the famous emperor of Mali , Mansa Musa visited Cairo in 1324, it was said that he brought so much gold with him that its price fell dramatically and had not recovered its value even 12 years later. The empire of Songhay was known, amongst other things, for the famous university of Sankore based in Timbuctu. Aristotle was studied at Sankore and also subjects such as law, various branches of philosophy, dialectic, grammar, rhetoric and astronomy. In the 16 th century one of its most famous scholars, Ahmed Baba, is said to have written more than 40 major books on subjects such as astronomy, history and theology and he had his own private library that held over 1500 volumes. One of the first reports of Timbuctu to reach Europe was by Leo Africanus. In his book, published in 1550, he says of the town: ‘There you will find many judges, professors and devout men, all handsomely maintained by the king, who holds scholars in much honour. There too they sell many handwritten north African books, and more profit is to be made there from the sale of books than from any other branch of trade.'

African knowledge and that of the ancient world, was transmitted to Europe as a result of the North African or Moorish conquest of the Iberian peninsular in the 8 th century. There were in fact several such conquests including two by the Berber dynasties in the 11 th and 12 th centuries. The Muslim invasion of Europe, and the founding of the state of Cordoba , re-introduced all the learning of the ancient world as well as the various contributions made by Islamic scholars and linked Europe much more closely with north and West Africa . Arabic numerals based on those used in India were introduced and they helped simplify mathematical calculations. Europe was also introduced to the learning of ancient world mainly through translations in Arabic of works in medicine, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics and philosophy. So important was the knowledge found in Muslim Spain, that one Christian monk - Adelard of Bath - disguised himself as a Muslim in order to study at the university at Cordoba . Many historians believe that it was this knowledge, brought to Europe through Muslim Spain, which not only created the conditions for the Renaissance but also for the eventual expansion of Europe overseas in the 15 th century.

European views of Africa before the Slave Trade
Before the devastation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade important diplomatic and trading partnerships had developed between the rulers of European countries and those of Africa who saw each other as equals. Some of the earliest European visitors to Africa recognised that many African societies were as advanced or even more advanced than their own.
In the early 16 th century, the Portuguese trader Duarte Barboosa said of the east African city Kilwa: There were many fair houses of stone and mortar, well arranged in streets. Around it were streams and orchards with many channels of sweet water.' Of the inhabitants of Kilwa he reported, ‘They were finely clad in many rich garments of gold and silk, and cotton, and the women as well; also with much gold and silver in chains and bracelets, which they wore on their legs and arms, and many jewelled earring s in their ears.'

A Dutch traveller to the kingdom of Benin in the early 17 th century sent home this report of the capital.

‘It looks very big when you enter it for you go into a great broad street, which, though not paved, seems to be seven or eight times broader than the Warmoes Street in Amsterdam. This street continues for about four miles and has no bend in it. At the gate where I went in on horseback, I saw a big wall, very thick and made of earth, with a deep ditch outside. Outside the gate there is a large suburb. Inside as you go along the main street, you can see other broad streets on either side, and these are also straight. The houses in this town stand in good order, one close to the other and evenly placed beside the next, like our houses in Holland.'

Africans and the African continent have made enormous contributions to human history just as other peoples and continents have. It is the development of Eurocentric and racist views in Europe that have denied this fact and sought to negate the history of Africa and its peoples.

 

You couldn't ***** slap your own feces you dumb mother****er

 

Grand Rapids isn't a hard place to grow up in..

 

First point I would like to address, is that I don't see any racists here other than you, TooPretty, and bigtime9. You guys seem to think that because you are black, anyone who dislikes someone who also happens to be black is racist. You clowns constantly drag every thread you participate in down to racial issues. Look at this thread for example - the OP is asking what PBF is talking about - some posters here think PBF is full of ****, others think he is telling the truth.

How the hell did it get down to you and your posse calling everyone racist? Grow up and find another hobby mate atsch


Second point is that I'm not trying to 'resuce' anybody

Thirdly, you're an idiot - give yourself an uppercut, dildo-breath

 

I think I've finally worked out what subjects clowntime9 got his 5 degrees in:

1. Black-tion! Here and Now!
2. Playing V.I.C.T.I.M. - how to milk the most out of a situation by accusing everyone of being oppressors.
3. Believe in yourself - Know that you are a BEAUTIFUL Black man.
4. Arguing Facts without Knowing Facts - Who needs to know true history when an unwritten one can be referred to and never disputed?
5. All White People Are Racist - Unless they agree with you.

 

It works both ways you hypocritical pigeon catcher:deal

 

uh, az fing terr sez what?