Black Poverty Codes Disguised As Community
You find your self platitude in income and you think it’s because you have some money black where there’s something wrong with you or there’s another strategy or messages simply you need to use.
What you don’t realize is that you were born into a culture that carries subtle signals and information under the surface that influence your capacity to believe in receiving, being supported (without work), and your right inherently to abundance.
So many of us if I say to you, ‘you cheap like that dad and everybody hates Chris’ you know exactly who I’m talking about and you know somebody in your family or around you who praises the act of not sharing, of not believing more is coming, of a holding on for dear life energy around material money, sometimes objects.
“My grandma used to put plastic on the coach, she took care of her furniture”
Now if you believe in just buying new furniture, somehow you don’t take care of things. Aka:how culture creates guilt.
For black culture, this example is almost something that is joked about amongst the community. While this is not everybody in our community, depending on your social class and societal upbringing (which is why we cannot ignore the conversation of society and trauma in our discourse about money because for some people it is not only about environment and class, its about culture) you may definitely have unconsciously absorbed some of these biases.
Cultural conditioning is about what’s expected of you; it’s about what is seen as rare versus was seen as expected, it’s about what is demonized amongst the culture so, for example: Some people are a lot less apt to share so it’s been dressed up as don’t be an enabler. Now you wear yourself out in the name of not looking like a bum to avoid demonization.
"Your unconscious desire to 'fit in' may be part of what is keeping your net-worth capped."
The verbiage, “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” and “nobody’s coming to save you” are all cultural imprints. So many of us have a culture (especially in America) of leaving people out to starve literally on the streets. Not enough to give is literally an expectation for some.
realize that what we’re carrying is not only limiting beliefs, but we’re carrying societal cultures as a pressure in order to ‘fit in’ because we all have this inherent need to belong due to evolution (in the past we needed community (to belong) to survive and so there is a core instinct to try to fit in and belong with the community.
This even goes for black religious communities, because religious community will glorify being satisfied with where you are, wanting the simple life, not finding joy in material things, and that becomes a culture, even outside of church.
Your grandparents may say this to you, your parents may say to you things like ‘I never need much to be happy’ and while there’s nothing wrong with that way of being, what it does is it teaches you that you’re being good by not wanting money. It teaches you that in order to fit in and be good you need to be able to to not want money and this is this is the issue that we find that many people are carrying.
This is the work you have to begin to dissolve, because cultural conditioning is body conditioning and body conditioning becomes a thing that controls your every action and what you’re able to call into your life.
The work is becoming aware of these cultural agreements, becoming aware of how they show up in your particular life and body, and implementing a process to shift the unconscious ways that you still choose ‘fit in’ over self authority (which is what the system wants from you, it wants for you to be disconnected from your abundance it wants for you to be disconnected from your power, and to be stuck in first level, tribal, thinking rather than connecting to your higher, spiritual self separate from the group).
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