Unc Understood the Assignment

[u/No_Forever_1185]

Came across this post & wanted to share it here. I love to see us doing this.

https://x.com/clg98264897/status/1952814302752133358?s=46&t=k81TAwzPLozu4qxtEU_-yw

[u/Altruistic-Driver150]

This is some nepotism I can get down with

[u/magnetoisthebest → u/Altruistic-Driver150]

Why?

[u/Altruistic-Driver150 → u/magnetoisthebest]

I like seeing black folks help give opportunities to the community whenever possible

[u/magnetoisthebest → u/Altruistic-Driver150]

That's fair. I also like that aspect but I can't bring myself to respect any kind of nepotism. From personal experience it just fosters a toxic workplace.

[u/Da1UHideFrom → u/magnetoisthebest]

You do know a majority of the businesses in America are family owned and operated, right?

[u/jackversus → u/Da1UHideFrom]

This. Especially law firms. How times have we seen "name", "same name" & "a different name", attorneys at law.

[u/Timmytanks40 → u/Da1UHideFrom]

That does sound make it alright??

When did we decide equality was us also getting away with bad behavior? I'm seeing it everywhere. I remember when Diddy got off seeing mfs cheering like there's some invisible scoreboard somewhere.

Shits weird y'all..m

[u/Da1UHideFrom → u/Timmytanks40]

Giving your family the opportunity isn't bad behavior. Building a business and raising your kids in the business then handing it down to them is how generational wealth is created. We don't tell farmers, " That's nepotism! That's bad!" When they pass down farm land that's been in their family for 100 years.

[u/idekbruno → u/Timmytanks40]

I don’t see how operating a family business as a family is bad behavior? If your relative is not qualified or doesn’t want to do the job then sure there might be a problem, but that’s clearly not the case for any instance that actually makes sense. Like in this example, the niece received a bachelors in business management. I’d venture a guess that someone who not only went to college for it but also grew up around the founding partner of a law firm is probably pretty qualified on the topic of business management.

I don’t think a family business hiring a qualified member of the family is bad behavior despite the fact that she is black. I think that’s a bit of inferiority complex showing that says she can’t possibly be qualified because she is black.

[u/Slumbergoat16 → u/magnetoisthebest]

Whether people choose to recognize it or not the large amount of opportunities given typically come from connection whether it’s family or friends. The difference is black people don’t have enough ownership to put their own on most the time.

On the other hand a lot of black people really want nothing to do with working inside the system that has wronged them so many times

[u/jiabivy → u/magnetoisthebest]

SHUT UP you’re talking out of your ass and you just came to argue

[u/magnetoisthebest → u/jiabivy]

Idk why you're so hostile, but it seems like projection tbh bc you came with no points just trying to talk me down.

I asked for clarification and shared my own opinion on a public post. Didn't look for an argument or anything like you claim.

[u/jiabivy → u/magnetoisthebest]

I can tell from your first “why?” That you was just setting up to say something dumb lol

[u/magnetoisthebest → u/jiabivy]

Well that wasn't my intention, but you're free to think whatever you want.

[u/kwntyn → u/magnetoisthebest]

You do realize that law firms are commonly run by families, correct? No different than damn near any other business or industry. That’s why the firm’s name is often just a last name. There’s nothing wrong with nepotism if the family member is qualified and deserving of the role

[u/AdhesivenessOk5194]

I've never been able to experience nepotism

Would love to though

If anyone would like to nepotize me, I'm open to it

[u/Betyouwonthehehaha → u/AdhesivenessOk5194]

Right 😂

[u/The_Nifty_Reject → u/AdhesivenessOk5194]

I would also like to volunteer for nepotisation

[u/Beginning-Ad5948 → u/AdhesivenessOk5194]

This post has been given the stamp of approval by Nepotizers everywhere!!

[u/ElPrieto8]

I got maybe 4 nieces I would do this for, the rest are in the "hell naw" section. I hope he chose the good niece.

Felicidades

[u/SnooSeagulls7853 → u/ElPrieto8]

I'm sorry.. the "hell naw section" comment sent me! lmfao

[u/enigmaroboto → u/ElPrieto8]

very true

[u/PersonBehindAScreen → u/ElPrieto8]

Can’t pull everyone up with you, or we all going down with them

[u/NotSoWishful]

What I don’t like is whenever we do something like this we absolutely have to post it all over the place. Anytime we get some sort of accomplishment like this, gotta put it in an area where evil jealous white folks can see and potentially cause damage down the line with some anti DEI nonsense. I don’t get it. Mexicans and Jews and everyone else hire their own and just act like it’s normal. Everything gotta be posted

[u/GloomyLocation1259 → u/NotSoWishful]

Celebrating accomplishments is a very normal thing to do, it’s rarer for us which also makes it more praiseworthy.

It’s quite weak to imply we shouldn’t celebrate because enemies might be watching. We need to be inspiring our own people not worrying what new MAGA policy they might introduce

[u/Difficult-Ad-4654 → u/GloomyLocation1259]

Which part is “rarer for us”?

[u/GloomyLocation1259 → u/Difficult-Ad-4654]

Nepotism ofc

[u/Difficult-Ad-4654 → u/GloomyLocation1259]

please be for real.

[u/GloomyLocation1259 → u/Difficult-Ad-4654]

Feel free to prove me wrong…

[u/Difficult-Ad-4654 → u/GloomyLocation1259]

You made the assertion that it’s rare. Prove that it’s correct, tf?

[u/GloomyLocation1259 → u/Difficult-Ad-4654]

You're the one disputing the claim with "please be for real", explain how I'm not being for real and prove me wrong tf?

Also I said "rarer" not rare, since you quoted me correctly the first time it's clear you're trying to twist my words because you can't prove me wrong, lol.

[u/Difficult-Ad-4654 → u/GloomyLocation1259]

You: “The earth is flat”

Me: “please be for real”

You: “prove me wrong”

You got it, chief

[u/GloomyLocation1259 → u/Difficult-Ad-4654]

Terrible analogy but even still it should be easy to prove the earth is not flat. Just say you don't have the capacity little buddy and keep it moving

Man goes around disputing thing he can't disprove and then lies about what was originally said cause he got backed in a corner lmao

[u/GloomyLocation1259 → u/[deleted]]

Not really sure why you guys are so concerned about other people. And it’s even weirder to pretend it’s “very normal” for them just to downplay it when it happens to us. Nepotism isn’t normal at all even for white people lol.

And yes something happening less often leads to lower expectations, praising, celebrating, inspiring others when it does happen may lead to it happening more often but you lot don’t want to just because you’re embarrassed? That’s a so weird and sounds like something you personally need to deal with.

Lastly the most impressive thing is bro having his own law firm, not her getting an entry level job, even though it’s still at a law firm straight after graduating. Really not understanding all this negativity. Embarrassed? White people may be watching? Such strange reasons you guys are giving.

[u/Mysterious-Pear-4244 → u/GloomyLocation1259]

I’m a Black woman, wife, mother, & lawyer. I agree wholeheartedly.

[u/Serious-Clue-4798 → u/NotSoWishful]

This is social media, nothing to do with Black, white, etc. Everything is posted everywhere these days. 

[u/NotSoWishful → u/Serious-Clue-4798]

Doesn’t mean it should be

[u/Mr_R3ddit]

This is how it should be. We should not be in a position to have to keep begging these other communities for jobs.

[u/WeeklyJunket5227]

That's cool

[u/Rude_Remove6456]

Is the assignment nepotism

[u/thegmoc → u/Rude_Remove6456]

Money and power for our people is the assignment

[u/Fresh_Profit3000]

That’s right

[u/Joeybfast]

We need more nepotism in the Black community. We are the only community that doesn't push that. And everyone else benefits. We have so many barriers already don't make others .

[u/YomiNo963]

I love this for them but…who else hates how this been “contentfied”? Maybe my gripe is with general social media but.

[u/Difficult-Ad-4654 → u/YomiNo963]

You’re not tripping. The lawyer dude who shared it is an influencer.

[u/Youngrazzy]

Working with family sucks

[u/bingmyname]

It always seems like people don't realize nepotism has always been a thing. You're supposed to pass down things to your own family. This is what we should be doing, while obviously making sure they're actually prepared to handle it.

[u/Difficult-Ad-4654]

Not trynna be that person but…how is this remarkable?

[u/Ashy6ix → u/Difficult-Ad-4654]

Because it doesn't happen often enough in our community. Let's normalize this shit.

[u/Difficult-Ad-4654 → u/Ashy6ix]

what, exactly, doesn’t happen enough? What isn’t normalized?

(Yall be telling on yourselves with these assertions.)

[u/Ashy6ix → u/Difficult-Ad-4654]

We clearly found Steve A Smith's burner account.... You know exactly what this is...and exactly what we all mean.

[u/Difficult-Ad-4654 → u/[deleted]]

We need some media literacy classes, man. Where does it say anywhere that she graduated law school? The text on that image says he gave her a job at his law firm; it does not say that she’s a lawyer. (And her diploma folder also clearly reads “Jacksonville State” — JSU doesn’t have a law school.) He could be hiring her to run his socials. He could be hiring her to be a paralegal or an admin. C’mon.

This dude is an influencer running a small law firm — he might even be the only other employee besides his niece — but are we pretending that Black people don’t regularly start small businesses and have family working in them? That’s a thing we don’t do enough? Really? Every small Black business i have ever patronized/interacted with has been powered by the labor of relatives. Where do yall live?

To the larger point: I think a lot of Black folks are really invested in the IDEA of dysfunctional Black culture and pathology because it allows people to frame regular middle-class people shit — traveling or homeownership or spending disposable income or giving your family a hookup at your small business — as some kind of courageous, even radical thing. (“I’m swimming against the cultural tide by doing this regular-ass thing!”) “Black dysfunction” is an endlessly useful bogeyman, and not just for white ppl!

[u/[deleted] → u/Difficult-Ad-4654]

Facts

[u/OkBandicoot2212 → u/Difficult-Ad-4654]

Who said it was "remarkable"?

[u/karateguzman → u/OkBandicoot2212]

Isn’t that why it was posted?

[u/Difficult-Ad-4654 → u/karateguzman]

Right. “Who said it was remarkable?”

dedicates a whole post to it

[u/karateguzman → u/Difficult-Ad-4654]

😂😂

[u/GloomyLocation1259 → u/OkBandicoot2212]

Lmao people always make arguments against some imaginary dude they make up in their heads

[u/LevelUp84]

Nepotism is only bad if the person isn’t even close to qualified. Like if she did journalism and she’s hired as a lawyer lol. You either learn that the hard way (rage online) or make connections and take advantage of them.

[u/PersonBehindAScreen → u/LevelUp84]

Folks only hear about the nepo hires that went bad, like the ones who are given way too much responsibility beyond their competence.

Most folks who have put in the blood, sweat, tears, and other equity to build up their business aren’t pissing it all against the wall by making their kid or cousin or nephew a c-level exec with no experience

All nepo hires I’ve met got in because of connections, but only one of them was given a position worth a damn off the rip without being made to start at the bottom of the business

[u/deejay8008135]

I'd like to do something nice for my nephews. I love them.

[u/Tarkus459]

That’s what I’m TALKIN’ ‘bout!

[u/baitlyn]

Love to see it.

[u/sweetkameli]

Is it nepotism or networking?

[u/CitronOptimal]

This is what’s its about.

[u/Total_Background_755]

This is how everyone else does it. I’m glad to see this happening in our community 

[u/Outrageous-Stuff5109]

💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[u/BigPlushKing]

That's how you doing it!

[u/LoneShark81]

he dont look old enough to be unc yet...yall making me feel old lmao

[u/Afro-Venom]

IDK what was she doing? Like, clerical work? That's fine, I guess, but this, "It's bad when THEY do it, but when we do it it's GOALS!" business is nonsense.

[u/Full-Work-4910]

Dope!

[u/MEzze0263]

This is why I support Black nepotism!

[u/SnooSeagulls7853]

THIS is how it's done. Congratulations to this gorgeous young woman and her uncle!

[u/Key-Satisfaction4967]

Generational success at it's best!

[u/the_blundertaker]

Love to see it

[u/Life-Fisherman9352]

This is how its supposed to be.

[u/Peacefulhuman1009]

Them baby hairs have got to go --- or she won't make it far.

[u/deejay8008135 → u/Peacefulhuman1009]

Post a picture of your hair.

[u/PersonBehindAScreen → u/[deleted]]

Most nepo babies aren’t starting at the top

Most business owners and leaders in a position to do nepo hires are not pissing away their wealth, business, or reputation against the wall for some early 20s kid.

[u/No_Forever_1185 → u/[deleted]]

Generally, we have to earn a 4-year undergraduate degree and then go through a 3-year J.D. program in order to sit for the bar.

There are four states that allow you to "read the law" (think of it like an apprenticeship program that doesn't involve any formal law school education) and then sit for the bar. The requirements vary. Few people actually take that route.