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Originally Posted by Robbie
That's the truth.
There is something that has gone really wrong in black culture in the U.S. where the young men are killing each other like a slaughterhouse.
I'm not sure what it's going to take to fix it. As a white guy, I don't think I'm even qualified to propose any ideas.
It's something that's gonna have to change from within.
Obviously, the black men who don't accept that kind of lifestyle CAN lift themselves out of it and achieve great things.
But the majority of black men in the inner cities never do. It's easy to get caught up in a cultural system. Growing up wanting to be the "rich" guy who deals on the corner and has all the hot babes instead of thinking about education and career.
Or growing up wanting to be a hip hop star or rapper.
It's a fucked up situation for inner city black youth in cities like Chicago.
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I watched a documentary a while back about gangs in Little Rock. The story was actually about a guy who was in a gang and went to jail for 10 years then when he got out he started a program to help kids get out of gangs. As they interviewed a lot of these kids many of them were in their early teens and already had the attitude that they would never be allowed to amount to anything so their only option was to sell drugs. It was such a defeatist attitude that it was actually pretty sad. To be 13 and believe that your only choices were sell drugs, go to jail or get killed by a rival gang was crazy to me. There is clearly something wrong with the culture in some areas of this country. I don't know how to fix it, but it is pretty sad that it exists.