The Jackson 5 made some great music. "ABC", "I Want You Back", "Never Can Say Goodbye" are all fantastic pieces of work that will stand as soul classics for all time.

the drummer of the my band plays in this guys band,lol for realz!

Not bad. But I would question why white people are necessary to make a neighborhood a non-ghetto and why such an obviously negative thing as gangsta rap would be embraced as a statement against white society when it largely encourages black on black violence.

All answers I can attempt to provide.

You have to understand that the U.S. of today was alot different from the U.S. of back then. There was really no "suburbs" per se. Everything was seperated...restaurants, schools etc. Communities within the city were seperated by color.......heavily populated black areas and white areas.

At that time there were no blacks in position of power. "Good Jobs" that people made "real money" with were hardly ever given to black people. White people had all the money. They are the one who drove the economy. The law of seperate but equal regulated schools and public faciilities. When seperate but equal was struck down....white people (Money) all moved OUTWARD away from the INNER city....taking the money, businesses and school funds with them. Black people did not have the money (that comes from good jobs) to do this. therefore they remained in the INNER city. Whats an economy with no money? Whats a city with little to no economy...a Ghetto.

OH and the gangster rap...women, gold chains, money.....all appealing things to a disenfranchised society. Ever hear Rock music that just makes you want to drive faster and faster? Kind of the same thing...

Yet after years of preferential treatment (affirmative action, minority business loans, etc.) aimed at righting the situation black society is still suffering from the same problems.



You should listen to more Farrakhan and less Jackson.

Nothing I said is based on what those guys have to say. It's my own opinion....which i formed after weighing everything. Like I said I wrote a 50 page paper on the subject that was even forwarded to Cornell West...recieved a nice little e-mail from him.

There is no excuse for what is happening. I'm not trying to make one. Just giving my opinion.

I'm starting to sense a little "pot calling the kettle black"....after all the Mexican community has huge problems of their own. But lets leave that for another day.

Time to go booze. Nice chatting with you.

I'm 1/4 Mexican, 3/4 British and white in appearance. I live in a predominantly Mexican neighborhood. I am not a "pot" and I'm not calling anyone "black", just engaging ina discussion about race which is hard to do without upsetting people and getting labelled. I have been called everything on this board form "KKK" to "Kunta Kinte(Toby)". :1orglaugh

black people in many things.

black people are talented in many things.

Years, thats funny lol it has not even been a whole generation yet..

Also gangsta rap is no worse than a lot of heavy metal( glorifies drug use) and country( glorifies drinking)....

Black people only make up 11% of the use population. do they really cause that many problems for American society?

This is fortunately/unfortunataly the least racist discussion on race I have seen on this board. Congrats you two.