Just been watching a program on TV about the rising (and fast at that) of british youths carrying weapons and stabbing and shooting at each other over things as little as a postal code area.
But 99.9 percent of the program was about black people and families
Is it the Rap music ,this program didnt go much into the causes just the family fall out afterwards.
Among a huge chunk of the black youth...in britain and America, it's not considered 'cool' to study hard in school...to get good grades...to speak proper english...to aim for college. Many consider this stuff to be "acting white"...while the whole "I'm a hard mutha f*cka..bout it-bout it -West SIIIIDE!" gangsta culture is something to be aimed for and respected. I see very few young black guys in my city that don't try to talk with a thug accent when I meet them. They always sag their pants, and trying "act hard" in public with apathetic/disrespectful looks on their faces...rather than acting natural the way they surely do around their close family. It's not just rap music... It's something more deeply rooted in the culture that I won't pretend to understand.
Jun-30-2008 19:29
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I didn't think many acted much different around their families.
I do hate that bull shit "don't rat" non sense they have going on. WTF is that? Ridiculous.
I can't believe ppl would know something and keep quiet just because rap songs are telling them not to snitch.
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Jun-30-2008 19:31
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hiphop music and culture is deffinatley partly to blame, but not all blacks who listen to rap music, act all gangsta and tough and commit crimes, so u cant say its the main reason. black ppl do commit more crimes then white ppl though. and look at countries like jamaica and the high murder rates with mostly a black population and a small population in the country or places like detroit where 80% of the ppl are black...
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Jul-01-2008 00:23
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Originally posted by AustralianGQ
hiphop music and culture is deffinatley partly to blame, but not all blacks who listen to rap music, act all gangsta and tough and commit crimes, so u cant say its the main reason. black ppl do commit more crimes then white ppl though. and look at countries like jamaica and the high murder rates with mostly a black population and a small population in the country or places like detroit where 80% of the ppl are black...
