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by LVH2 » Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:54 am
It's not an either or question. More blacks than you'd think hate hip hop and gang culture.
But, there are obvious structural and historical elements feeding it all. I assume we all know the war on drugs hit blacks the hardest. Guess what. If your dad is in jail for selling pot, your upbringing takes a hit.
The school to prison pipeline is real. Saw it first hand. You start building a criminal record for cutting class, getting into fights, or drinking beer. In other words, fairly normal behavior. You take a marginal kid and push him into the CJ system and the results are obvious.
I think there are deeper problems, as part of the cycle of poverty, that seem most intense among blacks, for whatever reason. An obvious example being nutrition and obesity.
I think I told this one but maybe not. I drove three black people to California for work, mostly on 2 lane freeways. Nice people. Funny and smart. You might say they were a bit hood, but they lived in places as nice, or nicer than the one I do.
So, none of them are wearing seatbelts and they go into this bit about how they don't need them because I'm a good driver. The last guy the went to California with was a bad driver, and for him, they wore their seatbelts.
So, obviously, I'm like WTF? These people were about 30, 45 and 55. In 2016, who doesn't wear a seatbelt, especially going 70mph in 2 way traffic? What kind of insane thought process leads you to conclude that seat belts are not needed with a good driver?
So, when I get home I look it up and evidently, blacks wear seat belts less than other people. The NAACP had a little initiative encouraging people to wear them.
Needless to say, there are no NWA songs about how cool it is to not buckle up. Nor have whites tried to convince blacks to not buckle up. There's something deeper.
