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Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy
I'm a white guy so please accept the following question is intended without malice: What is it with that segment of the black community that idealizes the thug lifestyle? (I know that there are segments of all races that idolize it but you know what I mean) I just don't get it. What's the appeal? I've had friends/coworkers who just absolutely let every opportunity to improve themselves pass by because that would be "selling out." For the life of me I dont' get it. It's disgusting to me but I can only imagine it must be truly exhasperating to be black and to see this from your own people in such large quantities. How do you protect your kids from these view points? If these questions/views offend anyone, I apologize, they're honestly just questions, not indictments of anyone's background.
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I'm black and live near DC. What you said doesn't offend me. Here is where that thug shit comes from. The people in Southeast DC are out of control. Murders every single day. Black on black crime. It makes me sick. Here is where it starts. Alot of young poor black women get knocked up at an early age and have a kid, two or three. They ( and the father) don't have a decent job or a good enough job to provide for themselves so they have to live in low income areas. The reality is these women should not be having babies. They can't give them a good life but they seem to think having kids is like having a cat or something. So they live in low income areas and the rest is history. That is a big reason why people live in the ghetto. Most of the women living in the ghetto have babies. That is the root of the problem. If these people would stop having babies at 18 then some of this shit would go away. So it just trickles down year after year after year.
Alot of professional athletes come from this type of backround. Michael Vick, Donald Driver, Gilbert Areanas, Byron Leftwich, Labron James, Carmelo Anthony, Pacman Jones, Allen Iverson. I could go on and on. Some make it and leave behind where they came from. Some don't like Vick and Jones and it has cost them. It almost cost Iverson. I have family near Newport News and from everything I've heard Iverson's mother is a hood rat herself. She had him at like 17? No one should be having babies at that age. But that is where it all starts.