Ghost wrote:Mr.Darcy wrote:HouseMD wrote:My theory on it is that white executives in the music industry caused it. Back in the day, hip hop was about rising up against the man, how the police were corrupt, etc. You cant sell that message to white people though, they cant relate. Selling a black man rapping about black problems to middle class whites being an impossibility, the execs figured they could sell a stereotype- the thug life. The charismatic criminal rapper made whites feel edgy and gave inner city kids that had nothing to lose something to aspire to be- not realizing that image had been glossed and sold to them by a bunch of whites that didnt give a damn about them and just wanted cash from an expanded audience. Between this and the crack epidemic, the progress of MLK and his peers was replaced by a materialistic culture of violence and instability, all so some execs could make a few bucks selling an image.
This is what I have been thinking as well. The media promotes this image and the black youths that act like this image reap the benefits.
America does not award black men that act proper.
Then go somewhere that does. Go somewhere where being a good man reaps benefits instead of punishments. No one can be a good person in America and be rewarded for it.
Whites and Blacks and whoever are mostly animal-like types. Most people are brutish and even barbaric. It comes out in certain ways, perhaps, influenced by race, but what I see does not fundamentally seem any different.
While people in general may be prone to animalistic, self-centered behavior, what is happening in America likely affects blacks to a greater degree for two reasons. The first of these was already talked about, incentives- if you act like a hard thug, you're going to get laid and party till shit gets bad and you end up in prison or worse, but if you were born into poverty with an absent father figure and essentially view yourself as having no future, then this might be viewed as your best possible outcome, for the alternative is "acting white" and going to school, studying hard, and caring about the issues that trouble your community, which will get you ostracized rather than laid due to a combination of crab pot mentality and general community apathy, and might not even net you a career in the end due to the bias against blacks in this country, leaving you back at square one sans some vagina. Given the choice between a short lived but exciting life or a highly risky life in which you are an outcast among your community, the choice for many is simple. The second issue is the reverse of the first- while whites are exposed to this culture, they have opportunities, and will generally be looked down upon in their community for taking on the thug persona. Whites generally have greater opportunities just by virtue of the fact they don't have to overcome being white when looking for a career, they have a decent selection of women just by being good looking without getting themselves into any trouble, and generally their families are more traditional in nature (you might have a set of divorced parents, but it is unlikely that you are in some of the unusual situations found in the inner city, such as never knowing who your father was or having siblings that are the progeny of two or more fathers) offering them a sense of stability and hope in life that many poor blacks lack.
I am not black, so I cannot pretend to fully understand the issues that many blacks face. Hell, all of this is speculation. But, to those of you that have traveled abroad and visited a country that is relatively hostile to your own, where you feel like a target to the police or populace, just imagine- from the day that they are born, many blacks feel like this in their own country. That's pretty f***ed up, that even their home base in this world is out to get them. Context, however, is not an excuse. It is a means by which to understand a problem, because without understanding what is wrong, you cannot hope to fix it. Just writing a whole race of people off as "low-IQ low quality hominids" that are "overcrowded together without proper supervision from quality men" doesn't provide a true problem nor a true solution. This is not, however, a problem that I believe anyone outside of this community can solve. I think the government and white people and "the Jews" for all you lunatics out there, have f***ed things up enough as is.
