Bingo!!!! And thats why the plan to keep us hating, fearing, and distrusting ourselves is working so effectively. When i shyt on current hiphop, THIS is what im referring to mainly. Its killing our image and causing a divide AMONGST OURSELVES. Its pitting "normal" blacks against "hood"/"ratchet" blacks. Its making both sides look down on each other and not want to come together and build with each other. Its why when "normal" blacks get out the hood, they never reach back to help. Because they dont want to be associated with the stereotype of the "ghetto" black man/woman thats perpetuated by hiphop culture. Ignorance and acting/dressing like a buffoon is celebrated and promoted by hiphop, so "normal" blacks (specifically the youth) feel pressured to suppress their intelligence and to adopt a "hood" persona. And of course we all know that current rap paints the black male and black woman as public enemy #1 to OURSELVES. Songs about killing blacks and selling drugs to our own communities makes us seem like a hazard to OURSELVES. The current hiphop culture has made the word "thug" synonymous with the black male. The image of the black race is under assault. We are "dangerous" to everyone, but most importantly to OURSELVES. That needs to be reversed. We are the only group on Earth that

at the thought of living in a community of only our own kind. We need a resurgance of Black Pride and Black Love.