The problem with Akademics is that he's critiquing the symptoms and not the problem. Now if he would harshly critique both the cause (decades of disenfranchisement) and the effect (complete breakdown of our cities), then I could accept his points and even be comfortable with defending them. It's true that the killing in the streets and the seemingly lack of value of human lives needs to stop. But the policies that continue breed and foster that environment need to stop as well.
There are times I want to rant against this level of violence and people clearly jumping on YouTube to snitch on themselves, but I have to check myself and focus my ire at the real problem.
So if somebody shoots you somebody you love you ain't got a problem with them personally, they cool? You direct all your anger to the system that disenfranchised them?
You ain't wrong but totally absolving grown men of accountability because of bad upbringing ain't cool. Some people are just bad people. They have a brother raised in the same house who chose a better path but they want to show how tough they at the expense of their own people.
Not everywhere people are poor in the world they shoot each other down at rapid rates. But obviously there are systematic influences too. It's tough.
I quoted myself so your and my responses have context.
Nowhere in my post did I say or imply that I wouldn't be upset at someone shooting me or a loved one. Of course, I would. But since I'm not currently in that environment and I know that people are born INTO that environment, I have to understand and know why that environment exists the way it does. We already know that shooting everyone isn't gonna solve the problem. We know that throwing everyone in jail isn't gonna solve the problem. But we do know that the system is the problem. The system created the problem, it exacerbates the problem, it perpetuates the problem.
So as I said about AK and extending the idea further, critiquing, attacking, mocking the symptoms only and not also dealing with the actual problem isn't gonna solve anything. It just causes new problems. Like what we see with AK. Speaking out of turn without a thorough grasp of the facts and dynamics. Buying into a narrative that is misleading at best and purposefully deceptive at worst. Regardless of his intentions, AK himself is c00ning and doesn't even realize it. In fact, in a way it's worse, because he thinks he's righteous for doing so.
And just so I'm clear. I'm not absolving the men or kids for what the crimes they have committed. They deserve to be punished under the law, especially the murderers. But like Andre 3000 said in Sixteen, (paraphrase) it's great to say people should do better, but you're not giving them options and opportunities to do so, then how are you any better?
