You jail people for crime
Thats the real world but if we're going by your Internet Ass logic, these are all Pan Africanists who bought into the idea that "We All Black". They need to delineate which has likely already occurred according to whatever neighborhood they're from.
To the youth, the allure of being a gangster is an addictionWould it sound odd if I said since the advent of the net and streaming a lot of people, especially the younger gen, think they're living in a movie?
The lines between reality and fantasy have became blurred as the fakeness of the medium has its own consequences offline, especially with those who can't discern as its all they've known.
Welcome to the land of the fake real.
But what happens if it has legs, and a MARTA pass and it chases after you?You don’t. You leave it behind.
To the youth, the allure of being a gangster is an addiction
Nah bruh, it's the music they're consuming. The images of people that look like themIt is. Primarily due to the sense of hopelessness and powerlessness they feel due to the systematic oppression. Even those raised in privilege sense this but there is also the appeal of seeming dangerous and bout it as well.
The world is insane. Crazier still you are thought a loon for saying this.
Nah bruh, it's the music they're consuming. The images they see of themselves.
These kids ain't walking around on some "I feel so hopeless & powerless to do something positive with my life but systemic oppression is holding me back"
Like you said, even the privileged kids from good homes are walking around cosplaying as street dudes from the trenches because it's all they consume and it's literally shaping their identity.
Alot of these kids are literally EMULATING what they constantly consume.