A lot of blacks felt mentally enslaved because back in the height of the crack era, you had to literally be a damn stereotype to be accepted. If you weren't a comedian or thug or some type of thorough dude, you got no leverage socially and you were practically ignored. The same era where a lot of those non-stereotypical blacks ventured out and started to mess with non blacks in IR and had mixed raced kids.
The Videogame and social situations were caused by ONLINE gaming from the mid 00s onwards.
Nah, I'm not talking about 'personas', I'm talking about an actual community where your family knew your neighbors & damn near everyone in the area. This was a holdover from block parties, growing up together, having Block Association meetings, etc. If you did something, your family would find out because that old couple who lived down the block knew your parents.
Besides crack, things started to shift during Reganomics. Black people joined the military, got a city job, made enough money and started to leave. During the late 80s, a lot of people i grew up with (mostly other Black Americans) started to move to Virginia or further South because their parents made enough to buy/build homes
The elders knew video games were a problem from the start. You couldn't stay inside all day, you were told to leave the house and go play. This happened way BEFORE online gaming.
As far as that interracial stuff, that's on them. I only knew less than a handful of white kids in elementary school who parents stayed in the area after 'White Flight' from the '77 Blackout. I didn't see any Black/White couples. And Black/PR couples wasn't the norm. Everyone wasn't cool like that even though we lived 'in the same neighborhoods'
Every area was different, that's just my view on my experiences
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