Our daughters aren't safe either: RIP Kaylyn Pryor

[BaldingSoHard]

Nikka shut up. What is this "we" shyt?
The violence will stop when the poverty ends and that will end when working-class jobs come back. The lose of those jobs is not a failure of black men.

That's definitely part of the issue but what we're dealing with here is senseless violence which literally makes no sense.
The "poverty as a catalyst for crime" correlation makes sense when it's people stealing while trying to feed their families.
I can't put together why anyone, regardless of their economic status, would want to just let off a spray of bullets at a stranger.

 

[Biscayne]

These are the things that black people need to be seen protesting just as much if not more than police brutality.

They do protest Black on Black violence. It's just never talked about in the media when they do, and statements like "Why don't Black people protest black on black crime" continue to get throw around even though that's not true. I'm glad groups like the CeaseFire and people like Ameena Matthews(daughter of Jeff "Chief Malik" Fort founder of The P.Stones) have gotten the praise they deserve. Sit down and watch:

 

[PurpleRose]

That's what a lot of these dumb motherfukkers don't understand. It's a mentality that is at the root cause. There are rappers who are millionaires who still engage in criminal activities.

This "Free (rapper involved in criminal activities)" must stop. fukk that rapper.

This "Stop Snitching" culture needs to stop.

Busta Rhymes literally saw his bodyguard gunned down. But this stupid motherfukker wanted to adhere to some street code.

Rap promotes these lifestyles. I am not from America but I can give a perspective about its influence. I live in the Caribbean and on my island there are Bloods and Crips. These images are communicated through music and media. American cultural imperialism is real.

We need to overcome these mentalities. No one is saying rap is the sole cause, but we can't negate its effect over impressionable youths.

Environment breeds the culture. The culture is a reflection of the environment whether that environment is a concrete jungle, a coastal village, a suburb, or an affluent upscale neighbourhood. The culture represent the values within a certain space and among certain groups, I say certain because there are many hardworking families even in the most destitute of areas. Lack of wealth in this century creates the same stressors no matter where you go. Btw, the islands may not have known of bloods and crips without the influence of rap, but gang activity always existed in some form or other. Rap music didn't create gangs, which is why @MeachTheMonster made the Al Capone comment. I'm just saying we should be careful to not romanticize the past, it doesn't help us deal with shyt today. I'd rather focus on the economics in communities,the lack of opportunities to know and do better, generational dysfunction and @CinnaSlim 's point about mental illness.

 

[Will Ross]

They do protest Black on Black violence. It's just never talked about in the media when they do, and statements like "Why don't Black people protest black on black crime" continue to get throw around even though that's not true. I'm glad groups like the CeaseFire and people like Ameena Matthews(daughter of Jeff "Chief Malik" Fort founder of The P.Stones) have gotten the praise they deserve:

We don't protest Violance seriously

 

[Tanahashi Coates]

Im saying that if you own a gun and plan to go after your enemies no matter what you might as well pick racist whites over other black people.

If you can stop them from buying a gun and going after their enemies like that then more power to ya.

I expect them to know about racist whites because they use the internet just like us and see the shyt that racist whites do. Im sure they even see racist whites in real life.

Breh, have you ever been to Chicago? Racism is covert here. Add in the segregation factor, a GD from Englewood (especially a teenager) could care less about whites. You're thinking about this on some militant martyrdom type shyt. You really expect poor teenagers to posse up and take public transportation to shoot racists. Come on man.

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

That's definitely part of the issue but what we're dealing with here is senseless violence which literally makes no sense.
The "poverty as a catalyst for crime" correlation makes sense when it's people stealing while trying to feed their families.
I can't put together why anyone, regardless of their economic status, would want to just let off a spray of bullets at a stranger.

They're saying the motivation was most likely gang related. The drug trade is all they have so gangs are going to be ruthless.

 

[Biscayne]

We don't protest Violance seriously

YOU don't...other Blacks hit the streets and try and stop it EVERY.SINGLE.DAY:

 

[Doomsday]

How can the music be responsible? Reality will always supercede fantasy. The Internet wants to believe that music can turn someone into a real goon, because that would make them appear less like wannabes.

 

[Ooh Marty]

chicago

nikka u from detroit

Detroit is what Chicago going to be in a few years if we dont get our shyt together

but nikka, u from detroit

 

[Blackout]

Breh, have you ever been to Chicago? Racism is covert here. Add in the segregation factor, a GD from Englewood (especially a teenager) could care less about whites. You're thinking about this on some militant martyrdom type shyt. You really expect poor teenagers to posse up and take public transportation to shoot racists. Come on man.

We need to fix that

 

[H@LLOW]

Black on black is not cool brehs.

 

[TheNig]

And we're done here. Mfs really talking bout purging the city. nikkas really have no idea what it's like and they don't want to either

What a nikka like you don't understand is that some of us that grew up in the hood and got the fukk out just don't have the tolerance and patience for that shyt. So becuz we don't we're looked at as c00ns. But you have nothing to say about the nikkas that are doing the killing and shyt but they're "products of the environment". We lived in that fukked up environment too and we sympathize with the ones that are struggling to get out. But becuz we want nothing ot do with the destructive nikkas, we're frowned upon.

I have lived in poor black neighborhood and now live in a suburb. What i know is this. Poverty alone doesnt create the type of violence in chicago.

Some nikkas are chaotic. Some learn it from others. shyt is sad. But becuz a nikka tryna get out, he uppity.

 

[HollowPoints2]

This shyt in Chicago is beyond belief, brehs.

When the fukk are we going to stand up as Black men and atone for the wickedness we've unleashed on our communities?

Instead of heading to DC for a gathering, we should have gone to Chicago.

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Young Winner of Modeling Contest Shot and Killed in Chicago

You have to identify the good ones from the bad then go to war with the bad ones.

Anything short of that won't work.

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

especially not the failure of black men born in the 80s and 90s. black folks kill me with this "stand up" shyt, it's just empty rhetoric that doesn't detail a damn thing.

do you mean to suggest that we should become killers and kill those we perceive as gang members, @mamba

Its self deprecating sentiment, for self-loathing people to feel good about. Quite discussing how it works when you think about it.

 

[Tanahashi Coates]

We need to fix that

There are volunteers at damn near every corner during school hours. The difficult part would be getting incorruptible armed men and women approved for gun cards who live in the neighborhood on the streets to police them 24/7.