Our daughters aren't safe either: RIP Kaylyn Pryor

[TheNig]

you volunteer and donate i swear all y'all nikkas run to the same exact excuse. next time throw in how you read to the elderly to complete the trifecta.

you're right, it's not enough. everyone acts like the problem is lack of mentors, when the problem is lack of well paying jobs. you want to help deter crime? get into a position where you can employ impoverished youth before they make the wrong choice.

at least when these young nikkas are recruited by street dudes, there's money or the promise of money attached to the deal. y'all nikkas want to just offer kind words of encouragement, with no tangibles to back it up.

Please tell me you're some kinda entrepreneur/CEO type.

How can you fix you fingers to type some shyt about a nikka that's tryna help people? You out here giving these young nikkas jobs before they get caught up in the street life?

I've already said that once I start my own practice that I will do everything in my will to make sure it is mainly black operated.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

How is it a dumb analogy, I've never suggested that music that glorifies Black death is the only fuel to the fire?

for your analogy to work it would have to be the only one.

If you got gas,

and I got matches, oxygen, lighter fluid, Oil, and the fire extinguisher.

who's responsible for the fire? and who has the power to put it out?

 

[Matt504]

nikkas been rocking Gucci and Louis since the crack era. Rappers were trying to look like them.

Selling crack to Black people afforded them the luxury to buy Gucci and Louis, now all of the popular rappers are "ex drug dealers" or encouraging getting these items by any means necessary.

 

[Diondon]

Damn

 

[Art Barr]

They could of been rolling on racists but they want to go after other black people.

Chicago is the most segregated place in the world.
There are no white people where this is occurring.
It is all a plan, from red lining, Daley sr/jfk.

Art Barr

 

[Matt504]

for your analogy to work it would have to be the only one.

If you got gas,

and I got matches, oxygen, lighter fluid, Oil, and the fire extinguisher.

who's responsible for the fire? and who has the power to put it out?

If you contribute to the fire, YOU ARE COMPLICIT.

If a house is on fire and firemen are fighting it and you pour gasoline on the fire do you think you're not a part of the problem because "I didn't start the fire, the house was gonna burn down whether I poured the gasoline or not"?

That exact mindset is how the crack problem was able to spiral out of control, "I know it's fukked up but if I don't get this money selling crack, the next man will, besides, I'm not making them smoke it"

 

[Milk N Cookies]

Englewood...

 

[Mowgli]

To many cacs in this thread for proper dialogue

 

[Art Barr]

This will only change when the community itself takes charge. When Mexican drug gangsters started killing people in a certain town, the locals came together, formed a vigilante group and drove them out. This is what needs to happen.

Chicago is the most advanced urban landscape in the world.
You talembout shyt that was done era's ago and that is why we had gangs created in Chicago, to begin with.
So, your solution is outdated, breh.


Art Barr

 

[mcdivit85]

What is the solution?

Are we blaming the aftermath of poverty and hopelessness created by racism/white supremacy? Or are we going to fight the root cause, racism/white supremacy, which creates and fosters the culture of poverty and hopelessness, which leads to incidents like these?

Are you willing to join the groups of other black people who have created anti-violence groups in poor black neighborhoods? Are you willing to put your safety on the line @mamba ? Are you willing to put your time and money on the line?

Are we really blaming hip hop, which is an outbirth of said poverty and hopelessness created by racism/white supremacy, instead of focusing on the larger issue of poverty and hopelessness?

Why is this the "last straw"?

Peace

 

[Westcoastnative]

 

[Matt504]

What is the solution?

Are we blaming the aftermath of poverty and hopelessness created by racism/white supremacy? Or are we going to fight the root cause, racism/white supremacy, which creates and fosters the culture of poverty and hopelessness, which leads to incidents like these?

Are you willing to join the groups of other black people who have created anti-violence groups in poor black neighborhoods? Are you willing to put your safety on the line @mamba ? Are you willing to put your time and money on the line?

Are we really blaming hip hop, which is an outbirth of said poverty and hopelessness created by racism/white supremacy, instead of focusing on the larger issue of poverty and hopelessness?

Why is this the "last straw"?

Peace

You guys keep confusing pointing out a factor that contributes to negative lifestyle choices as putting the entire blame on music that glorifies the use of drugs and violence against Black people.

The music is not the root of the problem but it certainly plays a part.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

If you contribute to the fire, YOU ARE COMPLICIT.

If a house is on fire and firemen are fighting it and you pour gasoline on the fire do you think you're not a part of the problem because "I didn't start the fire, the house was gonna burn down whether I poured the gasoline or not"?

That exact mindset is how the crack problem was able to spiral out of control, "I know it's fukked up but if I don't get this money selling crack, the next man will, besides, I'm not making them smoke it"

Gas needs fire to burn. without fire gas is irrelevant.

And again you have no actual proof that rap is in fact "gas". its more analogous to someone standing next to the fire talking about it.

If you have to base your argument on simple minded analogies, then it was a weak argument in the first place.

 

[Matt504]

Gas needs fire to burn. without fire gas is irrelevant.

And again you have no actual proof that rap is in fact "gas". its more analogous to someone standing next to the fire talking about it.

If you have to base your argument on simple minded analogies, then it was a weak argument in the first place.

Rap that talks about what's going on is not the same thing as rap that glorifies and promotes the behaviors that exist.

rapper 1: this house is on fire, things are fukked up.

Rapper 2: the roof is on fire, we don't need no water, let that mother fukker burn.

There's a very clear distinction between the two

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

I don't know if it's been said yet, but it's pathetic how men sat and let punks take over these streets

RIP