I really want to know what the hell is a "hood" dude. These coded words are fukking insulting. Say what the duck you mean and stop generalizing a whole group of people. A lot of educated successful and/or influential people started out in the hood.
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This is why I don't like certain self-proclaimed "black nerds". They are just as ignorant as the "hood" people they want to shyt on. fukk outta here with that classist, Willie Lynch shyt.
Exactly, I had to redact my cosign because I realized that I'm a hood chick who also went to boarding school with other hood people.
We excelled academically, BUT we also had social skills and knew how to talk to people and navigate through the hood AND the prep school.
We didn't call ourselves nerds. We just went hard in the paint. My former classmates (ALL from the hood) are now attorneys, physicians, PhD scientists, etc., and NOT ONE of them engages in put downs or insults.
One of my friends who's a physician (and millionaire) came from a very very rough hood and is trill AF. He's brilliant at what he does, but if you catch him off the clock, he's off the chain... I got another friend that's a big time executive, but babaaaay when she's off the clock, she fits right back in with her hood azz family. Being hood is not equal to being destructive.
Some of the people from my old hood maybe didn't go to college, but they're damn good people.
They've got good jobs, they're taking care of their families and are doing well in life. Some of them maybe got in trouble younger, some didn't, but it's all worked out.
I can STILL go back to my hood and get mad love and daps because I've always just been ME. I had no identity crisis. Black people are INTELLIGENT. I don't know why this is even questioned.
I don't need a person to have been to MIT to see their intelligence. One of the smartest and most well read men I know works in construction.
There's no one way to qualify intelligence or capability. I know couples where the non-college educated spouse is a millionaire (by owning their own business) and the Ivy League PhD spouse makes only 6 figures.
Character and lack thereof comes to play in abuse. Anyone can be a demonic a$$hole.
And I'm guessing the insecure weirdo who has to wear his credentials on his sleeve to feel validated is going to be more so than the "hood" dude who loves himself and his life and works a blue collar job.
I know of highly educated wealthy men who have beaten women to within an inch of their lives.
The psycho possibility can exist in any man and some men hide it very well. Some men actually hunt women down JUST to break them. It's some sickos out chea and everyone is suspect as far as I'm concerned.