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d21lewis on 22 July 2016
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Goatseye said:
d21lewis said:

Saw that a billion times. That was cold blooded murder. No excuse  for what that cop did. You do not shoot a fleeing suspect unless they are about to cause immediate harm to a third party. Another example of a piece of shit officer that never should have had a badge.

*Edit* and no. It's not the new video game. It's the old video game. It's so deeply embedded in our culture that it doesn't even raise an eyebrow, now. Pair our music with our image (world star!!) and the media's perception of us and there you have it. We need to do something different.

I was a young man when NWA and gangsta rap first became a thing. I loved it then, even when politicians and groups were condemning them and running over CDs with a steam roller. I stood behind their rights to express themselves. Now, I see that expression had a cost.

You know what had a cost? 

The abandonment of inner city youth education system. The continous discrimination of financial access for the Black community even after 1977 Community Reinvestment Act. And everything else that was purposefully done to keep the rift between communities in the US.

Black community is not a saint, no one says that. However, after the independence of blacks in 1960's, what did the next generation inherit of their predecessors in terms of education (couldn't attend higher education systems) or property? Nothing, but anger and frustration. Black community was no better than America after independence or African countries after independence. A newly emancipated community like that needed guidance and support to strive but they were swept under the rug with constant gentrifications of their neighborhoods, in moves to "cleanse" cities and a country that's not for them.

It was the same thing with countries in Eastern Europe after the Iron Curtain fell. Instead of investing more in education for the poor, US went the easy route to solve its problem. Whenever you amass poor people in limited resource area, what do you get? Hunger Games my friend.

It's not just your Hip Hop theory my friend, the situation we're in today is decades of mess under the rug rolling out in plain view.

So we're in agreement?