06-23-2020, 01:27 PM
(06-23-2020, 01:16 PM)Dill Wrote: If there is an urban "thug culture," now quite unfairly labelled "black culture," then likely its roots are less in slavery than in the innumerable blocks to advancement that striving black families encountered for decades, even post WWII. Blocks which prevented them from getting loans and housing, and concentrated many in urban settings among "their own kind." Such blocks can not only induce cynicism towards about life goals easily in reach of whites, but lead to celebration of "tricksters" who live by cheating "the man." No surprise if, in an advanced capitalist society, a market of music and film opens which celebrate and reinforce this cynicism.
There were also reasons white people idolized bank robbers in the 1930's, but we moved past that.
I understand there are reasons for blacks to be impressed by the amounts of money made by selling crack or pimping whores. But they have to get over that also.
