[photodawg]

Until black cultural "leaders" address this culture of guns and rap, this is going to go on. Way too many black teens and early twenties types today dress like thugs, talk like thugs, and move like thugs, until they become...thuglike.
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I'm sorry, truly sorry, for this individual and his family. Unfortunately, the rappers are the Black "cultural leaders". The real responsibility here rests with the individual and the family. That's true in the Black community, if there is such a thing, as in all communities. The "village" especially the "ghetto village" will not raise the child. That philosophy works for gangsta's and wolf packs.

[Riverman94610]

The whole concept of a physical"black community"is going the way of the dinosaur in many parts of the country.
Examples-East Oakland is becoming more and more Latino.West Oakland more and more white and Latino.Watts has been majority Latino for over ten years.The Fillmore in San Francisco has many white gays and yuppies and fewer and fewer blacks every year.Even Hunters Point is becoming more Asian in the past decade.
Also,many blacks are dispersing out into the suburbs.Places like Concord,Antioch,Hercules and even ritzy areas like San Ramon have fair sprinklings of black residents now.Thirty years ago those towns were almost all white.
The"ghetto across the tracks"is becoming a rarity at least here in the West.