What parents?
What music is played in the home? What music videos, video games, movies and television shows?
They are both working and when they get home they arent paying attention.
I would bet this kid had a lousy record for turning in his homework from school, That should have been their first tip-off. I would bet he stayed out late in the evenings, they were probably glad because he wasnt bothering them.
There is no way they didnt have some idea what was going on. thy didnt care enough to find out.
One of my best friends in black, we've discussed the "black culture" thing quite often. Alot of black parents aren't all that alarmed by the thug look/behavior, I think they don't know where the play acting ends and the real deal kicks in. Where I live there are alot of very wealthy black families, very well educated and their kids still look like they should be living in the ghetto. My friend does not allow her kids to speak or behave anything close to ghetto. Actually if you put her kids along side some the same age they'd look like geeks. I also don't understand how you could lose control of an 11 yr. old, where is the father? Lord have mercy, I'd jerk a knot in my kids tail so fast he wouldn't know what hit 'em.