The ridiculous violence in N.O.

Big_L said
My turn.

I am gonna call out my fellow brothas and sisters on this. As a community on whole, black people tend to glamorize violence and material things; $5k rims on $2500 cars, loud stereo in said vehicle, clothes, tennis shoes, stuff that depreciates over time. It seems to me that if you have some knowledge in school and can pronounce your words correctly you get called a sell out and white boy (even though I am real light), etc. As a community we have to change our view on education and want our children to have a better life, only then can we move past all this violence and destruction. New Orleans is a microcosim of the rest of the country. I am stuck here in Wichita for the next few weeks and it's the same here. It's the same in San Antonio and Houston. Its a state of mind and keeping the eye on a prize that really is attainable in a legit manner if the people simply educate themselves and get decent jobs.

I here ya on that one bro.

Be careful about lumping the entire "black community" together though.

There are lots of us, I'd even go as far to say the majority of us do not glamorize voilence and have a very high view of education.

But it is a large minority of a bad element in the black population. Just a guestimate, I'd say about 35%.

But those are the ones heard and seen most often, on the news, or in the streets causing mayhem.

When the other 65% of us either do nothing, move away and shut our eyes and close our ears to what is really going on out there.

At the end of the day, white people, the government, etc cant and wont do anything to fix our problems. We as a community are the only ones with the power to do so. Instead of marching for Travon we should be focusing our energy on the countless black bodies being stacked up at the hands of our own black people.

It's a sad situation, glad you spoke up tho.