the thug culture is a problem for sure, and the "lets get faded" thing too

that sort of media makes it seem okay to fuck your life up

even desirable to make you seem cool

for people who don't have a very active pre frontal cortex then ya it fucks your shit up

I know when I'm at the gym listening to rap and lifting weights I'm thinking about knocking people out

but it stays in the gym

there is also the crime aspect to it. it started in the 90s with rappers talking about how they want to get out of the streets, and it slowly became a status symbol of how tough you are. The state put black people on wellfare, and black people finished the job with their ignorant "culture"

they live in a different world with different rules

it's exactly the value system that is the problem

yeah

african americans have a lot of potential to succeed

but in Canada we have a similar problem with Native americans, and all we do is throw money at them, and it does nothing

I know people who are 1/16 native and have gotten 20k from it, and they go on vacation with it

Welfare doesn't work

whats messed up is that their "culture" doesn't value being smart and hardworking.

well it does but not in the right way

they shit on eachother for "acting smart"

they talk about hustling

and always trying to get rich

via the least efficient ways possible

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not easy to rap about banking

right on cue

If welfare or shitty culture were the problem, you would see this happening more often in poor communities

see what happening

mass shootings

those poor communities are too poor to afford guns

that's not the only form of gun violence that people are talking about, if the metrics were only school shootings you'd see no marches

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nvm

you guys are talking about something different

contrabants specified two areas of gun violence earlier, we sort of segued into the urban element

What i find really dishonest though, is that people in the media and even on youtube were saying that there were already 19 school shootings this year, but didnt specify any further, so it made it seem like they were all mass shootings.

@Fulcrum010 http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-brazil-military-police-20180227-htmlstory.html

US is not unique in having an issue with a violent male population

has canada had any mass shootings?

I know of one

it's not like people can't do it

my buddy has a whole arsenal of weapons

@obrallaghan
I really don't get your point rn

"If welfare or shitty culture were the problem, you would see this happening more often in poor communities"