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Actually, inner city hood rat culture espoused by many Blacks living in those areas is destructive. There are alot more Blacks getting education, not doing drugs, actually bettering themselves, or are carrying on their parents legacies of doing well for themselves than their are hood rats. The hood rat culture is glamorized in pop culture, therefore, upheld as the "true Black culture". That is a subculture of the Black population.
And by the way, there are Black people calling out hood rat culture. Alot of Black people who call it out are either ignored or ridiculed. This leads many Black people who have left the ghetto behind to say "what's the use? No one listens". People have been calling it out for years. Hood rat types don't care. Some of those persons only understand violence.
Black "hoodrat" culture is actually called out all the time by other blacks...but its done in a way that is often seen as comedy. And it's not called out to please whites, it's called out our own way. And we need to be clear that people often act like black deviants are different than any other race's deviants. Nope most of those negative traits are exactly the same across racial lines. The difference is black deviants are made to be the face of black people and black deviants always go to prison. Many whites want blacks to like give a powerpoint presentation condemning our blackness. Notice how whites never call out their own criminals, junkies, and deviants. They'll dismiss them. But not call them out as bad. The immediate usage of "mentally ill" as a way to dismiss them. Whites go through an opioid crisis, they don't call them out, they enable them and start decriminalizing drugs. That type of stuff.
I am black and I live and work in inner city Pittsburgh. What in the hell is Black "hoodrat" culture?
The neighborhoods ruled by gangs selling drugs and using guns. I see it all the time in Kansas City. I also see black neighborhoods that don't have that culture.
Can we stop trying to compare people that arrived in America not in shackles to blacks? Jews received reparations. Jews had a place, America, that they could go to and be away from their oppessors. Jews and Italians came to the US and joined whiteness. And if you want to bring up Italians, they were and still are the face of organized CRIME. But they were accepted into whiteness for the sake of numbers. People look at those Italian gangsters and mobsters like they were cool. Not like thugs. Many Europeans came to the U.S. after 1900, got on welfare, and became what we know now as the middle class. They told their kids and grandkids that they worked hard and bootstrapped, but really they were on welfare, got affordable loans for housing or land, and benefitted from many government socialist programs. All this stuff magically became bad once more blacks were allowed to benefit from it. And when blacks got on welfare, notice how all of a sudden they started requiring that no black men can live in a family household with black women.
I know that none of this matter to many of you because, with blacks you like to start history at 1970. Fine. But you're not going to play the "look at the Jews game". When you post just state that you're not looking at the full context of black American history. You're looking at snapshot just to attempt to make your argument look somewhat not bad.
Also...like I said before...when talking about crime yall say there's a black culture...when talking about cultural appropriation..."we all share culture...blacks don't have a culture...there's just American culture".
Will note on this that both Jews and Italians were/are white....
It is like they cannot understand the fact that my black grandparents were more than likely better educated than their white Jew or Italian ones and mine spoke better English but could not get a job that befit their education or live where they wanted to live because they were black. Generational economic deprivation based solely on skin color really did occur and is the reason for social isolation and poverty in urban areas.
The ones you are responding to are just people stuck on stupid lol. They are pretty ridiculous in regards to their Jew and Italian comparisons in that regard. Neither of them have the recent history that blacks have faced in this country.
In regards to the bold, I agree with you in part but IMO they think we are stuck in the 1970s/1980s and that we all primarily live in the hood and are crackheads lol.
Will note we do have a subculture in America but crime is not a part of it and that you are correct we are predominantly culturally American and unfortunately violence in particular is a part of American culture. So is racism, which is why the posts here never surprise me. Many of these posters have a very intense drive and desire to feel they are better than someone, probably have nothing in their lives and lack self knowledge and self worth so their only claim to fame is that they are not black. I'm glad they're not and wish more blacks who are like them would go Uncle Ruckus like and join them lol.
Black "hoodrat" culture is actually called out all the time by other blacks...but its done in a way that is often seen as comedy. And it's not called out to please whites, it's called out our own way. And we need to be clear that people often act like black deviants are different than any other race's deviants. Nope most of those negative traits are exactly the same across racial lines. The difference is black deviants are made to be the face of black people and black deviants always go to prison. Many whites want blacks to like give a powerpoint presentation condemning our blackness. Notice how whites never call out their own criminals, junkies, and deviants. They'll dismiss them. But not call them out as bad. The immediate usage of "mentally ill" as a way to dismiss them. Whites go through an opioid crisis, they don't call them out, they enable them and start decriminalizing drugs. That type of stuff.
Hood rat culture does get called out. Chris Rock made fun of hood rats. You find deviants in every race. I really can't see much of a difference (other than crime rates) between Black criminals and criminals of other races. Criminals are criminals.
I do feel that some people aren't looking for Blacks to call out hood rats. I think it's more about "we want to hear Blacks be ashamed of themselves". I know there are issues with criminal in alot of Black communities. Granted, I live in a predominantly White suburb. Out here I see some deviance. Meth is big where I live. I do agree that the hood rat/criminal is held up as the face of the Black population.
The neighborhoods ruled by gangs selling drugs and using guns. I see it all the time in Kansas City. I also see black neighborhoods that don't have that culture.
Crime does not equal "hoodrat" and not only blacks live in neighborhoods that have gangs and people selling drugs.
In regards to drugs, they are sold everywhere.
Gangs also are not like they used to be and are very fractured and not organized in regards to street gangs. They do not "rule" neighborhoods, they just live in those neighborhoods.
Reminds me of one of Jay-Z's new songs where he mentioned people killing each other over neighborhood's their mother's are renting.
The neighborhoods ruled by gangs selling drugs and using guns. I see it all the time in Kansas City. I also see black neighborhoods that don't have that culture.
And places like that do exist. Olympia Fields of Chicago is a good example of this. Black neighborhood that is affluent and a good place to live. It doesn't get as much attention as Black neighborhoods with severe crime issues. Squeaky wheels get the grease.
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