Posted on 02/24/2015 2:11:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Oh yes, the “gun culture” is to blame for all the black deaths in America.
Get real!
Then Will Smith is comfortable misleading his sons.
What an illiterate, idiotic distinction to make.
*yawn* Another Hollywood celebrity opining on gun culture.
“You know, I grew up in Philadelphia,...”
In West Philadelphia, born and raised. On the playground is where he spent most of his days.
The problem is not 'America's overall obsession with gun culture".
The problem is violent crime in the black community. Violence that is glamorized by million dollar moguls in the rap music industry. Rap 'stars' boasting (sometimes fraudulently) about the number of times they 'got shot' and 'have been locked up'.
Something FAR MORE AKIN to a Mold Culture...is responsible for many of the “black” deaths on America
That Mold is personified by the debris that its’ creators” refer to as “rap” “music”!
“It’s been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful,” he told Esquire. “You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were ‘them’ and we were ‘us.’ ”
The city is worse now, not due to cops but ____ ____.
Both Rap and HipHop are part of the issue.
The main issue is .. no father in the home. If there is a man in the house, then the kid is being beat and/or sent to the store to get booze and/or drugs.
THAT IS NOT AMERICA’S FAULT.
Will Smith may be filthy rich but he ain’t too bright.
Here he is in France getting an eye opening lesson about confiscatory tax rates he pretends to advocate for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TwwEGjoRMo
Will Smith Stunned At France’s 75% Tax Rate
Will Smith: I have no issue with paying taxes and whatever needs to be done for my country to grow. I believe very firmly that my ability to sit here—I’m a black man who didn’t go to college, yet I get to travel around the world and sell my movies, and I believe very firmly that America is the only place on Earth that I could exist. So I will pay anything that I need to pay to keep my country growing. . . .
Interviewer: [Under the new French President Hollande’s proposal] Do you know how much tax you have to pay for incomes of one million Euros and above?
Will Smith: Not 30%.
Interviewer: 75%.
Will Smith: 75?! Yeah, that’s different, that’s different. Yeah, 75. Well, you know, God bless America.
Mrs. 2ndDivisionVet attended Archbishop Ryan High School.
If there was systemic racism in America, he would not have become a top box-office star. Who's holding you back???
To be fair to Will Smith, his rap songs at least didn’t glorify violence, drugs, or the gang culture. He got out of music before that became the norm.
Remember when he was given the cricket gun???
Oh yes - that is why rural, redneck, outdoors America is so beset with murders!!
After all, they undoubtedly have more guns per capita than any other segment of society.
> *yawn* Another Hollywood celebrity opining on gun culture.
After Liam Neeson went on a rant about how bad guns were I tried to countbthe number of times he used / fired one in Taken 3. After 50, I just gave up...
The “fault” is easy to see - two hundred years of Democrats.
“Gets candid”
Is that thug-speak for “flaps his gums?”
I think I’ll wait until someone with an original thought speaks before reading further.
Raps genesis...is From the Broken Family...glorifying the inappropriate coping habits of broken youth. Kids grow up immersed in rap propaganda.
that whole “music” scene..was funded by dope profits
Absent Fathers...and Inappropriate male ‘role models” ..yep.
the “music” has infected the morals of the entire nation regardless of race or economics
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