"Of course, movies and songs don't make people kill people, but they can influence the way people think and live.
But ultimately, if we want to see fewer black athletes as victims of violence, African-Americans must stop worshiping at the altar of their own demise."
Well maybe black people should smarten up and stop sending that message to themselves. Are you listening Jesse? Al?
Let's start with dropping the African part. These are Americans killing each other.
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Darwin at work...
Very good article. A huge part of the problem in the black community is black culture. It glorifies violence while de-emphasizing the importance of education. Many in America are too PC to talk about it but black culture must be radically overhauled if blacks are to ever do well in the US. At this point it is much more of a barrier to success than the legacy of slavery or segregation.
The poverty pimp black leaders (Jesse, Al, et al) are too busy blaming and shaking down whitey to try to fix their real problems.
Well, since almost three-fourths of NFL players are black, the odds are in their favor.
You can thank the NEA and 60 years of Democrat destruction of the Black Family.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I caught the second half of Episode 5 The Smith Brothers the other night. It was interesting.
Either they grew up without fathers, or had fathers that were bad fathers. The street raises fatherless kids.
Jealously & greed, plain and simple. I've seen Packers players get into scuffles at the bars here from other blacks.
Let's see if the poverty pimps attack Mr Hill like they did Bill Cosby.
"This isn't to say black people invented violence or have a penchant for it."
Coulda fooled me.
Take any crime statistic -- murder, robbery, rape, # of arrests, # of prisoners -- and subtract the minority contribution to those statistics, and we're no worse than any other country.
There are more blacks in prison than in college. Three-fourths of all prisoners are minorities. I'm getting tired of this generalized "America" bashing.
I thought maybe Rush Limbaugh wrote this before ESPN fired him for Talking politics on a Sportschannel
There are consequences for stupidity.
Pretending to be some bad-assed gangbanger will probably get you killed.
Why don't these jackasses just play football?
Of course, movies and songs don't make people kill people, but they can influence the way people think and live.
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Art imitates life. The music, movies, posters, books and magazines glorifying the "hip hop" lifestyle are describing an aspect of life that exists independent of that description. This is fact, not fantasy. if we want to see fewer black athletes as victims of violence, the victims and perpetrators must make decisions that will result in different outcomes. To accomplish this, all people must worship at the alter of their Lord and Savior, not at the alter of the Almighty dollar.
More sadly the role model for the average black youth is the hip-hop gangsta look, walk, personna.... and the sports paraphernalia of their 'gangsta hero sports star'.
How about some other role images to aspire to.... step up black leaders.
"Of course, movies and songs don't make people kill people, but they can influence the way people think and live. But ultimately, if we want to see fewer black athletes as victims of violence, African-Americans must stop worshiping at the altar of their own demise."
I agree, too much blame is being put on the movies and popular culture for this problem. Pop culture has glorified the Mafia through it's movies and TV shows, yet everyday people of Italian descent are no more prone to violence than any other ethnic group.