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Your response shows a lot of thought and analysis of what you've encountered. And it's so true. So often, groups of young black males (and sometimes females) do exhibit those behaviors and attitudes. It's an image portrayed to them by their gangsta', media-inspired, profit-driven culture and enabled by leaders who only have power by perpetuating the negative culture. If they want to scream anything, it should be the old calls of real black leaders, for jobs, for opportunity, for real independence.

Do I fear large groups of young black men behaving in ways that frighten me? Yes. I have the same concerns with groups of white youth, hispanic youth, or any large group that could potentially threaten me. I cross the street to avoid any of them, just as I do if I encounter groups of drunk football fans after a Browns game. It's NOT about race....it's about their culture that tells them to act like gangstas in groups.

I don't feel that way when I come into contact with one or a few well-behaved minoriites that are responsible and reasonable, of course not.

The changes they should be demanding have to be to return jobs and personal responsibility to black youth. That and say NO MORE to a culture that exploits them and benefits from their bad behavior. Listen to the media and their political and cultural icons today....they're practically begging them to protest.

Their culture is one of willful destruction. If you play it out to some logical conclusion, the end of it all isn't positive no matter how you factor it.... at least not if you leave them on their current trajectory and don't factor in any positive external influences. For the record, they WILLFULLY REJECT most attempts at positive influences...with prejudice! But they don't see it this way. They're offended that they aren't given what they demand, and they really do believe that they are owed something. But they've been lied to and they've taken the bait... hook, line, and sinker.

But back to trajectory and some logical conclusion. What do most people suppose society would look like should a bunch of gang-bangers ascend to power? Well... for starters, I think we get a pretty good look at this through our current national leadership. The Marxists and socialists of 20 years ago have cleaned up a little and put on suits... learned to hone their message just a bit so it didn't sound so obviously destructive, and then fooled enough people to vote for them. The result is what we're witnessing in America now....a willful and self destructive leadership.

Should the culture we're discussing now come to power and have their day, it would only be a version of what we're all seeing now with our current leadership, except to a greater magnitude. ...Corruption, gun running, denial of rights, large-scale espionage on the citizenry, the attempted disarming of a public which might resist, sympathy with those nations which hate us, antisemitism, the planned and systematic destruction of something which is undeniably "good" which could have only come from a God who has mercy and wants good things for those who pursue Him.

The logical conclusion isn't good... no matter how you slice it. It's not good with our current power brokers... it's not good if these miscreants we're discussing now were to ever get into power. Then again, it's not supposed to be. :-)