Comparable to complaints about violent video games, my belief is that it's the society that drives the entertainment, not the other way around. What turns someone into a criminal is something else, not the games they play.
When I was a kid, we played with toy guns. But the play was about saving civilization from savage Indians, or the Nazis or something like that. We used our toys to defend our homes and our families. We were Good Guys fighting Bad Guys.
I’m not sure the kids in the photo think in a similar fashion. I think they be scoring benjamins and hos.
This isn’t a problem with toys. This is a problem with culture. Black culture in America is tolerant of misogyny, racism, and violence. I feel absolutely no misgivings saying this, as it plays out on the streets of many American cities daily. Just because the American media refuses to cover the incidents doesn’t mean they aren’t happening.
Might as well just say it: It’s what most blacks in America aspire to; to be criminal thugs, or NBA players, or more commonly…both. That video is the perfect picture of the real cause of black poverty and failure. It’s the culture they embrace. Might as well say the other part then, too: If they want to be successful in life they will have to adopt all of the behaviors that they falsely label “acting white” (otherwise known as being a civilized responsible adult).
“Blackness” (not skin tone nor ethnicity, but glorified thuggish behavior) leads to nothing but degradation, poverty, and death.
Got to tell those Brits it’s spelled and pronounced”gangsta.”
Agree with what you said but playing with a guns at an NBA themed party for kid’s is like having an all girls bible study and they all show up dressed as prostitutes.
I don’t watch the NBA anymore... use to love the Celtics / LA rivalry with Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Now it’s overpaid whiney azz POS scum... like a lot of sports.
” I must admit to playing “guns” as a kid using similar realistic toys.”
Don’t “admit to it”. Nothing to be ashamed of. Search for “cap guns” on Amazon.
No, this isn’t the same as kids playing soldier, this is hood rat 101.
The way that kid is waving around fake money and waving the gun is like he is committing robbery...And the parents (or adults) are loving it...
Wonder how they will love that kid lying in the street shot to death at 17 years old?????
My concern is with the deviously cute one on the lower right, in the Bill Cosby sweater. He’s looking to drop some methaqualone in little Tashiqua’s Kool-aid, I just know it!