Gangsta Culture To Blame For Gun-Crime

[Jon Miller]

I want to agree with Stew somewhat (for the US at least)

not everything he said, but that Culture effects the youth, and that blacks (in the US at least) have different cultural heroes than whites

I mean whites are bombarded from the media with many role models (from Albert Einstien to Babe Ruth) in a variety of areas while african americans seem to only be bombarded with musicians and sports people (And in reality, few can be those thigns)

the solution I think is for the media to be responsible and show african americans in other fields (like Prof Gates who is big in physics at Maryland) achieving

Jon Miller

[Sava]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but in relation to Jon's post, I'd have to say that I don't look at someone's ethnicity when I consider their status as a role model. I'm of Serbian ethnicity, and white, but don't restrict my role models to those factors. I think it's important to teach young people that a role model doesn't have to be someone of the same ethnicity or color or sex as you.

[Jon Miller]

I don't either (but maybe I have had it ingrained in me since I was young and would think differently if I was african american)

but I am just concerned that this is a problem

Jon Miller

[Graag]

Well said Sava

[chequita guevara]

Of course, England was so peaceful before rap music came along.

[Dauphin]

Elevensies and afternoon tea.

England was all cucumber sandwiches and Earl Grey tea on the croquet lawn before the arrival of rap.

[MosesPresley]

The reason kids get into drug running has nothing to do with gangsta culture. It has everything to do with easy money.

I think the rise in gun crime is directly related to the War on Drugs. The drug prohibition has generated huge revenues for gangs to wage their turf wars in order to protect their consumer base and distribution networks. e.g. In Baltimore, USA recently, a woman filed a complaint against neighborhood drug selling gangsters. The police responded by arresting some people. The gangs retaliated by killing the woman and burning her house down. This collateral damage from the drug war is causing untold amounts of damage to our communities.

[orange]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Most of the Greek women are beautiful silly Orange.

I know, and I can't wait to meet 'em this summer!

And unlike you Ive been out to a dozen other countries

Believe me, in all sincerity, I am truly envious

[reds4ever]

the politicians who spout on this crap are just after column inches, the US had the same thing in the mid 90's with NWA, deathrow records etc..that reaction is now looked on as being completely over the top by most sensible people (ie civilization and society didn't crumble because some guy was grabbing his crotch and saying '**** tha police')

i can't believe anyone who isn't either over 50, or has a political outlook somewhere to the right of Mussolini, can do anything but laugh at this bandwagon-jumping sensationalism

[orange]

they did a great job of highlighting that in Jay and Silent Bob

[Shi Huangdi]

Actually, sociologically speaking, Boddingtons isn't completely speaking out of his arse. Using professional sociological terms, minority does not refer to a group that comprises a numerical minority of the population, but one of the groups that does not hold the most power in society.

[reds4ever]

...and white males DON'T hold the most power in the UK? ;O)

[Shi Huangdi]

Well, it seems Spink is making the argument that minorities hold more power because the fear of being branded a racist forces the powerful classes to represent the interests of numerical minorities above the interests of the population in the numerical majority.

[reds4ever]

i understood what he was saying, it's an opinion thats quite popular in the right wing gutterpress (richard littlejohn springs to mind), i just think it's an easy cop out to use it to explain everything from the rise in income tax to the increase in teenage pregnancies!

[MosesPresley]

In Wilmington, DE, there is a shooting about once or twice a week over who controls the drug turf. There was a child accidentally killed in a barber shop shooting last year. This shooting was directly related to gangs protecting and enforcing their drug territory. Almost all of the recent shootings have been due to the drug war; the official drug war and the gangsters perpetrating their own drug war for control of the drug trade.