TALK TO ME!!!!!!!!!
WHATS UP LIFERS? I WAS PLAYING XBOX LIVE THE OTHER NIGHT WITH SOME OF MY HOMIES IN RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA. THEY STARTED TALKING ABOUT HOW SOMEBODY GOT SHOT, HOW BAD IT IS IN THIER CITY, ECT… AT FIRST I WASN’T REALLY PAYING ATTENTION BUT THEN THEY WENT ON TO SAY THAT ITS NOT ABOUT COLORS IT’S JUST HOODS THAT DON’T LIKE EACH OTHER WOW!!!!!!! THE LIL HOMIE IS 20 YEARS OLD SO ANOTHER THING HE SAID THAT BLEW ME AWAY WAS THAT HE THINKS ABOUT EVERYDAY AND ASKS HIS SELF ARE WE EVEN GONNA GET OLD CAUSE NOBODY HE KNOWS IS MAKING IT PAST 25 OR 26 DAMN!!!!!!! THEY WENT ON TO SAY IT’S ALL BECAUSE ITS NOTHING TO DO OUT THERE BUT RUN AROUND IN THE STREETS AND BEEF. SO THAT BROUGHT ME TO THIS QUESTION DO YOU THINK THAT CRIME AND SHOOTINGS ARE HAPPENING MORE BECAUSE THE YOUNGER GENERATION HAVE NOTHING TO DO IN THIER COMMUNITY? I.E. THEME PARKS, MUSEUMS, BETTER JOBS, ECT
TALK TO ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Really the only reason people are shooting up people is because there is a lack of things to do in their community???thats a load of bull. Go help a local homeless shelter, read a book, do something positive not STUPID. I think thats a lame excuse and we as people can do better. We are supposed to be leaders not followers. We can’t lead if we are the ones being lead. This younger generation is our way to bettering the world we have now if not its only going to get worse. We should not have to sit and worry whether we are going to survive the day because such and such has beef with me or always worry will I be that innocent bystander who gets shot by a drive-by. If you have to go kill someone because you disagree with them or they are from the wrong side of town, maybe they even direpected you in the worst way then you must not be right with yourself. God said forgive someone hurts you turn the other cheek because when it all boils down to it we as individuals are going to be judged by God not the person on the wrong side of town. @mezzo92
Yes sir this is exactly right I know in Huntsville during the summer the crime rate elevates alot due to the kids being out of school and nothin takin up there time something as easy as giving a child something to do can save so many lives
I AM A YOUNG LIFER, and there aint much to do that dont put a hole in our pockets with the recession we in. anything that dont really cost money gets you into trouble. I BLAME IT ON THE ECONOMY
It’s as simple as this when ppl don’t “have” they don’t want you to “have”….So if these poor communities had other options then alot of this crime and poor education would not be at the level that it is…..Think about it, ppl who live in the suburbs don’t steal from each other because they both “have”..
JD your not stealing or trying to commit a crime against B Cox because you both “have”.
I Grew up in Inglewood,CA………. In the 80′s and 90′s…….. That speaks for its self…….. I’m 25 now. Things weren’t any better then from now in the Hood. I went to college, and do very well for myself…. I no longer live in the hood either…… Its a few just like me. And the rest are dead or still in Jail……..
If you don’t have anything to look forward to most will not try. If your parents aren’t involved, if your not interested in reading, if your not comfortable communicating, if your not socially active with people who want more; How will kids grow up to be successful………. Role models are so needed. Parents, Teachers, Business owners, celebrities, or just simple dreamers……… TV and video games are cool. But we cant rely on them to teach are youth…….. I was taught to be good at all I did. Sports, speaking, music, writing and to strive to be better than my peers……
Peace and God bless,
-Charm
JD,
There are always better things to do than kill each other. What has happened are that many of those of us in our 20′s were abandoned by our parents. Our parents were either out to get us everything they never had which created latchkey kids like myself. Or parents were strung out on crack. The affects of the crack generation of the late 70′s and 80′s is still affecting our community.
I listen to Michael Baisden on my way home from work and he was talking about this on Tuesday. Parents abandoned those below age 30. Sitting down and having dinner with your kids and finding out how their day was, setting goals, checking in to see who your kids friends are. I was lucky to have a great family around me but many were not.
Our previous generation of parents slacked up too much and now we have slid back and it will take another generatin to make up for their lack of effort.
@princessashleyj
thats what happen to me my dad moved to maryland when i was 14 i still didnt c the difference but it was a little better not to much caused we moved to pg
yes thats the problem we are bless to live in places like miami atl and others etc maybe we can fund some fun things in those cities that are lacking maybe low cost things like block parties etc like when i was growing up in miami i saw many people that are celeb now in the park or just in the hood making the best out of what we have each one reach one
Saying that there’s NOTHING to do but…is just a convenient,lazy, half-handed EXCUSE for people that don’t have the motivation to want to try to do better!
I grew up in an area where there was “NOTHING TO DO BUT…” too, or so I thought, yet somehow I managed to find some more productive things to do with my time to better myself & my situation. If these young kats would try to take the initiative to actively seek out positive things that they can do, I’m quite sure they would find them. It is more likely that there are things in their community’s for them to do, but I bet that they are things that these kids consider CORNY or LAME & they just don’t want to do them because they’ll lose cool points wit their boyz *smdh*.
My mother always taught me that whatever I want, I have to go get for myself because it’s not just gonna be handed to me on a silver platter.Maybe that is part of the problem; There are far to many absentee parents these days. They find no problem with not giving their kids enough positive attention because they are too busy, too tired, too overworked, or just plain old DON’T CARE. & Charm is right, other people that can potentially be mentors to these kids are likewise too busy, too tired, too overworked, or just plain old don’t care to…but they’re not really obligated to do that anyway, now are they???
@nico 90′s baby 1990 all day Yeah thats where I live now in PG but where I’am now it’s very quite calm at first when we first moved to maryland we lived in landover that was crazy and then we moved out to crofton and then upper marlboro area and I have been living in this area ever since. Very nice and calm but things happen ever where so there is no escaping it but nah PG not too much better in some places
It is true to state that youngsters are running the streets because there is nothing to do in their communities but I do not think that it is the lack of infrastructure that makes them turn to violence. In the past whenever there are economic downturns people become more frustrated and hence tend to act out these feelings on each other because it is more localized. They really cannot get to the root of the problem i.e. Government overspending and so forth so they go out on the street and hence have “beef” with their fellow compatriates.
It also depends on the ethinicity of the individual and how they were raised if they are raised to seek hand outs as oppose to working for them, yes they are going to behave irrationally if hand outs are not forth coming. I think it is at this time that parents should play a pivitol role in the lives of their children because when society fails us as individuals we usually look to institutions such as the church or the family to help us cope. If these youngsters are not grounded and rooted in spirituality and their home life is shattered they will have no where to turn but to the streets.
In this free market econony it is essentially the interest of a particular set of people who benefit, the man at the bottom is suffering and really hard too. The only socially mobile tool is that of education and even that is becoming more of a challenge with financial aid problems and these big banks giving these students’ loans at ridiculous interest rates and they are not even guaranteed a job. Its funny that this topic came up because in our reading for class this week it spoke of the idea of getting into higher education to “better yourself” but essentially when you get out you are fighting for that “good job” and essentially end up taking a low paying job just to get by. With things like this people do get frustrated and if you are not grounded you may fall into the trap of slinging guns on the street.
I’m from northern cali and very familiar with Richmond, CA. Richmond has always been known to have the worst crime rates. From what the young brother says is true, but this has been going on for years, since my parents grew up in the bay in the late 70s. It is a revolving cycle and all I can say to those who are motivated to do something with their lives…stay positive…go to college…aspire to be great. Stay off the streets if you can!
WHATS GOOD JD THE NAMES JIZZY AND IM FROM AIKEN, SC JUST TO GET TO THE POINT I BEEN SPITTING IN MY AREA FOR A GOOD 6YEARS NOW AND I JUST TURNED 19 IM NOT GETTING HEARD BECAUSE I DONT HAVE THE MONEY TO PUT MYSELF OUT THERE I LIVE WITH A STRUGGLING MOM AND 6 SIBLINGS MY BROTHER IS 16 WITH 2 KIDS AND MY SISTER IS 15 WITH ONE IM THE BEST AND I KNOW IT AND MY CITY KNOW IT IM READY PLEASE CAN YOU HEAR ME THIS IS A BUSINESS AND I KNOW IT AND YES YOUR RICH BUT I SWEAR GIVE ME 3 MONTHS AND I CAN BE YOUR BIGGIE JUST HEAR ME OUT PLEASE MY NUMBER IS 1(803) 641-6574 IM ABOUT MY WORD AND LIKE THEY SAY YOUR WORD IS YOUR BOND
@TONGADUDE you said it all
oooo now we talkin my area. and LIFERS THAT ISNT FROM THE BAY. thats real talk. thats why most folks out here rep area codes. its crazy tho. oakland, hayward, richmond vallejo fairfield san jose, any of those cities in between in minus frisco u goin down (my bad hunters point will kill or jump damn near anyone who visiting damn near) (hunters point is south frisco) and let me change what i said early. area codes cant really be mentioned anymore. now its about north bay which is santa rosa area, south bay san jose area, bay bay is oakland frisco hayward richmond pinole and east bay which is vallejo to vacaville.
tuesday night someone died right off highway 80 because he was reppin fairfield and in a town called crockett. its crazy. and on REAL TALK level. JD AND EVERYONE WHO DOESNT KNOW. thats the real hyphy lifestyle. see the media mixed that word around with dumb and retarded. (which is actually club hit dancing ghost riding stunting having fun and whatnot) hyphy is always strapped hustlin fighting all that. so when someone out here is saying hyphy. something is gonna go down. its no joke out here. just like la, when u walk down 1 street u in the wood and a maybe what 10-15 blocks down ur in compton. well its the same way here minus no beef with colors clothes but where u from.
its really sad its like that. when i was younger i dont think i ever gone a week without see folks get shot, jumped and beat down just because they from a city thats 2 miles down.
now the reason i think its hard to survive at a young age. the most schools out here dont care. teachers dont keep there students in the books, making it kids fail drop out and have to fun the streets. parents out here do worry and care but theres only so much u can do, when u comes to keeping a real job and that good example up. slangin is the main thing kids be seeing and whats to copy that hyphy lifestyle.
i mean back in the day (for me 5 years ago) street racing was a good event to go to. party before the race, race and then party after the race, now a days u gotta be packin heat or u may not leave on ur own power that night.
and @Ravin trust me it isnt all the young people thats making shit go off. its alot of the ol gs out there too.
richmond folks i give it to them, for the ones doing good out there and knows how to survive thats whats up, but its hard. everything in the bay is random. dont get me wrong i love my home, but shit is real crazy out here.
oh sorry for not spell checkin lol i know yall lifers on twitter is gonna bust me out on that. so im ready for yall lol
i forgot to add. for as big as the bay area is. everyone know someone that knows everyone. sometimes u dont have to rep a city but by the way ur street talk or just speech in general can come out folks will know where ur from. when people out here call out yeee. u will be able to tell where they are from by the way they say. i just had to add that in
@Daniel Richerson
we have all that. the theme parks museums, we have high paying jobs, the lack of parenting i cant even diss because parents get caught up in random stuff that doesnt even affect them. i wanna blame our majors and governor. they taking our parks and events away.
@Casarae since u grew up here u know how much change has been going on for the worst.
remember the bart cop that killed dude. since then folks been killin cops like nothing. and i duno if u heard but one dude killed like 4 cops and damn near all of oakland was praising him. that was what early last year
OH YEAH MY LAST STRAIGHT RANT. WHY DONT U THINK VEGAS MAY NEVER HAVE ANOTHER ALL-STAR WEEKEND. (bay area folks startin reppin and shit started happenin)
That’s how it is in CHICAGO AND THEY DON’T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO….. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU ACTUALLY SEEN KIDS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 OUTSIDE JUST PLAYING ? Now OF DAYS THEY JUST STAY IN THE HOUSE AND PLAY VIDEO GAMES AND TRY TO LIVE OUT THE LIVES OF SOME RAPPERS..I DON’T UNDERSTAND IT , THEY REALLY THINK BEING A THUG IS COOL AND REAL THUGS DON’T LIKE BEING THUGS !!! IT IS CRAZY AND I ALWAYS WONDER WHY IS IT THIS WAY BUT THERE ARE REALLY NOTHING FOR THEM TO DO.. WE NEED MORE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS , COMMUNITY CENTERS , MENTORS AND PROGRAMS TO LET THESE KIDS KNOW HOW IMPORTANT LIFE IS !!! REAL TALK !!
IM FROM THE BAY SO I KNO ABOUT RICHMOND AND THE OTHER CITIES UP THERE. IM FROM BERKELEY AND NORTH OAKLAND AND I TOLD MYSELF WHEN I GET THE MONEY IM GOING TO OPEN UP TUTOR CENTERS AND A MUSIC SCHOOL TO HELP THOSE GET OFF THE STREETS. MY MOM MOVED US OUTTA THE BAY CUZ IT WAS SO BAD. YEA JD ITS REALLY BAD BACK HOME IN NOR CAL BUT I STAY PRAYING FOR THOSE UP THERE CUZ THATS MY HOME.
I work in Richmond and yes what this young man is saying is sadly true though there are many new opportunities opening up for the youth in West Contra Costa County. At the center I work at we provide a safe and welcoming space for all youth. We have programming that was created for the youth by the youth of Richmond. Our programming is grounded in social justice values so we are not just getting the youth off of the streets but we empowering them to make positive change for themselves and their communities. Check out our website for more info http://www.RYSECENTER.ORG also in the bay are are organizations like youthtogether.net that do similar work in Richmond, Berkeley and Oakland. So change will come through the work of the youth. We will RYSE UP!!!
I’M FROM OAKLAND, CA USE TO STAY IN RICHMOND TOO…N THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING TO DO AND ITS GOT SO BAD THAT THINGS DON’T SEEM LIKE THEY CAN GET BETTER…THE KIDS DON’T CARE N THE MANY ADULTS DON’T EITHER ITS SAD…I SUNG AT A PEACE RALLY IN RICHMOND ABOUT 30MINS AFTER 2 PPL WERE KILLED AROUND THE CORNER..WE NEED TO GET TO THE YOUNGER KIDS AND SHOW THEM NEW THINGS AND THAT IT IS HOPE N OTHER WAYS OUT…BUT THERE IS LIL TO NO SUPPORT OUT THERE….WE NEED MORE POSITIVE PPL LIKE U JD IN THE HOOD SPEAKIN TO THE KIDS PPL FORGET ABOUT THE BAY THO AND WE GOT. SOME OF THE WORSE CITIES IN THE AMERICA…WE REALLY NEED HELP OUT HERE IT AIN’T LIKE IT USE TO BE WHERE WE HAD PPL TO FIGHT BACK EVERYONE NOW IS EITHER SCARED OR DON’T REALLY CARE….
that is def. the reason..there is only a certain amount of activities that are available to young people.
i graduated h.s. two years ago and i can def. see the difference in the students from just 2 years ago!
if your not on a sports team,popular or got something great going for you your chances of fucking up has just multiplied. i thank god i played basketball in h.s. so many more opportunities presented itself just because of who i know.
and lets get on jobs…the recession is in full effect! so instead of the young people being able to get these minimum wage jobs after school and during the summer you have the older people on these jobs. no room for young people!
@damemuzik
thats mad truth right there, but dont forget how hard it is for ppl to listen out here too. i think the easiest way to get thru ppl out here is music. i mean thats only my opinion
Hey JD,
I’m from the Bay as well and I reside in Oakland, CA which is not too far away from Richmond. I honestly would blame it on the family structure that these kids are exposed to on a daily basis. Prime example my little nephew has just been arrested and sent to juvenile hall. He has just started high school and I think that he is at that point where he is trying to find himself. His dad passed away when he was a baby and his mother isn’t really tending to his needs. I think that she doesn’t realize how much he needs her right now. I don’t know if he is just crying out for attention, but if she tended to his needs a little more then he’ll probably be on the straight and narrow. It’s like nowadays parents only check for you when you get in trouble or go to jail. I’m like we already know that the powers to be don’t want Black men to succeed period, but we can’t give up on our Black men. We need to keep motivating them to succeed. Everytime I saw my nephew I always reminded him that he was going to college. I was even going to help him enroll in a Summer job program sponsored by the city of oakland. I just won’t give up!!! Point blank we can’t give up on our Black men. To get back to your original question I don’t think that it’s because they have nothing to do. That’s just an excuse. It goes back to the family dynamics and whether that person is pushed to succeed. I think that Oakland/Richmond area need more programs that offer mentorship/role models to young males. Obviously their role models aren’t your local postman’s or teachers.
As I write this I hear shooting so close I want to put my kids on the floor. Yes a lot of killing goes on in the hoods because kids have no places to go, people who care and some are force to eat. Some don’t have parents who care or some just on drugs ,it can be many reasons but most of the time its kids that have it so bad in life and just stop caring! Its like in cities like Detroit people don’t care about us, how we live and kids see that so they give up! I have for kids and they never walked around the corner from our house, we been here 6years and the reason young kids waiting to rob other kids! Like baby gangs I no it sound crazy but its so real! People talk about helping other countries but what about the one they live in now? Money never get to the bottom, the gutter or ghetto as some may call it, it don’t reach us but when you turn on your t.v the famous people always talking about they helping us (where) I don’t see it! Its heartbreaking to live this everybody not looking for a handouts just a hand up! They say follow your dreams,go to school,you can do it all that but if you can barley eat, no clothes to wear and dam near homeless, how do you stay focus how? Its not many jobs some parents trying hard like me but still losing everything and the little we do have somebody ready to gun you down to take that because they are hungry! Soon my kids and I might be in the dark, homeless I ask for help but I can’t get nothing no kind of handup but do you think anybody listen that’s how some of the kids feel nobody listen! Nobody hear the poor its like we live in our own world but I say to all the rich folks when you die you can’t take your millions with so why not help the poor? Yes its your money but everybody can’t be rich you have a gift ,use your gift to help people who’s in need! Its like the poor heart beats but we ain’t living !
Warning: I did not read previous comments… Too many lol
Yes I think the raise of violence is because there isn’t enough for ppl 2do in their community that they can afford! Even when there is some kind of events planned for the minors they manage to start a fight that may end up in a shoot out day & night! Smh! I think there is so much lack of motivation… Parents losing jobs & acting cranky to the kids so kids leave the home & take their anger out some where! Parents need to remember they should set examples for their kids no matter how old the children are! Its hard to consider investing in smthing for the kids to do in my city bc the purpose of the event always end up derailed! I think if there were better relationships with parents & their kids it wouldn’t be so bad! But money is the root to destroying households & communities these day! Seriously!
I really cant say to much about this topic because i come from a small ass town where there are more whites then blacks..im from tennessee in a lil town named harriman and its about 30min from knoxville(UT VOLS) and on the east side of knox is where the gangs and shit b really poppin off ppl die up there everyday on a street called Martin Luther King aint that some shit…but lil niggas where im from b tryna claim shit i guess tryna b like the knoxville niggas and i b shakin my head like why u really b in a gang for? they have the rags and everything and the dudes are around 17-18 years old and most of it i think is involved with family being in the gangs so the young cousins think they should b in it 2 but also some of the ppl claimin dont even know what the fuck they talkin bout and will prolly get they self killed doin stupid shit…i dont know if niggas wanna b hard or they think its cool… my question is whats so good about being hard?? plz answere that for me…
@kinglovejoy Thank you!
As one of the younger lifers, I really never feel the need to comment on any of the Talk to Me’s because most of it, I dont have much wisdom or insight on it to give a valid response. However, since im from Oakland and spent alot of my childhood in Richmond and Oakland and for most of my life, never even LEFT the bay area, I felt like I had to leave something. ITS NOT A LACK OF PROGRAMS, MUSEUMS, PARKS or any of that because those are EVERYWHERE in the bay. However, you cant go to a park in Oakland without seein somebody sellin drugs, seein dope fiens harrasing the kids or seein kids tryna have sex in the bathroom. EVERY SINGLE PARK! Programs are available, of course, but nobody goes to them unless its legit and not just another tax write off so people can say they did somethin “good for the community”. Even in the afterschool programs, the people that work there try to hang out with the kids. TRUST ME, I’ve been there. They’re just trying to get a paycheck. The thing is, people who are my age just dont give a damn! Why? because no one gives a damn about them. Most of the people I know, who are my age, 14-23, have family members and parents (If they even have two) who treat them like their just some person from down the street instead of their child. When I was in high school, alot of my friends would leave the campus just because they knew they could and nobody would care. They went to all the parties, sideshows and did whatever the hell they wanted to cuz they knew they could and half of their parents were right there with them, doing the same thing. I even know people who smoke weed and drink WITH their parents… Poppin pills and all of that. No one cares. You aren’t even really safe unless your in an area where people know you or you look like your from there. I remember one Christmas about 2 or 3 years ago when my neighbor had just came over to my house and an hour or two later, some kid across the street shot him just because he didn’t get anything for Christmas…. And the boy’s family was sitting right there in the house not caring that their kid was yellin at a grown ass man until they heard the gun go off. The MAJORITY of the deaths that occur in Oakland and Richmond are by gunshot. The sad thing is that Oakland is so much more popular than Richmond that people in Richmond started shootin random people to get their reputation up. I can’t go to Richmond and claim that im from Oakland because I’ll be an instant target. Nobody really knows how to stop it because its everywhere. There are those small amount of people who get out of that lifestyle but the young ones are so eager to get put on (sellin, gangs, prostitutin, everything) that its never any progress made. I know a 15 year old girl who said “I might as well do it for money” (yes, prostituting). People are too afraid of them to care enough to try to help or they just feel like its a lost cause and only worry about themselves.
Oh, and I’m 19 by the way.
Oh and let me correct myself.. The theme parks and museums are usually in the better neighborhoods =/…. Parks are all we have in the hood though and those are occupied with everything BUT kids.
@damemuzik
You are so right. People dont even fight anymore; they just shoot. Fighting shouldn’t even be condoned, but now its like everyone is praying that its all that it escalates to.
Personally, i think that there are multiple reasons as to why children are running to the streets and beefing, but I think it all falls down to the lack of attention from parents. In the world today, with all the recession talk, parents are always thinking about making money and stressing about bills and work, and so they end up spending all their time at work and putting all their efforts into their work that they unintentionally brush their children off to the side. Children need to feel loved and be loved, they will always lack attention, and if they can’t get it from the parents and the parents cannot find the time to show interest then youth is gonna go get attention from elsewhere and unfortunately elsewhere is the streets…..YOUTH OF TODAY ARE NOT BEING TAUGHT MORALS OR VALUES.
i think that happens all over the world in australia we dont have alot of shooting but u do see alot of teenagers in the streets at night up to no gud and i use to be one of them until i realise that it aint the way u shoudl live life……..if theres more things for teenagers to do theres most certain in my point of few that the crime will drop even if it is just alil bit
I agree that in Australia we don’t have the everyday shootings but there is still the violence and the drugs and the kids just not caring about any one or anything.
i have read most of these comments and all the stories are just blowing me away!
It seems like it’s not about living for kids anymore,it’s just about surviving…
What up JD. I’ve been waiting for you to bring something like this up for discussion.
Check this out. JD you said that your “Idol” is Quincy Jones and when you were on the Monique show, you explained how much you wanted to be like him career wise. You had a dream and chased it you still feel that you haven’t reached your full potential yet. My point with that is, these young boys don’t have any aspirations anymore. I’m only 23 and I live in Kansas city. It’s mad boring out here. It’s alwasys the same thing going on out here, nothing to do, and niggaz be out here shooting and fighting because they think it’s the cool thing to do.
Like you said JD in your last “Talk to me” video, what happened to niggaz wanting to be executives and all that? I remember when it was cool to want to be a lawyer, doctor, cop, in the millitary, dancer, teacher, writter, and so on. Now it’s cool to want to be a drug dealer, and killer? I never found that cool.
Is it due to bad parenting? Not all situations because I’ve seen kids make it out of that and kids who don’t have parents making it to a better life. We can’t blame our enviroment either. I blame those who get out the hood and don’t come back to the hood because they feel that they are better than that. Where are the positive role models at? Seeing how tv and music is rasing the kids these days… eh enough said on that. Cats wana be rappers and moguls, but you don’t have to sell crack or shoot anyone to get to that point. Will Smith for example, LL Cool J, Diddy, Jermaine Dupri, Ludacris, Dr. Dre. Or what about the inttlects, Erick Dyson, Cornell West. If tv is raising the kids then why aren’t they following these examples? Well thankfully no one is blaming hip hop. Well it’s just a matter of time.
I can go on for days about this.
Good one JD.
monkey see monkey do. Point blank period. 9 times out of 10 if its in your surroudings growing up and your parental guardian allows you to be in such an enviornment then that’s what you going to end up doing when you get older.
The jobs suck, and if you don’t sing rap or ball then niggas lose hope. College aint for everybody and the streets is always gonna be there so they choose the streets.
Most importantly you gotta want it for yourself! your parents could do the most amazing job, but if u dnt wanna kno u gon end up on the negative side of things anyway.
parents have an influence, yh children need stuff to do (read a damn book, if they aint no park), role models have a role in this too (nba stars on crazy money wit guns, rappers swapping jail cells, )
the black community said there would be no excuse to screw up if we got a black president. but yet still yall got excuses!! if a kenyan black male can make president of America, wat odds are against you!
education, is free ( quallity of it mite not be the best, but do the best get a scholarship)
thik bout the young boy in rwanda without parents looking after his 3 sisters and tryin to attend school everyday! 10 yrs onhe succesful and accomplished. wtf is your excuse american child in the first world, with a roof over your head !!!!
Yes, young folks don’t have enough positive activies available to occupy their time…and this recession isn’t helping because nothing is FREE for them to do or even being offered at cheap rates. Not to mention this perception that’s it’s “cool & the thing” to do messing around in this foolishness that’s goes on in the streets. Just unfortunate how many of our young men we lose every year to the grave and jail and then you have nothing but a bunch of broken homes and single Black women….when will the cycle end??…it IS 2010 and after all
Im sorry to say,its not just over in america, im from Ireland & theres a big gang war going on at the moment. Its not only in Dublin now, the whole country is gone gun crazy. And its got worse since the recession. I dont honestly know if its about nothing for the kids to do. I come from a dangerous part of the northside of dublin, but i didnt get involved in anything like that, i played soccer & went to the gym, theres lots to do if you put your mind to it, dont always have to turn to crime. It depends on the upbringing & the type of person you are.? I know theres a big difference between here & there, but thats just my opinion. Just want to say R.I.P. to all the people who died in the Haiti earthquake yesterday. Im praying for you all.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i forgot to add early.
i see alot of people talking about join after school activities and sports. as a former football player in highschool that hasnt stopped the streets from entering. ive seen shootings happen in football games, gangs will come to ur football practice and wait for u get out.
i mean check this out. last year a kid that was going to be on the city board was shot and killed
for goin on a date with his girl in fairfield california. the man had no problems with no one. some dude just picked him out on random and killed him.
the gangs out here always want someone thats active, and if you rejected them it can get personal.
just like what @kuhmilLTL said
all the parks have some type of crazy activity going on. it could be mid day
u still will see something happen. cars get stolen right out ur garage even.
ive lived in the bay area most of my life, im not old only 24 but as a 80s baby, and
90s kid, i think can ive seen a lot goin on out here.
i remember when i was younger i used to fight right infront of my house with my parents inside. until someone broke it up.
@9090bt
ur right education is free, but out here a ass whippin is free to. its hard to plan things out here. lot folks dream about college but we have the teachers that doesnt give a damn about there students, they just want the pay check. some teachers just pass there students with ds just so they dont have to deal with the stress of seeing them the following year.
i really wished my parents put me in private school so i could of got out of here.
oh yeah im a biker. and even for us riding the streets is dangerous. ive seen folks throw pips at those riders for wearing patches, i think the only people that really dont get messed with is what the hells angels and the triads.
I think having nothing to do is a part of the reason for a lot of crime but what also causes alot of crime is education,when there are poor education systems it breeds violence and negitivity like drugs,gangs etc.If you look at the cities with the most killings/violence,gangs,drugs and just all around crime 9 out of ten chances the school system is messed up.A failing education system on top of a failing goverment mixed in with lack of resources is the recipe for self destruction.When you have kid who is not properly educated they cant compete with the rest of the workforce with jobs,whichs means they will go to what they know best gangs or drugs.So i think if you want to stop a lot of crime start with the schools.
Man JD I’m from the bay and I see it everyday Vallejo, CA And I definently agree that, that’s pretty much what it is, is that these youngsters is bored, and tryna get money. They don’t know how to get it the regular 9-5 way, so they have to hustle, but because hustling can get boring, because you not supposed to be doing it anyways then that causes them to do so! Too much Idol time, and not on that Ocean’s shit! Everybody tryna be hard, instead of taking care of their buisness, and getting right wit the man upstairs!
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