You put a bunch of poor *** people together in the worst of conditions and shit happens. Doesn't matter the race. Be it the crime, the crab mentality, or whatever. Many blacks have been conditioned to believe that the white man will NEVER give them equal anything. They have been conditioned to believe that to even get a small slice of that pie, you gotta be twice as good. They are being conditioned to believe that the only way out is to excel in sports and entertainment. And that is pretty much a pipe dream. It's unfortunate that many fall into the trap of drugs and such, but it is what it is. You can stand out on the corner for 3 hours and make tax free what the corporate man works all week for could trap anybody. Then on top of that, corporate man is your best customer. It's just never been for me, but I have been around it my whole life. Some shit just has no purpose. I don't even drink or smoke because neither have a purpose. But that's me.
A lot more goes into it. Dirty cops are abundant in inner cities. I've heard out of cops mouths shit like "If I see you on this corner again, I'll put a pack on you." Statistics can be made to look any way you want them to. If cops need to make BIG arrests, all you need to do is be in the system once. Once they know who you are and what you do, it's a matter of when but not if. Drugs is not my deal. I work for mine.
To clear up the Obama debate..... The dude is black. You are what your father is. While here, he lived in the Hyde Park neighborhood. Malcolm X lived there, Louis Farakkhan, Jesse Jackson, Reverend Meeks, etc live there. Blacks with money and power live there. Fegs too, but if you got real money you set up over there. When you hear him talk about Chicago it isn't the Mag mile, downtown , Sears Tower and shit like that. He was plugging Harold's Chicken, Italian Fiesta, Lou Malnatis. Those are hood places. You come to Chicago, the only Harolds that isn't in the ghetto is the one at Midway airport. Obama is hood..... nuff said. His barber shop that he can't go to now is in the hood. His wife grew up in the hood. His daughters went to school in the hood. The white side of him could have and should have had him living down town, but it didn't. They are a living statistic that it's not always the way the media makes it seem. Voting for him was like if your next door neighbor was running. Who gives a shit if a lot of blacks voted for him. The numbers will be greater next time.