Why is it that there is a gun shop on almost every corner in this community?

[moh.vze.com 10+ year member]

What are yah opinions on this scene?

IS FURIOUS going over the top for blaming the system for why there are street crimes in the ghetto?

Isn't it the individual's fault for buying the guns and using it to kill one another instead of going out to find a real job?

Isn't it the parent's fault for having little or no education and as a result, there kids will grow up to be like them because of the lack of encouragement?

It's not really the system's fault is it?

Scene from Boyz N Da Hood movie.

FURIOUS: "Know what that is?

TEENS: A billboard.

FURIOUS: I'm talking about the message and what it stands for. It's called gentrification. That's what happens when the property value of a certain area is brought down. They bring the property value down. They can buy the land at a lower price. Then they move all the people out, raise the property value, and sell it at a profit.

OLD MAN: Ain't no one from outside bringing down the property value. It's these folks [pointing to the youngsters] Shooting each other and selling that crack rock shit.

FURIOUS: Well how you think the crack rock gets into the country? We don't own any planes. We don't own no ships. We are not the people who are flying and floating that shit in here. I know every time you turn on the TV that what you see, black people, selling the rock, pushing the rock. But that wasn't a problem as long as it was here. It wasn't a problem until it showed up in Iowa and Wall Street where there aren't any black people. Now you want to talk about guns. Why is it that there is a gun shop on almost every corner in this community?

OLD MAN: Why?

FURIOUS: I'll tell you why. For the same reason there's a liquor store in almost every corner in the black community. Why? They want us to kill ourselves. You go out to Beverly Hills, you don't see that shit.

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[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

Shit getting rough out in the Oregon ghetto eh ?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Paul73 10+ year member]

Shit getting rough out in the Oregon ghetto eh ?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Good call //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

To the op: here's a great response to your question....

POSTED: 2:58 pm EDT May 1, 2008
NEWARK, N.J. -- Comedian Bill Cosby told several hundred people at a conference of community associations Thursday to stand up and confront the ills facing black Americans and ignore those he called "intellectual panhandlers."

Characterizing his own words as "blunt, but not harsh," Cosby criticized a culture in which "babies are wearing $40 sneakers while their mothers are feeding them Oodles of Noodles" and in which pimps and murderers are seen as heroes.

During a speech that lasted nearly an hour, he began by comparing current attitudes to a patient who ignores a toothache until it requires major surgery.

Several times he exhorted the audience to "stand up and stop looking for somebody to blame," a mantra that has angered some black leaders who have accused him of downplaying the effects of long-term discrimination.

Cosby termed some of those critics "intellectual panhandlers" who enable destructive behaviors by staying silent or blaming them on racism.

"You've got these idiots who've got these degrees and some of them are ordained ministers and they say, 'Bill, you're picking on the poor,"' he said. He then drew laughs by adding, "Well, so did Jesus then. Jesus was always telling someone, 'Go ye.' Jesus was always telling people to go somewhere. And 'don't do this again or don't do that again."'

Wearing a sweater with a Yale University logo in honor of Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker, a Yale Law School graduate, Cosby saved some of most pointed words for radio stations that play music that he called "pro-murder and anti-women" and said adults are equally complicit if they fail to speak up.

"I haven't seen the demonstrations saying, 'I'm not allowing my children to listen to this," he said. "It's killing us. We're not talking about it, and we're not beating it down."

Thursday's conference was hosted by South Orange-based Family Intervention Services and Newark Now, an organization formed by Booker.

Cosby was introduced by Booker, who touted the Family Success program he developed that has expanded to 11 support facilities in Newark, as well as his efforts to develop a re-entry program for ex-convicts once they are released from prison.

Booker called Cosby "a critical voice right now in the American context" and praised his willingness to speak out on issues without bowing to political correctness.

"This is a time for candor -- we can't beat around the bush," Booker said. "We've got large percentages of our population that are underachieving. He's speaking to the heart of the matter, and he speaks to the realities of what a lot of folks are experiencing."

It's funny how Bill Cosby has the courage to do what Obama can't or won't.

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

ummm, never happened.

 

[Skinny Jones 10+ year member]

guns dont kill people. skinny kills people.