4,000,000.........blacks......

[sistuhchey]

The numbers stagger me...nearly 13 mil enslaved brought over from Africa.....400 years later....and over 4 milllion still enslaved, through our great peniel system!!!......(Depressing:( :( :( )

Our ancestors fought for freedom, education, voting, and here we are in the 21st century..still LOCKED UP!!...

When will the mentality get any better??? What has happened to us ??? since when is being incarcerated considered a badge of honor!!!..and why?

Pissed off with all the OG'S...that should know better....and hurt by the young OGS...that think it's the place to be....

Just hurt, found out my young neice of 20 is corresponding with a lil' nigga in jail.... here my sister is busting her azzzzz...paying for her second year in college, instead of preparing term papers, she's writing a knucklehead in jail...., then to find out her roomie, which is like my niece also...is dancing at a strip club.....WTF???

Where did we go wrong??? Losing valuable young people to a life of bullshit!!!

OK.....Chey breath......and pray..... :(

[Toffee]

I hear ya... It's hard to understand what happened and it even harder to come up with a solution.

My mom teaches at a Chicago Public school. surrounded by projects (which as we speak are being torn down) The saddest thing about it is that my mom has taught some of the kids parents. She's been there 36yrs. Now you would like to hope that your students will get out the projects and do real good for themselves. Nope!.. When they come and get the kids report card its like Hey Mrs. X u remember me. I was in your class in 1988.

Also being stupid seems to be the "in" thing also..

[Andre98]

... from when we were younger? I get into the "these kids today..." rant too, but what you said about the parents, Toffee, really makes me sad, because they set the tone for better and especially for worse, for their kids.

I don't know what to do. Personally, I have a dim view of those that are "in the life" of thuggish behavior ( the real thugs, not this fashionable hip hop shit). Once you start jackin' shit, and don't get caught for while, you are convinced that it beats working for a living. The whole mission becomes how to be slick enough not to slip up and get caught like Jo Jo and 'em. Unfortunately this leads to the horrors of people getting offed just because no witnesses were to be left, no matter how petty the crime.

I had projects in the next block over as i was growing up, had friends there too. I was lucky not to fall victim to the crimes that were committed, but I was also lucky to have a traditional family structure, supported by older folks on the block, and the idea of hanging out late and getting into trouble wasn't even a possibility. And the trouble didnt always come from the projects either. One of my best childhood friends have folks with some dough, not rich, but well off enough the send him to private school after elementary, to try to shield him from the gang drama that was everywhere. Long story, but the man is doing life for murder, shot his girlfriend when she said it was over between them. I knew he wasn't a stick up type criminal, but he was ensconced in that "my hood is my world" mentality.

Like I said, the adults, even the teens that are perpetrating the ills of the hood are lost for the most part...unreachable, in my opinion. God bless those that make it their vocation to work with rehab and parolees and such. I don't have the patience. It's noble work, but i see it as trying to bail out the ocean with a bucket. It has to be done though, because we have to do something, the only other alternative would be: you commit a violent crime, you disappear from the face of the earth. And we can't do that as a civilized society.

We have to start with the children, before they get that swagger, before they get the memo that to be honest is corny, or to do your homework and listen in school is not what makes you popular. That means it could take years to see the tide turn, but that would in the end be more effective than giving the same man two dozen chances. The key time is in the summer when all that leisure time is on their hands. Programs like Fresh Air Fund take urban kids out of the city to experience life beyond the hood, and things like that help to awaken them to their own potential.

[djackso]

Slavery is not dead it just has moved from the plantation to the board room.

[CD]

Originally posted by sistuhchey+
The numbers stagger me...nearly 13 mil enslaved brought over from Africa.....400 years later....and over 4 milllion still enslaved, through our great peniel system!!!......(Depressing:( :( :( )

Where did we go wrong??? Losing valuable young people to a life of bullshit!!!

OK.....Chey breath......and pray..... :(


1- Not all made the trip, about 1/3 didn't.
2- My generation and the one before me is the blame. They didn't show them way. The reasons are numerous as to why they didn't.

[sistuhchey]

Originally posted by CD+



2- My generation and the one before me is the blame. They didn't show them way. The reasons are numerous as to why they didn't.


Yea, this is what my daughter says also......A.K.A The Baby Boomers....my generation!!!....ummmm...Cat...how young are you??...;)