Sure, being born rich can provide you a ton of benefits but that is not expressively race related and speaks more to economic inequality
That guy was a 15 year old gang banger from Gerson Park Kings, he told a story once about robbing a CVS with his uncle, also from gerson, the security was following them likely to tell the police where they were going so they pulled off in an alley and shot at the security guard multiple times until he drove off the other way
yea i wasnt arguing just kinda tangenting
i mean
poor blacks and mexicans probably still get treated worse on avg by police and institutions than poor whites
but i dont think that invalidates that much of your perspective like dan seems to think it does...? idk
i still feel like that economic inequality can be largely attributed to systemic racism idk
Lol. I mean thats fucked but you do what you gotta do. And the fact that his uncle was in it was a bad influence on him, like it's hard to say if he'd be doing it if his uncle wasn't in it
sounds like enabler talk idk
Poor blacks and Mexicans also have higher crime rates, and my experience with the police in this area, as a juvenile that got into a lot of trouble, was that they would be cool if you were just hanging out maybe drinking or smoking some weed but as soon as you were committing crimes they would become very brutal, it was not random and they would not just go around fucking with random black people. Certain police officers in my area knew me when I was younger too and would give me a hard time, I didn’t get a pass because I was white
We're lucky not to have to be immoral to support ourselves or our fam
like saying "you gotta do what you gotta do" w.r.t robbing a place and shooting at an ostensibly innocent security guard is the kind of take that makes conservatives call liberals mentally ill ngl
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So yeah they get a pass to shoot at security guards because they’re poor and black is what you’re saying. Like not just get a job maybe learn a trade, some mechanic work or whatever, like it’s cool to join a gang and commit armed robberies because you’ve been systemically discriminated against
Tangenting is certainly not a word
i can verb anything
take some linguistics courses
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To me it's hard to say if he was pressured into it or okay with what he had to do. yns probably knows better about him I could be totally wrong
My man was with the shits
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He was a menace
No, its just a hell of a lot more complicated than "they get a pass to shoot at security gaurds because they're poor and black". I've already stated why learning a trade is hard for them, not to mention that they don't have exposure to those options to even consider them, because they probably don't know anyone successfully working a trade in that area
your perspective is like classic ivory tower caricature rn i hope you realize that
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“They” “they” “they”
These are all a collection of individuals, each making their own distinct choices in life, many of them choose to make choices that negatively impact themselves, their family members, and the community at large, maybe it is mental illness I don’t know, but at no point during the first 18 years of my life did I look around and say “damn why are all these YT ppl making me live like this”
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yeah that's accurate. i just feel like it'd be too easy to fall into racist tendencies otherwise
so you choose to stick to some fairytale-esque narratives to avoid the more difficult thoughts yea
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