Archive for April, 2010

By Joseph L Green

            I often wondered about the factors that allowed me so easily to go from a basically good life to a drug dealer/criminal. It took a lot of soul searching but I believe that I came up with a few answers. I began to really look at the black community and what is has become. Why has our culture evolved into what seems to glorify many bad human traits. Our music and our neighborhoods exalt drug dealers and thugs over husbands, fathers, and factory workers. We call our women the b word and the men brag about being pimps and thugs. My grandparent’s generation would never have bragged about being participants of such lowly ghetto activities. I remember using bad grammar as a young man and being told that I was not to act as though I was uneducated. Most of the people that I knew who used improper grammar did so because they didn’t know any better, not because they thought it was something of honor as many do today.

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