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Chicago's black neighborhoods have a cultural problem

posted 9 years ago by s506977
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200 Shootings thus far in January.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-2-teens-wounded-in-little-village-shooting-20160121-story.html

If you think this is a police problem...lol. This is a cultural problem. Since most people can't handle that truth, we can continue to masquerade it. Blame the teachers and the police. Lmaooooo. *beep* absentee parents, warped values, enabling politicos, lack of work ethic, and I will throw in poverty to make you smile. If there ever was a reset button, now is the time to hit it. Chicago will soon experience the worst violence in summer since the 70's. Since medical triage is better now than ever, it makes it that much more shocking.

[–] NoRevisionism 9 years ago

but you give Will "Fresh Prince" Smith, an Oscar nomination all this violence stops

Right?

[–] forallpracticalpurposes1 9 years ago

Ok, let's say - for sake of argument - that your theory is correct and it IS a cultural problem. You're still only speaking about effect and not cause. You cannot have one without the other.

I think in the film, even though I thought it was a horrible film, it attempted to shed light on what is happening in Chicago. At least they did acknowledge in the film that there were problems and issues, but as the lead character says, "We still deserve respect" and I think that was a powerful line.

In USA I've seen both sides of the coin - the apathy and the struggle. Apathy is most often given in situations in USA where people choose to focus on effect and never on cause - and that's one of the biggest reasons our country and all cultures within our country are unable to heal ALL OF THIS TIME.
It's 2016 and it's obvious that the cultures within America are merely tolerating each other instead of really coexisting...each side too afraid to consider their own cultural responsibility having a hand in cause or their own cultural responsibility having a hand in continued effect.

-LeLu