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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  But they need some leaders to work with them regularly - some men of note to look up to. I've heard of all their foundations but it's not really helping if hundreds die of gang violence that much, is it? Look at Alex Rodriguez and Prince Fielder and MLB players and rappers dripping in gold and stables of fancy cars and Tiger Woods - all who make more millions upon million than they can spend who form foundations to shelter part of their money but aren't working directly with the gang children in urban areas themselves at all. They leave the foundations for women and others to run. I think these kids who don't have that much structure or fathers in their lives need some one on one work and something to aspire to. They all could band and pay them to go to school or do some work that was meaningful to help their own poor. Passing money down from the Ivory Towers and Tweeting and making rap songs and violent movies doesn't seem to be helping American gang children that much. I'd say put your own self back into your culture and your culture's kids and help them one on one if you really want to "give back" as they all claim. |
That's exactly the problem. A lot of these celebrities give to charity for tax write offs. If they really cared, they'd be there more often. But they have more important things to do. So who do these young men look up to that they see everyday? Well, could be the guys with the gold jewelry and nice cars. How did they get them? I'm pretty sure it wasn't from going to college and getting a degree and then getting a job with a nice salary. In these poor neighborhoods, if they see people around them robbing and stealing or dealing drugs and getting lots of money, what do you think they are going to do? And if you don't want to be in that life, and you want to study, what do the gangs do? They bully you! It's not fair if you grow up in a place like that. But really there isn't anything we can do about where we were born and where we grew up. We could have been born in a poor village on another continent or we could have been born a Hilton. Sometimes you have to work really hard to better your life. Sometimes you don't have to do a damn thing.