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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  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. |
You know I've heard it said that just showing up is half the battle and if the gang children had some one-on-one by these millionaires profiting wildly from our culture, why aren't they in there with those poor children elbow to elbow helping them learn to do something other than deal drugs and steal and work at menial jobs. Inspire those kids with your own butt sitting down beside them to help them with their life - their homework or fix their bike or take Granny to the doctor. Nope. Mr. Labron James, JZ and their ilk are too busy making and spending $$$ to help gang kids face to face in their off seasons and days off. I'll bet Sharpton or Michael Jackson hasn't helped a black kid from the slums with his homework or helped him wash his apartment windows of soot anytime recently. How many gang kids recovering from gunshots that didn't die have famous black leaders or athletes visited in the hospital and watched TV with them all evening? Oh, I forgot, they are on TV himself making appearances railing about one kid. There's a whole other young generation out there hurting, dirt poor, in big trouble and no men of note with time to go work faithfully with them to give them a little inspiration and face time, to love them in a meaningful way.