Black People : Crime in low income neighborhoods

[ManicRaider]

I've been trying to find a way to make this topic as unoffensive as I can but it's too much. This is something that's been on my mind for days so if you're sensitive or don't like hearing the truth, just hit the Back button.

Here's what's been bothering me. The low income neighborhoods in my city are black neighborhoods and they are also very dangerous. These are places that my more street-wise siblings say that they won't even want to live there. So someone like me would get eaten alive.

But why? If it's not a black thing, what is it? I've heard some people say it's because they're in poverty. Really? Those guys don't seem depressed to me. They seem happy and they seem to love the neighborhood they're in. So I ask again, why?

Also if they don't want crime in their neighborhood why don't they just come together to get rid of it. All of the crime can't be from outside so most of it comes from inside. This shatters the earlier theory of being sad about being in poverty. They don't want to get rid of it.

What I'm angry about is that these are supposed to be people that I can relate to more but they would more likely harm me than help me. It's this kind of crap that makes it difficult to want to help other blacks. While simultaneously hearing and seeing negativity from other races. It gives you a very lonely feeling. You can't trust your own because they're dangerous and you can't trust anyone else because they don't like you.

So is there any hope for people in these types of neighborhoods or should I just write them off?

 

[Mikha'el]

I've been trying to find a way to make this topic as unoffensive as I can but it's too much. This is something that's been on my mind for days so if you're sensitive or don't like hearing the truth, just hit the Back button.

Here's what's been bothering me. The low income neighborhoods in my city are black neighborhoods and they are also very dangerous. These are places that my more street-wise siblings say that they won't even want to live there. So someone like me would get eaten alive.

But why? If it's not a black thing, what is it? I've heard some people say it's because they're in poverty. Really? Those guys don't seem depressed to me. They seem happy and they seem to love the neighborhood they're in. So I ask again, why?

Also if they don't want crime in their neighborhood why don't they just come together to get rid of it. All of the crime can't be from outside so most of it comes from inside. This shatters the earlier theory of being sad about being in poverty. They don't want to get rid of it.

What I'm angry about is that these are supposed to be people that I can relate to more but they would more likely harm me than help me. It's this kind of crap that makes it difficult to want to help other blacks. While simultaneously hearing and seeing negativity from other races. It gives you a very lonely feeling. You can't trust your own because they're dangerous and you can't trust anyone else because they don't like you.

So is there any hope for people in these types of neighborhoods or should I just write them off?

Nobody whos from the hood wants to stay there...its a negative place to be.....growing up in a low income environment n seeing poverty i grew to love n hate it....its made me who i am...its home...for 20 years its all i saw....the broken down homes, homeless people, the projects, the violence....its home....when i came home from school in va i was even more fond of it.

& yet i hated it.....i hated living lower middle class. i hated being there in the same breath, i hate tht it limited me, i hated all things negative abt the hood as much as i love them. with all the shootings that have happened this summer it only reminds me why i am not so fond of this place.

But there is hope for these people. If u can get them to see it in themselves

 

[Shikamaru]

So is there any hope for people in these types of neighborhoods or should I just write them off?

I'm somewhat in the same boat. My circumstances are solidly middle class, but others that I relate to are poor or hood.

I simply make sure to take care of myself first. Give advice and knowledge when the others are ready to receive it.
Most of all, avoid giving money .

I wouldn't write them off. It may take far longer for them to get the picture, but seeds can be planted. In time, they shall germinate.

When they are ready, they will do and act as necessary.

 

[Kamau47]

Though I don't have to, I live in the dead middle of it all. And you know what, I love it. I do so because it's my home and I refuse to abandon it. This is where my roots are, where I was raised, it's home, even though it has gone from very good to very bad in my lifetime, I will not leave. That's the problem now. Too many leave, forgetting that they not only take their financial base with them, but any moral & virtue beliefs with them.
For the most part, we were thrown into these situations by a society that didn't want us in their midst. They made these areas for us to survive in (notice I didn't say "live") and made sure that we had little to nothing in them. They trucked in the drugs & alcohol to keep us complacent, then turned many of us into snitches to instigate trouble and to put most of us behind bars. And for good measures, they threw in welfare to make sure that it all would be a continuous evil cycle.
So why is it so crime-ridden & dangerous? Why is it so dangerous in jail/prison? It's because you can't lash out at anyone except those immediately around you. And there, like in my area, there are only blacks.
Any changes made to the outside are only cosmetic & superficial. True and lasting changes have to start from the inside, be it on a personal level or to a community.

And did he say "these people"? Wow.

 

[Shikamaru]

Though I don't have to, I live in the dead middle of it all. And you know what, I love it. I do so because it's my home and I refuse to abandon it. This is where my roots are, where I was raised, it's home, even though it has gone from very good to very bad in my lifetime, I will not leave. That's the problem now. Too many leave, forgetting that they not only take their financial base with them, but any moral & virtue beliefs with them.
For the most part, we were thrown into these situations by a society that didn't want us in their midst. They made these areas for us to survive in (notice I didn't say "live") and made sure that we had little to nothing in them. They trucked in the drugs & alcohol to keep us complacent, then turned many of us into snitches to instigate trouble and to put most of us behind bars. And for good measures, they threw in welfare to make sure that it all would be a continuous evil cycle.
So why is it so crime-ridden & dangerous? Why is it so dangerous in jail/prison? It's because you can't lash out at anyone except those immediately around you. And there, like in my area, there are only blacks.
Any changes made to the outside are only cosmetic & superficial. True and lasting changes have to start from the inside, be it on a personal level or to a community.

And did he say "these people"? Wow.

I concur on the point that ghettos are "containment units".