You obviously want to defend New York City. I can understand that because you live their. But I am not making assumptions. I know people whose child or children were doing all the right things and were gunned down. I am not making generalizations. I am offering a theory about why such things do happen in our communities. I know you are not going to tell me these things don't happen and then brag about how you live in NYC.
No protecting ones son does not mean creating the boy to be a tom or a suck up and please check the events section
for my post on Malcolm's brother and what he had to say about how his mother raised them..
With all due respect, one starts to wonder are we creating a generalization of rationalizers
where every form of abbharent behavoir that we would have concidered reprehensable 80 years ago in the Black community, can be rationalized
Please also listen to the film a great and mighty walk by Dr.Clarke , and how he says Harlem was for him as a child.
was ready to think she was just a bad mother until I considered the kind of kids who get shot and killed in New York. It's not the bad kids who get killed. It's not the kids that are always in and out of jail, ditching school and getting in trouble. It's the good kids.
Do you honestly think if she allows her children to continue that kind of behavior, disrespecting their mother their living environment and you as their aunt,,,
do you honestly think they can make it through school with all of that, and then on a job with all of that?
or a relationship???
In fact speak to some of the councilors that visit the prisons from the vrious churches and the NOI, and they will tell you where those children
will wind up
if that kind of behavior is not checked early on
Ok now the page is cleaned up the question remains