It's a possibility but some people just don't want it. They're content with how they live. I think more communities need to try #3 on your list. Some black youths feel that a gang is the only place they feel they "belong" and that's not true.
Peace fam.
You are right about #3, but truth is it is hard.
I am in one such organization, and I can tell you that getting young Afrikan males into an organization to talk about solutions and not just complain: no joke. We have a board consisting of 8 youths, one is male (not me, I am daily manager so not part of the board).
Joining an organization which is serious about liberation, Afrikan history, anti- or counter-racism is HARD in a society where most of our people emulate the racist ways of the whites, and even view themselves thru the eyes of people that hate us.
Being pro-black or Afrikan centred simply is not cool, swagg or what-have-you.
I'd love to hear somebody tell me about how to suceed in that respect, because I live and breathe #3 - that's on MY LIFE. I killed myself over this youth organization, put my own money out, postponed studies - all of it. But I am not making way, progress etc. Youths have been pacified, and they don't wanna speak out or even stand out as more black than they have to be (see: assimilition/'integration').
But this list is on point.
One,
- Ikoro