God Bless You, Bill Cosby

Josey · 06-13-2004, 02:11 PM

Well a good deal of the current situation might due to thuggish slang throwing rappers and badly behaved athletes being held up as the ideal black men in popular culture. When you have a culture where extremely high illegitimacy rates have wrecked havoc over the last half century the young men (and young women) pretty much have just these commercial figures to look up to as male role models. Of course, you can see this in large numbers of white kids too who are from similar situations, though there tends to be a lot more commercial variety in figures for the white kids to look up to.

06-13-2004, 02:11 PM	#16
Josey Cynical Bastard Join Date: May 2004 Location: Somewhere in Arkansas Posts: 9	Well a good deal of the current situation might due to thuggish slang throwing rappers and badly behaved athletes being held up as the ideal black men in popular culture. When you have a culture where extremely high illegitimacy rates have wrecked havoc over the last half century the young men (and young women) pretty much have just these commercial figures to look up to as male role models. Of course, you can see this in large numbers of white kids too who are from similar situations, though there tends to be a lot more commercial variety in figures for the white kids to look up to.