We all have 5 senses: Sight, Smell, Touch, Taste, Hearing.
Two of which, Sight and Hearing, teach us the most about the world around us, when we are small children. We learn more from Sight and Hearing than any of the other senses combined. We also learn to use Sight and Hearing first, before we engage the other 3: Smell, Touch and Taste.
As a child, what we See and Hear gets hard-wired into our consciousness. So the more we See and Hear something, the more we engage the other senses.
If we See and Hear violence, apathy, sex, drugs, alcohol, and poverty all day every day, then it manifests into our behavior, and we become accustomed, even comfortable with violence, apathy, sex, drugs, alcohol and poverty.
Meanwhile our radio stations pump out the garbage that glorifies this behavior(violence, apathy, drugs, etc.)into our HEARING. BET and networks like it, show the videos that highlights this type of behavior (violence, apathy, drugs, etc) and we capture it in our Sight.
All day every day, that's what our kids are LISTENING to....All day every day, that's what they SEE. Our children then become hard-wired to that type of behavior. For every one voice they hear from a teacher at school, they have 100 voices telling them to "cap a nigga", "slang that rock", "hustle for that change", "we serve it at the COFFEE SHOP", etc, etc.....who voice do you think wins out?
So now, when we see videos like the one posted here, we sit back and wonder WHAT HAPPENED? But where was everybody when these guys were 8-10 years old and salvagable?
Dude in the video saw his father murdered in the street...he's actually hurting inside, but since that's a sign of weakness, he plays it off and just talks more thuggery. That's why we have to grab these kids when they are young, before they get to this point. Because there is not much you can do with an 18-25 year old who doesn't want to listen. All of they actions have been HARD-WIRED in their brain many years before.
But meanwhile, we keep buying the albums, playing the music, going to the concerts, watching the videos, of individuals who are actually worse to the Black race than the KKK has ever been. And that's real talk.
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-VG