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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
The situations in the film, on these streets local to me, is the direct result of corruption. It is corruption in the local government, in the courts, in the police departments, in the probation offices, in the school boards, in the city councils, in the mayoral offices, in the school districts, in the zoning committees, in the adviseray boards, in all the local bullshit, fuck as far as I am concerned the city of Los Angeles as corrupt as fucking Zimbabwe, and the result is the buck-wild gorrilla youth of Los Angeles, who mob and kill each other daily. fucking dailly. there aren't enough hail mary's to give proper memorial for the amount of youth ending up in caskets. Its daily, and it hasn't stopped in twenty years, my entire life has been a product of this environment, my entire generation and now the kids we are raising, know this violence and this corruption as a part of daily reality. why do we continue to accept it? Becasue most of the people in suburban Los ANgeles, in the State of California, in the United States as a country, in the world in general, think LA is what they see on TMZ....
LOS ANGELES HAS FAILED ITS YOUTH. THE SCHOOLS, THE COURTS, AND ESPECIALLY THE PEOPLE COLLECTIVELY HAVE FAILED THE YOUTH.
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I don't live there, so I'm not pretending to know more about this than you. You have a day-to-day view of this mess, so you see a lot more of the gritty reality than I do. But I think it's unfair to put all of the blame on the government. What about the people themselves? Are they not responsible for their own actions? You can say that all these people know is violence, but that's not entirely true. If they have TV's or watch any movies, they have the ability to see, if nothing else, the possiblity of a lack of violence.
Sure, that's all easier said than done of course, but it's still
there. They still have the choice not to act that way. Why would it be my responsiblity as a single human being to put an end to it, when it is another single human being that's causing it and not stopping it? I'm just rambling, so I hope this is making sense
And there are other factors too, factors which (and I'm not pointing fingers, I'm just saying) you seem to support. Drugs & ganster rap that often promote violence play a part as well. While I like a lot of rap myself, I can't say that a kid growing up listening to Wu-Tang wouldn't be influenced for the worse. While I listen to itand just like the way they flow, some kid in a bad neighborhood is thinking "Yeah, that's how I got to be to survive."
Sure, local governments need to do more to provide positive influences, but the people creating the negative influences need to think about what they are doing as well, and take some responsibility.