[Craig31908]

I have grown up watching Good Times and Fat Albert, where the families lived in the projects. My dad would drive us into Chicago, and we would go through poor, black neighborhoods with littered streets. I would hear on the news of gang members shooting each other. As I got older, I saw movies like ‘Colors,’ ‘Do the Right Thing,’ ‘Jungle Fever,’ ‘Boyz in The Hood’ – movies that all took place in the ghetto. I would drive home through poor neighborhoods with littered streets, and the majority of the residents were black and openly selling drugs. I would hear rapper after rapper talk about how they came from ‘the streets,’ and rap about gang affiliation, often glamorizing violence. When someone would talk about ‘inner-city youth,’ it usually meant black kids, and they would talk about the threat of drugs, gangs and violence in their lives. I’m unsure what assumptions whites made, but these are the dominant images, and when a black person says of these images, ‘This is how it is – I’m just keeping it real’ – what can one expect?

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Name : Craig31908, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 38, City : Minneapolis, State : MN, Country : United States, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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