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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Is it that bad?
Do we blame/credit the parents?
We blame the media, poverty, poor education, lack if positive role models.
Don't think you can blame poverty at all, quite the opposite in fact. Modern peeps have no idea what the period up to 1947 was, and in relation to rationing, through to 1954 or so.
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Fair enough poverty was more widespread in that period but poverty today is still there, for kids now it is much easier to turn to a life of crime, a kid will look around his environment and see the bloke on minimum wage going to work 12 hours a day and struggling to pay bills, then look at his neighbour who sells drugs don't get out of bed till 12 drives a BMW has the best phone and clothes and don't have to answer to anyone who do you think they are going to look up to.
And as for the coincidence of them all being black, no it's not a coincidence, and it won't be while there are attitudes like that, some kids will think well if that's how you think I am that's how I'm going to be.
The media has a big part in how today's youth is perceived, and it's not just this generation, think back to punks, skinheads, and even as far back as teddy boys, all were seen as a subversive elements of society but most of them never wanted to corrupt the world, they were just trying to make sence of the world that was around them at the time but all were tarred with the same brush, we need to give these kids a chance to be usefull members of society before we wright them off, I live in a block of flats and there are a group of kids in my block who wear there trousers low with hoodies, and play music through there phones, to listen to the media they are muggers, but during the snow they all went up and down the shop for a couple of the older folks in the block, and one if them has just got his grades that he needed to get into university don't judge them for the sins of the few |
