I don't disagree, but you have to understand the culture they come from. Too many don't have father figures, so, as Denzel Washington so aptly stated: "If a young man doesn't have a father in his home, he'll find one in the streets." I took a young man from the "hood" into our home several years ago to get him out of the hood and get him on a better life path. When there was a murder in his former neighborhood (a 13 y.o. kid shot and killed a 15 y.o. girl by mistake), I asked him what a 13 y.o. kid was doing with a gun. His reply: "We all got guns." He went on to explain that in the hood, you either ran with a gang for protection or you had a gun for protection--there was little other choice. That is the culture too many of these kids grow up in. As a result, many decent kids wind up in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. To compound matters, a lot of these kids have anger issues because they feel deserted by their fathers. This subject seems to be "taboo" among politicians. About the only person I have heard that points out the critical importance of this issue is Candice Owens. No one else seems to have the balls to even discuss it in a political forum. Nothing will change until the issue is addressed. White people won't touch it for fear of being called "racist". So, until the black community makes the issue a priority, nothing will change. To make matters even worse, the number of white kids growing up without fathers is increasing dramatically. So, it's not a race issue, it's an issue of family, or rather lack thereof.
