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...deprecation: to reduce the impact in such historically significant words, black people may use this word pejoratively. Listen to any hard-core rap song and you will hear the ubiquitous use of the words "nigger" and "bitch." These terms, in use by groups of black racists who inhabit the inner-cities, are part of a crude culture that is destroying the African-American community...
...women who can't find jobs tend to blame their lack of employment opportunity on the system, which they say is geared against the African-American race. Many African-Americans are wiling to work hard for their prosperity, but those lower class blacks who are residents in the inner-cities often fall into the trap of expecting help and therefore do not take it upon themselves to achieve. Instead, they scapegoat everything and everyone, from "the system" to the "legacy of white supremacy" in this country...
...instead of "we." As witnessed in the O.J. Simpson trial, the predominately black jury failed to convict Simpson because if they had, they would have been forced to live among their communities with the ridicule of being traitors. This sense of being at war has carried over to the inner cities, only it has been heightened to the nth degree. Brought about by drugs and gangs, the culture in the inner cities created by racist members of the African-American community is devoid of respect for other people, devoid of any respect for human life and devoid of any sense...
...critical and commercial success of "Menace II Society," the Hughes Brothers brilliant debut film, it is surprising that a took three years. The film generation Spielberg, and Lucas), tired and cranky, is in dire need of successors With "Menace II Society precocious, but blistering portrayal of life in the inner city the Hughes Brothers asserted themselves as an important new talent. Their new film "Dead Presidents," instead of advancing their reputations considered...
Phelps stressed individual responsibility in alleviating the problems of the inner city. "We have to stop pointing the finger at the White House or at Congress. Point the fingers at ourselves. That's real democracy, participatory democracy...