Gas station clerk beaten after calling out shoplifters

[Hypestyles]

...anybody know just how much start-up money is needed to get a small convenience store going? [[non-gas station)..

[firstandten]

Of course most of these kids having kids don't care about what the future will be. Everything is the here and now and popping out another baby just means more welfare coming into the home right now. [[and I use the term "home" very loosely there.)

The child will grow up knowing nothing but guns, gangs and drugs and taught early that everyone is against you and if someone disrespects you, you solve the issue by pulling a gun. Oh and, this is how that piece of your body works so as soon as you're old enough, get out there and make some more just like you. By force if necessary.

Thats brings me to the multi-zillion dollar question that gives me a headache. How do you break the cycle ?

[Detroitgayhistoryguy]

It's too bad there are so many people who were never raised at all.

Sometimes I look at the City girls pushing strollers on the hot sidewalks. You see this in Brightmoor, for instance. I think that the girls, ten-agers mostly, had a baby to make the boy-friend happy and masculine - but with no thought at all to what useful thing that child might do when he is grown. No cares about the jobs that are gone here and never coming back. No care about the future for that child. Is this the way people should be having children in Detroit in this day?

These young girls want to move out on their own, get their own place. A child will get them welfare and therefore money for their own place. There is an incentive to have multiple children that they cannot afford to care for. Having children is a "career" move for them.

[Goose]

Its clearly a result of overt racism, and the customers feel it and respond accordingly.

wow

just wow


bullet proof glass is now racism....


end discussion here as we have now fallen off the abyss....

[Wheels]

wow

just wow


bullet proof glass is now racism....


end discussion here as we have now fallen off the abyss....

52 pick-up

Thow all the race cards out there and see if you can make one stick!

[Zacha341]

Not a consequence free existence. The post-child bearing years come... the late 40's and 50's and with no skill, education or work history women who made this choice are often not able to enter the work force. The few older adult service organizations we have see this scenario daily.

These young girls want to move out on their own, get their own place. A child will get them welfare and therefore money for their own place. There is an incentive to have multiple children that they cannot afford to care for. Having children is a "career" move for them.

[GUSHI]

It's the price of doing business in the ghetto, don't matter if its a party store, gas station or coney, my friend bought a coney in the city the first thing he did was remove the seating, so his customers wouldn't hang out there,

[jwillie49]

blame it on the schools or teachers, or police, never the violent sub culture

[mkhopper]

blame it on the schools or teachers, or police, never the violent sub culture

Hit the nail on the head right there.

So long as there exists a subculture that glorifies "street life", the cycle will never be broken.

Here is a good paper folks may want to check out.
The culture industry, hip hop music and the white perspective: How one-dimensional representation of hip hop music has influenced white racial attitudes.

While it discusses what the hip-hop industry has done to influence how whites view blacks, it's clear that many black [[and white) youths have completely bought into the message and themes many of these songs convey.