Those were pre-schoolers my man.
The only way some grown men enter this conversation is if you want to unpack it down to society conditioning us to be treated like criminals from birth and some of us end up just rolling with it because why not? but I don't think that's what you were doing there.
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Nah that’s exactly where I was going with it. It’s not just society conditioning us to be treated like criminals it’s also society conditioning us to be criminals. Where a lot of us come from, the “norms” ain’t what others would consider regular norms. A lot of shit we do, become apathetic to, become accustomed to. Are like that, only where we come from.
By that I mean let me give you one example, when I was growing up, stealing was normal provided you didn’t steal from family. With the thought process of, if you didn’t want it stolen, you should’ve not made it capable to be stolen. Yea where I come from if I steal yo shit and you find out I will have to deal with you..or even you people but that’s the extent of it.
Same way of being conditioned to see stealing that way as a child. In a store, steal,next thing they know they in juve. That child doesn’t really have a full grasp of what it means to be a young black man in America. He’s not taking his consequences seriously.
He does a little stint, while there he is conditioned even more by other teens conditioned just as him and they exchange stories not really fully understanding just how much impact there actions are having on their lives and just how much impact it has on the perception of who they are.
They get out of juve, believing the world is just tripping on them, they a thug and they living a thug life. The totality of what that means for them as a black man in America still hasn’t quite being grasped.
Before you know it, juve turns to jail, jail turns to prison, once in prison…after a few years and some real education from other inmates. That’s when it hits them. But it’s not hit with understanding it’s hit with anger. They get out mad at the world. That leads to more trouble..
Hopefully one day for this person it hits them..my world is not “Dee” world. I was lead astray to believe that my world was “The” world and every consequence was what I deserve but it was even more heavy handed because of who I am and the color of my skin.
Mutiply that by millions, with offspring affected by it, it creates a society of perpetual fucked up conditioning, that a ununderstanding world refuses to see the why and says if it walks like a duck