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 thatās exactly where I was going with it. Itās not just society conditioning us to be treated like criminals itās also society conditioning us to be criminals. Where a lot of us come from, the ānormsā aināt 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 didnāt steal from family. With the thought process of, if you didnāt want it stolen, you shouldāve 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 thatās 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 doesnāt really have a full grasp of what it means to be a young black man in America. Heās 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 hasnāt quite being grasped.
Before you know it, juve turns to jail, jail turns to prison, once in prisonā¦after a few years and some real education from other inmates. Thatās when it hits them. But itās not hit with understanding itās 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 āDeeā world. I was lead astray to believe that my world was āTheā 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
