Current Events > How do you feel about this scene about gentrification from Boyz In The Hood?

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How true is it? Are they wrong? Comments? Thoughts? Opinions?

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Oh yeah this will end well...
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_OujiDoza_ posted...

Oh yeah this will end well...

Mods please lock this topic if things get out of control.

What's your opinion, kind sir?
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Veggeta X posted...

_OujiDoza_ posted...

Oh yeah this will end well...

Mods please lock this topic if things get out of control.

What's your opinion, kind sir?

I watched BitH back in the day and it still rings true.
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I feel like Lawrence's character is a smart man and yet he's too black and white on the situation. What he says is true but you gotta at least know that part of the blame goes to the people.
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"Think about your future"

how they gonna end the scene on that?
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Veggeta_EDGE posted...

How true is it? Are they wrong? Comments? Thoughts? Opinions?

It certainly makes sense.
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Focusing only on the part about gentrification and before they played thought hopscotch with crack and "the man"....

It's true. Buy where the land is cheap, develop it, have some kickass building instead which will obviously charge more in rent. The land's cheap because it's in the middle of a an aging and crime-infested neighborhood. By buying up homes and changing the demographics of the area, it's now no longer aging and there's less crime.

"Don't sell your house and stop killing each other you idiots" is a decent message, but if the crime is going to continue and you're a homeowner, I don't blame you for selling out. You get to move to a safer neighborhood and snag a profit in the process.

Where I live right now is the direct result of gentrification. It's pretty nice. Old family homes, most of which are in disrepair, are being bought up and bulldozed. Replaced by 3 story townhomes and condos.
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The saddest part is that Laurence Fishburne and the old guy are both right.

philsov posted...

"Don't sell your house and stop killing each other you idiots" is a decent message, but if the crime is going to continue and you're a homeowner, I don't blame you for selling out. You get to move to a safer neighborhood and snag a profit in the process.

Yep, that's actually happening in South Shore and other parts of south side Chicago as we speak. Young black middle class families are selling their homes because of the violence and relocating to better areas or the suburbs.

You can buy property in South Shore and other parts of Chicago for really low prices, but it's not worth it because on your block you might see multiple robberies/assaults per day.
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philsov posted...

"Don't sell your house and stop killing each other you idiots" is a decent message, but if the crime is going to continue and you're a homeowner, I don't blame you for selling out. You get to move to a safer neighborhood and snag a profit in the process.Where I live right now is the direct result of gentrification. It's pretty nice. Old family homes, most of which are in disrepair, are being bought up and bulldozed. Replaced by 3 story townhomes and condos.

There will always be section 8 houses though right?
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Veggeta X posted...

philsov posted...

"Don't sell your house and stop killing each other you idiots" is a decent message, but if the crime is going to continue and you're a homeowner, I don't blame you for selling out. You get to move to a safer neighborhood and snag a profit in the process.Where I live right now is the direct result of gentrification. It's pretty nice. Old family homes, most of which are in disrepair, are being bought up and bulldozed. Replaced by 3 story townhomes and condos.

There will always be section 8 houses though right?

Yeah, as long as the government ensures it is profitable for investors to build/maintain properties. Section 8 housing, at least in Chicago, gets worn down really fast.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

trying to tell a community that has a problem with guns and drugs that it isn't their fault because someone else flew or floated those guns and drugs into the country is a pretty huge cop-out and refusal to take any blame for your own actions. it's still the people in that community that choose to peddle that stuff at the street level. i'm not saying that it is all their fault, but at the same time i don't think absolving them of all responsibility is going to amount to anything positive. tbh it's probably a step backward. if they feel like they aren't really the ones responsible for their own actions and choices, then they will never think it worthwhile to try to make better choices and actions.

This.

Supply follows demand, not the other way around.

It's hard to be better than the drugs and guns when the system doesn't properly educate you to be above it. Well, I dunno about LA but I know where I grew up the schools spoon fed us the evils of drugs and guns.
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Veggeta X posted...

It's hard to be better than the drugs and guns when the system doesn't properly educate you to be above it. Well, I dunno about LA but I know where I grew up the schools spoon fed us the evils of drugs and guns.

I grew up in the south side of Chicago and went to a Chicago public school up until freshman year of high school when we left. We had anti-drug programming each and every year. The problem is that when kids get older, like in their teens, they start associating with the "cool" crowd. If you have both parents intact and in a stable household, your chances of getting your dad to beat your ass if you step out of line are much higher.

But if your dad isn't around, your chances of falling and staying in the wrong crowd skyrocket. Which then perpetuates a cycle of destruction if you then have children while you're involved in the wrong shit, because then your kids follow in that path.
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Which is why part of the problem is the people, not just the man holding you down.
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