response to the rick ross effect

You know what's so weird and sad about the Rick Ross effect is that it's gotten so bad that even small children are being raised to believe that not only is it cool to be a "thug" or a "gangsta", but that all Black people are this way, and if you're not that you're not Black enough. And if being Black means all things negative then I guess I'll just be Brown then. Just check out people we compare to Black people. Folks say Bill Clinton...before Barack...the closest thing we'd get to a Black president. Not because he played the saxaphone, because he cheated on his wife..what only a Black man would do that??? Oh and what about Bush...folks say he's Black because he didn't get voted into to office he just deboed his way in..ooo Bush so gangsta..what??? Why do we just point out the negative characteristics because a long time ago "they" taught us to hate ourselves and we still do...after all the trailblazers that have come through to despell those negative images we still picture ourselves as less than and until we change the picture why should we demand that other people view us differently. ~ teacher lady