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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
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That was a surprisingly good read, especially the commentary about how people like to vicariously get their hands dirty associating with criminality through TV and social media without having to actually have face to face interactions with the humans involved in crime. Me? I grew up with hood people, getting into all kinds of trouble, making the worst decisions. I just relate to the bottom and ive always found the romanticization of gangs and drugs through media pathetic. Now the media is doing opposite, dehumanizing Baltimore or Ferguson as "thugs" as if they didn't have real human lives and real human motivations for uprising or for crime.