What Type Of Impact Has the Glorification Of "The Hood" Had On African Americans?

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

The glorification of "the 'hood" has obscured the rich legacies of our communities from when they
were on the come-up neighborhoods.

My people lived in Harlem when it was considered a close-knit "village" of newly-arrived folks
from the South and the Caribbean -- folks filled with pride and promise.

Ladies like "Mrs. Singletary" would nurturingly watch the kids in the afternoon from her tenement window perch. She and others like her were were caring neighbors -- which is why Harlem and places like it were so much so neighborhoods, and completely not the 'hood.

I don't think folks even really knew of the term "'hood" until NWA and John Singleton in the late 80s. And by the time they came along, they were revealing levels of local danger and peril in their music and film that the 1940s village version of Harlem could only nightmarishly imagine.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Glorification of the "hood" in low-income areas exacerbated or visually magnified behavior in some areas of the hood. In the suburbs, you did have knuckleheads thinking that "acting hood was acting black". But music which was the vehicle through which hood culture was delivered also allowed a movement from the "hood" to college, especially hbcus. Which was in fact a celebration of embracing the culture while still having upward mobility economically and socially. I don't think "glorification of the hood" impacted african-americans nearly as much as being deprived economically. In fact "the glorification of the hood" was and still is a reflection of the hurdles and hoops african-americans have to jump through to make ends meet in that environment.

 

[smokeurobinson]

Well nobody glorifies anything they aren’t proud of. Growing up in rough circumstances and surviving is most certainly something that should be glorified

Rough circumstances can come in many forms. Rich kids get molested , u dont see them glorifying the rough circumstance they survived after growing up. Their situation of getting thru it becomes a footnote in their past not an open glorification.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

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I'll shoot yours.

 

[Pure Water]

I'll shoot yours.

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It's like you didn't learn a damn thing. If you knew better, you'd do better.

 

[8WON6]

If we stop glorifying the hood all our problems will be solved yall. It's our fault.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

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It's like you didn't learn a damn thing. If you knew better, you'd do better.

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[Pure Water]

I didn't say what I'd use to shoot your bbw on tinder mama


I bet she smells like macaroni salad and tcb curl activator


Imagine a nikka blamming your grimace shape mama to a scratched bootleg of Yolanda Adams, goofass nikka

Big fella what's yo frustration?

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

Big fella what's yo frustration?

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[NoirDynosaur]

Bump for discussion

 

[BaggerofTea]

I never watched hood movies, so i don't really know