Replacing them is going to be rough, or at least it would be in my case. If & when you replace, I say download anything you can & for classics, you must have the CD, especially “Ready to Die”!

Bygbaby

I completely understand your desire to help uplift the black community (as if you’re not doing enough teaching), but prior to integration when all black people (regardless of class) lived in the same neighborhood, poor people had morals and values. You did not rob your neighbor and innocent people were not getting murdered. Unfortunately, the moral fabric of the poor black community has nearly disappeared.

Each day here in Chicago, another young innocent victim is murdered. Recently an 8 year old was raped and stabbed to death and thrown in an alley. I used to think of myself as a traitor too, and wondered if I was becoming elitist, but now that my husband and I have been in the “good neighborhood” for about 2 years now - I can sleep more peacefully at night, I can walk my dog (or myself lol) after dark and I don’t have a panic attack every time I get out of my car at night. Peace is priceless and until the moral fabric of our community appears again, I will live in a “good” neighborhood away from all the madness. The best advice I can give for you is to think about your future children. I DO NOT want my children growing up in a bad neighborhood (whenever I have them) and I’m sure both you and your wife would say the same.

Me: This is strikingly similar to the idea that a raped woman must have done something to “ask for it.”

>>”Contrarily, my opinion is that the misogynist behavior exhibited by ALL men in this country is a biproduct of the world’s history of Patriarchal religious and political structures which, in turn, influence everything from the way the sexes dress to the way the sexes view…well…sex.”

Me: With this I agree but…

>>”I do not want to give the impression that I’m blaming women for the actions of these men. It is up to the women to solve this problem. However, before blaming the men themselves, consider what made them that way. ”

Me: … putting aside who’s to blame, yes, it’s important to consider what made them that way and try to change the root. But, if the women, as you seem to assume, have the consciousness of the situation to analyze it and change their behavior, so can the men. Why can they not take part in improving the situation rather than leaving it “up to the women” to solve a problem which is a problem for the whole black community?