＂More Destructive Than Jim Crow＂ - Charleston White BLAMES Hip Hop For Black America’s COLLAPSE
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with my younger brother to talk about his life growing up in a gangster household and how he became the man he is today. We talk about how he was introduced to the world of crime, gang culture, and rap.
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At 14 years old, I read that you were hung out with some people
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So my uncle had just died, who was a positive influence in our life.
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My mother had just became pregnant, and my little sister was born.
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My brother was already in and out of the juvenile facilities.
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And my mother was putting my brother in adolescence homes,
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so my mama wasn't waiting for him to be arrested.
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When she started seeing behavior problems, she would put him in an adolescent home.
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And we got the best life most kids could have in a middle-class neighborhood.
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So I'm the little brother sitting back watching who everybody's overlooking
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Only my uncles know who let me hang out with them.
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So, man, once I got to become a kid, I was 13 years old.
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So once I started playing with kids, I was a natural leader.
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The ones I went to hang with didn't live in our neighborhood.
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So, man, when I got introduced to what I call, I'm the seed of America's gangster rap culture.
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A little kid who'd been watching Bill Cosby, Red Foxx, Fred Sanford.
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When my uncles get out of prison, I watched all the black exploitation films.
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So I learned criminal activity from watching these movies, watching my uncles.
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And once I finally got to go out into the community, imagery have already been propagated to me.
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Kid watching television, kid watching television.
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So I've never seen a man come out of my mother's bedroom.
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I've also never seen a man get up and go to work.
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You've never seen a man come out of your mama's bedroom?
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I thought men were like my Uncle Curtis and my Uncle Wayne.
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You know, they pimp on a woman or they lay around all day or earn their clothes in the middle of the day,
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wake up late with a joint in their mouth, fly clean, and go nowhere.
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You know, the unproductive black male of the 80s.
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So I watched all the males in my family go to prison for my mom's cousins, my uncles, grandmothers, brothers.
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And I never heard anybody say anything bad about prison.
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I never hear anybody say anything bad about prison.
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So by the time, so I'm an injured kid who gets to watch all the television in the world in the hospital, at home.
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Yeah, so by the time I get to be a normal kid that can go outside and play, it's a new culture, gang culture.
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Our first summer, we went and got bandanas and put them in our pocket.
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I don't know nothing about this but what I saw on television.
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I didn't know how to have sex from listening to rap music.
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There was a song by two live crew called, hey, we want something.
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So our culture taught us, and I say this often, and people really overlook it.
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I put a molly in her drink, and she ain't even know it.
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Some call it Amtrak, but some call it the train.
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We all would line up in a single file line and take our turns waxing girls behind.
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Every time it get to me, I was out of luck because I stick my end and it would get stuck.
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So when we watch the frat parties, what was that, Porky's Revenge?
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When we see a bunch of girls, hey, baby, let me get you a drink.
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When you see the videos of back in the days, African-American families, suits, the way they
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A group of teenagers that became a phenomenon like the Beatles, N.W.A.
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Not only that, you got this group that know things about crack that the rest of America don't know.
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They the ones told us in songs, mothers smoke crack and your friends can have sex with them.
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You know how many of our aunties that end up doing that?
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You know how many guys that was in middle school that sold dope and his best friend mom was on dope and he ended up effing his best friend mom?
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It was the lyrical content that children was being able to have access to.
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Not only that, you got this music, which if you want to check the temperature of your youth mentality, listen to the music.
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So now you got this new chemical that was made in a laboratory.
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By the way, government taught somebody how to do this.
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So when they came out of California to come spread crack throughout America, who did they bring?
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Throughout the South, these little small country towns who people are fascinated by California from what we've seen on television.
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And we emulated a culture that was more destructive than the Ku Klux Klan and the Jim Crow system.
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There's a bunch of kids from the ghetto rapping.
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This is your boy Charleston White, a.k.a. America's Favorite Uncle.
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