5 Issues Still Plaguing the Black Community

 Here's just a short list of things I came up with while brainstorming some inconsistencies in changes within our community. This is all just opinionated and on things that I don't think there has been widespread progress in. I'm not going to focus on what led to these issues in this blog post, but maybe in a separate post I'll go over what caused these issues or has contributed to it. 

1.) Problematic Rap Lyrics: Since Gangsta Rap, rap lyrics have been under fire for a while for inciting violence, glamourizing crime, and popularizing wrong aspects of urban life.


2.) Lack of Community Leaders and Positive Influencers: Role models are hard to come by in our world, but it's extremely difficult for young people in the black community to find people to look up to that's not celebrities or athletes. Nothing's wrong with looking up to either one, but sometimes these role models aren't accessible for the youth and aren't in the communities directly making changes. 


3.) Education: Education is still an area that could continue to empower us, but it's not something taken seriously in urban communities. Literacy rates continue to be low, and our children suffer in schools because of it and in the real world.


4.) Poverty: Poverty rates is still high in our communities and without formal and informal education, it will continue to be hard for our people to qualify for decent paying jobs to break this cycle. 


5.) Drugs & Alcohol Use: Both of these breaks down our bodies and our minds. Yet we generationally allow our kids to pick up the same habits that destroyed us or other loved ones, not keeping these toxins from ever being introduced to their lives. 

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