This behavior is passed down and encouraged by their elders. I personally know people including kids that have been shot simply for being black in Long Beach and all throughout SOCAL.
Today, for the first time, I witnessed the harrowing image of Martin Luther King Jr.’s grief-stricken father being carried from his son’s funeral—a moment of unbearable sorrow rarely seen. This footage remains largely obscured, for they wish you to remember King only as a dreamer, not as a man whose life was violently taken, a martyr silenced by the very forces he sought to hold accountable, the United States Government.
-Rahiem Shabazz-
Lord Jamar delivers an insightful and articulate breakdown of the term Foundational Black Americans and the concept of a Tether during his discussion about Fat Joe, lol