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It's The Culture....

Mike

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It's A Thug's Life At Drexel Or........... Culture Counts
BillLawrenceOnline.Com ^ | 7-27-10


A trio of young black men who are students at Drexel University in Philadelphia allegedly followed through on a convoluted plot to rob a female student at gunpoint in her apartment and are now charged with robbery, theft, assault, weapon offenses and conspiracy which are felonies and mean a pretty screwed-up life if convicted.

Two of men, Jamie Harris and Kevin Phillip, both 21 from New York City, are scholarship players on the school's Divison I basketball team which last year went 16-16 and finished fifth in the Colonial Athletic Association.

Harris, the team's starting point guard and leading scorer, was a third-team, all-conference selection.

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Authorities and others expressed puzzlement as to why young men would throw away such promising lives. Well, culture counts Sherlock. If the music to which you listen glorifies the thug life; and the magazines you read and movies you watch glamorize those who lead such lives; and your community leaders give you a wink and tell you it should be part of your experience; and if your preachers give you something other than the Gospel and tell you theft and violence are legitimate responses to the condition they tell you you're in; and if your schools reinforce that message; and if the general media does not contradict it; and if there is no father around to set you straight; expect to be a young man facing felony charges.

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