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Old 12-23-2007, 07:54 PM
danceswithcats danceswithcats is offline
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Thanks, Rodney Bethea, for your glorification of just what urban youth don't need

In your movie, 'Stop Snitching 2', the gangsta life which leads so many inner city kids down a path leading in either death or incarceration could have been used as a venue to direct them away from toxic lifestyles.

Instead, it looks like the only thing you're interested in doing is lining your filthy pockets.

I don't buy it that:
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People are surviving the only way they know how.
Men and women have made up their minds to escape the cycle of drug dealing and crime, but rather than champion those who do, you put the spotlight on those who prey upon their fellow citizens.

To call you a piece of shit is too good-shit is at least able to be used as fertilizer, and help a healthy plant to grow.
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Old 12-23-2007, 08:05 PM
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I'm sure that Rodney could be used as fertilizer after some time in a compost bin.
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Old 12-23-2007, 09:11 PM
GingerOfTheNorth GingerOfTheNorth is offline
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On my drive through Baltimore on the way to work, I go through East Baltimore (where an awful lot of drug crime and murders happen). I see a lot of kids wear the Stop Snitching t-shirts. I hope to all things good that they really don't believe that's what you're supposed to do.
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Old 12-23-2007, 10:52 PM
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Looking down on snitching isn't exactly original to gangsta rap.
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Old 12-24-2007, 12:50 AM
Contrapuntal Contrapuntal is offline
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Looking down on snitching isn't exactly original to gangsta rap.
And yet, criticizing it is still valid, isn't it? Did the OP claim that Bethea invented it?
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