I don’t know if its true or not, but is thug and gangsta culture dying off in the black community?
My impression (as an outsider looking in) is that it was partly fueled by black people being locked out of mainstream society socially and economically, and trying to find social status and money in street culture. But now that black people are better integrated into society this is less of an issue as people have ways to get money and status in legitimate ways with better integration and higher education levels.
Also street culture seems to involve a lot of collective internalized self hatred for black people. Black people bragging about victimizing other black people is a form of lateral violence as people express the collective hatred society feels for black people through victimizing other marginalized groups.
But are groups like black lives matter helping to build a meaningful sense of self worth in the black community, and a culture of celebrating black people who victimize each other and keep each other down is seen as odious within this new culture of higher self worth and collective worth?