# Thanks, Rodney Bethea, for your glorification of just what urban youth don't need

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-rodney-bethea-for-your-glorification-of-just-what-urban-youth-dont-need/431081>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 24, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-rodney-bethea-for-your-glorification-of-just-what-urban-youth-dont-need/431081 "2007-12-24T01:54:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-rodney-bethea-for-your-glorification-of-just-what-urban-youth-dont-need/431081/1 "2007-12-24T01:54:14Z")

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In your movie, [‘Stop Snitching 2’](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-md.ci.snitching23dec23,0,3641619.story?page=1&coll=bal_news_local_baltimore_county_xpromo), 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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**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-rodney-bethea-for-your-glorification-of-just-what-urban-youth-dont-need/431081/2 "2007-12-24T02:05:47Z")

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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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**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-rodney-bethea-for-your-glorification-of-just-what-urban-youth-dont-need/431081/3 "2007-12-24T03:11:41Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-rodney-bethea-for-your-glorification-of-just-what-urban-youth-dont-need/431081/4 "2007-12-24T04:52:44Z")

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Looking down on snitching isn’t exactly original to gangsta rap.

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**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-rodney-bethea-for-your-glorification-of-just-what-urban-youth-dont-need/431081/5 "2007-12-24T06:50:28Z")

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[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]  
Looking down on snitching isn’t exactly original to gangsta rap.  
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And yet, criticizing it is still valid, isn’t it? Did the OP claim that Bethea invented it?