Why does black culture glorify thugs rather than real leaders like Frederick Douglass or MLK?

Answer 1

Because learning about the past would take education and education isn't as important as looking gangsta.

Answer 2

It's the same as other cultures. We glorify Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, MLK, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Farrakhan, Mary McCleod Bethune etc. but we also love music just the same as other cultures although I wouldn't say it's GLORIFICATION. How about whites glorifying Cobain and other crack users? What's the difference?? Stop stereotyping blacks, all races do exactly the same thing!

Answer 3

I wouldn't say its Black folk, but maybe today's youth. Young white boys think they are 50 cent now and glorify him. I think it is a cultural thing with the youth, because myself, my parents and grandparents don't like the "thug" thing too much.

Answer 4

Martin Luther King was a race-hustler just like Jesse Jackson. He was built into an icon after the fact, but he was, in life, an adulterer, drug-user, and fraud.

There is one prominent black leader, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, who is actually a very wise and noble leader. Unfortunately, his views are seldom heard because they do not coincide with the victim, "gimme" mentality that most blacks find attractive.

Answer 5

The older part of black culture still does ( as do whites). It's the younger set who are into hip hop and rap that don't seem to get it.

Answer 6

Rebels against the government? Since most (not all, but most) just can't get the f**k over the past, get their act together, and get a real job and care for themselves, and ask the government to pay for them since they were slaves for years and such?

Sad, really.

Answer 7

Because they don't make chart topping music.

Answer 8

yawn