Week 10 readings

bell hooks explains that black males feel as though they will have a better life if they do not work and just become hustlers of the street.  While I don't completely disagree with that, what she does not put in there is whether they were brought up this way or if they just assumed the role of a hustler from seeing maybe a make fatherly figure do it or just others on the streets doing it.  I wouldn't think that someone would think that would be the life to live without someone showing them that it was okay and a way to provide a good life for themselves or their family.  She states that most of them end up in prison and it's just a way to survive, become part of a gang, become a part of their culture.  Well what about the culture of working, how has the life they may have lived not want to make them want to better themselves.  I know they have the mentality of wanting their money now, setting their own hours, not having a dress code, etc., but why is it that even on television do we show that, "money is god, and the outlaw guy who breaks the rules prevails". (hooks 168).  I guess coming from a home that taught me morals and that you had to work to survive was the only way to be I feel like everyone should be that way, but everyone has someone who could have taught them that doing illegal things is not the way to go.