This Is America: Guns and Money, The Urban Children’s Birthday Party You Have to See to Believe

By Ben Bartee
Global Research, November 15, 2023
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At what appears to be a culturally enriched children’s birthday gathering in some American city — Chicago, possibly, or Atlanta; it doesn’t really matter because the “urban” culture has been synthesized and exported by the media machine from coast to coast — a pair of children, one apparently 7 or 8 in an Air Jordan t-shirt and the other looking not a day over 3 in an Air Jordan track suit, can be seen waving (fake) cash and probably fake guns in the same manner that can be seen in damn near every rap video from the last twenty years.

These kids’ young minds have obviously been treated to a steady diet of World Star Hip Hop videos — the cornerstone of any nutritious upbringing.

The unfortunate conclusion the viewer is forced to draw is that this is going to influence their future. 

And it’s not their fault.

This is the culture of “gun violence and money” they were born into, and basic sociology firmly establishes that the manner in which a child is socialized at the familial and community level early on has an influence, in no small measure, on how they relate to, and interact with, broader society later on in life. 

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This article was originally published on the author’s Substack, Armageddon Prose.

Ben Bartee, author of Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile, is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

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