I hear you bredren. I thank God every day my son is grown and that he was never into the thug lifestyle, which is even more pervasive today. So it's more of a challenge to parents raising teenagers now. Believe me, I know people who are middle and upper middle class whose male children felt a need to be "Black" and who are now paying the price. And of course the version of "black" they were following is the one where you have to be uneducated and walking around with your pants below your bum and unable to hold a decent conversation.

The shame of it is these millionaire rappers can live the pretend-thug lifestyle on video and return home to their million-dollar mansions riding in their $250,000 Bentleys.

Hold your ground, bredren. Your boys will thank you for it when they get over this phase of their development.