1. Eliminate minimum wage laws. The correlation between increases in minimum wage and the unemployment rate among young black males is impossible to deny. The fact is that these kids can’t find jobs because they aren’t skilled enough to overcome the cost of the minimum wage and all the other costs of employment. They then can’t gain the valuable job and life skills necessary to support themselves and families one day. The alternative for many is to turn to dependency and subsistence or the black market in drugs and, eventually, prison.

2. End the War on Drugs. Gangs, fueled by lucrative profits from the illicit drug market recruit young boys to be mules and street dealers. These kids live a life of violence and danger and wind up contributing to the destruction of their neighborhoods and other lives. The War on Drugs is a gang price support program. End it, and the gangs which remain will be anemic compared to what they are today and without money or power to recruit on the scale that they do today.

Stop being a jive ass fool.

Stop gang banging.

Get a job or go to school. Whichever you do, take it seriously.

Join the real world. Thug life = short life.