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These numbers led to chicago's all too depressing nickname chiraq, which makes it sound like it's not in america any more. this narrative being too dangerous to live in pisses me off. as many in the media, sorry, cnn, are painting this city with one big scary black brush, when in fact like all cities with crime problems, the violence is coming from very specific areas with very specific reasons. and in chicago, it's the south side and the west side. while there are many factors to this, one thing that shouldn't be overlooked is the other reputation that chicago has, which is being known as one...

About over here. >> you run over by a baby stroller. >> this is a ridiculously safe neighborhood, and you have those in chicago just as you have hoods in every city. >> a lot of people in chicago, that would be the main thing. why y'all can't squash this? a lot of people can. it ain't about what you can do. a lot of people don't want to. see what i'm saying? it even about being a bigger man as a human. you take one of my brothers or cousins, every day i'm going to wake up missing them. see what i'm saying? if i see one of your people, that's what makes me want to retaliate. >> they don't reali...

>> nah, nah. >> not only have they not met each other, it becomes instantly apparent to me they have no idea who the hell i am. this room felt like the tension, and i was cast in the role of the uncool vice principal. >> i live in california now and when i tell people i was coming out to chicago, everybody was like -- there's this weird thing. uh-oh. >> get shot. >> yeah, you're going to get shot. you have to join a gang and this nonsense. >> when i hear people talk about coming to chicago and they are afraid to even come to the city, what they don't recognize is that so much of the violence i...

I would do everything to hear stone love. go beat shorty up, i'm going to do that so they can say stone love, shorty. that meant everything. i still feel it right now. >> i can tell, yeah. >> love is really -- to be accepted in a group, man, that's human, man. that's any -- >> everybody wants that. >> everybody wants that. >> i know somebody loves me and somebody has my back. >> yes, sir. >> you're still connected to the youth out here. >> oh, yeah, no question. i mean, these shorties is ebk. everybody kill them. they're not really -- gang structure is different. >> don't be fooled. that struc...

And have economic power. if the ability to take care of your family is one of those things that marks manhood in a capitalist society, and i am not given fair access to the labor market, then sometimes violence becomes a means. >> but a lot of this, from what i understand, people think is back to how black men in this city feel like they have to express their masculinity in a lot of our media, in a lot of our role models, all about be a man. >> we have to allow for multiple types of masculinities to exist. partly in we're speaking about black folks, black masculinity. there is no stereotypical...