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Black America: “I love the 90’s sociopath.”

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Each decade tends to have its own idiosyncrasies that make it distinct from others, but the 90’s has proven to be perennial in regards to some elements of Black America and hip-hop culture.  The 90’s felt new .  I assume that every generation of kids feels like the new kids on the block but the 90’s was a fast moving technological period.  We talked different, we walked different, and sure we as hell thought differently too.  I remember being an adolescent in the 90’s when gun violence had its birth of being the new epidemic.  It wasn’t crack from the 80’s or the uprising of young political blacks from the 70’s.  The 90’s brought a new, deadly style of thinking.  People have been killing each other since the beginning of time but the 90’s appears to have been the birth place for increasingly deadly mentalities and belief systems.  Around this time in Pittsburgh gangs were very active and for what may have arguably been the first time in the history of parenting, many parents a