You need to fix the culture before any of that will work.
The kids that do try and better themselves in school are ostracized by the rest. How the hell do you combat that?
that culture is a product of their environment, you have to change the environment. Jobs will do it. When they see the men in the community going to work every day, earning an honest days pay, the culture will start to change. who do they have as a role model in their community now? Lenny the crack dealer down on the corner? They need real men and women in their own communities to see as role models. this is one time when the change is going to come from the top down. When the start hearing the men joking each other about who produced more at work, or who got promoted etc... instead of who banged who's ho last night, their outlook will change.
None of this is going to change over night. but it has to start somewhere, we know building up schools wont work, flooding the community with small business loans wont work, handing the welfare generation after generation never worked. Jobs are pretty much the last thing to try.
Lenny the crack dealer doesnt want a job,and the others see him making money with very little effort and they want to do the same.
Than you have rap music glorifying the life style and that only compounds the problem.
These people like the gansta lifestyle.
In my opinion the best cure would be having a two parent household where dads around to square the little shits when they start acting the fool. Unfortunately that takes us right back to the culture problem.
ok, we have tried Big Brother programs, dont work, we have tried pumping more money in the schools, dont work, we have tried jailing them by the thousands for simple weed busts, dont work, we have tried just killing them then finding out if they did anything wrong, really didnt work, we have tried giving them free money, didnt work.
What havent we tried? oh yeah, work with a take home pay that they could support a family on (with a little help from government assistance) what do we have to lose? nothing. Give them jobs so they can see a way out of the shithole they are currently stuck in