Dang yall. That was definitely THE main plot of SBM. But observe the differences.
Early in BIDH, when the characters are still kids, they are just kind of messing around, when another little boy says that phrase. He then shows them a dead young black man. The scene is meant to show that not only was the neighborhood plagued by gang violence, but how desensitized the community was as a result.
They just briefly looked, and moved on. Later running into the possible killers. A group of slightly older, young black men.
Ice Cube’s character ends up going to juvy soon after, as he is becoming a violent person too.
Cuba Gooding JR’s character after a run in with LAPD, where a black cop points a gun at him as a teen, brings about a powerful moment where Cuba’s character just starts swinging at the air, in front of a girl he liked, and was losing his mind because of the way things are.
The other kid, who always had a football, was killed a bit before that.
In Stand By Me, the children are horrified when they finally find THAT body. The body of a “slow” kid, who was hit by a train.
The boys in the two movies, have completely opposite reactions.
All the different responses to Loli’s pic, reminded me of how much our culture has been changing to see such things as normal.
I know that some of us looked at the pick, after seeing other’s comments.
I didn’t blink, looking at the photo.
I barely even cared, the last time I was shot at. One of the primary reasons I retired from law enforcement.
I had also struck a man, for touching my face during an altercation about that same time. He WAS being really aggressive, but I should not have struck him. I was becoming someone I didn’t like.
In America especially, we see the outcomes of our violent culture far too often.