Triumph Of Felons And Failure By BOB HERBERT NYTimes

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Triumph Of Felons And Failure
By BOB HERBERT; DAVID BROOKS IS OFF TODAY.
Published: August 24, 2006
New York Times


"I was browsing at a newsstand in Manhattan recently when I came across a magazine called Felon. It was the ''Stop Snitchin' '' issue, and the first letter to the editor began: ''Yo, wassup Felon!''

Another letter was from ''your nigga John-Jay,'' who was kind enough to write: ''To my bitches, I love ya'll.''

Later I came across a magazine called F.E.D.S., which professes to be about ''convicted criminals--street thugs--music--fashion--film--etc.'' The headline ''Stop Snitching'' was emblazoned on the cover. ''Hundreds of kilos of coke,'' said another headline, ''over a dozen murders,'' and ''no one flipped.''

What we have here are symptoms of a depressing cultural illness, frequently fatal, that has spread unchecked through much of black America.

...SNIP"

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1. I would say the *WH suffers from the same "stop snitching" campaign

that Herbert is talking about amongst criminal gangs. What is the difference between the two? Really. There is also a campaign to stop good information on good governance and things like universal health care.

"What we have here are symptoms of a depressing cultural illness, frequently fatal, that has spread unchecked through much of black America."