Philadelphia Freedom?

A robbery or mugging attack in Philadelphia is often much different than in DC or NY. It is still a working-class city, and many of the delivery men, gas men, and cable men were raised not to take any shit. In their code of the streets, you fought with fists anyone who was attacking you, no matter how they did it.
Unfortunately, many have come up against a more rigid code of the ghetto: you will be shot dead if you don't do exactly what the gunman says. It doesn't matter whether he is 16 and bone-skinny, you can't fight that tiny pistol he has hidden in his waistband.
The attack becomes an assault on their working-class masculinity, against who they are. For this reason, you see a lot more fighting-back killings than elsewhere. It's not DC, NY, or Boston, where the prey is professional class, and they'll quickly recover what they have lost in the attack.
In the Philadelphia cases, an attack on your attacker becomes just dessert. All of us, except for liberals raised in college towns (wait, that's me!) have fantasized about a little payback for loud youths, ghetto youths who curse at everyone, and just simple harassers who should be taught a lesson. Charles Bronson never looked so good.
I don't know the solution, but it has to be portrayed as a kind of mainstreaming. The German Jews of the 1800s established "settlement houses" to get eastern European Jews to acclimate. They did it well, especially in that era of industrial demand tempered by institutional anti-semitism.
The difference in society now is 1) blacks were not meant to be entertainment for the greater culture (think rap, NBA, comedians), and 2) there was a solid demand for labor. It is the second of these that is by far most important, especially in establishing black families and communities. And it has been men who have been not achieving at such a deficit than black women. It is time to lift them no matter what - for the peace and prosperity of a greater nation.