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TELLIN' IT RAW... KEEPIN' IT REAL

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Reaching Your Hip-Hop Acculturated Client

• Louisiana Association of Drug Court Professionals
• April 11-13, 2012
• New Orleans
• P.O. Wallace Green, LICDC
• [phone]
• GREENW_at_CLEVELANDMUNICIPALCOURT.ORG

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• Today, Blacks comprise 62 percent of imprisoned
  drug offenders, though they are
• only 13 percent of the national population.
• One out of every 115 black males enters prison
  each year on a felony drug crime, compared with
  one of every 1,150 white men, according to the
  Bureau of Justice Statistics.
• Black youths are admitted to state correction
  facilities for drug offenses at 48 times the rate
  of white youths, according to a report by the
  Building Blocks for Youth Initiative. Bureau of
  Justice Statistics

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• There are more African Americans under
  correctional control today -- in prison or jail,
  on probation or parole -- than were enslaved in
  1850, a decade before the Civil War began.

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Barriers to Effectiveness

• Lack of cultural sensitivity, knowledge,
  awareness, and competence
• Not covered in your mandatory diversity training
• Brought on in large part by political
  correctness

(National Maternal and Child Health Center on
Cultural Competency, 1997).
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The Death of Arthur Buford age 15

• Define a thug. Nearly all compare a thug to
  trying to fit in.
• He could have been in hard times and needed
  money.
• But they didnt get anything. If they didnt
  get anything, then its just a stick up and its
  not illegal. Three agree with her.
• 9 of 17 hands go up / every hand goes up
• But you cant have juvenile delinquency without
  1st having adult delinquency

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Bridges Out of Poverty Unwritten Rules of
Survival
Dreussi Smith, Terie. (2001). Bridges Out of
Poverty. Highland TX. Aha! Process, Inc.
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Definition of Hip Hop

• A form of popular culture that started in the
  African American inner-city areas (Bronx),
  characterized by rap music, graffiti art, and
  break dancing. MCing, DJing, spit boxing,
  fashion, slang and style are also important
  elements of hip hop. The term has since come to
  be a synonym for hip hop music and rap to
  mainstream audiences.

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Welcome to Death Row clip.wmv

• Gangsta raps rise to power (Xenon Pictures)

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Rise to Power

• 1986 1001 crack cocaine law goes into effect
• Dope dealers become dope boyz
• The underground economy exposed
• High profile Mafia Don John Gotti rises to power
• Snoop goes on trial for murder
• Street Cred - violence sells

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Salvatore Lo Piccolo The B.O.A.B. Arrested
November 5, 2007
BBC News November 7, 2007(newsbbc.co.uk)
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Mafia Ten Commandments

• No one can present himself directly to another of
  our friends. There must be a third person to do
  it.
• Never look at the wives of friends.
• Never be seen with cops.
• Don't go to pubs and clubs.
• Always being available for Cosa Nostra- even if
  your wife is about to give birth.

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Mafia Ten Commandments

• Appointments must absolutely be respected.
• Wives must be treated with respect.
• When asked for any information, the answer must
  be the truth.
• Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to
  others or to other families
• People who can't be in anyone who behaves badly
  / has no moral values.

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T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.

• The
• Hate
• U
• Gave
• Little
• Infants
• F !
• Everybody

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Value Identification-1) What do you value?2)
How can I tell?
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Re Habilitation (Thing of the Past)Middle
Class Values (The Script)

• Family
• Education
• Career
• Spirituality
• Security
• Freedom
• Health
• Property
• What made AA successful

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The Clients True (Hidden) Hip- Hop Values
(Habilitation)

• Tennis Shoes
• Clothes
• Cars
• Rims
• Music
• Sex (risky)
• Jewelry (fronts)
• Being cool
• Women / Men
• Tattoos

• Props
• Fads
• Welfare
• Crime Hit a Lick prison
• Slang
• Respect / Props
• Quick money
• Working a job
• Hustle
• Gangs

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The Client is being Played

• No matter how far down the economic scale the
  client might be, no one likes to be taken
  advantage of
• Clients values are all depreciating

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THE BILLION DOLLAR BENEFICIARIES

• Beer /Wine / Spirit Companies
• Car Dealers
• Check Cashing establishments
• Designers / Jewelers
• Phil Knight
• Hospitals (Interns)
• Human Service Workers
• Treatment Providers
• Drug Lords (not to be confused with dealers)
• The criminal justice system
• Police, prisons, courts, etc
• Rappers
• ALL TO THE TUNE OF over 100 BILLION PER YEAR
• THE CLIENTS ARE BIGGER THAN EXXON

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Slangvalue depreciating

• Vocabulary test
• The difference between words and language
• Game recognizes game

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What do you get for 150.00?
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FUBU the Original Design Idea
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King baby is still sleepin! The clients world
is OK

• King Babys Bubble
• Lookin good.
• Sumin ta drink.
• Sumin ta smoke.
• Sumin ta hustle.
• Sumin ta sex with.
• Some money to flash.
• Some boyz to hang wit.
• Car to drive.
• Music to blast.
• My worldz all right
• Soldier? In whoz army?

Adopted from King Baby, Tom Cunningham
Hazelden books
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We can see your valuesYou are only telling
yourself
Dress Code

• Who are you trying to impress and what can they
  do for you? Who is not impressed?
• You respect the streets more than the court?

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What is your net worth?

• It costs 27,272.00 to house a prisoner for one
  year in a federal prison.
• To net the same amount you would have to be
  earning aprox. 35,565.00 per year.
• Question Are you worth more behind bars, than
  on the street?

60 billion for 2.2 million Prisoners -2006
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Your Hip Hop Stars Behind Bars
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Poverty is not caused by lack of money

• Poor Financially

• Poor skills
• Poor self discipline
• Poor impulse control
• Poor focus ability
• Poor delayed grat. ability
• Poor ability to reason
• Poor education
• Poor financial management

The art of the Hustle
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What are you investing in?
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More Blacks and Hispanics Live in Prison Cells
Than in College Dorms

• By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press
  WriterWASHINGTON Sep 27, 2007 (AP)

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Beer, wine and spirit companies know the
MATHEMATICS OF ADDICTION

• ADDICTION Q/F

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The Constitution of the United States of America
This is the rule book for the competition for
goods and services. There is not enough to go
around, period.
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The RR Tool Box

• Know your roll / Know your goal
• Environmental control Create dissonance
• Experience, knowledge, recommendations when
  asked.
• Create dissonance hold up the mirror
• Know when to step in
• Relationship a dance, not a wrestling match

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The RR Tool Box

• Let the client take ownership
• Let the client fill out all paperwork
• Progress notes, court reports, urine slips,
  discharge summaries
• They can write what they want (so can you)
• Takes away the secrecy
• Gives the client buy in

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The RR Tool Box

• Use unscripted questions
• Is this the way you envisioned it?
• Rating scale questions followed by follow up
  questions
• The one thing that really gets on my nerves about
  this whole process is__
• Who are you good for?
• We all have emotions its when they have us we
  are in trouble. When was the last time they had
  you?

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The RR Tool Box

• Learn the art of the deal
• Treat me like the dope man and not a dope
• Keep a job handy
• Keep greeting cards handy
• Call at odd hours
• Focus on the difference between problems and
  trouble

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The RR Tool Box

• Stay behavior focused
• You can act your way into right thinking quicker
  that you can think your way into right acting
• Look out for the wind up
• Vocabulary Test
• The importance of language

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Rounding out the tool box

• Avoiding the No Win situation
• Fighting the right war at the right time
• Right vs. Wrong / Success vs. Failure
• The client has to L.I./E.
• Learn Intellect over Emotion 
• The importance of discipline
• The ability to do what is in your best interest
• when you dont feel like it

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T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E for real

• The belief that whatever damage I may do to
  others is OK because others have damaged me. I
  want what I want now and I don't care what I have
  to do to get it, or who I damage or destroy in
  the process. I feel no remorse, and regard
  conscience as a sign of weakness. I don't
  consider the future because I know I have none.
  When I die I will leave behind little copies of
  myself who will have to struggle with the thug
  lifestyle I've left behind. I will be mourned by
  none and forgotten by all, because it was easier
  to be a thug than a husband, father, brother,
  employer, employee, or friend.

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T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E for real

• You can wrap thug life in all the bulls_at__at_!
  nickel slick sounding acronyms you want it's
  still the way of the loser. Suburbanites, can
  play thug life and go home to mommy and daddy
  when they get tired of it. Where will you be and
  where will your kids go when the thug lifestyle
  gets tired of you?