Why Do We Call Our Neighborhoods The Hood?

Why don't we see Black / African American neighborhoods as adding value to the American culture? Should we call the places that we live "the hood", "hood" or neighborhood?

Please feel free to let me know your opinion. All thoughts and ideas are welcome. I want this to be place to express your comments with respect, in love and share different ways of thinking


The way out of the black poverty cycle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/05/31/the-way-out-of-the-black-poverty-cycle/
















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