SMH…… no words for that one

Kids today have no fear of their elders. My grandmother would have been at the police station with switch in hand waiting for me. LMAO.

He needs to be removed from his environment. If he's hanging with friends who smoke at such a young age….

Therapy (and a good ass whipping) wouldn't hurt either.

He's just a baby. Poor lil guy, he needs some attention (the good kind not the kind from CNN).

Lauren,

Hoodrat? I assume you think that this kid stealing this car has something to do with him being Black? If that is the case please explain the connection.

I have seen several stories over the years of kids taking a car, most were White kids. So I fail to see how race plays a part in this.

But I sure all the White people at Jossip love it when you post stuff like this.

Monie,
I think Lauren is referring to the boy calling himself a hoodrat—just read the article—

mannn….there is no way we can sit up here and divide the number of black car thefts to whites. and none of us can say one was more than another (unless you post some facts to back that ish up)

And sorry…..like It or not…Hoodrat is a stereotypical name that black folks use…..just ask the black rappers who use it in every other dag on song lol

Umm. What Lauren said.

Reading is fundamental!

This is why playing the race card is overrated, because certain individuals don't check out their sources before they start throwing accusations.

Little man said it him himself. He just wanted to do hoodrat things…

Cut me a switch, Lil Biggie!
I could hear my grandma right now. I wish I would have taken granny's white 'Lac for a ride. I think she would have made me into a hood ornament.

i just about fell off my chair when i saw this clip earlier today color me speechless!

A kid with at least one decent adult figure would not speak such rubbish. I definitely understand curiosity but that doing-bad-things-is-cool crap is beyond acceptability. Hell, I want to cut a switch and I'm mostly against child beating. This is asking for it.

If his grandma is raising him I can see why he is able to get away with stuff like this. The poor woman is probably overwhelmed. I hope his mother&father are not out in the streets smoking that stuff.

Okay, I just looked at the video. Grandma said she would give him a beating if she was not afraid of going to jail. The little boy is so cute but if someone does not pull him in, he will be behind bars in 10 years.

This is a problem we have in our society that goes far beyond the black community (although lots of attention have been brought to it by the likes of Bill Cosby and Barack Obama).

"Dangerous" men are glorified in our society, and intelligent geekiness is reviled. As an intelligent geek, I'm thorougly irritated.

Seriously, though, Hollywood has seen the same shtick of the dumbass f***up winning over the woman from her brainiac boyfriend time and time again. It makes you wonder who's making the movies.

Parenting has nothing to do with it. Kids are far more impressionable among their peers and what's in popular media.

I do believe that the meek shall inherit the earth. I just don't think they'll do that in this country.

Look on the bright side - kids of that age are still highly impressionable, so there is still a great deal of hope for him, given that he finds proper role models.

This poor kid needs discipline. Not neccessarily a beating, although that may make him more aware of his actions, but rules, boundaries, something. Put him in some sports, give him a book or a graphic novel (comic).
If he's 7 and can figure out how to drive for a sustantial amount of time before getting into an accident, the kid got smarts. Lol He reminds me of my god-son. Everyone gave up on him at 5 saying he was too bad & wouldn't listen. I take him everwhere with me. We went to an anime convention (yes, Anime!), and he was amazed.
Whoever said before I agree, he needs to be taken out of his environment and exposed to other things beside "hoodrat stuff."