The Cabrini Green Syndrome

A federal judge had to order 12 remaining families to evacuate the Cabrini Green housing projects that are being torn down. They refused to leave the building that has been deemed unsafe, unhealthy and a financial burden to the city and it's residents. When I read this, something clicked in my mind.
"A federal judge had to MAKE people leave a place that is being torn down."
Isn't this kinda of ironic when it comes to people who live in areas such as Cabrini Green? No offense to those people but many people grow up in this environment and have children. Their children grow up in this environment and have children. Then THEY grow up in this environment and have children. Pretty soon, you have three generations of one family that grow up in an area like Cabrini Green, a place where there is no hope and no signs of prosperity. When that happens what has been created is a "this is the way things are" type of mentality, where people don't think they can do better or deserve better.
Of course I'm not painting every one of these folks with a broad brush but you know as well as I do that many people get settled and don't make an effort to try and better their lives. They're content with where they are and the only way to get them out of that place physically and mentality is for something to happen that forces them to leave.
But sometimes even when they are forced to leave (that place or mentality), they are still content with being stuck there.
It's like an old hip hop song by one of my old favorite groups, Mobb Deep. There's a line in their song "Survival of the Fit", where they proclaim:
"No matter how much loot I get I'm staying in the projects.....FOREVER".
THAT type of thinking is one of the major problems we as a people have to deal with......being MENTALLY stuck in a place that we are PHYSICALLY able to leave.
Thus, the Cabrini Green Syndrome!