Sentence examples for hood mentality from inspiring English sources
"If you have an entourage that is too aligned with the hood mentality, and doesn't appreciate what it is that you're doing, that will be the end.
"You grow out of that hood mentality.
While Lucent put on the gloss of a new-economy dynamo, under the hood lurked many old Ma Bell mechanisms and mentalities.
"It was a knock on haute and bad fashion and the whole consumer culture and enslaved market mentality," said David Mason, a milliner who made the hood.
Gracefully and without rancor, Ms. Keys's songs contest the hip-hop mentality that often reduces women to party toys or hood ornaments.
Instead of playing basketball that thing like, "To get out the hood you better rap or play ball"—this is like my basketball in the gallery mentality.
Cuyahoga County assistant prosecutor James Gutierrez argued that Cleveland police were operating under a "mob mentality" that night and Brelo went "way, way too far" when he jumped on the hood of the car.
"Kids with that 'hood mentality don't care if the football players get along," he said.
It is good that Mr. Steele sees the error of his ways; it is beyond me, however, why this sort of "sucker, sucker" game is assigned to to black identity, and not a certain Robin Hood mentality equally attributable to con artists everywhere.
