“You don't have to live like this. There's a lot more than these projects here, you know. Don't you want to go somewhere you've never been before? You like trains, but you only took the metro” (Clockers, 1995). Andre worked as a street cop in Brooklyn. His message was simple, but could easily be lost in translation. The message was intended for Strike Dunham, a 19-year-old African-American drug dealer. Strike was involved in drug dealing from a young age. When he began selling crack and illegal drugs, his life took a different direction than his older brother, Victor. Rodney, who mentors Strike and is the drug kingpin of the Brooklyn Projects, has other plans for Strike. As Strike had learned from Rodney in the past, he now mentors his own protégé, Tyrone, an 11-year-old boy who hangs out with Strike (Rich, 2012, p.1). The film shows that the anti-crime agenda of the mid-1990s was misinterpreted and misdirected within the inner city. The racial disparity, hardship, discrimination and loss of life of minorities living in the inner city during the 1990s were due to social injustices and a misinterpretation of how to solve the problems of drug trafficking and violence in the city center. Clockers is a 1995 American crime film directed by Spike Lee. In a Brooklyn housing project, a group of street drug dealers sell and distribute, working for a local drug lord. The film is an adaptation of the 1992 novel by Richard Price, who helped write the screenplay with Lee. “Clockers” are low-level adolescent drug dealers working in one of Brooklyn's most crime-ridden neighborhoods (Clockers, 1995). The war on crack in the 1990s was controlled by racial disparities. This den......middle of paper......is harm placed on young black men as they grow up in neighborhoods most at risk for violence, drug dealing and crime . They have few options, fewer role models and no way out of the cycle of violence. Tyrone begins dating Strike and during this time he gets a haircut at Rodney's barbershop. Tyrone's mother discovers that her son is hanging out with Strike and decides to confront him in front of his other drug dealers. Angry and upset, she said, “You are nothing but a bunch of good-for-nothings and mortal bastards! You are selling the death of your own people! I can’t let you do that” (McManus, 1995, p. 2). Her message is no different than any other mother caring for her son. She wants to see her son get out of the neighborhood and do something other than become a victim of violence or crack cocaine, or become a murderer behind bars..