"menace to society"

__so i was thinking...
__the movie's supposed to convey (presumably) a message of social responsibility, etc. right? but doesn't it really do just the opposite? consider o-dog, the care-free banger. you know, the only one to escape the ending credits w/ his life? isn't the real message that a young, urban, black man takes away from the film something along the lines of, "it doesn't really matter what you do, as long as you don't get caught"? or, "no quantity of right decisions can help you escape your ghetto fate"?
__i know for a fact that today, as we remembered the movie, o-dog was the star of the conversation.