bluejays4360
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- Aug 22, 2021
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I posted this question awhile earlier, and perhaps I may have elaborated on it a little too much, and thus it got misinterpreted. The reason, however, that I wish to ask this question is because I'm a white Puerto Rican kid who grew up on 141st Street and St. Nicholas Ave in Harlem, NYC. I also grew up with a single mother who had dementia, which also wasn't easy. That entire time I wore pretty raggedy clothing since I didn't have much else, and most people scorned me for that. They thought I was trying to wear those clothes, as if I was some sort of wannabe. As I got older though, it only got worse. A kid wearing clothes like that could easily be passed off as a misguided try-hard, but the vast majority of white adults who wear clothes like that are in fact undercover police.
Long story short, I went through some pretty tumultuous circumstances that I'd never wish on my own kids, and going through all that stuff I was always alone since nobody took my complaints seriously.
So, yeah, long story short, living in the ghetto sucks, especially when you're alone.
So my question is... why? Why does this "ghetto" even exist? Who decided that? Why is it a good idea? How is this an alternative to slavery? The way I see it is blacks in this country spout about freedom this and freedom that but have no clue what they plan to do with that freedom except bang on bongo drums and spite white people in rap music.
I work in the music industry as an artist manager with many Dominican artists, plenty of whom appear and also identify basically as black. Trust me, these people were the FIRST individuals that gave me their solidarity, which proves that even black people believe in slavery in the 21st century. So WTF
Edit: I hope I didn't write this too long again LMAOO life is complicated.
Long story short, I went through some pretty tumultuous circumstances that I'd never wish on my own kids, and going through all that stuff I was always alone since nobody took my complaints seriously.
So, yeah, long story short, living in the ghetto sucks, especially when you're alone.
So my question is... why? Why does this "ghetto" even exist? Who decided that? Why is it a good idea? How is this an alternative to slavery? The way I see it is blacks in this country spout about freedom this and freedom that but have no clue what they plan to do with that freedom except bang on bongo drums and spite white people in rap music.
I work in the music industry as an artist manager with many Dominican artists, plenty of whom appear and also identify basically as black. Trust me, these people were the FIRST individuals that gave me their solidarity, which proves that even black people believe in slavery in the 21st century. So WTF
Edit: I hope I didn't write this too long again LMAOO life is complicated.