@Etagloc
I never met him until last year. 23 years absent.
you come from generations of "doing the right thing". You probably grew up with your dad. So if you went around your family you would be around people doing... whatever "doing the right thing" looks... I wouldn't know about that.
I grew up in the city, in the ghetto, with daily homicides and crime left and right. My family was well off despite their surroundings.
My dad was a drug dealer but I grew up without him. I don't know really even know who my dad is, I grew up not knowing him.
My family.... I come from generations of drug addicts. My family.... drug addiction, gangbanging, all types of negative stuff.
Now someone can point the finger at the people in family but what else is in my family? Schizophrenia and mental instability. People don't choose to have those sorts of issues.
I mean... if you came from generations of mentally unstable drug addicts, how would you be?
My mother has bipolar and mania. Her father had MPD. I'm fine. Results may vary.
I am not saying it isn't cool for you to come from a good family. Nor am I saying it isn't cool for you to be doing positive things. But if you come from a good family and you simply manage to reproduce the positive, good cycles that you were born into... I mean... it's just rigged.
It's just as easy to do the right thing as it is to do the wrong thing.
If you come from a "good" family, it's just rigged- of course you're going to do positive things. If you come from a messed up family, you're going to do other things.
That's an ignorant statement. It's not unheard of in my family or in others for there to be those that never or take longer to get "onboard".
I don't think someone is better or worse because of what family they come from. And that's crazy cuz you can't expect other people to be like what you described if you don't come from the sort of family they come from.
I'm not expecting anything from anyone but noting what I believed to be a missing component.
You sound like middle-class from middle-class background and it's not cool that the ones from the slums might look at you funny but I also understand because it's like Kendrick Lamar said, "that's a lifestyle that we never knew". If you're born into some lifestyle you can't get mad at other people for not being born into that lifestyle.
We've been poor before to the point of only eating beans and hotdogs for a year with my only real meals coming from school. The generation before me has been poor because they relied on the work schedule of GMC. We weren't excluded from poverty. crime, discrimination, bad neighborhoods, drugs, mental illness, one parent homes and wtf ever else I don't "know". I don't really understand how or where you drew such ludicrous and baseless accusations from me giving an example.
