I know that I can't be the only person who has noticed what seems to be a "trend" of topic among black people our age. It seems like black people, mainly dudes, are always braggin about who comes from the roughest neighborhood or went to the roughest school, and they will diss somebody who may be from a nicer neighborhood. I see this a lot at FAMU and probably every other school I know about. For example, people from NY will be arguin about somethin and then one will be like "you don't know anyway, you are from the burbs, I live in the middle of the hood" and I hear it a lot from people from L.A. It's people from Carson, which is a nice suburb in my opinion, who will always compare their "hood" to other cities and talk about how hard the people in their hood are and all else.
How long has it been better to be raised in a bad neighborhood? Where I grew up is somethin between good and bad, it isn't Watts but damn sure ain't Beverly Hills. But if I was from a nice suburb, I would definitely not be ashamed of it, and if I was from a bad hood, i definitely wouldn't go around braggin about it like it makes me hard just because I was from a hard hood. Are people actin like this because thas the same thing the rappers do?
i been in the burbs all ma life.... born in Georgetown, D.C. (not exactly the burbs but the white part of a majority black city)>> lived in Silver Spring, MD>>> moved 2 Upper Marlboro, MD>>> and finally in BOWIE, one of the most quiet places in md... gets VERY BORING.. :?
well, i was raised in a bad part of an overall good area. crime was not huge, but it was there, and when it happenbed it was REALLY ba... i live in University City... the first "county" west of North St. Louis City... now over there is bad, but of course there is worse. for example.... i have lost probably 6 classmates of mine starting from the third grade because of ****... arson to a house... father killing wife and child...crackhead killing teen over pizza... **** accidents... rapes at Heman Park. etc etc. U-City can be kinda twisted... but nonetheless, i have dealt with it, and was brought up in a fashion where my surroundings didnt sway to me to negative things.... i ws always about my business....and even though U-City, and St. Louis too, is a screwed up town, i still wouldn't have wanted to be in some ritz craker looking, cookie cutter subdivision, everyone is the same, type place. being in the first county west of the city, helped me be who i am... who knows what would have happened if i was out in saint charles, or chesterfield...
you woulda been out of touch if you ever came to the city......
ay what part of Atlanta or Ga you from
Oh, I'm not from GA. I'm from St. Louis (Hazelwood to be exact). I stay in GA however.
