fayner, i remember something on your site to the effect of you getting bagged with some bolivian marching powder and living to tell about it. cops are dumb and shit the bed all the time, but say you're not white and you're stuck with some public defender with a cheap suit and a 150 on his LSATs.. you're going to do time. what do you the odds are a black dude in his 20's could drive around newton for a few days and avoiding being stopped and searched? i'd say half of the people pulled over are minorities(i'm from chestnut hill, we don't even let lawn crews in without torment), and given the lack of streetball tournaments it's not half black.

the majority of those who succeed in avenues outside slinging crack rock or having a wicked jump shot have done so at the cost of acceptance by their own race. i don't think they have the right to complain they are expected to comport themselves like everyone else does-it's a major disruption to getting things done. but you've gotta be tough as tt boy experiencing amphetamine psychosis to choose to basically never have the ability to go home again. i'd be fucking pissed off if my life started out shitty and that was the decision i had to make to ameliorate it.
yeah, it's self-defeating to venerate deceased degenerate rappers and the whole keeping it real ethos, but the fact is a kid in queensbridge raised by a mom rocking shit up in the kitchen doesn't have a shot. when your parent has no shot at passing tests 8th graders at nobles do, you're just fucked. you've got a window until your very early teens to get the right ammino acids and exercise your thinking in certain ways that basically determines ability. when you're old enough to get away from a garbage childhood, the damage is close to irrevocable.this is getting tangential, but basically race is a fucking mess and it's idiotic to reduce it to "pick yourself up and work harder", although that's not unimportant. blacks in america don't have a chance if there's not a change in attitude, but when a generation of black males are doing federally mandated 10-25's for selling drugs that we both use for the guys running the narco-democracies to the south you're going to have a bad attitude. read some of bishop's posts and you won't find a generic, angry black guy. the dude's funny, actually likes women, and trying his ass off to be the best father possible. it's cliched as fuck to say, but we've got no clue what it's like not being well-off, male and caucasian, however novel forays outside of what's expected we take. i like reading your stuff most of the time, but you're cooler than this fayner, don't sound like a guy with a battleship hat in his rear window who crushes bland buffet food. you're allowed to quote one in a million again though, axl cancels out cultural sensitivity.