Showing posts with label immigrant community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigrant community. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

You don't see color [I see racism]

 I’m beginning to think that staying on the straight and narrow fundamentally hindered my life. You're raised believing that being a thug or knucklehead is going to mess your life up. That if you keep fucking up you’ll end up in jail or dead. We drank, we smoked and sold drugs. We were content with doing that for the rest of our lives. Nothing our folks said was going to change our minds. We all heard, what if your friends jump off a bridge? Shit, we were down for whatever. Loyal to each other until today. We eventually were pressured into believing that being upstanding citizens was going to make our lives that much better. I call bullshit.