Tough life of Bernard...

Yeah the hood is so much better than those third world nations.

****ing idiot, many neighborhoods in the USA are like third world countries. I know plenty of people around here, and I don't live in a big city, just a small one like most people, but even small cities have poverty, but plenty of people who live in conditions that most of the people who post on this board couldn't even imagine. People who don't have running water, electricity, or even food but still manage to spend $200 a day on some hard or boy or whatever they're into. American poverty is just different than in other countries. The criminal element, the culture of drugs and crime is different than anywhere else. Its so ridiculous. Everyone in the hood is either buying or selling drugs, stolen goods, cars, food stamps, cigarettes, **** ANYTHING. Its just a ridiculous atmosphere to grow up in and people that do have very little hope of integrating into real society.

I'm not saying my neighborhood is worse than anyone elses, just that theres terrible poverty everywhere in the world if you look hard enough!

And I hate seeing people argue about how bad their neighbhorhoods are, thats stupid.

But don't criticize Bernard for how hard his life MIGHT have been growing up, because you don't know first hand. Maybe he does exaggerate quite a bit, but we don't know for sure.

Also most of what Bernard talks about is not how HARD things were, but what kind of a bad person it turned him into. He talks about having to have been a predator to survive, robbing from people, being violent just so people wouldn't do the same to him. Personally I think his story is inspirational. I've been in prison, and part of what gave me the focus to just concentrate on doing my time and stayin focused on the things I could do when I got out to improve my life was trying to follow Bernard's example.

 

I understand the guy's point, but there are parts of inner city america which are as dangerous and violent as the third world. Hopkins grew up in a dangerous environment and that has influences on him as a boxer. State prison isn't nice either.

But then again, compared to other guys, he has had it easy. Kassim Ouma, former child soldier, David Tua, beaten by his father and made to fight grown men as a boy, Johnny Tapia's story is heartbreaking. The older guys, like Jack Dempsey and Sonny Liston had absolutely **** all compared to Hopkins.

 

i would like to see somebody go into any city in America, find a single woman raising 2 or so kids while working and living on food stamps.. and tell her she has it easy compared to people is eastern europe

 

"oh no, this place is more ghetto....this place is more rough....this situation in worse".

For Christ's sakes, someone else always has it worse.

It doesn't mean one has it easy.

 

They do call it Murderland for a reason.

 

Who does he have to be sorry to? Not you. He did his time and has been clean as a whistle ever since. I don't need to hear him say some dumb **** like "I've changed my ways and thank god I'm a multi millionaire". His actions are what counts in my book. He's not a multi millionaire because he went to prison. He's a multi millionaire in spite of going to prison. Some people learn from their mistakes and some people keep making the same ones over and over. If anything he should be commended for setting a good example for people growing up in **** neighborhoods and people in jail.

 

like tyson said who gives a **** your in a fight anyways.. what does it matter..

 

all good points but I believe there's probably a lot more crime and drugs in us ghettos than a lot of places in western europe. also, id be surprised if hopkins was bullying too many people, he's not that big. must've been carrying most of the time.

 

Yeah this almost glorifying of US ghettos and hoods is totally pathetic.
People who have never been outside of their hometown banging on about how tough it is......give us a ****ing break.
it's all relative and most of these guys like Hopkins don't appreciate that their place was just an average working class area in a developed nation....nothing more nothing less.

 

You make sense but B-hop is an idiot when speaking and therefore you are being rational while studying stupidity. Growing up hard in the US means nothing, you are right, in a world where people are rounded up and "disappeared" for saying anything that could trouble authorities. In Juarez Mexico near where I grew up 400 women have disappeared and been found buried in the desert, people are machine gunned in restaruants while dining, and politicians and journalists who say anything are gunned down in the cars. Its a funny world, eh. ****, in Juarez, the politicians asked the army to come in to restore peace and then asked the army to leave because they were killing police officers and raping the female officers. ****ed up.

 

It really doesn't matter who or where you're from, Bernard seemed like he was willing to back up his action with his life. You can't get any tougher than that in any place.

 

at people who think there is more crime in American 'ghettoes' than in third world countries. Just because rappers keep saying that **** in their songs doesn't make it true.

In Pakistan young boys from poverty stricken villages will run to the big city to escape the poor life. Then they get there and realise they can't make money and end up living with other young boys in shelters. Then they are invited to the houses of paedophiles who drug them, **** them and sometimes kill them.

Would the above happen in an american 'ghetto'?

Also with drugs, a lot of heroin is made in Pakistan so their are ALOT of addicts there and they don't take that weak cut down ****, its the raw.
There are also more wolfs there who are more likely to kill you than jackers in America because it is generally more lawless there and guns are more available.

 

So true.

They actually seem to boast about it as if it proves how macho and manly they are in some way compared to 'rich kids'.

 

It's laughable. These tossers 'from da hood/street' haven't got a clue on how tough life can be.

 

Floyd Mayweather had it almost as tough. Bernard didn't even have his mummy wipe his pooey bottom for him after the age of 5. Floyd also had a sweety ration.