Tough life of Bernard...

i'm kidding you ***, stop getting emotional.

 

I tihnk Hopkins is just overhyping his "hard" life.

I bet Pacquiao's life was tougher.

 

All this talk about growing up in the ghetto makes me laugh. ****ing pathetic.

Hopkins was a criminal, went to jail, got out, and became a world champion, all on his own. THATS what people like to hear, only the idiots care whether he carjacked people or not.

 

its cool to brag about being poor, little do they know that their parents didn't care much about them thats why they are there in the first place.

 

I agree with you about Jamaica, Kingston is probably the roughest city I've been to people walking around barefoot with machetes and ****, crazy stuff.
The thing about American hoods are guns are so readily available and people now in days are so quick to use them. I had a homeboy get killed about 2 years ago over a parking space...a ****ing parking space.:-( Another friend killed at a party over petty **** another killed over drugs another car jacked and killed in broad daylight. I've lost so many people to murders or prison that I've almost lost count. It's that day in and day out sense of hopelessness that's so hard to overcome. Lucky for me I had an uncle who took an interest in me or I'd probably be dead or in jail right now.

 

Nigel Benn went from petty street crime and thuggery to doing two tours in the British Army in northern ireland at the height of the troubles. That's a fighter to look up to.

Good post

 

I agree with you on that one.

People are some punk asses around here.

This girl I'm talkin to, her brother just got shot in the chest and in the hand after he beat this guy up in a one on one fight.

I guess the kid felt humiliated and came back and shot him.

 

Next week I'm rooting for Calzaghe.........

From what I know; Hopkins was a thug, spent years in prison, and then made a good life for himself once he got out. As far as I know, Hopkins hasn't been in trouble since he's gotten out of prison. That's a big accomplishment IMO considering how the US prison system is so heavily populated by repeat offenders. Good job Bernard.

Regarding where you live in the US. After college I travelled around the US with my future wife. We loved New Orleans so we rented an apartment in an old converted mansion on the outskirts of the French 1/4 in 1987. We had a great time, no troubles at all. Went out at night, went out @ day. A couple of months after we left I read an article about the most dangerous places in the US. One of the highlighted areas was a section of New Orleans, and the house I lived in was part of that section. I was like, man was I lucky or what.

Should have learned, but the first cool house we could afford to buy happened to be in Vallejo CA in 1992. We had a great life, well I later learned why that cool house was so affordable. Over the next few years, neighbors were murdered on a regular basis, usually domestic issues. My wife said "let's get out of here." I replied, "It's ot so bad, as long as we keep to ourselves." A few weeks after that a little girl had her neck broke by her moms angry boyfirend. I sat on my front porch, looked around the neighborhood, and saw 3 houses that I could hit with a thrown baseball, all houses where murders had occurred. My wife wanted to start a family, it was 1995, and I said, "guess it's time to move."

Granted, I grew up in a good family town with a decent family life, learned how to take care of myself, but most importantly, learned how to keep to myself, unlike some loudmouthed neighbors who made trouble for themselves, and then blamed their problems on the thugs in the area. Maybe I was lucky, but it ain't all luck.

 

Yeah people now can't accept an ass whooping anymore. They will comeback and shoot you if you get the best of them...damn shame.

 

This thread is pointless. There is always someone who had it tougher than you, that doesn't mean you didn't have it rough. Would you tell a **** victim not to complain because there are people out there who have been gang raped? North Philly is a ****ed up place, Germantown isn't all that great either. Are there worse places out there in this world? Most definately. However, it's still hard growing up in those places.

 

That was the point of my post in this gawd awful thread.

The original posters post was so condesending and insulting (a tough life in the ghetto of america is having to AIR DRY CLOTHES?!?!?!?) that something had to be said. I was in no attempting to glorify any of it...or say I had it worse than other people, or that where I grew up was tougher than everywhere else in the world...but that its much tougher than ANYONE who has never lived in one can understand. And for someone to try to belittle the struggle that many have to endure on a daily basis because they have no other options is ****ing pitiful.

 

Understand though....it doesnt matter one bit how tough of an upbringing anyone has if they can't take a punch... and growing up tough doesnt give u that ability)

 

nah nah my hoods the worse, people are afraid to step outside there doors in my hood cuz in britain the weather in unpredictable now thats ghetto

 

Ya'll don't know **** about the hood. Where I come from, your ass has to call first just to make a tee time. Sometimes, the ****ing lawn man is mowing the yard while I'm trying to relax in the pool. My backyard grill is starting to get a little rusty, but I'm hard so I cook my steaks on that ***** anyway. Recognize.

 

Listen, I knew a kid from my block, single parent home, the whole nine. When he would miss the bus to school in the morning (we lived AT LEAST a half mile away from it) his mother would make him WALK to school!!