Tough life of Bernard...

The corner of Alabama and Santa Clara, by the entrance to Mare Island from 1992-95' Great old house, great neighbors, never hassled but too many murders around. Didn't want to get sprayed by stray bullets so we moved to Pleasant Hill

 

Good points

 

I grew up in upper-middle class neighbourhood in Canada and that has no effect on whether I can be a good boxer or not. Using your upbringing as motivation is fine, but I can't stand the guys trying to force it down your throat, B-Hop being one of them. Heart is something that's inside of you and that's what makes it so interesting. If I'm fighting a guy who was a child soldier or a guy with a PhD and a trust fund it doesn't matter once it comes to blows.

 

Jamaicans are crazy...but they aint crazier then homeland hood dudes. The hood owns jamaicans in any scuffle. They try that same bull**** here but get ****ed up everytime. And I am a Trini b/c my father is straight from Trinidad and didnt get here until high school age. The HOOD here is worse then some ****ing Jamaica.

 

I bet there were a few things going up inside him aswell! :yep :yep :yep

 

All these people talking about how hard it is to grow up in the hood in comparsion with a 3rd world country are being foolish.You know who usually is the police in 3rd world countries?THE ARMED FORCES.And when they take you you get no lawyer,judege,phone call home.Hell you might not even live long.Foodstamps?They don't exist.

Hell in some 3rd world countries the ghettos in the US would be considered paradise.

A friend of mine is from a country(and I'm not going to name the country) and you should hear what he had to go through.Can you imagine driving your car and getting pulled over by the army and 1 of the soilders likes your car and decides he wants it?Takes it from you right there and theres not a thing you can do about it unless you want to get shot.

 

same thing can happen if you drive the wrong streer in the states, if you from out of town and go down that ONE WAY its wrap.you car will get jacked you will get robbed and yo ***** will get butt ****ed.

its real out here, murder capitols in the world aint no joke.new orleans detroit
cali and few other places.the **** aint mr rogers hood or mayberry.

 

Really?Never seen US soilders in US cities taking civilans cars.

 

It all based on the persons experience and prespective. I personally have lived in the hood before and also lived in Mexico, where there is a lot of poverty and corruption.

But at the same time, I have seen worse and can attest that the worse things I have seen in the US don't compare to the situations some people are faced with in third world countries.

If you've met someone for example in the US, that has had a very tough upbringing along with very bad experiences, they may perceive their life being far worse or tougher than anything else.

 

and you want but i know a few people that would.car jacking is done everday.

the only thing worse then american ghettos is the genocide going on in darfur.were people are getting murked left in right.kids women men and anyone and everyone.

other then **** like that, there are lot of places that could be considered hell on earth.damn were you live disney world.everything day is lovely day huh, hmm must be nice can i come chill for a while.

 

You honestly believe that?

 

absolutely flabbergasting comment.

you and Toopretty are a pair of dafties

 

I don't know why, but that just made me LMAO.

 

I'd like to know how many people here have actually been in third-world ghettos...

a couple points...

1. In the Us you have mother****ers in the hood who ahve the nerve to be bourgeousie...especially with food, and about clothes, and **** like that. You dont have that in third-world cultures..but also in the US, you ahve a very violent drug infested culture. In third-world cultures, the danger is much more real, but in the projects, much more constant on an individual level.

Im from Cleveland, you are always at risk of being robbed, beaten up, shot.

In Palestine, you are always at risk of having your neighborhood blown up from helicopters with missiles.


ITs a different world. And a lot of "hood" mother****ers are just pansies at heart, and complaining bitches. You are in the richest country in the world, step your game up. Thats why Arabs come to the US from the poorest places in the world, and then immediately own every business in the hood.

While mother****ers are complaining about not having good jobs, and how tough life is, immigrants are shutting the **** up and making that money. Then by the time of their second generation, theyve build middle class dynasties off of hard work

Now, I completely think that in America, the working man is not getting his due, and we do not receive a good investment from what we contribute, and explotiation is real and prevalent...but while those things are not going to be rectified over night, and in the meantime, get that money and make handle your responsibility the best way you can, and hopefully, you can progress and then make life better for others who were in your predicament.

 

Good pooints. I grew up in the hood here in Houston and worked overseas in Colombia south America and can tell you there's no copmparison. People down there go for a walk and come back wearing nothing but their underwear, they'll jack everything you got because they are really poor. Our "poor" aren't poor at all or desperate like they are in south america. Probably the same for a lot of places overseas.