Quote Originally Posted by rebgirl420
Im not doubting at the least thats its not a hell hole what my problem is is that there are sooo many people who come from there who do great things with their lives. Not nessecarily do they become President or an astronaut BUT they do hold steady jobs and raise kids that have education as their priority. If you are really determined not to end up as a drug dealer or some crap like that then you WILL. You can't let the place where you grow up at be the reason why you give up at an early age. And no its not all the peoples faults. The public education system is awful (thats why my parents put me in cyber classes when I was in high school and I take my college ones online now) but come on. And people die everywhere, not just the hood.
Yea, obviously people DIE everywhere and not just the hood, but how do they die in compaison? Do they get bludgeoned to death/stabbed/raped and shot in the face in the SUBURBS as often as they do in the HOOD? What about robbed or car jacked? If you compare a suburban, predominately upper-class neighborhood to a poor, crime infested area.. MORE PEOPLE die in the HOOD..common sense "nahmean yo?" Little kids get killed in the HOOD. More fatal DUI accidents are reported more often in the HOOD than in suburban neighborhoods. More GUN CRIMES happen in the HOOD. Sure people LEAVE the hood to chase their dreams and NOT be drug dealers and pimps, happens all the time..and like I said, it's progress. At the same time though, the HOOD is still dangerous as fuck, that's my point. Sure it shouldn't be an excuse for not succeeding, I don't believe in failure..but at the same time the HOOD isn't any picnic people should just scoff at and think of as something simple and easy to get out of when they've never actually LIVED in these areas (in particular, Newark new jersey) since my posts are pretaining to the "50-cent guy" Just look up "NEWARK" on google news..and then look up an upper-class suburb on google news and lets compare statistically the murder rates and crime rates.