Halloween in the hood, a year later...Part II

Wow, a whole years gone by since I wrote this...

https://www.city-data.com/blogs/blog1...ween-hood.html

And nothings really changed...Halloween in the hood is still just as bland and dry as last year...now that that one family has left...no decals at all, no resemblence of a special Holiday or anything...

Just the same street husslen souls prowling up and down the streets as usual...

No culture what so ever...just kind of a 'base' level type of existance...

Being raised in such a culturaly dry enviornment has other social romifications...

Cause people take that same 'outlook' into school, jobs, ect ect...that same lack of the 'arts'...lack of world perpesctive...carries over...

I don't know if it's a color thing, or regional thing, generational thing...

I've lived around poor working class whites before, and they always got into Halloween, always went out their way to make sure their kids could experience the richness of the day, regardless of how they were doing financially...

But in the hood, places habitated by a majority of non-whites, you just don't see it...

Contrary to what people think, there is no diversity in the hood...none....

Throwing a bunch of black people together does not equal diversity...not at all...

There's no arts, no culture, no music...nothing accept this type of base level survival mode that everyones conditioned to live by...

And I'm sorry but rims, loud blarring rap, and urban styling appearal, and drinking liquor on the corner lot, is not a culture...rather they are symptoms of 'lack of culture' to be more precise...

Saggy pants, while grabbing crotch, is not a culture either...again it's do to lack of culture that people do that...

I'm just glad I wasn't raised in such an enviornment...although sometimes I think if I were, I'd probably be more happy and content...

Some times I think the less you know, have experienced, have seen, then the happier you are...what's that term 'keep it simple'....

Also, contrary to what you may pick up from TV shows...there is no 'love' in the hood...no good will per say...

It's every person for themselves...every family for themselves...every hussler for himself...

In the hood, whether your white or black or Latino, your always greeted by suspiscious stares...

Expectations are set low for you in the hood...(I'm talken black on black expectations)....

If your a black male in a black hood, people, the community in general, just doesn't expect much from you in terms of achievement...
They expect you to have already been arrested at least 5 times before the age of 20.
The hood can be a very demoralizing place for a young black male...where everyone around him has such low expectations.

That's why many leave, or flee such enviornments...to get away from all that crap...

Your enviornment can really stifle your growth...and it's easy to become mired down in it...as with water...every enviornment seeks a equalibriam...the same level...

If your in a culturaly rich enviornment...than that's what you'll become and achieve...

If your in a low achieving enviornment, where everyones the same...than you will soon begin to reflect that as well in your own life and progress...

Anyways...Happy Halloween regardless...at least i can still celebrate it in my mind...