Well, firstly my parents made the choice to be here. A short-sighted error on their part that my entire family line will now have to pay for as long as this nation stands. Keep in mind, when they moved here, we had money, basically as much as we needed for whatever. Nice vacations, new vehicles, nice furnishings. Not syren level rich, but quite well to do. 1985 having 120,000$ in the bank and a 62,000$ a year income was phat living. My god i'd cut off an arm to get that NOW, fuck 1985. And on top of it we had a billionaire family support structure to compensate anything additional.
However as rich people usually will do, when it comes time to have to part with even a fraction of that money, they are not going to let that happen. So by 1990 we were living in the pit bottom of destitution. Couple that with the late 80s recession where my father and mother lost their jobs, whats left. No bank accounts, credit is shot, how the hell you put kids through college with that? Do you realize I was accepted to over 100 colleges in this nation? How does it get paid for though? Student loans require a co-signer with credit, not happening in this family. No money to speak of so its not coming out of pocket. Grants, sure I could now, but I got 3 kids and a wife, I cant go out of state to go to college for 4yrs, its just not an option, dont matter who's paying for it. Back when it was time for me to go to college though, white middle america, late 90s, yeah right. They told my parents to go get a job, literally. Not black, not mexican, you shouldnt need help. My high school has metal detectors on every door, a police station located ON CAMPUS, and total lock-down policy during school hours. Seriously, im supposed to get an education in that?! The school library was a joke, didnt even have internet access. No text books to speak of, teachers that are more concerned with reading the paper and doing their nails then teaching something, and why should they, the teachers have to be escorted to their vehicles after school so some crazy mexican kid dont shoot them cause they failed english class. And for teaching in this demilitarized zone they make maybe 25,000$ a year on the high side.
Sorry Eid, my city is not rural america, it is the bad part of inner city chicago transported up to the country side to get it out of sight, and left to be forgotten by the wayside. And as I said, at any time you dont believe every word of what comes out of my mouth is true, you think there is no possible way it could be that bad in a small city in the middle of no where, I invite you, come visit me. I'll show you around. I promise by the time you leave you will have a new view on what america really is. It is a black hole from which there is no escape.