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If there's anything I've inherited from my mom I would say it's the Pride gene. I've looked back over the years and I've taken it to ridiculous lengths. What other idiot would be soooooooo broke, have no food, no money to catch the train and refuse to ask his uncle right down the block for some change until payday. ME!!!...it cracks me up now when I think of it, but time hasn't taught me anything. I would still do the same thing today.  It's a beautiful thing to have pride, but too much when you know that you have friends/family willing to come to you assistance is a bit much.  There's nothing I hate more than this welfare system we have in America . It's a good thing for when you're temporarily out of work and you can use it to feed your family, but when it becomes a generational thing and it's passed down like it's a legacy or an inherent right then there's cause to worry. I tell you this I will never collect welfare. I'd rather work in McDonald's or something, God forbid it ever came to that. I think it must be a Caribbean thing with me because I swear I don't any Islanders who've ever been on welfare. I'm sure that there are some but they hide their heads in shame.  I can hear my mom now, " You came to America to collect food stamp, shame on you," that voice of displeasure guides even when I don't know it.

2/5/06

 


Raising a child boy/girl is tantamount to being blind. You just hope that somewhere along the line what you’ve tried to impart to them sticks and that lost look can only be a act, but I think not.  I wish somehow you could fast forward their lives and let them see the error of their ways, but the truth of the matter of is it wouldn’t help one fucking bit. When is enough, enough? It’s a rhetorical question that has only one answer. Every parent knows what that answer should be even though we sometimes wish to choose the other door and run for the hills. So it is….

2-5-06

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