Wanna know why? Its because there is so much negativity, and so much genuine talent and ability wasted.
So I was on the train going home and two girls who looked about 16 or 17 got on with a boy about 13/14. Now I was listening to my zune so I didn't hear what was going on but the next thing I know the girl is smacking the book from the hands of the man sitting behind her. So he hits her with the book. And of course she pops off. Her friend jumps up and the boy, and they've pretty much got the guy surrounded. And I hear them through the music and he calls her a bitch which only makes the situation worse and she tries to throw his briefcase on the floor. So he gets up and moves, and the kids sit back down and start laughing at the whole thing. They get off maybe two stops later and the white guy is talking to some other people on the train about it, and they're all laughing and encouraging the dude.
So two problems here:
1. The fact that a grown man is even entertaining the attention getting, attitude-having antics of a 17 year old girl. That is NOT okay. It is not okay for a grown man to call a child a bitch ever. Its not okay for him to entertain that. Really dude? You feel like its necessary to retaliate to the antics of a child? That I really don't understand. And then the fact that the people were laughing and encouraging him. I mean I don't care what she did, she's a CHILD. And if you start giving in to little manipulations of children then you're not fit to be an adult.
2. The fact that the girl did that shit was not cool. It wasn't. I mean on this whole topic I'm not particularly on anyone's side. I think what happened is that the guys book was hitting her because of the bumpy ride. So she hits back. This is the kind of thing that goes on all the time in PG. People, kids in general, are time-bombs. Anything and everything sets them off. There's so much hostility in the county in general and the kids feed on it. They never get out of the county so they don't know any better
And this is the realization. And then I started thinking about this episode of southpark where they made the civilization of SeaPeople. And they created their own cultures and such but eventually blew themselves up.
So I'm thinking PG is something like that. Its like someone's experiment, "ohh I wonder what happens if you keep a group of black people in one place and never expose them to the real world.."
Well, they create their own culture (gogo), and thrive for a while then eventually destroy themselves (through neighborhood fighting/ black on black crime/ AIDS/ perpetuating broken families). Yup, that sounds about right.
So this is why I hate PG.
But then again I love it because I grew up here. I learned here, people are familiar here, attitudes are familiar. But honestly when I come home I feel like an outsider. I feel so different from other people who live here and grew up here, but thats for another blog (likely to follow).
