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02-17-2010 04:31 AM |
Les'see
As a young-young'un I rocked a rattail
Shortly After moving to Savannah, My Great Grandpa Cut that shit off, was'nt fucking happening.
Got kinda chubby in late-elementary school, then burned that off. After Pops died (Snif) the lost potential of my rat tail spread to my whole head and the rest is history.
My fashion has always been defined as "Poor as hell" so that's how I dressed.
Personality wise? well, my family's crazy, three generations of mofos who had no business giving birth, so I got a lot of crazy, Emotional Crazy, Religious Crazy, Racial crazy, relationship crazy.
When I hit my teens, I went into a "Overly Blackalicious teen" phase wherein I jumped on anything African or Black or whatever, which was cool as I'd had touches of it growing up, but even more during that period, so It helped me develop my knowledge of such things, but being bi-racial, it also sort of magnified some of THOSE issues, so It was mostly a "Affirming of Blacknesss" which is'nt healthy.
Read more, grew up, mellowed a bit, became more multi-cultural and bigger picture in my ideas.
Began questioning my crazy- Cult-ass religous denomination about sixteen, spent a lot of time jumping through philosophical hoops to justify it before just saying "Fuck it" and feeling a whole lot happier.
OOoh boy, I think the best thing I could have done for my younger self is introduce me to several books and songs and ideas Waaaaaay earlier.
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