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Originally Posted by Triple
There are three possible outcomes for the po' white boy growing up in dark town:
1) He gets beat down, gets tough, gets hard, either earns respect of his black peers or fights his way out of town. Or gets killed.
2) He gets beat down, decides it's better to join 'em than fight 'em: becomes a white homey. May earn respect of his peers but more likely to play the part of the jester (as often happens to the token black guy when the situation is reversed).
3) He gets beat down and becomes everyone's withdrawn little bitch. The object of every bully's affections, for life.
There is a fourth option of becoming invisible, but it takes skills. Growing up, I was a ghost.
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Option 2 and 4 are the norm, at least in my opinion.
The best option, in the case of crappy neighborhoods is to be the ghost and just do your school work.
Its the ghosts who make something of themselves.
We moved around a bit when I was younger and I had to deal with the "new kid" status quite a bit.
Not white, not black...looks spanish but isn't.
I've lots of practice as the ghost.