Her boldness is the everyday style of millions of the ghetto girls world wide who wear attitude like battle armor. She always ready for the next battle. A five year old ghetto girl may be in charge of an apartment that is mostly motherless. She may be responsible for the care of an infant child, to cook, to guard the door keys. She even has to lie to the curious welfare workers, children services agents, probation officers and their controlling on lookers. Essentially, she “holds it down” while mommy works for the money, chicken and $150 sneaks. If you help her, she’ll take what you’ve got but never trust you. She’ll use it, but won’t depend on it happening twice. Trying to grow up without people stealing all her shoes or her sanity is a hard challenge, but he makes it happen. Whether its her money or man, her rights or her reputation, protection from hatred and jealousy is unavoidable when cliques in the hood are eating and earning the majority of the people starve and scrape to get by.
As a go to for fashion and daily decorating herself in jewels and authentic designer wear. Under normal standards living in the hood, she constantly has the possibility of being robbed, maybe raped and definitely harassed. Luxuries and money, she has these things, because she believes is supposed to. However, even so there are other things that come along with the territory.
Not only does she has to deal with unwanted sexual advances by boys and men. Not to mention the fact that she doesn’t have a biological or present father, has become the socially excepted norm. A true ghetto girl does not even have to respond to teachers, guidance counselors, or school administrators.
Most times her environment permanently alters her ability to experience healthy relationships. When this ghetto girl has money and her friends don’t, the bond that supposedly holds them together can be either flimsy or completely artificial. When she’s is wrong, no one corrects her. Instead, they fear being cut out of the benefits that hanging out with the money girl brings. Its evident that she prefers the projects to any palace. She prefers cement to grass and even the commotion over the peace. She needs to be in the projects with hundreds of people beneath her.
Her captive audience and jealous schoolmates are important to her. The need to be surrounded by the familiar, but subordinate things appears to be important. To her understanding, the suburbs is a place where no one knows her position or even cares. Being in the suburbs, she’ll soon met her worst fear, blending in.
Every ghetto girl has a story…
From UPT w/♥,
Coffy!
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