1993 - A hispanic teen is killed by stray bullets from a block war. He was actually headed somewhere in life. He was 18 years old and would've been on his way to a state university. One of a few hispanics in his neighborhood that would have actually finished highschool in fact. With his boss' permission, he was allowed to take home some of the leftover chicken and side foods so he could feed his family. His mother was too physically handicapped to work, and his father has long been dead. His sister was also doing her part to bring money into the household as a secretary.
KKK: Nuff said. Gee, for people who have a lot to say and such a strong view on things, they sure as hell don't have the balls to show who they are beneath the white sheets. I'd like to see you try that shit in the middle of Cabrini Green or Humble Park, you stupid motherfuckers!
Christianity: The enlightened ones are well accepted by many, and those many are well accepted by the enlightened. These enlightened are only in a slight number that is so small it should be #1 on the endagered species list (but below the existance of smart blondes - or do those belong on the extinct list?)
The rest believe that everyone but God sucks, including themselves, at least that's how they act. For the most part, I've yet to see but only a slight handful of people of this faith who I can honestly say I don't want to just take their Good Book and bash them over the head with it. "Look at me look at me! I'm a martyr cause my entire life is a godawful hell of living because I rely on the Almighty to come and save my whiny ass! Everyone hates me because of my religion even though I overlook the fact that I'm sort of an asshole about it and kinda bash everyone else's preferred religious path. And when it comes to the gospel I have the ups on my very own priests because the only book I need to read is the Bible! But on the other hand, I'm so great and talented cause God blessed me with all this talent! Although I kinda blame the devil for every bad thing that's gone on in my life, even though it's really all my fault."
SMACK SMACK AND DOUBLE SMACK!!! If you are this kind of religious fruitcake, please seek some fucking mental help! The one thing I cannot stand about people is when they take their religion to a point where they act like they're still in Biblical Times when our gods still walked among us on the earth and laid some holy smackdown on us and turned us into pillars of salt if we defied them! THOSE DAYS ARE GONE. GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD. GO AHEAD AND DO YOUR LITTLE QUOTING FROM THE BOOK, IT DOESN'T MEAN A DAMN THING TO ME! IT JUST MEANS HOW FUCKING UNORIGINAL YOU ARE IN THE MENTAL PROCESS OF THOUGHT AND HOW YOU RELY ON SOMETHING OTHER THAN YOUR OWN SELF KNOWLEDGE TO SEE HOW THE WORLD WORKS! SO DON'T EVER ACCUSE ME OF BEING BLIND WHEN YOU ARE THE ONE SEEING THINGS THE WAY YOU WANT TO SEE THEM.
high school: Boring, a big review on all the shit I learned in middle school, and maybe if I'm lucky, I'll get shipped off to someplace like the Technology Center of DuPage, where I actually learn skills that I will need for jobs. I have yet to really learn anything worth noting that I haven't already touched on in grammar school. The highlight of my high school is meeting a bunch of people I probably wouldn't have met otherwise. The second best thing is it kills 7 hours of my day that I probably would've spent just downloading porn. That's about it. I think it would be better if we just had it set up where students take classes they actually want to learn more about. If they're just gonna spend most of the year ditching or taking up study hall after study hall, don't even let 'em into the school. Don't waste teacher's time or tax money on a kid that's only going there to goof off or not show up anyway. Hell, we could have kids in college at the age of 16 or 17 if we just prepared them earlier and skipped all the bullshit and went right into the stuff they'll need for life. That's what school is intended for - preparation of adulthood. Fuck chemistry if you're not gonna be a chemist! You can learn all the basics out of a Chemistry for Dummies book. Physics - when you let go of something in the air that has no means of staying in the air, it goes down, and things that fly really fast tend to hurt like hell. That's all you really need to know.
college: Let's charge thousands of dollars to learn everything I was supposed to cover in highschool and force myself to love eating ramen for breakfast, lunch and dinner while living in a dorm that's about as big as a walk-in closet.
And that's all I can think of at the moment.