Oldheads: how did y'all survive 1991???

[Commish]

Back then, I was in college had a GF and ran track. I wasn't going to the hotspots nor had a desire to do so..

Pretty much lived a normal life..

 

[inndaskKy]

You're about to find out what it's like. Just checked, in the last 4 years the overall crime and murder rate apparently have risen and made up half of the decline since 1992.

So, let's revisit in 3 years and have OP tell us how he survived. That is, if he's still alive then.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

You're about to find out what it's like. Just checked, in the last 4 years the overall crime and murder rate apparently have risen and made up half of the decline since 1992.

So, let's revisit in 3 years and have OP tell us how he survived. That is, if he's still alive then.

Can you share what you checked? I was aware overall crime jumped but not violent crime.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Wu-Tang taught me to protect my neck

 

[I'm Blackman]

I didnt care. I was a kid. I was playing sega, super Nintendo, listening to ice cube, and hooping.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Did y'all live in fear every time you stepped outside?

What’s crazy is people are lots more fearful now cause social media and cameras everywhere make things seem worse.

My parents used to let me just go outside with no phone, no adults, and wouldn’t expect me back for hours.

Now, i don’t even let my kids walk to the store by themselves if i’m available to take them. And if they go by their selves i’m calling and checking their cell phone position the entire time.

I’ve had this convo with my mom. She’s always calling me and telling me to NOT let my kids go places by themselves.

I’m like, you used to send me out the house with $3, no phone, a bus pass, and a crazy murder rate in the city.

 

[010101]

i was an egg*

 

[inndaskKy]

Can you share what you checked? I was aware overall crime jumped but not violent crime.

I didn't do whole lot of digging or checking to be honest. But this was the first thing I came across:

U.S. Crime Rate & Statistics 1990-2024

 

[daemonova]

By 1991, we in the white schools. You can tell when a neighborhood goes to the shiet.

Yt ppl live in the house now that I lived in 1991

 

[Lord Bison]

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

This is why i laugh at those who fantasize about the old days too much, the 80s and 90s were reaked with violent crimes, drugs and AIDS epidemics, black folks also had fewer freedoms and rights. The life of the average black person growing up in this present day and their odds for success is incomparable to several decades, ago.

AIDS had folk shook.. kinda like Covid did in his beginning phases lol..

If you had that cough folk looked at you early like “aye that nikka got the monster

 

[Hey_zeus]

I was a toddler. My older brothers had to be in by the time the street lights was. Most the fukkery happened at night back then.

 

[frush11]

I was 9

 

[SNYC]

I was in high school

No fear for my life though...


You had some certified CLASSICS drop in music, film & video games that year.

Forgot to mention, his first ring -->

 

[Will Ross]

simple you stayed out the way