*L*E*G*A*C*Y*
Done.
Now, that I'm 29 I'm really just starting to see the faults of my family. I love em, but I realize where they phucked up horribly.
My dad is Nigerian and my mom is West Indian and they moved to the states in the 70s. We grew up in an affluent lily white suburb in Pittsburgh (where I'm from originally). They couldn't relate (or I guess...didn't want to) to African Americans and really kept their circle to just close family and friends. And it really just seemed like they wanted US (as in me and my siblings) to only associate with people they considered "acceptable" (really only white people and other africans/west indians). After meeting so many awesome Black Americans in my life, I really kind of f*cking hate them for trying to push this backwards isolationist/elitist/cultural bullshyt on our family.
My parents worried about my siblings to the point they were so overprotective of us. It ruined my older sister, but I just rebelled from the time I was younger to...well now..lol. I would buy hip-hop, punk, rock, metal cassettes growing up in the 90s and my mom would go into my room and throw them out. Anytime I would want to do something they didn't approve, they would try to find a way to make sure I didn't do it...but I did it anyways.
My dad is Nigerian and my mom is West Indian and they moved to the states in the 70s. We grew up in an affluent lily white suburb in Pittsburgh (where I'm from originally). They couldn't relate (or I guess...didn't want to) to African Americans and really kept their circle to just close family and friends. And it really just seemed like they wanted US (as in me and my siblings) to only associate with people they considered "acceptable" (really only white people and other africans/west indians). After meeting so many awesome Black Americans in my life, I really kind of f*cking hate them for trying to push this backwards isolationist/elitist/cultural bullshyt on our family.
My parents worried about my siblings to the point they were so overprotective of us. It ruined my older sister, but I just rebelled from the time I was younger to...well now..lol. I would buy hip-hop, punk, rock, metal cassettes growing up in the 90s and my mom would go into my room and throw them out. Anytime I would want to do something they didn't approve, they would try to find a way to make sure I didn't do it...but I did it anyways.