Afolabi_Mubarak - Profile

Things weren't easy growing up, one of seven siblings, I watched my mother work her ass off as a domestic worker for a rich family. She worked as an elephant and got paid like a fucking mosquito. We were poor and back then, you were either very rich or you were very poor. The middle class was little to nonexistent. The system was designed by the government to keep the rich richer and the poor, poorer.

Street Diaries

Eastern · Blodnovskinny

Violence is a weapon, a very effective one. One used by the powerful to keep the less powerful down. Where we live, they unleash violence to get what they want, they use violence to remain relevant and powerful, but the worst part is that they use poverty to keep the masses in check, "a hungry man is more controllable, more obedient," they would say. But even a goat would bite when cornered to a wall. A hungry man is an angry man as the saying goes, violence begets more violence, and poverty is the greatest violence, it kills destinies. Embattled by the violence that would physically kill us and the one that would destroy our destinies, we had to turn around and bite, just like a goat cornered to a wall. Our society and those who were in charge were the ones who made us.

Street Diaries

Eastern · Blodnovskinny