Laidbackman
All Star
Cooley High was a classic everywhere but probably in the South. I found this out in 2006 when I moved to the ATL. The first three girls I dated down here from Georgia, never heard of the movie, and we were all in the same age group...we could have went to highschool together. Maybe it was because the movie was based on a northern ghetto, and they felt left out. It seems like they still despise the North down here, something a lot of us from the North, think they've gotten past since high school...man was I wrong. And it's worse if you sound anything like you went to college, and worked in a high tech field like IT. That's messed up, because you bust your butt in the North getting a degree, trying not to talk like you're from the hood anymore, to get a high tech job. Then you move South to discover that when you talk that way to them, it makes their skin crawl 
. So you go back to talking hood, then go back North to visit, and talk to the people who left the hood culture, to find that the way you talk make their skin crawl
. So you go back to talking hood, then go back North to visit, and talk to the people who left the hood culture, to find that the way you talk make their skin crawl
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everyone was cryin
. This has me thinking about a family photo I saw last summer of my daughter's mother, our daughter, and my two grandsons. My daughter's mother was trying her best to look like a grandma, holding a shopping bag in one hand, and leaning on a cain with the other. I never knew why she always liked being sick. But I'm not gonna lie, it did make me feel like granddaddy (me) was suppose to had been in that photo. What so ironic is, she did favor Cynthia Davis when she was young, especially with that same hairdo. She too, had this face and image that never fitted the hood, although she was straight up from it. The same thing use to be said about me too, face wise...and it was hard to get respect sometimes because of it, by strangers.
