I was doing a visit to family in Chicago last summer, and up until going I thought it was a nice place to go. I knew there was a lotta gang activity but I thought it was only in one area. Nope
My cousins on my moms side were showing me around the neighborhood and wanted to ball. Now the neighborhood there at isn’t ghetto and not like chiraq, but it’s got some seedy folks there
so we’re about to hoop , and these black kids come up to us. They already know my cuzzos, and they keep looking at me like I was some sort of meat
they were like “where you from foe” (only later I learned foe is Chicago lingo)
I said “Seattle”, and they said oh like ICarly. We all laughed shit is going good.
we got along and it was active. I was like damn this place not even that bad.
then the black kids big homie starts heading towards and my cousin nudges me as heads up.
Nigga starts barking about GDs and false claimers in my general direction.
At this point I was sweating bullets, and wasn’t sure while everyone else was acting like shit was normal.
The yelling guy looks at me hella mad and reaches into his shorts.
At this point I book it back to my aunts house as fast as my twig legs could carry me.
I later learned the dude was just wanting to know if I had a lighter, and the other shit he was saying was on his phone through them earphones.
I realize now this is the terror that Chicago geeljires deal with every day.
So let’s not go to there!