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i just think that there is a societal difference between a poor kid who doesn't have everything others have and a kid growing up surrounded by gang violence. growing up in a neighborhood you can't take school friends to because their parents say it's not safe hits different.
mainly tho i think people need to check their privilege. im a white girl, so even though i grew up in an unsafe environment, shit for me could've been worse. however; i do know what the constant feeling of never being fully safe is like and i am very tired of people better off
than me explaining to me that they understand where im coming from. a lot of people who have grown up in ghetto areas are very tired of having their never ending struggle compared like that. i think this is where the common "You're invalidating MY struggle" debate comes in.
no one is saying you've never struggled, HOWEVER, growing up pay check to pay check surrounded by r/pe and gangs is a lot different than you going on hard times.
hard times implies that there were good times, there have never been good times for us.
hard times implies that there were good times, there have never been good times for us.
i hope to god this thread never gets popular, because for whatever reason people like to speak over poor people, but fuck am i tired of the people above me.
