Surrounded by Cuckoos, but I was the crazy one

Growing up in the Woodlawn area has not always been so good to me. As a young child I started my education at James McCosh Elementary School, now known as Emmitt Till. It was the ABSOLUTE worst!! And I hated every minute that I had to spend in that hell hole. In pre-school I got into fights almost every day. I always felt like I was doing something wrong, but after a while it became routine. One day changed my life, I can vividly remember getting my ASS BEAT and that is what made me realize that “1I should be doing this.” The kid in my class told his bigger brother who was in 1^st grade that I beat him up… then he beat me up. I was to never fight without a purpose again. In the next year and a half that I spent at James McCosh I spent a great deal of my time trying to figure out why everyone was so angry and why they fought so much (It bewildered me and to this day I still have no answer for that question). As times passed and still no answer, I came to the conclusion that they were just “some crazy niggas…” Cuckoos if you may say.

As I sit ALONE and reflect on my past, I ask myself the question, why did I allow myself to be surrounded by such “Cuckoos? But it hit me… what wasn’t normal to me was normal to them. I thought I was surrounded by Cuckoos, but I was the crazy one… damn…..