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yeah dj you already know what it is man the world taking over the world
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um most days i'm a mexican but-
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i'm a african american
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twenty-seven years old
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decatur ga
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how was it growing up in middle school?
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um i went to middle school
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uh i would say you know life in there was- was cool as a african american male um
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i'd say it was more not tailored towards uh i wish education just in school-wise would've been a little more
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um i guess hands on we would've learned a lot of more
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i definitely wouldn't say we were passed along but we could've been uh
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what is the words? we could've been
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tightened down on a little more but i think we still got good knowledge and understanding
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um a lot of real world situations came in at the time
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just going to the middle school that i went to made people kind of look at things in life differently
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but it w- it was- you know we weren't- it wasn't the hood but it was majority african americans
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um so it was like the a- it was like the middle class the middle class at that point in time was-
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i'd say was still around in the early two thousands um now it's kind of fading to more
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either poverty or rich um i'd say that was probably the last days of the middle class so
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m- like i said it was just kind of being a middle class african american
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you know you had a lot of people who went e- either way either they went up to the upper class or they went to the lower class
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that school was very old uh that sc- middle school's been up i know it probably since like the sixties at least
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so yeah that school is very old um
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yeah definitely was a aged school
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um well i w- originally because wasn't built at the time
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so when i did go into high school yes i went to high school
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um it was a brand new facility i would say um
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it definitely was a new vibe uh we had a- we had a interesting principal when i first started
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a man by the name of dr
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definitely he- he kind of
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embodied what now i wish that more of- of the b-
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the educators would have kind of
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went towards um i do understand you know he was very tough very uh strict in what he did
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but now just being a- a eld- not a elderly man cause i'm definitely not elderly but being a older man i kind of see where his message was going at the time
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kind of just tried to get our heads on straight um we did a lot of different things that most schools in dekalb county didn't do
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um it was because of the fact that i do see now too as well um when i first started high school
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it was actually um only ninth and tenth graders there
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so he was able to handle a less amount of kids he didn't have the typical
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a thousand
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fifteen hundred high school in dekalb county he maybe only had
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three to four hundred kids that he could control
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um and it kind of- it started off as good because the majority of the people that i know that did last
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um that started from the beginning you know are doing something with their selves
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but then you know it just kind of got-
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that whole thing seemed to get- kind of got washed by the wayside and it just kind of turned into the area
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more than just the greatness of the school
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um yeah i actually- because i dj as well um i work actually with uh one of the
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g- uh she was a previous coach over there coach
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um i actually dj a lot of the uh
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talent shows and um i've actually done some things for the basketball team
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music-wise so i do still go up there occasionally i haven't been up there maybe in about a year or two now
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um but just kind of keeping my ear to the streets um i have friends
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who have kids who are
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um at high school and you know they just kind of said the culture's just completely different
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they didn't- they don't- but of course they wasn't there to know what our culture was but them telling me the culture of what it is now
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it's completely different from how it was when i was in school
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uh my mother was born in cleveland my dad was born in
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detroit um both of them met in cleveland
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and they moved down to atlanta
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i mean i've asked my parents are divorced so of course i can't ask questions that- for them to be together so much
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um but from what i was told i mean cleveland is just very cold
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not have a lot of progressing things going on at the time
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um i think they came down in like the late eighties mid eighties
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maybe- maybe even early seventies probably like
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in the eighties some time
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and when they came down atlanta georgia was jumping um freaknik was just about to get started you
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the- the times of atlanta it was nice and hot the prices of living was cheaper
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um there were more jobs here so that's kind of really w- it w- it- what it really was
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um they kind of get n- wanted to get away from their family members so
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something brand new
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um i would definitely say that i'm looking into branching out um i'm currently a
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single man so i'm not
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a- so much about family life at the moment
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um when that situation does come um of course i don't think i would definitely want them in this area
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uh definitely the- the- the- the
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east atlanta area has definitely become a
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not so great area to raise a child
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so i would say raising a child-wise i'd definitely go
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to another area but um at that moment i don't have those issu- i don't have those type thoughts so
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family-wise just it's something that's not really in my head at the moment
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right until- yeah until other responsibilities are placed in
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um i have stepbrothers um all of my brothers are older than me my dad had previous kids
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before he had me
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three brothers uh
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all of them are actually- well two of them are f- college football coaches and one works
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for the airport's
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aviation- some of the stuff with flying the planes i- i don't know the exact title
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um it's- it's alright we have a relationship um they're a lot older so of course that b- uh builds a rift in one
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and then because of just family issues how years go down the line pe- of course people build rifts for so many other situations
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um but it's still all love i still definitely love all of 'em
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whenever they need me if they know they really need me they can get in touch with me but
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um just kind of how family life is like i said i'm so worried ab-
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i'm not so- i'm so focused on
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what i got going on the fact that they got they own lives in another state doing other things um
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you know we just all individuals right now they have a closer bond because they share the same
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mother and father and they around the same age me who's being the only child by my mother
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um and raised like a only child i kind of just more to myself
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how'd i get to school? um well
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because technically th- the area that i lived in was never area
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it was close enough where i could get there in a short amount of time
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