rezburna

So we have a young man coming from the hoods of New Orleans and y'all want to question the things he's gone through to come to such a conclusion? I've lived in the 9th Ward, and it takes far less then those circumstances to scar children for life. Places like that are our versions of Syria in America. I'm not surprised at the backlash though...like dude said earlier, when you don't like someone or something you take everything out of context.

SaintsBro

Oh come on burna. No way you can really say he comes from "the hoods of New Orleans." His adopted mom and dad are totally a classic, black middle class New Orleans family, from out by the lake, they are Pontchartrain Park-type, hard working, Christian, SOLID MIDDLE CLASS, want-to-better-their-life type New Orleans people. It's a flat-out insult to imply that there is anything hood-y about his upbringing, his adopted family, his dad or the neighborhood he grew up in. And St. Aug is NOT a rough school or a thug school, by any stretch of New Orleans standards. It's a school for the kids of solid middle and upper class, working, professional, African American people, it's a private school, there's nothing really inner city or rough about it. One thing he was not, when he was growing up, is disadvantaged or poor. He just wasn't. That's what makes his crash and burn so frustrating, to a lot of people.