Horrible but consider something... nearly half of young black men in Chicago are unemployed and drop out of school. If you are a young black man in high school and see what is happening to folks like yourself... why goto school? Why think society gives a shit about you?

I still tried to “run with the boys,” to be a tom boy because that’s what I was taught at school: That smart girls become one of the boys, that they emulate masculinity and embrace male interests.

“It’s disgusting how easily they can divide us.”