What's Really Good in the Hood ?

As I stated in the first post, I see and hear a lot on the train.
This is something that happened to me on the way HOME....[not really HAPPENED, but something I noticed.]
There was this young dude on the train who musta been like, 18 or 19, and he was just sitting there. He honestly had the appearance of a hard ass gangster. Like real talk. So I'm thinking, oh shit, what he finna be on, you know, you USUALLY think when you see someone you think is up to no good. So, buddy's phone rings. It's his mama. He like hey mama, yeah mama I'm on my way home....and he was quiet , idk his mama must have been asking him something....then he was like, man I been on the train all day. I just went out and didn't come back [yeah he's still on the phone]. He was like, it's too much going on at home and I can't stay there. On the block it's too much to deal with. He was like, Man my friend got killed Monday and just yesterday this nigga got shot in the alley. Then he was talking about how that wasn't the life he wanted and how he just didn't want to be killed before he could figure out how to turn it around. He was like it's too much. I just had to go. He rode ALLLL the way to Howard and BACK.........Man.

Just take that in. What the hell are we doing black people ? SERIOUSLY. This AIN'T cool.

* ONE MORE [positive] note* One bus I got on today, it was this real young dude musta been about 21 or 22 driving the bus. He was a trainee because there was this CTA man with a white shit standing over his shoulder telling him, ok you finna stop here and all that kinda stuff. Even though dude had on TWO ear rings && his hat was cocked, I respected him because he was driving a damn bus. A bus that his friends could get on and see him, or ANYTHING. He don't feel like he need to be on the streets to get his money. He was polite and whatnot, he ain't have no attitude or nothing. He greeted the people [GENUINELY] as the got on and exited the bus.
I'm glad to see if nothing but ONE POSITIVE BLACK MAN [whom I don't know I guess] doing something that seperates himself from what everyone else wants us to be.........