March 28, 2006
My bookstore Dilemma
Well, I've decided on a topic for my book. I'm still working on the blog idea, but awhile back I pondered writing a book on my experience as bi-racial person. So, you can imagine how excited I was to see that Angela Nissel had written a book called, "The diary of a Mixed Girl". I was anxious to read it because I was so excited to find out that there were people out there that felt JUST LIKE ME! I decide to buy the book today... I did a search for a local bookstore in Compton... My search results yielded ZERO! I was astounded. So out of curiousity I did a search for liquor stores in Compton... I came up with 64! You have to be fucking kidding me, right? 64 fucking liquor stores, but not one damned book store.. then my curiousity dug deeper... I decided to search a predominitely white city, Santa Monica and what did I find over 20 pages of several different book stores. Why is it that a city like Compton, who's population is majority black and latino has not one book store, but almost a 100 liquor stores,countless chinese food spots,& not to mention chicken spots.. well, I think it's safe to say they'd much rather see us with a 40ounce & a bag of chicken rather than a book that can provide much more substanence.
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"Mr. President/there's drugs in residence/Tell me what you want me to do/Come break bread with us/Mr.Governor/I swear there's a cover up/Every other corner there's a liquor store/...fuck is up?" - Jay Z "Justify My Thug"
This is so funny Reesie. I was putting together a similar blog in my head. Last week while riding down 79th street on the south side my friend and I made a game out of this shit. We kept counting. It went..."Liquor store, Fast Food place, Storefront Church, Check cashing place, Barbershop/Beauty Salon". Every freggin block had at least 3 of them shits. No bookstores. No banks! It's all bullshit yo.
I feel u! My cousin and I are going to write a letter to the Mayor of Compton as well as the Governor.. This is some bullshit! I need a freekin bookstore! Shit We ALL need a bookstore.. lol
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