Dear Matthew:

You shared that it was a street bully that bullied you on the street, one who lived in a ghetto part of town, one of the people who lived on welfare and endangered the lives and safety of others with no interference from the police because they police is afraid of them. These ghetto bullies have no good homes, so they spend their time on the streets, targeting those who look weaker, people like you. If you resist them, they will hurt you even more.

Clearly, you had a terrible and dangerous time on the streets, and at school, you “never felt genuinely respected or loved”, no one on your side, no one to defend you and support you when you felt down. The few times others helped you, they did so because “they had a personal interest  in it”.

You believe.. you know for sure, that no one outside your family ever accepted and loved you the way you are, you never experienced that in practical terms.

“The only place where I feel accepted for who and what I am is with my family”-

I have more questions:

1. Did the ghetto street bullies you refer to, those who spent most of their times on the streets, doing as they please, having nothing to lose, uninterrupted by the police: they don’t spend their time in their own streets, in the ghetto, they go far from where they live to terrorize people in different neighborhoods?

If so, if there is a lot of crime where you live because of ghetto people, uninterrupted by the police, then there have to be lots of robberies and mayhem on the streets, murders and such…?

And if so, did your parents ever considered moving far away from such urban war zone?

2. In your school experience, was any of your peers also afraid of the ghetto street bullies, or were you the only one?

I mean, all those ghetto street people, they didn’t target only you???

anita