Karamo talks with three teens about their grandmother's strict rules, constant monitoring, and physical discipline. One describes being slapped in a car after a confrontation. Despite family tension, the teens maintain a 3.1 GPA and participate in ROTC and aerospace science.
Have you ever called your grandmother out of her name or was extremely rude?
No, I ain't never called her out her name.
She can't do that.
Yes, okay. But have you ever been extremely rude?
I mean, in her terms, I guess I have, but like to me I haven't.
Okay, and tell me why, 'cause I really wanna hear your side.
I mean, 'cause like I try to explain my side to her, but to her she don't care about my feelings. It always turn into how she feel about certain stuff, how she feel about how I feel. But she never get a chance to hear me out for nothing.
Yeah. Yeah.
Why should I have to listen to you? You gotta have feelings too. I know you have feelings, but I'm the adult. And I'm not gonna tell you nothing wrong, honey.
You can't expect me to sit there, listen to you talk, and that's it, that's done.
No, I'll give you your chance to talk.
And when I talk, you overtalk me and change it to how you feel.
Okay.
Do you feel like that ever happens?
No.
Okay.
No.
Yeah.
I give her a chance to talk. She don't never give me a damn chance to talk. That's why I slapped the shit outta her when we was in the damn car.
Okay.
'Cause she kept running her mouth.
In the car, I told you, you kept referring to me as my mom and my dad. I told you, stop doing that 'cause I'm not them. I wasn't here when they was around. I'm not them.
No, you're not.
You can't refer to me as them.
And I tell you all the time, be better than your mama and daddy. Don't be like them. So that's a lie.
So your grandmother is overprotective from her own words.
She knows that.
How does that affect you?
Okay, so I'm 17, as we all know.
Duh.
But to her, she treat me like I'm 10. Like I'm young. She told me put a tracker on me. I had a tracker on me all the time. And it's like even with a tracker on, without a tracker on, she want me to tell her step by step what I'm doing.
It's only for your safety.
No, no, you got it wrong. Even when I'm out with my friends.
You got it wrong.
Even when I'm out with my friends, I can tell her I'm going to the mall.
She got it wrong.
What time you gonna be back home? I come in your house at a respectful time. I don't come in 12, 11. I don't come in none of that. I be there at 9 o'clock or 10.
Is that true? She always comes at a respectful time?
No.
You told my producers that you said that you're not going to end up like your mother and grandmother.
What do you mean by that?
Yes, because Grandma, she'll always tell me, I grew up like this. When I grew up, I had to do this and I had to do that. I'm not like you. I don't, I'm not, how I grew up is not how you grew up. So you tell me life is a circle, I'm gonna think outside that circle. I'm gonna think you keep holding me in, it's gonna make me wanna go out and do something crazy.
I understand what she's saying.
And again, I'm not that type of person. She'll probably be like, Oh, you go out here and go wild with these boys. I am not that type of person. I don't let no boy influence me. I influence myself.
Yes, congrats.
That's it.
I wanna know more about you. How are you in school? How are you? Are you a good student?
Yes, I have made principal list.
The reason I asked that is because I asked my producers to ask you for your report card. You are getting a 3.1. That's great.
Your grades are phenomenal.
I also heard you're taking aerospace science.
Yes, I'm in ROTC.
Yeah, you're in business technology. You're in multicultural literature. Your GPA is a 3.1, and all your teachers recommended you as like one of the best students in the school.
Yes, they tell me that. They tell me that. Yes, as soon as she get home with me, here we go. Yeah, the damn mouth.
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