A first-person spoken narrative by Shaka Senghor describing running away at about age 14, transitioning from an honor-roll student with medical aspirations into the crack cocaine trade, and experiencing multiple traumatic events (friend murdered, robbery at gunpoint, near-fatal beating). The speaker reflects on the brutality faced by children in that environment.
When I ran away, I was about 14 years old. You know, growing up, I was an honor roll scholarship student with dreams of being a doctor. And unfortunately, like many kids who, you know, leave their households for a variety of reasons, I found myself instead of being welcomed into a loving and nurturing environment. I got seduced into the crack cocaine trade. And within the first six months, I experienced every traumatic part of that culture. You know, my childhood friend was murdered. I was robbed at gunpoint. I was beaten nearly to. And one of the things that I never forget is laying on the cold bathroom floor in the pool of my own blood and asking this question, what kind of world do we live in when this happens to children?
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