![]() Yes, it had to be personal, but it had to be strip down personal." Gramma: "Mina, she ah ol' head. ![]() "Yet, in the middle of the "bucket of blood" South Side of Chicago with all of its hand me down wounds, fear, pain, anger and frustration, I and others struggled not to become casualties nor to add to the list of casualties but to each find ways to use our personal brilliance to unbuckle the "black belt" and step away from the blood. "Over a period of years, like today's Chicago South Side youth, I too jumped and stiffened, when I heard gun shots "pow pow" around me, heard screams, saw muzzle flashes, blood." "The neighborhood I was born and raised in was frequently referred to as one of the "bucket of blood" neighborhoods in America's many "black-belted-in African American communities." ![]()
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