answer:I grew up in a pretty moderate gang banging neighborhood. Probably an occassional drive by every 5 years in the 90s but only with gang to gang contact nothing too senseless… With that being said racism runs rampant with gang members a really great football teammate died randomly at a bus stop because he was black and the passer by’s randomly targeted him because he was black. I’d say that neighborhood I lived in at the time was 25% white 25% Asian 25% black 25% Mexican fairly even… Point is to answer your question, with my personal experience I don’t want to raise my son in that environment. I think it’s best to let him grow up in a world where gang member lifestyle is a myth. I really want him to be involved in the science world with an imaginative approach… Is this my dream passed onto my son? Maybe. Can I help myself that it is a dream of mine? No not really… My views are shaped on my experiences and I can’t help it if I w ant my son raised in a different world than I was. The stress of having to have the street smarts and knowing the ins and outs with ghetto people has to go a very specific way. I’m lucky to realize this and I had to fit in, luckily for me I had a black eye birth mark my whole life so when I ever met tough people they were always like, “Oh fuck this guy got down already, I want to know his story.” It was never “Oh fuck I’ma whoop this guys ass some more…” I think it’s human nature that when we see someone wounded we sort of take a step back and assess the situation differently. Now I’m going off on a tangent. Great question got me to thinking about my sons future :D