i kinda wish it was. you're pretty hot, tbh. but you're not into people in my age bracket. i can just sort of tell from how you act.
but you're overlooking the reasons why kara would never be given the chance not to sell drugs: because the justice system doesn't rehabilitate or protect certain people. and by certain people i mean lower class people, people who aren't white, women and especially people who are at an intersection of all those. she can't take a chance that's never going to be offered to her and that chance SHOULD be but it won't because she's black and poor and a lady.
everyone is different but that also means that some people are given less chances or none. some people are pushed towards badness by society's expectations of who they should be. and when they are, over time, they can come to believe that's the only choice, and then people who believe that, say, a poor black girl is destined to deal drugs, can point to her and go 'see what i mean' and keep the system going. so the stereotypes reign over us and she can't change because it'd get her killed, and THAT is the cost she cannot afford. even if she could make legitimate income, the switch over might anger people for whom that classist, racist system is basically god, and if they put a bullet in her, they know they could get away with it.
rich or poor, if the cost of being good is your own life, you cannot afford it unless you're borderline suicidal, chuck.
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Date: 2017-08-15 06:45 pm (UTC)but you're overlooking the reasons why kara would never be given the chance not to sell drugs: because the justice system doesn't rehabilitate or protect certain people. and by certain people i mean lower class people, people who aren't white, women and especially people who are at an intersection of all those. she can't take a chance that's never going to be offered to her and that chance SHOULD be but it won't because she's black and poor and a lady.
everyone is different but that also means that some people are given less chances or none. some people are pushed towards badness by society's expectations of who they should be. and when they are, over time, they can come to believe that's the only choice, and then people who believe that, say, a poor black girl is destined to deal drugs, can point to her and go 'see what i mean' and keep the system going. so the stereotypes reign over us and she can't change because it'd get her killed, and THAT is the cost she cannot afford. even if she could make legitimate income, the switch over might anger people for whom that classist, racist system is basically god, and if they put a bullet in her, they know they could get away with it.
rich or poor, if the cost of being good is your own life, you cannot afford it unless you're borderline suicidal, chuck.