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Humboldt1: PlGrd, Nice to see you are back from CityData. I was starting to get really down about black renters in general, but have had a new renter (black family) in my suburban place in Itasca......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

morgan693: Lot's of interesting comments here, but a lot of misconceptions, in my opinion. Not everyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, contrary to popular belief. People have different intelligence levels, different life......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

ChiPhi: Wow...this thread has had some staying power and I am glad it has the legs. :) Full disclosure...(Please read my earlier comments above for my perspective regarding this neighborhood). I am a male in my......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Humboldt1: Gentrification is being caused by yuppies and professionals from the east moving further west, displacing current long-time residents. The park itself is beautiful and a true gem in the Chicago Park District, but is......

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emily: I am currently observing a class in Lafayette Elementary school. I have to write a paper regarding the changes the community or the school have gone through. The school used to have 1300 students and......

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dena: I have lived in the Humboldt Park area all my 50 years and seen many changes for the better yet the gangs are a big problem still in our community and schools in the area......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Humboldt1: I am happy to get rid of all the gangbangers. I have confronted drug dealers and will surely do it again. I do not want the kids on my street living around this......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Humboldt1: I am one of those yuppies moving in and buying up property. I see real opportunity in areas like Humboldt Park and Logan Square. Now, I live in Humboldt Park in an apartment......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Humboldt1: Arquitecto, Seriously, you don't need to use all the 5 dollar words. I have been in Humboldt Park for the past 3 years, having purchased an apartment building here in which I live. I......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Humboldt1: I have been in Humboldt Park for the last 3 years. I have seen some slight improvements but admit the area has a long way to go. ...

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Xavi: Humboldt Park has its social ills (and as you can see from the rest of my diatribe, there are specific historical/social/political reasons why) but it is a ghetto struggling to maintain the rich social networks,......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Jason: What's most ironic is that liberals are deeply "conservative" when it comes to gentrification. They are seeking to take a vibrant city of constant flux and movement and freeze it in time. No one group......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

kls: My husband and I have lived in Humboldt Park for 4 years since moving to Chicago from Guatemala. I cannot think of a better compromise for us both. I love being near the shops......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

just me : I like many of you grew up in the HP area. No I don't live there anymore because i had my children and chose not to raise them in that enviroment. Needless to say......

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HP Teach: I have been a teacher in Humboldt Park for 10 years. I have seen improvements and setbacks. I have seen how the violence hurts the community. If the gang activity was minimized, the......

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Christopher: People need to step up and do the right thing for Humboldt Park. Such as the Mayor of chicago needs to do something about the case. ...

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Christopher: It is not fair for people to be living in the bad conditions. Also that people need to respect the Humboldt Park residents who live here. Not to push people out of their homes....

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Junito: If this discussion had taken place face to face the Kings and Folks would have shot at each other and hit another innocent victim. This is probably how Miquel died. Lets stop the violent comments......

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Junito: Wow! It was hard reading all of that. Lets all study our cultures of the western hemisphere (e.g., Tainos, Aztecs, etc,.) We are decedents of moral, loving, industrious and spiritual people. We are greater then......

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corsakti: just to clear something up again; i was tryin to badmouth humboldt park and the puerto ricans who live there. As I grew up, we lived in a rented house there for years and were......

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Xavi: Most of the eastern part of Humboldt Park until the mass Puerto Rican migration of the 1940's and '50's was Jewish and Polish, with some German and Italian elements. When those ethnic groups were......

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corsakti: just to clear something up, for anyone who misunderstood - i wasn't tryin to badmouth humboldt park in general, we lived in a rented house there for years and were fine with it. our......

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anon (c-67-167-198-48.hsd1.il.comcast.net): i love taking shit 4frm white people live your car open ill take any shit that is in there hp is the best place to get shit if i c a car with a......

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Sam: I remember when this neighborhood was Italian. My grandmother owned a house on division street between Chicago and North Avenues. The neighborhood was beautiful and the houses well maintained. The Our Lady of......

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Xavi: There are many stories of Puerto Rican families who are making a killing off of their homes by selling and moving to Florida, or back to Puerto Rico or wherever and they do so for......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Popeye & Maniac: Too many rats in humboldt park... I saw one run across the floor in a restaurant 2 days ago... I thought you guys were clean?...

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Xavi: To check out more articles about gentrification in Humboldt Park, go here: http://www.citynoise.org/article/7014/by/xavi...

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demetrius: iam 22 years old i live and humboldt park from 1992-1998 and i attend von humboldt school and i love humboldt park and iam 100% african american we never had promblems with the puerto ricans......

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Xavi: It is not only about class, but race as well. Instead of "poor people," in the context of Humboldt Park, it should be Puerto Ricans and Latinas/os. ...

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Hey Staci: Hey Xavi if you are interested I'm up for this, Humboldt Park definitely deserves a documentary. E-mail me at info@depth0.com ("0" as in zero ). Same goes to you Staci....

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Xavi: I live in Humboldt Park, in the Paseo Boricua commercial strip. Reading through most of these comments, I have this to write: In order to understand the state of Humboldt Park and the Puerto Rican......

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Staci: I am DYING to do a documentary about Humboldt Park. I am really looking for someone to team up with to create this project. I think there should exist a stamp in history......

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IVY: I grew up in beatiful Humboldt Park. I lived there from the age of 7 when it was all white. There were only two Puerto RIcan families on our block. We lived......

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cristina : I'm a young, Puerto Rican girl who was born and some-what raised in Humboldt Park.(on spaulding & wabansia) I live in the southwest suburbs now, since all the gang-violence and poor public school system was......

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This is real!!!: I sit here sad as hell listening to all the disrespect everyone has for each other. WOW. im trying to understand how can we be so ignorant and not get our act together. I lived......

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I am Puerto Rican, and Really Angry at your Lack of Concern and Knowledge:: I agree with you Rich. I would love to live in a world where people can coexist peacefully along side one another. All I am saying is that most people make generalizations of people based......

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The Chi-ster: We need to see the bigger picture here. Its almost heartbreaking to see people of a common struggle wasting time and lives with petty arguments. I am boricua, I stayed on Kedzie and......

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EvilGentleman: I am truly touched by how many people have started pouring out the memories of an area now abandoned, how that brings the area back to life in the eyes of those of us who......

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I am Puerto Rican, and Really Angry at your Lack of Concern and Knowledge:: I have attended various universities in both Chicago and Puerto Rico. I am currently a student at the University of Puerto Rico, and at one point I was Trying to recieve my BA from......

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JNJ: Again. The problem isn't your, "whiteness". Human phenotypes don't necessarily always reflect the genotypes. "White", just like Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, is just a generic term used to separate people for the......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

RESPONSE TO : Yea-Yo: Im Puerto Rican and im buying property converting it into condos and giving it right back to the RICANS of Humboldt Park. Why might you ask because im RICH BICTH!!!!!!!!!! Sorry for you yuppies i......

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Interested: So, JNJ, I appreciate the time you took to craft your response and feel that some of what you have said has shed some light on the situation for me. However, you do a......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

JNJ: Your reflections are very impassioned and provide a perspective that I could never understand as a caucasian and an outsider to the neighborhood. I guess what I still don't understand is why, I would be......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

Interested: Hi JNJ, Your reflections are very impassioned and provide a perspective that I could never understand as a caucasian and an outsider to the neighborhood. I guess what I still don't understand is why, I......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

Vanessa: I live in Humboldt Park. It isn't as bad as people say it is. I get really tired Of people putting puerto ricans down. I an in a family of 5 and my grandmother to......

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JNJ: "I was running in Humboldt Park the other day, as I have for a few years, when 2 Puerto Rican 17ish year olds rammed their bicycles into me. I stepped to them, as it were,......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

Gringo: Cool, my first witnessing of a drive by in Humboldt Park. You latinos sure have your priorities straight!...

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S: That was a pretty antagonistic and incoherent post JMJ, and I find it to be consistent with other white racist feelings that I some times experienced from some residents of Humboldt Park. ......

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JNJ: Everybody is missing the point here and underlying factor. I grew up in Humboldt Park. I lived there for 32 years. Yes, it was stressful. However, I had allot of fun......

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Yea-Yo: Exactly Culture Club. I'd love to understand more about these deep roots people claim they've laid into Humboldt Park. The dirty ass alleys, unkept yards, trash all over, people with no regard for the next......

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Diaz: Humboldt Park will pass through the hands of the hispanics as it has passed through many cultures. Buildings will be renovated and new homes will be built as the more well off people return to......

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Gino: Ha, Everyone This week,is a week of enjoying ourselves and our culture. so lets put our differences aside and be happy that god has given you one more day to make your life better for yourself......

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PRPoet: Augusta and Francisco is not a bad place so long as you keep your eyes open and pay attention. Its like anywhere else in the city, a little common sense goes a long way.......

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Experienced: Rest assured, you noticed a group/gang trying to locate the buyers for their drugs. Stop by and check out the corner of Maplewood and LeMoyne around 3:00pm. You'll see a series of thugs......

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Earth Day At Humboldt Park: RESTORE. Work first, then enjoy hands-on nature crafts and live music at the HUMBOLDT PARK EARTH DAY CLEAN UP AND CELEBRATION. The community effort is in honor of the 36th annual Earth Day. Volunteers should......

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Concerned HP'er!: Is it necessary to blast the bass thumping radio at 6:00 AM? Is it necessary to hang out on corners and deal drugs? Is it necessary to live in public/low income housing and......

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king:kaos : Ayo yea im From Humboldt park but i moved to Ny not da harlem bit and its damn straigh mad kingas up hurr but NY is ite DAMN STRAIGHT....

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SAMILA: Humboldt Park is beauty at its finest! It gives us all the opportunity to see what is bad and good. We hate the gangs, but we love how Puerto Ricans respect and preserve their......

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simplyantwon: hey! so, my friend staci (whom you've all met) tuned me into this whole blog thing. i think it's fantastic to read some of the opinions and perspectives of my unknown neighbors. so, i wanted......

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Boriqua/Morena: Violence happens everywhere not just in Humboldt Park. But if we learn how to prevent it then we(H.P.)won't be looked at so badly......

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Boriqua/Morena: I am mixed with Puerto Rican and Black. I have lived in Humboldt Park all of my life and I have learned to accept what the neighborhood is about. This is my life it is......

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LOL : Chicago Gang Watch Journal: “Ready to fuck” Humboldt park: Hernando “King Cock” Martinez, leader of the Almighty Crazy Gay Latin Kings (ACGLK’s) has split from the gang. Rumor has it that he was kidnapped by......

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Cate: They came to my side of Western...Humboldt Park...but even around here it's being re-gentrified....

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LOL: The illest gang war ever in Humboldt park: Almighty Crazy Gay Latin Kings (Saying : Dicks up, Asses down) vs. Insane Cocksucker Gangster Nation (Saying: All Cocks in our mouths!) Here’s what happened one night in the......

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Humboldt Park - Dave: Your right! Insightoner. Norwegians, did occupy most of Humboldt Pk. back in the day. I can't speak for all Puerto Ricans. But, I don't really think most of us in Humboldt hate having whites or any......

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Humboldt Park - Dave: Staci, Sounds like you bumped into my X @ Foremost Liquors. I sent her out for some smokes and she hasn't made it back. The Fur, ring and purse was my Christmas gift to her. I......

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Staci: To: Humboldt Park Dave/ Ratone Chocha/ Insightoner Thanks Dave. I'll have to check that out. I'll keep things posted on here every so often. Ratone, I live on Humboldt and Cortland. ......

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Rhatone Chocha: Humboldt Park = Racism If you're anything other than from PR, stay away.... everyone may say it's a friendly place but it's NOT! --Chocha Eater...

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Staci: Wow. This blog is great. I'm a resident of Humboldt Park for two years now and just signed my lease for another year. I don't have a lot of time right this......

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michelle: What comes around goes around. It didn't stay Polish, Italian and German. It won't stay Puerto Rican either. Humboldt Park community was incorporated into the City of Chicago in 1869, the same year that saw......

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gringa latina: Well, here I am again. I wrote my last post in Spanish I guess as a sign of respect to all of the latino residents of Humboldt Park and to write as a "white......

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gringa latina: Hola, muy buenas. Hace dos anos llegue a Chicago desde Madrid. He vivido de alquiler en varios barrios de la ciudad pero siempre me gusto Humboldt Park. El ano pasado fui con unos amigos......

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Humboldt Park - DAVE: Margaret, I suggest you visit Humboldt Pk on a weekend just to get your feet wet. Bring a friend or two and maybe have some coffee and pastries @ Cafe Colao, Saucer, Humboldt Pie. Lunch @......

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Margaret: Hi, I'm finishing up my senior year at Northwestern in Evanston. My parents are immigrants from Eastern Europe and I have spent most of my undergraduate career interested in communities and increased educational opportunities......

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Peter: yeah, this thread is a classic. right up there with the {gang} one, the {shankhill road} one and the {humboldt park} one!...

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908: am a white female from the suburbs south of Chicago. I am English, Swedish, German, Polish Russian, English, and Scottish. Driving through Humboldt Park .....It's beautiful. There are beautiful homes and parks, but the......

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Unknown: I am a white female from the suburbs south of Chicago. I am English, Swedish, German, Polish Russian, English, and Scottish. Driving through Humboldt Park .....It's beautiful. There are beautiful homes and parks, but......

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T K#3: Humboldt Park has more "Latino vs. White" racism than most anywhere I've been (except for some parts of France which I've been to! This is due mostly to the tight integration of neighborhoods and individual......

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Shortie: It's funny how i have read most of these peoples comments talking about how humbodlt park is owned by the puerto Ricans and hows it was always are little part of chicago....i find that funny......

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Link to photos: A lot of people have been asking for photos of Humboldt Park, but few residents of that neighborhood seem to own a digital camera. Thankfully, we can view all the neighborhoods of Chicago at PicturingChicago.com. For......

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SadStateOfAffairs: Interesting stuff in the news about white people not being welcomed in Humboldt Park, tension etc...It was in the news on WGN and in the Tribune. Maybe a slow news day. I have no idea......

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Ramón: Humboldt Parks belongs to humanity. Many people and many cultures have enjoyed its beauty, some have contributed more than others. I grew up on 2735 W. Division and for some reason going home......

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Another thought from JJ: This thought I wrote after I saw some homeless people on North Ave. In the fall of 2005 I found a man who lived in ten double lined garbage bags filled with newspapers, tossed by the West side crowds, making......

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JJ speaks of these realities: Peace is a dirty word It used to be a painted bird War is a whore, don't you know we love her more and more. Killers The paper's merciless in reminding us who shares the planet with our avengegeness. They frighten......

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HOTTIE gurl : Can anyone put pictures of humboldt park please!!!! Im mexican and puerto rican and dont know what humbolst park looks like!!!!...

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Peter: tl;dr also: this thread is on a tangent so far from its original topic that its not really worth carrying on. so... anyone out there want to skip the unsolicited spirituality-rant and get back to talking about......

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WOW: To Surviver it is true what you say that many people are suffering and we have to make a change we have to take actions. And thanks to the grace of GOD he has blessed......

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Thank You: DISINVESTMENT created HP... .Puerto Ricans were nieve country people that got consumed and spit out by American city life......Humboldt Park will become Lincoln Park in the next decade ....Lincoln Park used to look like Spanish......

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Peter: could someone please post some photos of humboldt park? or email some to editor at citynoise dot org? cause alot of us that are keeping up with this ongoing thread know very little about it.........

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SadStateOfAffairs: As my wise old mother said to me many years ago, there is a time and a place for everything. The church is the place to preach the gospel and this is a forum for......

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Peter: can we please keep this thread on the topic of {humboldt park}? thanks :)...

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Thank You: Making Music in Humboldt Park...

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Late Comer: All I know is some poor kid got shot by a bullet someone loaded into a gun probably bought on the street and used in Humboldt Park...

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Chris Alvarez: is there anyone out there that would like to help me research humboldt Park neighborhood? I need help. I am doing an ethnoggraphy on the people that live there. I want to know what the......

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Corporal Diaz U.S.M.C.: Some time has gone by since I first laid my thoughts on this forum. I can see nothing has changed sine I left Humboldt park. And to some degree it saddens me, but it does......

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Ashamed of all!!: I just want to say that everyhting I have read here, has made me very ashamed.. I'm glad that they are imporving Humboldt Park, weather its through whites moving in or not.. Because all......

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king love lady : i've read both those books my bloody life and once a king always a king.i live down here in mia and too me that that kid went thru alot of shyt from bein beating......

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Shortie: Wow man all i can say is ther are alot of racisis people in here.. we all Latin American people it's a shame we can't get a long. I've only been on dis web site......

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ted357: Ya'll crazy to an extent. I'm moving to HP soon. I'm moving because I can't afford no other shit on the north side. I'm a white boy from the south side. Damn, I understand some......

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Peanut Gallery: It's nice that you looked it up for everyone but a definition is kind of a fluid thing and many times it takes a while for the dictionary to catch up to the street or......

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