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Originally posted by Sistermadly
And it's not my fault that my parents were poor and we had to live in public housing. As soon as I was able to leave, I did. I guess in your eyes, that makes me worthy of knowing. I don't know -- and I don't want to internalize this discussion, because it's really beside the point.
You're incredibly lucky to have the life you have. I'm incredibly lucky to have escaped my circumstances. But I guess the difference between you and me is that for me, it doesn't matter where you came from -- the only thing that matters is where you're going.
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I'm going to have to agree with my sister.
I could look past the fact that someone was in a gang, or even that someone was a felon -- in the past. I can't speak for my organization, obviously, but that's my feeling. You can't control where you are born and where you grow up and what you might have to do to survive and I don't feel that I should judge someone based on that.
Having worked with felons, I can say that just because someone has committed (or plead guilty to, which doesn't necessarily indicate actual guilt) a crime does not alone make him or her a bad person unworthy of brotherhood or sisterhood.