"A Star Is Born"....

It all started in the year of 1981 October 25, to be exact when a women name Joanna was in birth with her third child with a man name Joe. Joe was a good man when it came down to his family he been with Joanna for as long as the first two kids was in the world, Brandon was the first son a "handsome fellow he was", who was now 5 years of age and Ebony a beautiful daughter who was now 1 years of age was the perfect family I mean everything was going well until Joanna was having her third child who they named ather Joe but, something went wrong with Joe ather 4 years had pass I heard the man got around the wrong person and started smoking weed but a friend of his lace a joint they was smoking with some crack or PCP and Joe mind was never right from then on. A lot of things started to go wrong Joe just started tripping a lot not about his family but whatever Joe friend put in that joint that day fuck his whole mind frame up, he couldn't take the pressure of family or friends anymore so Joe left Joanna and 3 kids by their selves. Brandon was 9 going on 10 and Ebony was 6, Joe Jr. was going on 5 and barley knew the nigga anyway, Ebony a course was dady lil-girl but, Brandon, I can say it effected him more out of all of us cause he was use to his mom and dad being together and when Joe left, Brandon heart went with it so, every time Joe came around it was always Ebony and Joe Jr. who seen him. Joe Jr. barley knew him and was trying to understand this was his dady, Ebony adored him and Brandon never was present when his dad came around his mind was like he didn't have no dady and that made him the Black sheep of the family. Joanna, thank God she was a strong black women cause she move on and was destine to make sure here family was gonna be o.k. regardless, with a little struggle she did just that at the same time, hoping that God will save her family.

Joe Jr. was the average heather lil-boy but his mind used to race a hundred miles per hour at a early age and that made a real bad case of studering, "I mean" he try so hard to express his self by talking but, he used to speak so fast that he couldn't even get one word out so, that kind of made him a more to his self kid growing up. It used to be hard though for Joe jr. when he first started school a lot of kids use to laugh at him a lot but, he was a very competitive kid and one of the best at all sports activities and that made him popular so kids might laugh but they never tease cause one thing he did have was a bad attitude and kids knew he get angry a lot, them or the teacher didn't want him to get mad cause he will hit fast, I think that why his mom nickname him Boogie ather the famous boxer and since he fought a lot that was like the best name for him cause he didn't play about being tease and that started a bad behavior problem that went with him his whole life. Joe jr. was more fascinated with woods maybe because it was a place that he could explore and a place he could be alone and didn't have to worry bout nobody. A place where people didn't exist and a place that his mind could race off in his world and nobody would ask him what he was thinking a place he felt safe, comfortable and more at home then home it-self, a place he knew would always be easy to find and a opining to go in, it didn't matter where he was, where they was any and every giving chance he had he went to the woods and he love every bit of it. In the first red bricks apartment they stayed was somewhere on the west side of Atlanta was the first place he met a white kid name Henrey. Henrey maybe was a little older then Joe jr. and I know it was the first white kid he ever met or even seen cause, when Joe jr. use to go to school he didn't see nothing but black forks and he never seen Henrey there but, when he got home Joe jr. ran straight to Henrey house and waited for him to come out side to play. Henrey was one of the craziest white boys I knew, well the only one I knew at the time and his fascination of the woods made my fascination grow even wilder, Henrey was the only kid who had a arson of fake guns that look more real than the real things I mean the boy had a fucking rocket longer something I never seen before real or fake I mean he had 38's, 9's, 45s, AKs, rifles, knifes, holsters I tell ya and every fucking thing looks real as hell so we load up whatever we can carry and off to the woods we went looking for bad guys. Sometime we split up with walkie talkies and search the whole area I mean we always found knew places to go and check out when we left the apartment we stay gone damn near for 4 to 5 hours at a time it was a fun time playing with Henrey building forks and club houses in the woods and playing war it was one of the best times in Joe jr. life it was "awesome". Henrey was the only kid who I hung with at the time I mean I never really have many friends at the time except Henrey and a good friend he was. I remember when I was about 7 or 8 Henrey and I used to walk down the street sometime to a subdivision and it had the huge houses I mean big. I used to see things like this on T.V. and it was right down the street from where we lived. Anyway there was one house though that stood out from all of them it was so big and nice that I had to walk pass it damn near every day just hoping one day that I could live there and always telling myself that I would have something like that so my fantasies and my dream world started to hit me at a early age, and I knew whatever I did in life to stay focus on my dreams but my dreams got even colorful when one day my mom had a man name Greg to come by to visit, see Brandon, Ebony and me use to play bingo when we use to go out of town for our family reunions that's another story but, anyways our bingo was cars and we all look out the window at the cars that go pass and whoever say bingo first that was they car acourse Brandon since he was the oldest knew more bout nice cars and he use to win but every time he did say bingo I use to say it to I wanted the same one my brother pick so that got me fascinated with cars. So Greg pulled up in this candy apple red Cadillac with white leather seats and gold rims that damn near blinded me. I didn't know what this was called but, I wanted something like that so now my dreams are filled with big houses, nice cars, luxury, exotics and class and I wanted a part of it but, one thing I knew for me to have things like what I was dreaming and seeing only Hollywood stars have I knew I have to become a star and a star I was destine to be.

Bingo!!

"Ghetto Child"

As we live in a isolated, Drug related area

With people on the outside are, So afraid and scared of us

While never looking at the trials, Tribulations, problems of others'

The communities we live in, Disregarding our family, friends and mothers

If we are born in a world of low income, Well-fare with so much poverty

With no jobs, low education, with a struggle to provide food to eat

So acourse majority of the population, Gonna be bucking and wild

That's why we are the bricks behind the fence, known as the "Ghetto Childs" ...

By: Casey Holmes

"GHETTO CHILD"....

In the summer of 87, my mom Joanna finally, I guess got the courage enough to divorce Joe I think it what made him even come around less and less. Then it got to the point that he just stops coming around all together. Then she marry Greg who got us to move to his neighborhood. It was a big change for me cause I didn't want to...