Want a gun? Take a bullet:

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50. He graduated from Johns Hopkins

Now he teaches at Coppin State. He's an inspiration. I want to read more of his writing.

"In February, his 'Too Poor for Pop Culture' essay went viral almost immediately after it appeared on the website Salon. It's a vivid meditation about how little pop culture matters to the people who live paycheck to paycheck. Two more essays followed—'How Glamorizing Drugs Is Killing Black Kids' and 'Poor Black People Don't Work? Lessons of a Former Dope Dealer'—that people eagerly shared and tweeted. Here was a guy writing about people wagering on junky fights, playing cards in a room with bedsheets for walls, and losing friends to guns and drugs. His voice was lively and witty, his observations detailed, and his bluntness sobering. On entering a friend's house to play cards: 'Two taps on the door, it opened and the gang was all there—four disenfranchised African-Americans posted up in a 9 x 11 prison-size tenement, one of those spots where you enter the front door, take a half-step, and land in the yard.' "

http://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2014/fall/d-watkins-baltimore-writer

I like his bluntness.