If so, why and who started the fight? Usually I did by saying something out of pocket. I didn’t have nice clothes, or school age siblings, so my mouth was my first line of defense.

If not, did you ever have to avoid a fight? What did you do? Ran

What rules did your parents have when it came to fighting? My mother was against it.

Do you think fights between youth are worse today than during your youth? Yes Why? Darnetta hit the nail on the head.

If so, why and who started the fight?
Several, mostly with my male cousins. Fighting them taught me how to fight so I didn’t have too many problems with girls, they were easy to put down. Until one year this girl moved in the neighborhood, and I swear she must have been bred for fighting. She had old scars and scratches in her face and she would go around beating boys and girls. I was terrified of her. She terrorized everyone and her mother was too busy with a house full of kids to care about the trouble her daughter was getting into. So parents complaints were falling on deaf ears. My mother told me that if she ever ran up on me, fight her like my life depended on it, because if she beat me she will keep picking. Sure enough the day came when she targeted me. I don’t know what came over me because I was TERRIFIED but I stood there with my fists clinched and the look of death on my face. I used every bad word I had ever heard in my life and cursed her like a mad man. Kids that gathered around were shocked by the words, there were so many gasps. And I was screaming from the top of my voice that if she wanted a piece of me she was going to have to come and get it. I think I went insane for a moment. She was so shocked she bagged down, and walked away. I think I scared her. That moment on she never challenged me and always would say hi when we passed one another. That was the last time I ever had a “fight”. I was about 10.

What rules did your parents have when it came to fighting? Hold your ground and never back down. Although we were taught to never start anything.

Do you think fights between youth are worse today than during your youth? Why?
Today its all about street credit and some sense of “respect”. Mostly children today don’t understand that just because you get licked in a fight doesn’t mean that your manhood/womanhood is somehow taken. And I dare say that today most of them don’t know how to fight so to save face they will grab a weapon. I guess its more important to show people that you are willing to kill for your “respect” and sit in jail for the rest of your life than it is to get a beat down.

What street/urban fiction titles can you think of which included memorable fight scenes? Don’t read it.

2. If so, why and who started the fight? The girl started it by calling my mommy a bitch and I ended it by kicking her butt.

3. If not, did you ever have to avoid a fight? What did you do? N/A

4. What rules did your parents have when it came to fighting? You better win was the only rule.

5. Do you think fights between youth are worse today than during your youth? Why? Yes because there are no real fights with fists nowadays. There are weapons and little value placed on life.

6. What street/urban fiction titles can you think of which included memorable fight scenes?
I don’t remember a book with a fight that didn’t turn deadly.

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