The Rez & my Rez?

The Rez is a place where opportunities are closed and unsettled. Alcoholism roams the streets as tribe members get into brawls. There is a large number of tribe members settled in one single area living together--bonding. Everyone knows each other. Traditional parties take place and are enjoyed. In my neighborhood down on the South side, opportunities are also blocked. You have to go through obstacles if you want to get out. You have gangsters running the streets, labeling what territory belongs to who. Poverty controls the neighbors as everyone would rather buy cheap fast foods than whole expensive foods, thus leading to health issues. Drugs getting sold at nearby corners secretly before the COPS come cruising by. Houses that are abandoned have broken windows and gang-related graffiti , marking the vandalism. Girls that are sixteen and younger being pregnant?--yeah, I know a couple. Fights starting up in the neighborhood's high school, blood. Everyone is isolated in their house. No one steps out in the streets. Fear throws a blanket on top of everyone. All you see through the streets are - strangers. You need to fight in order to break the cycle to get out of a neighborhood that's trash, seek your way out to open a door into your future, but maybe that's just my neighborhood. I guess that's my Rez.