I wonder how much bullying in our schools affects the decision making of successful kids to come // give back to the city.

Whether you're triggered by memories of shitty people you grew up with, or possibly even triggered by the actions // mannerisms of current day kids.

Like say you're Michael B Jordan, and you decided to do a guest appearance at Arts, and while everyone is having a blast with you being there, you get triggered because you can tell who the bullied kids are or who the anti social kids are.

Or maybe you can tell who the popular, but bratty kids are and the way they're trying to get your attention is annoying.

This is an essay but yeah lol, people tend to have a harder time giving back to the environment that raised them, if said environment didn't do enough of a good job in their eyes.

This is obvious, but cross applying it to Newark is what makes it interesting. Do many of our stars escape the hood so that they never have to come back?