Episode Transcript: #2353 - Shaka Senghor
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What's up? Pleasure to meet you.
Oh, such a pleasure to be here.
Yeah, it's, um, I heard your story.
Why don't you tell everybody your story?
Because the story is pretty wild.
Yeah, so I grew up in Detroit.
Working class neighborhood.
Dad was in the Air Force and worked for the state.
Mom was a homemaker.
So on the outside looking in, it really looked like a household where the kids should make it.
But unfortunately, it's a very abusive household.
And I ran away when I was about 13 years old.
And at the time prior to that, you know, honor roll, scholarship student, dreams of being a doctor, artist.
I wanted to be a doctor because I felt like that was an occupation where I felt like you can help people.
And unfortunately, you know, when I ran away, I thought that I would basically just kind of get welcomed into the home of someone who would see this kid and be like, oh, you know, this kid just deserves love or whatever.
But I found myself on the east side of Detroit in an apartment with a gun to my head.
And it was my introduction to the street culture.