Views From the Trap
By Derek Lott
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In a world where we have The Rich and The Poor, High-class Neighborhoods and Low-income Communities and different levels of struggles, we will look into the points of view from different people and situations (Drug Dealers, Kids with Struggling Families, People with the constant poverty-stricten struggles). This book was made to open the eyes and make people aware of the situations I and others have struggled with.
Derek Lott
I'm Derek Lott, 26 years old, self-publishing poet, born in Naperville, Illinois and raised in New Jersey most of my life. Raised in a single-parent home most of my life and moving around a lot, my mother passed when I was 13. I lived with my father until I graduated high school & had to dropout of Virginia Union University during my second semester due to the development of Epilepsy, I became aware of when I was 11-12 years old. I'm currently building my brand development agency and showcasing my other talents to the world
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Views From the Trap - Derek Lott
Introduction
With the Rich growing richer and the Poor constantly being beaten further down, a lot of us neglect to help to build a secure foundation for those struggling to make ends meet. Being raised by a middle class family, having more than some but being raised in middle-level and low-income areas, It should me the difference in privilege. Living in the hood, Getting into fights with kids over things you own, losing a parent to cancer before high school, having a parent stealing all the money saved for you by the other and leaving with no care, seeing others sell drugs, with friends trapping to survive, to see our next meal, moving from place to place, state to state. It helped me to see and understand, not only our own self-inflicted wounds but how we as a people, judge others, don’t help each other when we know it takes a team to make things happen. Not fully by race but also through the classifications (job, status) laid on us by others views of and in society altered a lot of