IN AFRICA YOUNG BOYS WERE GIVEN TESTS OF COURAGE TO BECOME RECOGNIZED BY THEIR VILLAGE AS MEN. THE SAME AS IT WAS FOR MOST ANCIENT TRIBES OF OLD THAT THERE YOUNG BOYS FACED TRIALS AND WERE DEEMED MEN. FROM THE EARLY 70'S ON THESE TRIALS YOUNG MEN WERE NOT CONSIDERED MEN UNTIL THEY BECOME INCARCERATED AND THIS DEEMED THEM MEN BY THEIR PEERS. TO BECOME STATE PROPERTY TOOK ON A LIFE OF IT'S OWN AND YOUNG MEN COLLECTED THIS BADGE WILLINGLY NOT KNOWING THE DIVESTING EFFECT IT WOULD HAVE ON SO MANY FUTURE GENERATIONS. I WAS UNAWARERE OF THIS UNTIL I BECAME STATE PROPERTY THEN IT WAS A BADGE OF COURAGE NOW IT IS A AN KER AROUND MY NECK THAT I REGRETABLE WILL WEAR UNTIL THE DAY I DIE. STATE PROPERTY IS WHAT I WAS AND IT HAS TAKEN ME SOME YEARS TO REALIZE THAT IS NOT WHAT I AM NOW, THAT I GOT TRAPPED BY MY OWN IGNORANCE OF LIFE AND WHAT SURVIVUAL WAS. A SURVIVUAL THAT I HAD A CHOICE WHETHER I WANTED TO BE APART OF AND I CHOSE TO BE . DO I REGRET IT NO! BECAUSE IF I DID THEN THAT WOULD MEAN THESE EXPERIENCES WOULDN'T HAVE MADE ME THE MAN THAT I AM.
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