Where We Come From

"This is where we come, yeah we did it. City on my back, yeah I made it."- (Where We Come From) - Lecrae

We are so often told that we are influence our environment and how it dictates how we are viewed by the world....
But what is very often withheld is it's the other way around; we forget that we ultimately influence our environment and the factors that compose it. 
People are going to judge not necessarily on the environment itself but the assumed reason why it got that way and the majority opinion on the environment.
If you come from an impoverished neighborhood, it's automatically assumed that you are a part of the problem created by the neighborhood in totality. You may not have anything to do with it. 
But we gotta understand that the world makes us as much as we make it.

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