How the drug dealing begins

Puerto Ricans never really wanted to drug deal but it’s something that they eventually feel like they belong. People seem to them as a bad influence that doesn’t belong to society and people such as ourselves live in and will see them as danger. Philippe Bourgois met some of the drug dealers in El Barrio and found that the drug dealers that others see them as a threat have actually worked in an office but due to the unsatisfaction of their superior that’s why they choose to drug deal. Drug dealers like many of us have tried to find any work as possible but it ended badly hence that led them to drug deal in the streets.

            Puerto Ricans have been labeled as an ethnicity that would sell drugs and alcohol, anything that they can earn extra cash. They would be portrayed as your normal drug dealers and they are looked as a danger in urban society. One thing that normal people miss is that these drug dealers was once like any other people that tried to find a job and worked in an office. They came out in an early age to find jobs and they prefer to make the money instead of going to school and getting an education. Bourgois met up with a fellow drug dealer name Primo and how he had a difficult time at work. Primo told Bourgois, his boss was talking to people she would say, “He’s illiterate” (Gmelch 207). Primo actually felt insulted but when he was drug dealing he did not feel as if he was out of place since he knew that the owner’s education is limited.          -

            The life of the Nuyorican is different to how their parents that immigrated here was even though they were in poverty they had a meal every night. Primo’s mom told Bourgois a story to how she lived in Puerto Rico and how there was always food on the table. She knew very well that the newer generations have no respect to the traditions that their parents follow. The Nuyoricans were looked down on by others Hispanic groups like the Mexicans. The Mexicans referred to drug dealers like Primo as “Brute”   (Gmelch 211). The Mexicans wasn’t aware of the life that the Nuyoricans was living and the consequences that they were going through by working in an office environment.

            I highly disagree that the nuyoricans should ever turn to drug dealing when there is a problem that shows up. There is always an alternative; I also think that people in society should not judge so quickly of a race when no one is certain of their past and history. Everyone puts labels in society and Puerto Ricans and blacks are labeled to be drug dealers and violent in society. I think it’s not fair to anyone’s cases and that there is more to a person than what the eyes see.