Charleston White

well i know well i know who gonna tell me who gonna teach me but i remember the men that i was in the boys home with mr davis mr jones mr harris i remember speaking about fathers and what they would do with their son that point on uh i said i'm gonna make you my friend my real friend and from here we'll learn how to be fathers together

So, yeah, he'll teach me how to be a good daddy.

That's cool.

So you let him keep smoking?

Yeah.

Well, this is what happened.

When I took my job in California, I'm going to go be a good daddy.

I landed my dream job.

When I moved to California, I realized that this is no place I can bring an adolescent boy.

Not with this gang culture.

Mm-hmm.

While I was out there working, making money, and now I'm getting back in a position.

I'm financially fit to be established.

I'm getting myself in a financial position.

My son started having problems with grandma, mom, and other grandma.

Why?

His daddy ain't never been out of his life before.

Never.

So...

He started running away from home, started having sex, and I gave him a little knife, a little ink pen knife.