Raynesha Pittman

Perhaps Temper's longing to escape [from the West Coast] is a result of being raised on a road less traveled in an area of South Central Los Angeles, where tourism is obsolete and gang banging and dope slanging reign supreme. Or maybe it's because of the widespread enigma of 'the only way out the hood is over a thirty-foot wall.' If this hood proverb is true, then being born half-black and half-Asian should've given her a ten-foot ladder as a head...