I destroyed a racist town, as revenge for what they did to me.

Here's what happened.

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I was browsing Ask Reddit and came across a thread about whatever happened to that trench

coat kid at your school. I was that trench coat kid and I came back to town and destroyed it

years ago. As a background, I grew up in a conservative little town in a conservative rural area

heavily dominated by religion. This makes people put great stock on moral purity and appearances.

Keeping up the facade is the most important thing. Everyone must go to church weekly and people

are heavily judged for appearing sinful. This was a bad thing for me as the cards were heavily

stacked against me from birth. You see, my mother was abused and I was the result. My mother lost

her parents when she was young and was taken in by her uncle and aunt. The uncle had an important

position in the local religious hierarchy. So when he and a couple of his friends started

using my mom, it was ignored by everyone. When she got pregnant, it was painted as her being a

harlot running around seducing married men. She was cast out. Why she didn't move out of town?

I don't know. But yeah, there I came into the picture. Born out of wedlock and with no

father branded a sinful outcast. My childhood was rough. I won't go into details but enough to say

that by the time I started going to school, I was quite damaged. School made it worse.

I was bullied relentlessly. Teachers were part of it since they were all part of the religious

community which saw me as stained. Imagine being the only black kid in a town run by KKK and

you get close to how it was. So yeah, in school I became that trench coat kid or it's local cultural

equivalent. I became weird and hostile on purpose to turn people off. People were casting me into

the mold of being damaged and stained. So yeah, I took it and turned it into something to protect

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