MRThompson_Jr

From Baltimore streets & rap sheet to Johns Hopkins systems engineer securing critical infrastructure. Author of The Improbability of Me.

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I was fourteen the first time I had to stab someone.
With a fucking pen.
This is Chapter 6 of my book The Improbability of Me. Thread.

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I am going to present an uncomfortable but true position here, and this is one I learned growing up in Baltimore. You have to hit them with an extreme level of violence. The first time I had to stab someone I was 14 just trying to ride the bus home in Baltimore City. https://t.co/c0FbyVHzcF

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Not exactly. We shouldnt degrade our culture and resort to sinking to the level of those doing these crimes. I'm saying we need to teach our sons how and when to fight. Every white male child at a minimum needs 6 months boxing and 6 months wrestling. They should never sit there and take repeated unanswered blows to the head like this poor child. He wasn't trained or raised properly. We have an entire generation of neutered white young men.

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I think many families in this country taught an entire generation of young white men to be pussies. This poor kid has the survival instincts of a paper bag. It’s not his fault. You can’t send lambs to play with wolves. It’s just not going to work out.
Look, I understand what this kid has to deal with. I grew up in Baltimore City. I had to catch the MTA to get to school and man do I have some stories. Here’s the bottom line. People need to teach their kids how to deal with these situations. Letting someone get that close to you and eating punches with no defense like he did is a path to brain damage or worse.
Some of my stories: https://t.co/5bEOPI1iIu

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I say this from a place of experience growing up in Baltimore. You have to stab them. If they come at you they aren't going to stop. More people will likely join in once you are in a compromised position. They will beat you until you're dead or permanently irreparably changed. You have to stab them. You have to be ready to take it to the end.
My story of having to stab them. https://t.co/P5SnGurPw2

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What am I doing here? Im writing my story of growing up in the City that Bleeds, Baltimore Maryland. I will tell you how a golden boy from a broken home had a rise, a fall, and a rebirth. Subscribe and you will read a real life journey through ups and downs. Im not the hero, im not even the good guy in my own story, but I am honest.

Ive fought for my life in the streets several times, fought people that wanted to do me harm just for the color of my skin, worked on planes for the president, been a convicted felon, engineer at a nuclear plant, an expert in multiple fields, a Johns Hopkins trained systems engineer, a researcher at one of the most prestigious research organizations in the world, a corporate asshole and now just a dad raisiing some kids in the midwest.

Check my story out. You can start with this one. https://t.co/nQKPKj8Bbl

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@emsuncleronnie Adding my story as well. I was just trying to go to school. But getting to and from school in Baltimore has its own challenges. We don't have to live like this. https://t.co/Zkj6nLJlyV

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@AnnCoulter Ann,

As you well know this has been going on for years! I'm writing my stories of growing up as a white child in Baltimore City. https://t.co/GkWr1gpWWb

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The reality of the situation is this has been going on for years. I'm writing my story of growing up in Baltimore City. These are just the events captured on camera. I was 14 the first time I had to stab someone because two grown men attacked me just for the color of my skin. https://t.co/b5E0H6Pk1B

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@mattvanswol This is nothing new. I'm writing a book about growing up in Baltimore City. You should see the things that don't get caught on camera.
https://t.co/M2ii6maoLQ

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Hello everyone Im writing my story of growing up in Baltimore City. I will be sharing all of my trials and tribulations. Please take a look.

I see it as a story of redemption but I guess you are always the hero in your own story. https://t.co/ifQuduqm2h

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I love these glowing examples of what “white privilege” is supposed to look like. Allow me to add mine.
My white privilege forced me at fourteen to stab a man after him and his friend tried to beat me to death for walking down the street. A year later it happened again while I stood at a bus stop minding my own business.
That’s the kind of privilege Baltimore gave kids like me. https://t.co/RCArN0cNVQ

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@BollFILMS @BollFILMS I think Baltimore would be a good place for part 2! I will be your technical consultant and I work for free. This is my resume. https://t.co/M2ii6maoLQ

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More raw chapters coming. This is the blueprint of how badly you can fuck up… and exactly how to crawl out of the wreckage.

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I was fourteen the first time I had to stab someone.
With a fucking pen.
This is Chapter 6 of my book The Improbability of Me. Thread.

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Full chapter is live on Substack: https://t.co/Z4sjS8DEyV

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That moment taught me a core engineering principle before Johns Hopkins ever did:
A hinge is a weakness. Every moving part is a potential single point of failure.

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That mechanical failure in the middle of a war changed me forever.
From that day on, I only carried fixed blades. No moving parts. No promises that could break when everything was on the line.