He's just Bragg'ing
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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg tells tales of growing up in dangerous Harlem
'He's made his biography his moral compass, making it seem like there's something magic about his life story that gives him the wisdom to establish policies,' one critic tells DailyMail.com
Manhattan's new District Attorney Alvin Bragg regularly gives speeches about his childhood, recalling that cops and civilians pointed guns at him a half dozen times, and says it's his hardships growing up in Harlem that make him the right man for the moment.But critics familiar with his upbringing tell DailyMail.com that he actually enjoyed quite a cushy existence, and should stop distorting his past to justify reforms that would keep all but the most serious felons out of jail.
Bragg, the first black Manhattan DA, grew up in Harlem but on one of the safest blocks around, an upper middle-class enclave of brownstones known as Strivers Row, and since age 4 commuted to the elite Trinity School on Manhattan's Upper West Side - details he conveniently leaves out when he makes his case.
'He's made his biography his moral compass, making it seem like there's something magic about his life story that gives him the wisdom to establish policies that affect over one million people,' one insider told DailyMall.com. 'I'm not saying he hasn't experienced racism, but there's lots of privilege he leaves out of his story.'
Bragg painted a far different picture of himself back in 1995, when he was a student at Harvard University and was featured in a college newspaper profile headlined 'The Anointed One' that mentioned nothing about the violence he now says he experienced.
In fact, Bragg, who served as president of the Black Students Association, acknowledged his privilege in that article, telling the school paper that others in Harlem 'wouldn't have the same kind of potential, walking to P.S. whatever and trying to learn from a teacher who might not be as concerned.'
In the article, Bragg stated that he was well protected by his block and his parents, who sent him away from the city ever summer to stay with relatives in Virginia.
An NYPD detective, who's worked the streets of Harlem, said Bragg these days is 'trying to score cool points in the hood, but he's not Tupac Shakur. More like Baby Face.'
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The best way to enhance the black privilege that comes with the skin color, is to fashion an appropriate narrative that goes with it. I guess nobody will ever outdo Obama's paen to his hypothetical son, who could just as easily have been Trayvon Martin.
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The best way to enhance the black privilege that comes with the skin color, is to fashion an appropriate narrative that goes with it. I guess nobody will ever outdo Obama's paen to his hypothetical son, who could just as easily have been Trayvon Martin.
