We asked educator and illustrator Roosevelt Pye to come share some wisdom with us. After he woke shit up at our photo stories of "My Brother's Keeper" in winter 2017. Posted in Brooklyn Bushwick neighborhood for a night, Roosevelt spoke on issues like gentrification, community violence, and San Francisco culture.

What city did you grow up in?
San Francisco CA,

How long have you lived here?
27 years

Can you tell me what it was like growing up being a minority in San Francisco?

Growing up being a minority I felt not really a outcast I felt more included, I felt, and I feel like San Francisco is great melting pot, or were more so it's changed a lot far as diversity, districts, communities, and my experience has been pretty good for the most part. 

what neighborhood did you grow up in?

Portola right on other side of Excelsior

How was it growing up in San Francisco? 

umm my experience growing up in San Francisco it was good! a lot of cultures I grew up in Portola my father lived in Fillmore. With family in the Bay View it was a lot of love, a lot of good times, a lot of good memories

Was it a lot of crime where you grew up?

No Portola is predominantly residential neighborhood, for the most part it was not a lot of crime at all actually in the neighborhood.

How did your parents keep you safe?

My parents kept me safe by sending me to the school in the neighborhood Hillcrest elementary. Made sure my older siblings kept me in close contact, they made sure they provided strong leadership far as realistic life lessons.

Did you lose any friends growing up?

Omg! ton's of friend's in the city from different sectors, different districts many friends to gun violence. Many friends are incarcerated in the prison system. And most recently in 2015, Mario Woods who was killed by the San Francisco, police department.          

How was the era you grew up in San Francisco?

90's baby the era was filled with a lot of love, a lot originality, a lot of color, and a lot of style. Growing up in the 90's was a beautiful thing I would say the pre-tech boom.  And it was just a lot of in your face originality, the hip hop scene, the music scene the culture the fashion.

Are your friends still around?

I do still have friends that are still around, some friends are not with us anymore, or incarcerated for the most part my close net circle of friends is very much so around. Maybe not so necessarily in San Francisco, or the Bay Area much to do with Gentrification, and the housing crisis with the cost of