my little pimp daddy. since the 1980s, the concept of the street family has become the codified social unit for many of portland s homeless kids, veterans of life on the streets, take the roles of street moms and street dads. there s a group of people out here which we call our family. we help each other out. if they need their ass whooped, we give them their ass whooping. michael belongs to the portland street family and has been living on the streets of portland for six years since he ran away from home. if someone screws up really really bad, we beat the out of him, take him up and sell him like if they owe us money or something but that s only like last resort. just moments after talking about his violent life on the street, michael walks around a corner and is attacked by another member of his own street family. he just kicked me in the back on my broken ribs and kicked me in the head.
how you doing? hey, donations? from missouri, montana, washington, colorado, and utah, the kids we found on the streets had come from rural western states. and oregon s open minded attitude has allowed both drug use and street life to thrive. i don t have bugs or anything. for many kids, the attraction is a low-grade heroin known as black tar, which is cheap and abundant on the streets of portland. i m about to do some american heroin. for many runaway kids, life on the streets resembles the social order of high school. many different factions of street kids coexist in portland. these kids belong to a group called the portland street family. this is shorty. this is my baby.