"I never wanted to live there as a child, especially as a teenager," he said. "Every other day a window was broken, the church alarm would go off, someone was burglarized, someone was stuck up, and when my father would be down on me for my behavior, I would say, 'Hey, I am this way because we live here, and that's kind of your fault. You came from halfway around the world to come live in one of the worst neighborhoods in America.' "