bayoubill
aka Sheik Yerbouti...
I only speak from personal experience...
I lived in a run-down urban neighborhood for more'n a dozen years...
I was one of the few white faces to be seen...
I had a good relationship with my neighbors...
we looked out for each other...
we shared vegetables that we grew in our gardens and chickens that roamed free in the neighborhood...
a coupla times, I took children to the emergency room in my car...
whenever trouble started, we banded together and put it down...
we knew we couldn't much rely on the police to help us...
on more than one occasion, I had trouble with young toughs passing down the street...
the neighbors would come out and help me to get the troublemakers to move on...
once, after such an instance, a neighbor (an elderly black gentleman from across the street) came up to me and said "Don't you let them good-for-nothin' ******* trouble you none, Billy... we know where they live"...
I lived in a run-down urban neighborhood for more'n a dozen years...
I was one of the few white faces to be seen...
I had a good relationship with my neighbors...
we looked out for each other...
we shared vegetables that we grew in our gardens and chickens that roamed free in the neighborhood...
a coupla times, I took children to the emergency room in my car...
whenever trouble started, we banded together and put it down...
we knew we couldn't much rely on the police to help us...
on more than one occasion, I had trouble with young toughs passing down the street...
the neighbors would come out and help me to get the troublemakers to move on...
once, after such an instance, a neighbor (an elderly black gentleman from across the street) came up to me and said "Don't you let them good-for-nothin' ******* trouble you none, Billy... we know where they live"...