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Originally Posted by onwebcam
I have yet to meet a black person who grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood that has said "I felt safe" instead it's "I spent the majority of my childhood laying in the floor to avoid stray bullets because them dumb motherfuckers be running one way shooting behind them holding the gun sideways"
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Central West End of New Bedford Mass is mostly Cape Verdeans. They range from tanned to dark skinned. I was close with a girl who lived there. She brought me to many family gatherings We’d talk about race and the race riots in ‘69 before I was born.
They felt safe except near the projects near downtown. Twenty years ago my nail technician lost one son to gun violence, unsolved, yet for $500 sh3 bought the gun that killed him.
Folks in that project hate it. I had a housekeeper from there and the horrors they saw and heard were horrendous. Her kids moved at eighteen for a safer life. She’d never go out at night and open windows had seating on the sides only.
Now the project there is mixed. No neighborhood is 100% safe. Ask the folks in Beverly Hills about recent thefts