I’m immigrant from European country and i moved to southern United States. Since i came here i heard rascist remarks of people with African American heritage. I thought very lowly about those opinions. I heard comments that “Just wait while and you hate 'em too”. I usually responded with comments like “I hate eveyryone equally”.
Right now i don’t know about anything anymore. Some while ago three women and three kids moved into my neighbourhood and things have been little weird. Parking area has been totally littered with fast food waste. There’s 6 people and occasional boyfriends living in one bedroom apartment and they’re spreading havoc in the neighbourhood. Boyfriend who stays in apartment has a car with frequently changing and sometimes lacking license plate. He always parks his car so that rearside is not visible.
Other neighbours said he might sell dope around here. I didn’t want to believe it, but recently i’ve seen it by my own eyes. Money and small bags are changing owners. I’m wall neighbour with them and outside is always like Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. There’s toys and trash outside my apartment door on regular basis. People are coming and leaving all the time. There seems to be nothing this community can do.
All this has made me little bit racially biased. My neighbourhood has lots of black people and area is down in the dumps. My white little brain has made me little rascist. Right now i guess i think that black people are most likely to do some harm to me. This area is pretty bad and i guess that someday some crackhead is going to (knock knock on the door, someones picking up the bag) rob my apartment or harm me someway if i make any complaint about them.
I know that south has bad reputation about rascism and simple-mindness. But wtf is happening here and have i become something i never wanted to be?
Butcher me if you like with your comments. I guess i need it.
Did you have a General Question here? Or was this a mis-posted rant that might have been better served in The BBQ Pit or a general venting that might belong in IMHO?
If you are asking the question as to why some people are clods, I can only quote my dad who maintained the aphorism: “People! They’re no damned good.”
If you are asking why your neighborhood seems to be sliding downhill: that tends to be the way neighborhoods go. Once the slide begins, unless active steps are taken to prevent it, there will be a fairly predictable pattern of people fleeing the neighborhood with the increased numbers of people leaving forcing down prices, making it easier for even more poor people to move in. Since many low-competence criminals are poor, they tend to follow the trend, creating a vicious cycle of ever lowering housing values and ever lowering neighborhood quality.*
If you are asking why the most recent scumbags happened to have been black, it is probably tied to the general demographics that a number of people who cannot maintain a decent income are criminals and blacks are disproportionately represented among poor people. (I know several neighborhoods where blacks are “not allowed” to live, but where the crime and poverty have increased even in the absence of black residents.)
Have you mentioned to your local beat cop that the one car seems to have frequent license plate changes? Have you called the police when you have witnessed drug sales? Reporting crime is not a panacea to prevent crime, but not reporting crime is a sure way to let it continue.
I guess it was a question. I’m not that ranting guy.
I’ll study your:
But also this was just what i’ve seen and feel. Some people see it with hate, while some people see it with uncertainty. No i’m not going to join the local KKK or christian white supremacists but i could use some guidance like you gave.
I’m not going to give you a glitchy “I have some black friends” , but just idea what immigrant feels.
And of course moderators are subject to move this thread to “Cafe Society”, but i still think this is the right thread.
This doesn’t seem to be a factual question, so it doesn’t belong in GQ. I don’t know if it’s a rant (which would belong in the BBQ Pit) or a request for advice (which would belong in the IMHO forum), so I’ll close this thread rather than move it. I suspect you want IMHO, but you should rephrase your message before reposting there. As it is now worded, your post invites trouble (“Butcher me if you like with your comments,” etc.)