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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]13:31 may not be politically correct, but she's not crazy.
I wouldn't let my teenager go alone through the Gallery Place metro area after 7 PM either, especially in the summer.  She's right---just too much foolishness.[/quote]Yeah, I was a pp who mentioned caution about GP earlier.  Good to be careful.  But that pp's way of describing the "problem" is just too over-the-top. [/quote]

You know what?  White people are afraid to say what I have been saying for fear of sounding racist, and AA folks, well, I'm not sure.  Maybe we think it, but are "embarressed" about talking about our own people in "mixed company", well I DON'T CARE.  These young blacks are OUT OF CONTROL.  If you look at them "wrong", they want to cuss you out, if you say "excuse me" because you want to get by them on the escalator because they are standing on the wrong dang side, you may just get beat down.  I'm frustrated, I'm tired, I'm sad, because they just don't seem to care, and I'm ashamed of their ignorance, their rudeness, etc. :([/quote]pp here.  I hear ya and I'm not disputing that there are kids like that.  It's just that I know some kids who when they're out on the metro at night look like the kids you've had a problem with but they don't behave like that at all.  I just object to making sweeping statements suggesting that [i]all[/i] black teens on the metro are trouble makers. And I say that because it's really easy to look at all kids on the metro and make those assumptions.  I can feel myself doing that every day.  And when I do I remind myself that until the kids I see are actually rude to me that I shouldn't assume they will be. That doesn't mean I'm not careful or that I don't pay close attention to teens in groups.

PP, don't you know some kids aren't troublemakers? Wouldn't it be better for them to make it clear that some black teens behave well and some behave badly?  That's all I'm asking.[/quote]

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