Have you ever been down in the ghetto?

[billybob537]

Have you ever heard that cold wind blow?
If you don't know what I mean
wont you stand up and scream.
Cause there's things going on here you don't know.

LYNARD SKYNARD

[trumad]

1. Hell no and I don't plan on going....

[DemoTex]

3. Trumad, I have a question about you sig line (JK's dream sheet).

What was the difference between "Swift Boats" and PBRs (Patrol Boats Riverine)? I met a PBR skipper on my Australian R&R in 1971, and from his description I thought the two were the same. Max Nix, kinda. Both were dangerous as hell. After my bud's stories, I was glad to be flying all-night missions over the Ho Che Mihn Trail in Laos and North Vietnam.

[Bluzmann57]

4. Why not? Scared?

If you are not an elitist, then why wouldn't you want to understand the ghetto way of life? Helping those who are less fortunate is supposed to be a liberal thing. If you want to understand what us ghetto folks are going through, c'mon down and visit us sometime. Disclaimer- I don't actually live in a big city ghetto, just a part of town that isn't considered the greatest. But I have indeed been to parts of Chicago that a lot of people will not go into. Had no problems whatsoever.

[trumad]

6. Oh OK...

Now that you defined what type of ghetto you live in I might reconsider... I thought you were talking about those big city ghettos with big city type gangsters.... I'm so relieved....

[RandomKoolzip]

2. Yes, my dad used to take me to the neighboring projects to score heroin

when I was a little kid. Most of family has been living in poverty their whole lives. Contrary to freeper CW, a lot of liberals know what it's like to be poor.

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. Yep. Around 1995 or so.

My tenure working in downtown Dallas was a wonderful eye-opening experience for me, and definitely played a part in my decision to become a Democrat when I finally began voting. I made some wonderful friends there. Incredibly warm, special people.

You have to understand my history to understand how monumental this was. I was raised in a racist household, using the N word because I was taught to. My mom called Aretha Franklin and Natalie Cole "screamin n****r music." She sent me to Catholic school for the first time in 1976 so I would not be bussed, because she didn't want me going to school with "a bunch of n*****s."

It wasn't until I got to college and away from this poisonous way of thinking that I began develop my own way of thinking and reject that crap. I thank God every day for allowing me to attend college away from home. It saved my life. Meeting all my diverse friends in college made me a liberal.

I was a minority downtown, and it was interesting to see all the diversity, and learn how to function in that environment on an everyday basis. I picked up silly slang, my friends teased me, and I teased them back.

One of my good black friends asked me if I could help her one weekend. Her aunt had died, and she wanted to know if I could help her to clean out the little house in east Fort Worth, and then move the stuff in my truck to her parents' place.

There was a crack house next door. I wouldn't have even known it, naive as I was, but she told me about it. Cars came and went the entire time we were there.

It was a little intimidating, but I did OK. I'm one of those people who tries never to meet a stranger, and I hope that whoever I meet feels the same way.

I've been more uncomfortable and needed more attitude adjustment in the snotty parts of Plano than I did in East Fort Worth.

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[billybob537]

7. Nice post

I'd like to say thats what I was looking for with that song. But honestly I was just thinking of the song.

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. Thanks. Errrr...sorry... n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. Great post!

My parents USE to be the same as yours. I'm proud to say, they have seen the error of their ways and no longer discriminate. I'll never forget (I was in high school at the time) the arguments I use to have with my dad about how he talked about blacks. He made me so angry! :grr: I was a hippie...Peace and Love and HATED the way he talked. He was born and raised in Oklahoma. So was my mom. It was definitely a learned behavior from his southern parents. Disgusting to me. :7

He has done a complete turn around in his old age, he's 78 now and would NEVER talk the way he use to. Thank G-d!