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As I’ve stated before, there is a great deal of resentment on the part of the inhabitants of sketchy parts of town towards those (often immigrants) who start up businesses there. Some of it is justified. Store keepers are suspicious of their customers (with good reason) and don’t trust them at all. The prices they charge tend to be higher than else where (also with good reason). They also tend to hire relatives, friends or other immigrants, not the locals (again with good reason).
In addition, the locals are convinced the immigrants are getting funded by the government and given special favors that they, the locals, don’t get. And they resent the fact that the immigrants, through hard work, guts, and determination seem to succeed where the locals tend to stay stuck in the morass of their own making. After success, the immigrants move away, only to be replaced by newer immigrants who repeat the cycle.
The underlying fact is that it is never the black underclass’s fault; it is always someone else’s.
As my REAL African neighbor from Liberia once said to me: American blacks are lazy...................
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locals are convinced the immigrants are getting funded by the government and given special favors that they, the locals, don’t get.
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In the DC area this was fervently believed by the down town urban ghetto dwellers. It was part of “The Plan” as they called it.