Posted on 10/23/2004 9:26:01 PM PDT by neverdem
You are right.
Here there is some tensions, mostly between black gangs and latino gangs though. If there is tension for any other reason it's because the latinos think they're better because they're not black, and blacks resent latinos because they network and get into self employment faster.
I used to live in Rochdale,Queens. From what I hear you need an armored tank to drive though there. I think that's where 50 cent grew up which would explain a lot.
Rochdale Village? A tough corner.
Now illegals have taken over an entire city, how nice.
That was the late Seventies. I lived in one of the high rise apartment buildings back when they were called co-ops :-) I was all about seven, and praying to get out of there. One day my father announced that we were leaving and thankfully when crack moved through Hempstead we weren't living by the bus terminal. God's honest truth.
That's me, shallow.
I owned a home in Washington Park, one of the mansions on the North Plainfield side. I never lived in a more wonderful neighborhood with more wonderful people in my life. I sold last fall to move to Washington, DC. I miss it like crazy.
However, that being said, I had to walk home from the New York train through Plainfield past the Intercontinental a few times at night. That was a tenuous experience at best.
Ouch. We just moved from N Plainfield to rural OH last April. For the most part, N Plainfield was great, never felt uneasy, although as a rule in suburban NJ, one should be a bit more careful than is necessary in, say, rural OH. But Plainfield - another story altogether.
Quite happy to be in OH, by the way. Love it.
The local Mex, Salvadoran and Guat populace here in Nashville has nary a drop of conquistador blood....most are pure amerindian....shirt and squat....quite unlike Plains or Woodland norteamerican indians.
My hometown sounds like that.
I went back and read it.
sounds like some serious bad blood....i would not underestimate those latinos just cause they are little sawed offs....I've seen em in action.
ask any Nam vet about those little charlies.
Unfortunately, what pretty much happened was that it got turned into a 'housing development complex'. There are good people living there though. Hats off to them, they can deal with the hardscrabble living and poverty mentality of their neighbors. I just like to have a nice green front lawn *LOL*
yep.....and no stray bullets either.
Yeah you're right.
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