The entire issue is not racial.
Its all a matter of young males getting into a pissing contest to show who owns the turf.
What chaps my ass, is whites are being blamed when we are saints about this kind of territorial behavior by comparison to any of the folks in this story.
A few months ago, I was backing out of the driveway and I saw some guy slinking low to the ground by my fence.
I went on RED alert and I was carrying.
I whipped back in the drive way and obviously pissed started to run to the fence with the worst in mind.
The guy saw what was happening and popped up.
I immediately recognized he was the new neighbor that had moved in next door (we had not met) Then I saw the little puppy in his hands and the look in his face.
I de escalted shit fast and apologized.
I introduced myself and asked his name and the name of the pooch (who had run over to see my pooch)
At any rate, my point is that reasonable people can think fast.
I determined in a split second that this was not a threat
I went from there is someone crawling along the fence line on my property to “who’s this little fella” skritchen the dogs ears.
There is another guy that is not from my neighborhood that likes to walk his dog along the fence line and look in folks windows.
This guy creeps me out.
"Let me tell you a story, son, about a time when I forgot about the Black Male Code.
One morning I left our car at the shop for repairs. I was walking home through our quiet suburban neighborhood, in a cold drizzle, wearing an all-black sweatsuit with the hood pulled over my head.
From two blocks away, I saw your mother pull out of our driveway and roll towards me. When she stopped next to me and rolled down the window, her brown face was full of laughter.
"When I saw you from up the street," your mother told me, "I said to myself, what is that guy doing in our neighborhood?" ~~~