In the ghetto .... In the Ghetto ...

I officially live in the ghetto, and its not nearly as cool as Elvis' song "In the ghetto ..." makes it out to be!  Me and my workmate from MIT moved to a new place last night, which turns out to be in the ghetto!  I've actually rode a bike to this area (4km from my work) a few times and I still haven't seen A SINGLE WHITE PERSON YET!! It's seriously 100% black people living in the ghetto, no kidding!  Every 4 houses or so is like Al's house but worse!  There's so much crap sitting on so many people lawns (like old, dirty matresses & junk) and there's just black people walking around or sitting on their porch all day doing nothing.  Apparently it wasn't quite as bad before, but its been getting worse ever since the hurricane about a year ago .

This morning on the way to work at 9am, about 5 houses away from my house I heard angry dogs barking at me and I thought "Shit, I'm glad they would be locked up cos they sound brutal!", and then all of a sudden 2 pitbull terriors run out in front of me, cos they weren't locked up behind a gate or chained up or anything!  They started barking at me so I tried to calm them down but I accidentally tripped over a rock which scared the fuck out of the dogs so they went totally nuts at me, jumping all over me and trying to bite my hands and shoulders and shit!  Luckily they left me alone after about 20 seconds.  I've decided from now I'll walk on the opposite side of the road!

And then tonight I walked again at 9pm, and there were 2 black kids that left their house just as I was walking past, so I was talking to them for a bit.  The younger kid had to be about 15/16, and the older kid would have been about 17/18.  I asked them what they're doing and they just said "not much, just chillin, tryin to sell some green or some pills, you have change for a twenty?", and cutting the story short, I had a feeling they might do something dodgy so when they asked me where I was going I pretended to go somewhere close by.

After about 5 minutes of walking with them the younger kid threw a boulder at me from behind!  The older kid pretended like it was some completely random thing from the kid so I just said "man take it easy!" and walked off but then he threw another boulder at me from behind, and so i knew they obviously wanted me to fight them so they must have either had a weapon (they both always had one of their hands tucked in their pants) or friends close by since they were drug dealers, so I ran off.  They chased me for a few blocks even though I zigzagged but eventually I lost them but I kept running until I passed the area I told them I would go to.

It happens that I've literally walked through my neighbourhood twice at night now and both times black people have attempted to mug me, and since I usually have to take my passport with me and other important shit, from now on I'm gonna stick to walking in the daytime, even though it means walking for 4km in 39 to 42 degree sun!