They Dared Me to Post This...

[giftedgirl77]

100. I've tried to explain the fact that once we leave our front porch

our economic status doesn't matter one iota but it keeps falling on dead ears. We used to live in a neighborhood where all of the homes cost over $200,000, all of the kids used to cross through this one guys yard to get to the neighborhood pool. I always told my kids to walk around, basically because I thought it was rude to walk on other people's grass. One day my 9 year old was walking on the curb because there were no sidewalks, the guy came out with a shotgun, pointed it at him and told him that if he ever saw his black ass near his property again he would shoot him.

The white kids in the neighborhood were hell raisers, my kids were pretty much on lock down as were the black children across the street & down the road. But the minute something happened the first fingers were always pointed in our direction. My kid's learned very early on the hard lessons of it doesn't matter one iota how much money you have your skin tone will always trump that.

We now live somewhere else which is a lot more economically & racially diverse & life is a lot quieter.