I remember driving through Mississippi on my way from Jena to New Orleans. There were places where the people (rural blacks) were living in tar paper shacks like one sees in photos from the 1860s. Cabrini Green is pretty grim but it's a hell of a step up on that. I think it's been a long time too since I've heard anybody say in all seriousness, as I did in Jena, "Nigger boy get your eyes of that white girl's ass".
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Date: 2007-05-24 06:55 pm (UTC)