July 9, 2001 at 12:00 am #17534
Ric-M30044
Participant
I am young, white, fit and live in a sketchy neighborhood here in New York. I am often ‘tested’ by little ‘gangs’ of black high school kids. And frankly, it sucks. However, I’m from the South and lived in a bad part of town there, and we had little white ‘gangs’ who liked to be jerks. I also lived in Los Angeles, and there were little Latino ‘gangs’ who did the same thing. I’m not trying to be PC here, but I think it’s more of an angry-teenager thing that gets compounded by poverty.