[JH]

Jen, do you live in or close to a predominantly black neighborhood that houses an outpatient mental health clinic? That’d be the only logical conclusion to your question. I currently live in a neighborhood in the heart of downtown in my city, and the racial split of residents is about 75% white, and the rest mostly black and Hispanic. On a daily basis as I walk through my neighborhood casually or on my way to work, I see a handful of people strolling around talking to themselves. But (and this is a big but) I am aware that there is a city-sponsored mental health day clinic within a few blocks. And in keeping with the racial breakdown of my neighborhood, most of the people I see walking around babbling to themselves are white. So again, you must find yourself regularly in areas where there are more black people than not. And if that’s the case, then it makes sense that of all the mental ‘categories’ out there – sane, insane, stable, unstable – you’re likely to see more black people fitting all the molds than people of whatever race is least represented in your area. But I can assure you that lower class blacks are no more genetically predisposed to babble to themselves in public than upper class whites are to dance stiffly and awkwardly to urban music.

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Name : JH, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 31, City : Milwaukee, State : WI, Country : United States, Occupation : Professional, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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