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Originally Posted by cuervo72
/smacks head
Well, that shows you how much I think about buying drugs.  |
There's a couple of other streets (one very near this spot, another a few miles away) that come to mind where the presence of a white person would immediately be cause for suspicion/investigation. Athens quite possibly has more all-black neighborhoods than all-white ones (I can only think of maybe one of the latter, several of the former however). You plop a white guy on foot there & it's going to raise an eyebrow, probably from several different quarters for different reasons all at the same time. The obvious stuff being "why are you here", "how did you get here", and "where are you going" ... we ain't a big just walk around for several miles sorta town, not outside the hipster neighborhoods or the campus area anyhow.
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And before anybody even tries to throw any of of systemic "ghetto" stuff into that, at least one of those neighborhoods has been 99%+ black for decades.
Local history as I've seen it told is that it was originally the site of the first real stable middle class black neighborhood in the area, the houses eventually passed down to another generation, in some cases more than one gen. They're in decline now but that's been a function of some of those original families either dying off or simply moving to more upscale neighborhoods / other areas entirely.