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I went to Judiciary square twice and like riding metro after 7am, it's another world. As I was red-lining there, multiple youngish black men were sitting sideways in the chairs while others stood (like women, children, older men). The one in front of me was young and skinny - maybe 17-22 max. He had old ink and all his tattoos could have been jail related. The ones I remember were lipstick on his neck (I've seen a lot of these lately) and a feather than trailed off into birds. He had scars on his knuckles, more on his right, and more scars from cuts on his upper arms. When we both got off at the courthouse, I saw he had an ankle band. At the exit he walked out the free gate and the attendant standing there outside the booth didn't bat an eyelash. Lots of scrappy looking folks there at the courthouse, mixed in with suits with rollerbags.
I didn't feel like a tough guy there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trSdEEZ8Yds&feature=youtu.be
is a video from SE, showing at 17 seconds what might be the guy trying to lift the other guy's phone, and the friend instantly flashes his gun. I remember being annoyed with the hoodie movement, for to me these hoodie-wearing guys are absolutely the feared object, stereotype, wearing hoodies in late May. 30 seconds the guy unloads his gun at the unarmed man his friend tried to rob. It's interesting too because they're on the steps, presumably where they live or where someone they know lives, and these guys likely know (or buy from) whomever lives there. I had an af-amer boss who was pretty racist in his views (very pro-black male, anti white maybe but it's hard, sometimes, so separate strong for one vs. against another, and paranoid) but would still say for every stereotype there was a lot of truth - they weren't made up; the stereotype existed.
Like when those "skinheads" instantly jumped me for yelling fuckyou back, the no fuse straight to shooting in the back of an unarmed man your friend tried to rob, is stunning and makes me want to throw power to the police. It's also the power teens, like me when I was a kid, emulate in attempts to look (and be) "hard," or whatever machismo term is used today. I never even stabbed anyone or was stabbed in a fight, but I carried knives as did most of my friends. In a fight sometimes someone would say hold, and take out their knife and hand it to a friend, so they could fight unarmed. Most of our fights were fistfights - heck I even saw one where they literally took a beer break in the middle. There were rules and boundaries, generally.
Kinda lost my point in here somewhere. Race, machismo, history, perspective.
I'm closer to moving into CH (Columbia Heights) and watching the crime reports. My area has rare shootings and they tend to be personal/business. We have robberies but mostly theft. I have a lot of neighbors who hang on the porch - very diverse, from the white young wine drinkers, to the yelling af-amer (who include attorneys, engineers I believe), and my latino neighbors complete with herbal enhancements. I've made kinda friends, but am curious to see what really being there all the time is like, how I'll take it, and how I'll adjust.
I didn't feel like a tough guy there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trSdEEZ8Yds&feature=youtu.be
is a video from SE, showing at 17 seconds what might be the guy trying to lift the other guy's phone, and the friend instantly flashes his gun. I remember being annoyed with the hoodie movement, for to me these hoodie-wearing guys are absolutely the feared object, stereotype, wearing hoodies in late May. 30 seconds the guy unloads his gun at the unarmed man his friend tried to rob. It's interesting too because they're on the steps, presumably where they live or where someone they know lives, and these guys likely know (or buy from) whomever lives there. I had an af-amer boss who was pretty racist in his views (very pro-black male, anti white maybe but it's hard, sometimes, so separate strong for one vs. against another, and paranoid) but would still say for every stereotype there was a lot of truth - they weren't made up; the stereotype existed.
Like when those "skinheads" instantly jumped me for yelling fuckyou back, the no fuse straight to shooting in the back of an unarmed man your friend tried to rob, is stunning and makes me want to throw power to the police. It's also the power teens, like me when I was a kid, emulate in attempts to look (and be) "hard," or whatever machismo term is used today. I never even stabbed anyone or was stabbed in a fight, but I carried knives as did most of my friends. In a fight sometimes someone would say hold, and take out their knife and hand it to a friend, so they could fight unarmed. Most of our fights were fistfights - heck I even saw one where they literally took a beer break in the middle. There were rules and boundaries, generally.
Kinda lost my point in here somewhere. Race, machismo, history, perspective.
I'm closer to moving into CH (Columbia Heights) and watching the crime reports. My area has rare shootings and they tend to be personal/business. We have robberies but mostly theft. I have a lot of neighbors who hang on the porch - very diverse, from the white young wine drinkers, to the yelling af-amer (who include attorneys, engineers I believe), and my latino neighbors complete with herbal enhancements. I've made kinda friends, but am curious to see what really being there all the time is like, how I'll take it, and how I'll adjust.