"roger" > wrote in message
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>I lived in Brooklyn 25 years (thank you). When my apartment building
> started to get "diverse", the elevator all of a sudden became a rest
> room, the walls were covered with graffiti and people were asked to
> provide their wallets to strangers they met in the halls.
>
> When my first kid was born, I escaped to New Jersey. My town is one of
> those horrible "lilly white" places you read about. We don't lock our
> doors, we respect our neighbors, we don't let our kids join gangs or
> listen to 50 cent.
>
> Getting back to NYC, the locals know where the safe areas are (although
> plenty get mugged on Park Avenue too). Tourists sometimes stray into
> wrong areas, so telling them to be on alert has nothing to do with
> being racist. Like in any other town, a white person in a black area
> can get in trouble just as much as a black in an all white
> neighborhood.
>
> I detest all of these ACLU types who frown upon lack of "minority
> diversity". Take the D train to 205th street at midnight or else shut
> the f- up.
>
> Cheers
> RT
>
>

LMAO! You actually claim to be from the city?

Jack