Tuesday, January 20, 2015

No Go Zones

It is very likely that there are "No Go Zones" in every city on earth. Where racial or religious differences provoke problems of one kind or another.

For example, when I grew up in the Los Angeles Area in Glendale there were many areas that I knew that I could not safely go in the Los Angeles area. One of these areas then was Watts. I remember being 16 years old and getting lost driving for a Camera Store in their Oldsmobile and looking around me and not seeing a single white person anywhere. It was at that moment I did a complete 180 and got out of there back to where they were more white people on the streets. This was 1964.

Was I actually safe?

Maybe and maybe not.

However, I had been trained by everyone I knew to have this reaction then because I grew up in an all white neighborhood and went to the best public schools in Los Angeles.

These kinds of zones are in cities all over the earth where nearby residents are either afraid to go or where Police are afraid to venture unless there are about 10 cars going in with their guns blazing.

This is just  a fact of life all over the world. Being afraid to talk about this is political correctness gone insane!

I also told you the story before of how rocks were thrown at me at age 12 near USC when my father and I were working on a Catholic School I believe. Black kids across the street threw rocks at me then in 1960. I was scared because I was out of my element. I asked my father who I was working for that summer and he said don't throw rocks back or do anything just dodge the rocks and hope they don't hit me or break a window in the truck. Though there were dings on the utility Electrical truck all over and I got hit a couple of times too I dodged most of the rocks and no one was seriously hurt including me. We finished the job and went home.

My father told me then that if we called the cops people were likely to die. He didn't want that to happen so we didn't call the police. Because then about 10 cars would have come all at once and it wouldn't have been good at all for anyone.

No Go Zones exist all over the world in cities in ghettos and always have. Luckily, the problem I'm talking about here was 1960 and has been mostly solved here in the U.S. Other problems around the world have not and aren't likely to be solved ever.

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