Crucial fact
18 years ago. Very different place. I've had the same experience as Universon above, but that was eight years ago and while I never felt threatened (Bed-Stuy, by accident, not a 'good' area at all) I certainly felt alert.

It's not racist to feel intimidated when sticking out as much as two white kids in the South Bronx would. Of course everyone you meet is likely to be law-abiding and at worst curious about your presence there, but you *will* draw attention to yourself and if there are any dodgy types about they *will* notice you. Pretending otherwise out of some white middle-class desire not to be racist is just stupid, not to mention patronising.
( Scrumper, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 14:25, 1 reply)

hmmmm
What I was pointing out was, that it was racist to assume that it was gangland territory, and the comparison with Boys In The Hood, which is an entirely different Coast, thousands of miles away, with a completely different cultural approach to life... seems to have the similarity of 'a lot of black people live there, and seem to hang around outside their houses in the street'. In which case I walked through a small town in Yorkshire and it was like a clan rally.
(Universon, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 15:44, closed)

so..
You've been to Bradford/Keighley then?
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 10:11, closed)