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dcnovice -> RE: I could have been Zimmerman (7/19/2012 5:38:54 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LadyPact
I grew up in a very small town. Kind of like what you would think about Mayberry. We had two stop lights on main street. When I was a kid, they didn't call the cops when I was out on a swing set passed curfew. They called My dad.
We didn't have an official neighborhood watch. We didn't need it.
However, when we saw somebody that wasn't from our neighborhood, yeah, we kind of watched.
It drives Me nuts that some people don't get this.
Open discussion.
My town, on 1970s Long Island, was a bit bigger than that, with way more stoplights. Still, my neighborhood functioned the same way, as did the beach club where my folks rent a cabana. An unfamiliar face would have stood out, particularly if it belonged to someone of another race, since both environments were all-white (and probably still are) And yes, it was assumed that all adults would be obeyed by all children. We did enjoy a level of safety and serenity, wandering from the house for hours at a time, especially once we could ride bikes, that kids may not know today. Of course, the hard question that arises is whether the costs for this world were social conformity (every home held a hetero couple) and de facto segregation.
It's not clear to me, though, how any of this connects to Trayvon Martin's death.
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