I came home from work today on this rather bitter Philadelphia evening with my new BNC/Ethernet tester in hand and went straight for my junction where the cable comes into the house. I want to work up a complete tracing of all of the cable in my house.
Before I go any further, here's the makeup of my most immediate section of town:
Property values are still soaring due to massive class A commercial development, this was all I could afford and seemed like a good investment.... (hell, I walk 3 blocks to the 16 story tower I work in
)
anyhow...
While I was outside fiddling with the cables on the wall, standing in the front of the house on the sidewalk, I was surprised to see that I was the only white person out there. Even the regular drunks were nowhere to be seen.
Across the street a few elementary school kids were playing with a football, throwing it and laughing whenever the ball bounced off of one of my neighbor's brand new maximas (guess what color the maxima owner is?). There are half a dozen males in their early 20's standing on the corner across the street hustling something.
A few middle school aged kids approached me and tried to "talk white" to me about how much "fun" they had in school today. To anyone who hasn't overheard this, it's when someone who has Ebonics so deeply ingrained into their vocabulary, that they can do a satire of proper English to make fun of white people. I tried to be friendly back (turn the other cheek?) but just frustrated them and they left me alone.
I see cops all of the time around here. We have armed robberies and home invasions all of the time. Developers, flippers and people like me are just pouring money into the neighborhood, trying to make this a nice place to live, but until the landlords start evicting, rehabbing and selling themselves, this place is still going to be filled with this kind of crap....
Cliffs:
1) Ace lives in a really interesting neighborhood
2) Ace gets made fun of for being white
3) Ace is depressed that the youth in his neighborhood are bigoted and fears for a future in which these kids will be adults.
4) Ace sleeps with an AK-47 praying that he never has to shoot some greedy kid with it because the kid wants Ace's electronics.
Before I go any further, here's the makeup of my most immediate section of town:
- 50% lower income rental units inhabited by aftrican-american's, usually with a single mother of several as the head of household
15% vacant housing being rehabilitated and flipped
15% freshly renovated housing, rentals to young professionals (I bought one of these units and live in it alone)
20% brand new construction, almost half million dollar homes populated by the most successful of <35 year old yuppies.
Property values are still soaring due to massive class A commercial development, this was all I could afford and seemed like a good investment.... (hell, I walk 3 blocks to the 16 story tower I work in
)anyhow...
While I was outside fiddling with the cables on the wall, standing in the front of the house on the sidewalk, I was surprised to see that I was the only white person out there. Even the regular drunks were nowhere to be seen.
Across the street a few elementary school kids were playing with a football, throwing it and laughing whenever the ball bounced off of one of my neighbor's brand new maximas (guess what color the maxima owner is?). There are half a dozen males in their early 20's standing on the corner across the street hustling something.
A few middle school aged kids approached me and tried to "talk white" to me about how much "fun" they had in school today. To anyone who hasn't overheard this, it's when someone who has Ebonics so deeply ingrained into their vocabulary, that they can do a satire of proper English to make fun of white people. I tried to be friendly back (turn the other cheek?) but just frustrated them and they left me alone.
I see cops all of the time around here. We have armed robberies and home invasions all of the time. Developers, flippers and people like me are just pouring money into the neighborhood, trying to make this a nice place to live, but until the landlords start evicting, rehabbing and selling themselves, this place is still going to be filled with this kind of crap....
Cliffs:
1) Ace lives in a really interesting neighborhood
2) Ace gets made fun of for being white
3) Ace is depressed that the youth in his neighborhood are bigoted and fears for a future in which these kids will be adults.
4) Ace sleeps with an AK-47 praying that he never has to shoot some greedy kid with it because the kid wants Ace's electronics.
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