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Originally posted by AGDee
It makes me embarassed and ashamed to be from this area. I grew up in Warren and live very near Trenton and was shocked to hear about those incidences. I admit that I have neighbors who make comments when minorities move into the neighborhood and we get into arguments about it. My daughter is so sensitive toward others though. Her best friend is an African American girl whose parents I'm good friends with now. There are only a handful in their school at all. My daughter told me the last week of school that one of the girls has a white mom and she is worried that other kids will harass her when they find that out.

Taylor though, that doesn't surprise me a bit. There are parts that are nice, but much of it is high crime, low lifes and the city has a bad reputation for a lot of things. It wouldn't surprise me if there were skinheads, KKK, etc going on there.

I just don't get how humans can treat other humans that way.

Dee

See, Trenton I can see there being some racists in that area because it's mostly upper-middle class white people. Taylor is what surprises me.

No, I'm not saying that I think what these people did is ok, I'm just saying the cities in which the acts were brought out surprises me.

Taylor has been trying to make a better name for itself and it has. But once you pass east of Telegraph or north of Wick.... they have a LOT of work to do with that part of town. I'm still surprised that there would be racists issues because, compared to most of Downriver (exclusing Romulus, River Rouge and Ecorse), it has a larger African American population.

Also from this article I hope people don't think that our neighborhood is horrible. This is the FIRST time I've ever heard of any race issue in Downriver... black or white. Hate crimes don't happen very often here and if they do they go unreported or unspoken of. (Downriver is a very small world... you hear about everything that happens here)