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In reply to the discussion: I'll never forget the look in their eyes, they were terrified of me... [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I live in a nice "gated community." I use it in that way due to the fact it is always open.
Anyhoo, until recently this was a mixed community of white and more or less wealthy mexicans who bought vacation homes here. Lo and behold... a black family moved in.
Oh the horror... I was and still am very polite to all my neighbors and gosh darn it, I speak to them... not one of my ex neighbors. As soon as he found they were not renters. but HORROR OF HORRORS... owners... he moved.
Oh he was having none of it. Ironically his place was bought by another young family of color, who are very nice indeed. Many of us actually thought it was the height of irony that his property was bought by them.
We talk and everything... hell, during the power outage I lent out radios. (I have a few).
That was one of those things that I will never forget since that was the LAST person I expected that from