"Those who don't know any better come into our neighborhood scared. They think we're dangerous. They think we will attack them with shiny knives. They are stupid people who are lost and got here by mistake... All brown all around, we are safe. But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake." When I read this it really moved me. I reread it over and over again because I had always thought about neighborhoods like that and how people could live there. When I drive in Philadelphia in neighborhoods like this girl lives in I get so scared and always think how could people live here? Reading this vignette it gave me a new perspective on these types of neighborhoods. Even though people may look different and talk a different language they are still humans and act just as everyone else does. This vignette really did move me and changed my perspective on this topic.
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