My Relations to the Hood!

One particular section in this chapter stood out to me, and that section was titled Living in the 'Hood. This particular section stood out to me because being a native New Orleanean you can relate to the problems that each of these interviewers experienced in their neighborhoods. Reading this broke my heart as she described how the sreets looked as she walked them daily and I can relate to seeing broken bottles and paper flowing down the sreets of Frenchmen and Claiborne.
Being a citizen of New Orleans you experience things that you definitely should not be experiencing, such as the dead bodies that you find lying in the middle of the streets after a shoot out has taken place. It seems as though Cleshay has a lot of knowledge relating to the streets but she regrets what goes on in them. I found that she spoke honestly and released he frustration during her interview. She spoke of a little girl being raped and questioned how can you not hear her screams? That is a real question, how can you not hear the screams of a baby girl? Its not the fact that they didnt hear them they refused to hear them. I can recall a little girl being dragged into an abandoned house and raped just about three years ago as well right here in my home town. I find that it is sad that our communties are like this. A community is suppose to act as one and now a days we dont fight as one we decide to fight one another.
I think we all can relate to this chapter because it is based upon facts and not thoughts. We can also relate the harrassment and neglect of the police officers in our city. I can especially relate to this situation because i actually know someone personal who was harrassed for walking up the street and was told he looked like a nigga that had just robbed someone, all because he was a black male.
I can also recall watching a video in 4th period about caucasians moving into the suburbs due to the violence that was coming into their communties and it seems as though our race was doing the same exact thing in the hood. I say this because Cleshay mentioned that they did not know hoe to take care of their houses and they then decided to move into another and took care of that one with the same treatment which provides our community with an enormous amount of abandoned houses. More house that you have to chech for dead bodies and drugs, This is pathetic. People keep these tragegies alive in the streets and teaching our youth the wrong thing in life we need to make a change but we cant do it alone and it wont just happen over night.

-Bubbles/ Jen'Brica Harris<3