Impudent Locals

There are alot of things that annoy me, but the one that I'm going to mention tonight is number 2 on my list. I live in a moderately small city (65,000 peeps) in the deep south (US). And this town happens to have sidewalks on most streets (as do many towns of this size). So how come the majority of the pedestrian population doesn't know where to find these cement walkways? I was recently granted an answer to this boggle.

I managed to avoid hitting a group of EIGHT teenage boys in the street with my car today as I came around a bend in the road where they were walking in a spread formation down the street. But rather than blow my horn or swear at them, I chose to approach them as a reporter for the local paper (I'm not anymore, but I still have my credentials) with a survey.

My question to them was, "Why do you feel that the streets of ____________ are a safe place to walk?"

This was the response (word for word) that I was given:

"It aint 'bout being safe, it's 'bout the white man tryin' to control da black man by makin' dem walk on sidewalks while the damn crackers is out drivin' Ferraris and S*#^. So it's like the responsibilty of black folks to show them racist crackers that we aint goin' to be controled no more."

Now how much sense does that make??? Leave it to the people of this town to make using sidewalks a racial issue!!!