My husband was raised in low income housing and allegedly around prison gang life and has major connections. He never talks about it but apparently he has a cousin in jail for murder and drug traffickers…on and on.
Anyway he usually ends up going to Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, those scary cities for his job. He’s light skin Mexican and I know these are poor ‘ghetto’ cities and he goes there with no problem and no fear. It concerns me. He says you have to show you have a reason to go to the areas he goes and don’t show fear if you look like you don’t belong. We had to go to Detroit one week and I was so scared. I even made him move the car where two men were sitting by a building. He looked at them, did some sort of head nod to them, they did it back, and he went on his way. How did he do that? Later on that day he we were somewhere and some man approached him and asked a question. My husband gave him some money and they did some sort of handshake. I never saw it before in my life. How did this White Mexican guy from Arizona get a pass in these cities. In the 2 years he has had to go to these cities he has not had one incident.
In July we went to Los Angeles and he took us to a Mexican restaurant in Compton. COMPTON! I was so scared gunshots were going to go off but he didn’t have a concern. We walked into a restaurant on Rosecrans and he was calm and cool but I was peeing myself scared. Nothing happened but still it was Compton.
Anyway the truth is I’m so scared of going to these places and most of the time I don’t go but I don’t know how my husband gets passes by the gang members and acknowledgement to be in these cities by the black people and acts like nothing will happen. It boggles my mind and scared me.
