"ghetto" Nice. I don't consider myself "ghetto" yet I've had my children up late at night in the heat of the summer in the pool in the backyard. It's quite fun actually. We have those oil lamp things to light things up, and we listen to the crickets and watch for fireflies until they slowly disappear into the darkness.
Whatever.
TM, not sure if Linda will mind me speaking for her comment, but she doesn't mean you. Camden has no crickets. It has drugs, gunfire, prostitution, addicts of every kind you can imagine. It's like the walking dead over in Camden. It's been ranked as one of America's most dangerous cities year after year. It's made the number 1 spot many times.
You live in Camden you've never seen a firefly unless someone got you out of there. You see used syringes, people shooting up on the sidewalk, tricks and prostitutes right in front of kids make "dates". Kids pick up used condoms from some trick who just tossed it.
Only thing lighting up in Camden is Blunts and crack pipes. People are lucky they have a regular lamp let alone an oil lamp. There are no yards and if there is often they are strewn with dead dogs, pigeons people put lighter fluid on for fun, needles and used diapers just thrown in a heap. It's blight and it's poverty and it's a place I don't think any of us would walk our kids down the street in braod daylight let alone have them out in a baby pool at 10:00PM. Many people are held hostage in Camden. It's all about socio economics and drugs and guns and thus the original post.
My neighborhood is slowly getting there. Of course people can't afford aircondition and they go outside. However, when you live with people that are dealing drugs and have large amounts of money at stake and someone gets on someone elses corner it's a good chance you'll have shots fired. That's what she meant by ghetto because it is a ghetto. Here the pools go smack on the pavement. Ghetto is even if you put that pool on the pavement and people have to walk around it trust me it'll stay there and not get emptied or picked up. Perhaps somebody will clean it out and let the kids back in.
We meant the hood, TM. HOnestly.
