Quote Originally Posted by DOMS View Post
Incorrect. It's not hypocrisy.

If I was a legion of police roll into a city and trash, I'd hate them. There's no doubt of that. My hate for the illegals isn't based on race or nationality. It's based on them invading my country and bringing it down to the level of the country they come from. It's not based on a few bad run-ins.

Hell, I grew up in poor Mexicans neighborhoods. Being one of the few white--some times the only white--boys, I was a constant target. I fought a lot, but I just considered that the way the world was. I also though that all the third-world habits they had were just the way it was. It wasn't until I moved to white and Thai neighborhoods and watch the Mexicans roll in, did I start to understand what was going on. It wasn't until I saw them trash an entire city (West Valley, UT) that I understood what damage they were doing to my country. Which is where the hate comes from.

This is completely opposite of my experience living as a "white boy" in the project/slums of Houston Texas with blacks and mexicans. I remember going to my friends apartments and the mother working 2 jobs would be home for a few minutes and be dropping commands about what needed to be done before they went out to play. Ricky, a black kid my age but a grade ahead because he skipped a grade had to do all of his homework and have it laid out on the table for his mom when she came home. Tyrae, my other black friends mother was strict as hell with him and would spank him like the time he went swimming in his school shorts. Ebony my 3rd grade gf had her mother and father, they ate dinner together every night and were more normal than my family. Yeah the Mexican kids gave me more shit than the black kids, but I had good friends in some of them like Marco, his mom and dad were together and a very loving family, he was better disciplined than I was. I'd say the worst kids were usually the latch key kids whose parents didn't get home until later at night because they worked 2 or more jobs. No one to regulate behavior in the time between out of school and bedtime.

Then I moved to suburbs and the same pattern seemed to emerge with the white kids. The poorest ones whose parents didn't seem to be around or even well to do middle class kids whose parents feigned good parenting seemed to be the most trouble making. I remember the subdivisions with the rich kids across the highway and us middle class kids on the other side. We all went to the same school and the rich kids were just as bad as us middle class and poorer kids they just seemed to never get caught or no one seemed to harass them as much. It was all an illusion.....








I can't comment on this as I've never lived in a small town, so I'll have to take you word for it.
I also lived in a small town my last 2 years of High School and I was a clean cut kid had never done drugs, acted as designated driver for my partying drinking friends, but somehow since I was a "city boy" the parents and town police had it that I was a druggie, or would go back into the city and bring drugs back and was a bad influence. ( most of my classmates got weed from the college kids the next town over.) My coach and teachers knew better though from my behavior in school. But I always got sideways glances from people on their porches and whenever I would go hang out on the "nigger" side of town with my football team mates the cop would always tail me out of the town limits just waiting for a reason to pull me over. I had to get out of that town as quick as possible. Especially after the pig (he was an ex-sheriff who got kicked out of the county dept for overweight issues) pulled me over for no reason one night and told me "I know them boys up there smoke weed cause people smell it and they get it from you or that other boy from the city. I'll have the FBI tap your phone and get you busted and then you won't be able to join the Navy.

Shit like small town rumors almost kept me from getting my Top Secret clearance in the Navy. They interview people in the communities you lived in for the past 7 years to see what your character is. My principal told me he and the teachers at my school had vouched for me even though the cop and some of my neighbors had told complete bold faced lies that I was a pothead who sold drugs to the other kids. I'd never even been drunk until I was 20 and it was legally in Australia....