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Tales Of the Slums of Richmond VA--
I used to party in a bar called the Jade Elephant on the 900 block of West Grace, in the mid eighties.
Once I was in there, and I heard a commotion, and whn I asked what had happened a guy said his friend had been stabbed. So I looked and there he was bleeding out, he died and they caught the guy who did it.
Another time I was there with my three (white) friends,and they ahd hip hop going that night so they ahd a black crowd. One black guy who was pretty drunk stumbled down the stair to get into some kind of shoving match with the cop walking by. Next thing you know, the bar empties out to fight the cops, and 20 cop cars are called, fllling a couple blocks with cop cars.
We slide out of the bar, and decide the street is to hairy so we duck into another bar.
It's a slow night at the other place, so it's just us 4 white guys and some black dudes playing pool, maybe 12. We order beers and sit down, and one big black dude walks over to us.."Hey man, what's going on out there?" he asks.
"A race riot" I reply.
"Well fuck that shit!" he answers, touches glaseses with each of us, and goes back to play pool.
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