Boystown needs a reality check

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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Lenox Magee, REDEYE


My article was about Youtube video of the stabbing, which, took place in Boystown on July 3. Rubin Robinson who is 25 years old black man, from Englewood, being punched and kicked by several other black men. The meele, which, took place over Black Pride weekend. Boystown resident said was an alarming increase in violance from that the south and west siders who had started coming to their neighborhood. Also, they said, it wasn't race issue, it was a safety issue. In fact, Author thought, it was totally racist because black people always feel uncomfartable in that region when author was a young, couple of times he was dining with his friend, but people wasn't unwelcomed them.

First time when i read it, i didn't understand, which, was about racist or not because couple of black men were fighting on the street, after that i got it. Biggest problem is some neighbours pretended as safety problem, but real reason might be racist. Especially, some neighbours opened page in Facebook "Take Back Boystown" that kind of behaviours make people chaos and enemy feelings. Before i came to chicago, i thought, U.S. solved racist problem unfortunately, it is still keeping