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So I'm pretty sure many of you don't know this but I live in a primarily African American neighborhood(one of the reasons I am trying to buy a house in a better area. The biggest thing I found with this family after making sure the situation was safe. Was they have a group loyalty to friends and family that is rarely found in other communities I have seen. I saw a hard working father that cared about his kids, and his two friends that were essentially dead beat dads.

Here is the story.

I walked out my front door to smoke a cigarette and saw my neighbor to the left struggling to change a headlight on an 09 impala. I happened to know how to change this cars head light. So I just changed it for them. They really appreciated it clearly. My neighbor then told me about some problems he was having with his car and he thought it was a transmission problem, he asked if I would test drive it for him so I did and long story short we ended up at the autoparts store and I scanned his car for him. Found a few broken sensors. So he ask if he could buy me a beer. I accepted.

I allowed me kids to go out to the playground with the neighborhood kids for probably the first time un supervised. At least in a way where I wasn't 10 feet away I was 40 feet away. All the 12 girls all black except my 2 girls played together well and their was only 1 fight about a marker. Resolved easily.

They invited me and my family for dinner. I bought a 12 pack of shitty beer I would not ever buy for myself but I figured what the hell. Lets learn a thing or two about another culture.

I learned some things. One they can cook some good chicken. Really good. 2 I learned they have a family structure that is way beyond what white culture has. Friends are family in a way I have never seen before.

Don't get me wrong I've seen the bad of black culture I've seen some one shot I've seen tribal fights where they all cheer it on.

Does anyone else have any comments on this?

Does anyone else have any experiences with the black community to share?

So I'm pretty sure many of you don't know this but I live in a primarily African American neighborhood(one of the reasons I am trying to buy a house in a better area. The biggest thing I found with this family after making sure the situation was safe. Was they have a group loyalty to friends and family that is rarely found in other communities I have seen. I saw a hard working father that cared about his kids, and his two friends that were essentially dead beat dads. Here is the story. I walked out my front door to smoke a cigarette and saw my neighbor to the left struggling to change a headlight on an 09 impala. I happened to know how to change this cars head light. So I just changed it for them. They really appreciated it clearly. My neighbor then told me about some problems he was having with his car and he thought it was a transmission problem, he asked if I would test drive it for him so I did and long story short we ended up at the autoparts store and I scanned his car for him. Found a few broken sensors. So he ask if he could buy me a beer. I accepted. I allowed me kids to go out to the playground with the neighborhood kids for probably the first time un supervised. At least in a way where I wasn't 10 feet away I was 40 feet away. All the 12 girls all black except my 2 girls played together well and their was only 1 fight about a marker. Resolved easily. They invited me and my family for dinner. I bought a 12 pack of shitty beer I would not ever buy for myself but I figured what the hell. Lets learn a thing or two about another culture. I learned some things. One they can cook some good chicken. Really good. 2 I learned they have a family structure that is way beyond what white culture has. Friends are family in a way I have never seen before. Don't get me wrong I've seen the bad of black culture I've seen some one shot I've seen tribal fights where they all cheer it on. Does anyone else have any comments on this? Does anyone else have any experiences with the black community to share?

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Dealing with blacks has always been a mixed bag. I grew up in very white areas until after HS. Spent time all over the country afterwards. I worked as a diesel mechanic in the South for a trucking fleet. Fun good job with some good guys. 3 black guys and a street-shitter dude from Trinidad. None of these guys knew how to really fix AC systems and the fleet's abysmal AC systems showed it. Well I have always been good with my hands so I read up on the systems, ordered a PILE of parts to the point the branch manager questioned my purchases then went to work rebuilding AC systems charging them up and getting them frosty cold. It took about a month to rebuild 52 of them on our trucks. Some just needed a filter change which took 5 minutes some needed major parts replacements. In the end I had every single AC system rebuilt and blowing cold as fuck.

So this was North Carolina. I finished in late June... Hot and Humid. Every single day as I was doing this I had drivers and load managers coming to me after their routes were finished praising me and thanking me BIGTIME for fixing their AC. Only one of the black drivers thanked me. ONLY 1. I didn't really realize it at first. I just was not tuned into blacks and how they are really. The (dot) Indian guy though called out a conversation though which was quite the experience. One of the black mechanics had been taking credit for my work on the AC systems to the other black drivers. He got thanked once and just went with it. I didn't really care at the time and was just happy to have done a good job but it definitely stung a bit. Anyway he called the black mechanic out for taking credit for my work and was literally shouted out of the room by the other black drivers and load managers.

Then I started to catch heat from the black drivers and load managers for trying to take credit for the other mans work... It was fucking WILD... I just told them to look at the order records (who ordered the parts) and the hourly time records (we tracked our time per job) as that would solve any argument that anyone may have as to who did what work... My branch manager actually had to get involved and asked me all about all this nonsense. I just told him to look at the records and If I was not the AC guy in the shop then he better fire my ass on the spot because I have not been working for the last month. He laughed and said I have no worries.

From that point forward I would only fix AC IF REQUESTED. If a driver asked me to fix AC I would. Otherwise I just let it go. Guess what the fleet looked like by the end of next summer? Every single driver that asked the black mechanic to fix their AC had no AC and every single truck with white crews or black crews that asked me to fix it had working shit. It was fucking mind-blowing. I was happy to fix it but they would rather sweat all year in the North Carolina heat than to have a white man fix their AC. I learned a lot...