Outcasts and rejects, pt 1
"I'm not saying this to scare you," my friend started in, but the way she continued seemed like her intention really was to make me afraid of walking home. She told about the "crazy person" who's got a problem with white people and has bothered another friend who lives here. Sometimes he carries a knife. And he's big. And he's not reasonable. This was a bit of a new type of situation to be concerned about. The streets are normally pretty safe for me here. I have to be smart about traffic, and I don't generally go out by myself after 10 PM, but the chances of running into an actual problem have been low. I might be harassed verbally, but I never worry about my physical safety. But men who are mentally ill are a different class of problem. And how did they get that way? "That person stole from his family, his father didn't know he was the thief, so he put a curse on him. And then the guy went crazy." "They used to mix battery aci...