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As a Caucasian who lived in Clinton, MD for 9 years of my life, I'd like to weigh in on my experiences growing up there. If you've lived in PG, or live there now, and have a different view, I don't care. If you disagree with me, I don't care. If you think PG county is the geographical orgasm of the earth, I don't care. I'm listing my experiences from having to grow up there, they are real, and they don't need your validation or approval. **I've been through a lot of experiences. The reality of these experiences is something the vast majority of the white people who read this are ignorant of. Know now I have no use for the BS that is political correctness.** I've long since moved away from PG, and I will never go back.
I finished sixth grade in Brandywine, and then went on to middle, and high school in PG. I lived there as part of a military family. The neighborhood we moved to was nice, and quiet for the most part when we moved there. It was a black neighborhood, and in the first year we lived there most of the very few remaining white families moved away. The area, I was told, was not too long ago an entirely white neighborhood, as was the high school I would later attend.
When I hit middle school, I encountered major reverse racism, which would continue through high school. Both middle, and high schools were 90%+ AA. I didn't fully understand what was happening at the time. All of my best friends were black, and I actually only had one white friend the whole time I lived there. In fact, when I lived in a predominantly white areas before living in MD, twice my best friends were black. Although there was a sizable minority of moderate blacks, such as the ones I was good friends with, the school was full of racist black teachers, and angry racist black students. A few times I recall sitting in a class where my mere presence there inspired an angry venting session between black students, and a black teacher, were the topic would go from whatever topic the class was supposed to be on, to ranting on about the evils of white people against blacks. I was a shy, quiet kid who didn't understand what the hell all this was about, but I felt ashamed where I had no reason to, and I just wanted to fit in. I know now that even though they didn't single me out, their BS venting was intended to fall on my ears. I was harassed many times just for being white, and I was physically attacked my first week of high school for being white. Very difficult stuff for a developing youth to sort out, which has taken me literally years after to do. My experiences there have made me wiser, and stronger, but I don't look fondly upon my childhood there when compared to everywhere else I lived in as part of a military family.
The neighborhood I lived in went down hill at lightning speed. While it didn't look like a ghetto, the only difference was it was a toned down version of one, and people had money there. There wasn't all the crime in the open like it is in SE DC, but it was there in notable quantity in the open, and even more so behind closed doors. There was gang violence in my neighborhood against, of all things, other neighborhoods! Smoking weed, doing drugs, drinking alcohol, and all manner of related behavior *is the lifestyle* there. The things representative of this lifestyle are reflective of the people who, whether they have money or not, are who they are. It forever puts to rest the false notion that poverty, and oppression are responsible for these things in AA communities. In PG, like most other places this is the case, AA are left completely to their own devices, and/or empowered by a liberal government. They have their own police forces, their own elected officials, etc.
Our pretty little middle class ghetto had crack, cocaine, weed, boat, home robberies, car theft, guns for sale, people shooting guns, car break ins, drunks, prostitution, and other things. We once had to call the police because a neighborhood "thug" was hanging out of our neighbors car after busting out the window to steal from it. This particular "thug" is dead now from a gunshot to the head. We were awoke twice in the night for gunshots on our street. Another neighborhood "thug" was shot less than a block away in the silly "neighborhood wars". Another time a kid my age needed money to buy boat, so he donned a ski mask and robbed his neighbor at the point of a knife. After he broke into her house, and robbed her, he was identified because he cut the womans grass for her! I could go on and on. All these things are wrapped up with a unified sense of black nationalism. AA there are very materialistic, and since the AA there "got them some like the white man", they love to throw you a dirty, FU look in town because deep down the vast majority of AA there resent whites. The area full of anti-white, anti-US government, and anti-American sentiment. Keep in mind, the neighborhood I lived in was on the very border of PG and Charles county, as far away from the DC side of PG as you can get.
The pretty neighborhood my family once lived in, now looks no different than Capitol Heights, Marlow Heights, or any other completely destroyed areas along route 5 into DC. The last time I rode through my old neighborhood a few years ago, the next generation of "thugs" were congregated in the open smoking weed, and drinking in someones front yard along the main street, with a dozen busted up rides cramming the sides of the road. It's just like being in the city.
Going the other way on route 5 leads into Waldorf. It's a horrible shame what has happened to that town. It used to be clean, beautiful, fairly quiet, and a good family environment. I used to go there as a teen to hang out at the mall, which was an awesome escape for me because Waldorf was a completely white town that was worlds away from the crap that went on in Clinton. Today, it's steady heading down the same path Clinton was around the time my family moved there in 1990. The AA's are immigrating in, along with their cultural lifestyles, and "values", and the white families are leaving. The place is getting dirty, full of crime, people there are nasty, and you would never know walking through the mall there that it was once a quiet, respectable, white community.
As far as moving there, if you think what I said is "racist", you will love PG county. Or you wouldn't love it there, and would never put your money where your mouth is. Instead you're just one of those people who liked to try and assume a false "moral superiority" by throwing PC buzz words like "racist" at people who speak the truth as it is in reality. Everyone else, as is very apparent from me and other posters, stay away from PG and MD altogether! There are some good pockets in MD, but why would you want to consider living in a good pocket of a crappy state, when the vast majority of the USA is good all around?
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