>>>>To all my black neighbors.
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>>>Pa di da Lali ukradu bicklu ...
>>>
>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz41ekCXlhg
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>>>BTW strange, but I have seen only one black guy here on UT in last 10 years ...
>>>
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>>>>I saw two of your kids steal my bicycles. I saw them through the fence as they were approaching, one had a white T-shirt, didn't quite notice the other's garments. I thought they may be up to something, but then I gave them the benefit of the doubt - they may have been playing and lost the ball somewhere behind our car, or something, so I didn't get up to check.
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>>>>Well, too bad. The bicycles were the cheap Walmart stuff - too bad for the $20 seats we added - and I don't care for whatever value they may still have. I may even buy a bicycle on a yard sale... or buy my own bicycle back, whatever.
>>>>
>>>>It's just that you have lost my respect, pretty much forever. Unless the bicycles are back by tomorrow morning, when parents return, which I doubt. I am not giving a dime, ever again, for any of your charities, I'm not putting up a light on Halloween, and I will most probably find it in me to yell at any kids playing too close to our roses. I had all the good will to be a good neighbor, but this takes the cake. Shove the bicycles where the sun don't shine.
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>>Where I live there are very few black people. This was driven home to me 2 summers ago when we went up to London and went to watch the Notting Hill Carnival. My youngest daughter, then only 6/7, turned to me and said, "Daddy, why are there so many brown people here?" I suddenly realised that she was growing up in a world where she was unaware of their existence.
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>When I was kid growing back in Serbia, only black people there used to be foreign students from african countries
>
>Well one of them came straight at my door. As mom told me years later, I was standing there with my mouth wide open
>while everybody else died laughing.

Presumably they were laughing at your reaction and not the visitor.

>His name was Dr Willson from Ghana. Him and his wife were visiting my parents from time
>to time and we became friends. Very nice people. I was already dreaming of going to Africa to see all those elephants and tigers

You would have been disappointed then to find there are no tigers in Africa :-)

>and eat all those bananas and other 'exotic' fruits :)
>But after year or so they returned back to Ghana and we never saw them again.
>
>Here in Cyprus I have put my daughter in an internationa nursery from very start. She made friends with half planet already :)
>Hence; school events/occasions looks prety much like UN assembly - Just much better {g}
>.

'Tis a good thing.

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