In the early 90's I got turned around and wound up on MLK Blvd. in SE - not an overly friendly area, IMO. I almost got car jacked trying to get back on the Expressway. I didn't see that my race had anything to do with it though. I figured the guy saw a chance to pick up a Jaguar on the cheap. When I put my hand in my jacket and locked eyes with him, I guess he thought I had a pistol and the price might be higher than he wanted to go. :dunno: But I didn't see it as anything racial. I guess if I was a scared little rabbit with a Bernhard Goetz complex, I could have seen it that way. But I don't obsess about race the way a lot of people seem to... or at least I try not to. I pretty much look at everybody with an air of suspicion. :hatsoff:
But anyway, considering that SE used to be a real good place to get shot, stabbed, robbed, raped and left for dead, would your White pal be any less safe than a Black or Hispanic woman? No doubt, she'd probably stand out more. But would she be better off being of some other race? From what I know of that area, unless it's dramatically changed recently,
any woman standing on a street corner in SE at 2AM would be considered easy prey to the creatures of the night that hang out there. A Black, White or Hispanic woman, not being overseen by a pimp, is going to have the worst night of her life down there.
Garonteed!
Washington, D.C.
Crime rates (2007)
Crime type Rate*
Homicide: 30.8
Forcible rape: 32.6
Robbery: 724.3
Aggravated assault: 626.6
Violent crime: 1414.3
Burglary: 667.4
Larceny-theft: 2954.7
Motor vehicle theft: 1291.9
Property crime: 4913.9
Notes
* Number of reported crimes per 100,000 population.
Based on those crime stats, I'd say your SWF gal pal could go down there standing between Rev. Jesse and Sista Souljah... and she'd still be shit outta luck.
When in D.C., I always tried to restrict myself to N.W., Georgetown specifically. There were several nice strip clubs over there. One run by some nice boys from a New York "family". Nice fellows, once you got to know them. And that's what D.C. needs more of:
family people.