I was sitting around on the porch watching traffic and thinking, why do we sit on the porch so much in the ghetto? I can't understand most of the multitude of ethnic slurs directed at us as black folks in America but i do get a few because they are kinda on point even though i hate to admit it out loud.
Porch Monkey, that one was stupid when i was little but now i do see it. We gotta admit that we will sit on some porches, while we are of course not monkeys the whole porch thing is true. With that said i think white people could equally be called "patio monkeys" for the same reasons. But in all seriousness it does seem like an economical thing more than a racial thing. The poorest people on the block do seem to sit on the porch allot. Sometimes when no porch is present the kitchen chairs will find their way to the middle grass, i never got that one. If you live in the hood as i do you constantly see one chair sitting in the middle of the grass in front of the rent assistance properties. And though this sounds bad...you can always tell the rent assistance properties. There are always either more kids outside alone or more adults hanging out in the front of them. All the visitors to the rent assistance homes blow their horns continuously or far more than regular. The one perk to being a home owner living next to a rent assistance property is that you always have a weed source.
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