I used to have a fair amount of black friends, even went to barbeques in the projects, but only the one very near to the commercial district near the middle class neighborhoods, not anywhere like Hill District or Homewood. Most of the people in my building are black, as is my landlord, and I only moved in because I knew one of the elderly men that lives here. After a year I have seen what they are really like. Even "the good ones" are bad when you get to see what they are like when they aren't on their best behavior. I though some could be trained to be civilized, but you can't take the nigger out of the nigger. It's always somewhere in there.