[Suzi]

I grew up in Detroit. I was employed at an inner-city nursing home caring for people long-forgotten. I had the best intentions in the world - to help people that needed it, but I was wrong. I was where I shouldn't have been. A rough neighborhood and (almost) the only white face. I was almost murdered that morning. I was pretty darn lucky that I had the sense to do what I needed to do. I won't go into detail but I learned that there are places where you can go and places where you had better not go. That was almost 50 years ago and things have not changed. Today there are neighborhoods that are unsafe to be in if you are white - get real if you don't agree with this. And if you are black and wearing a hoodie, walking in the rain in a white neighborhood - you probably should not be there.

No one should be deprived of being in any neighborhood and it is very sad about the loss of any life, but it is what it is. If I had been murdered that winter morning, people would have asked "what the heck was she doing there". I was "lucky" and learned a very valuable lesson. Don't go where you don't belong no matter how wrong it seems....I got out alive and he didn't. Its so sad...but its the real world we live in.