racist? maybe, but probably not. logical? yes.

If the crime rate and number of murders has gone up since the inner-city Chicago kids moved into town, then I'm going to be logical, not racist. Instead of thinking that something in Ames has changed, I'm going to say that it's the people who moved into town. The majority of them just happen to be black. I'm not saying that black people mean crime, death, and destruction... just inner-city Chicago people.

Sure, Ames isn't really that diverse of a town. I mean, you've got the white people who work at the university and the asian people who work at the university and the black people who play football... who are generally not from inner-city Chi-town.

Sure, there are some things that'll happen in every college town. Drunk college kids get into fights, and one of them falls down an elevator shaft. It's bound to happen sometime... Hell, there's crime in every town.

Ames, though, is pretty peaceful compared to many other towns... I can't say that I have any legit statistics to back this up, but it's kind of what I've noticed compared to some other cities I've been in.

Once the government funded housing opened and the (mainly) black, inner-city Chicago folks moved into town, I noticed a few things. I can definitely say that the number of fights that happened at the high school increased (the housing opened while I was still in high school). The associate principal, who's mainly in charge of discipline, is kind of a really big teddy bear. He's a teddy bear with authority, but a teddy bear nonetheless. One fight resulted in him getting knocked over. More "girl fights" (which were still fist fights, just between girls) broke out. And, things just kind of spiraled downhill in general.

The number of murders in Ames increased. A black guy came into a Casey's in Ames last summer and shot his girlfriend... while she was at work. He ended up killing himself, but he was one of the people who moved into the government housing...

And then there's the black guy who lived in government housing who stabbed two people to death.

Oh, and the other murder that happened out in West Ames... I don't much about that one, though. I was in Iowa City when it happened. I'm just saying there was yet another murder.

I'm not racist against black people. I've met some lovely African-Americans. Most black people I come into contact with are those who are getting a post-secondary education at the University of Iowa. And from what I can remember off the top of my head, none of them are from inner-city Chicago.

So, after being logical, I can say that the hostility mentioned in this guy's blog is most definitely present in Ames. However, I don't think it's hostility toward black people... it's more hostility against relocating the crime-ridden people of inner-city Chicago to Ames.