I was at the show at "Ypsillanti" today, and looked up. Suddenly there was about "200 (I would say) young teenage black kids running towards where we were set up. Running fast. Jumping up and down, waving their hands/fists in the air.
I don't know what set this off. What I do know.. is cops were escorting various groups of them off (that were causing problems) all day long. They kept coming back. Soon, there were "hundreds" of them.. with 2 lone police officers (at first).
It was scary as chit. I'm serious, I've seen these things at shows before. It can get "Out of hand" real quick". Some of the blacks were talking about "shotguns" and stuff".
Anyway, we had "Sebastian" in the playpen. I yelled to Roxann.. "GET SEBASTIAN OUT OF THERE NOW!!!! POINTED TO A SAFE DIRECTION.. and said GET HIM AWAY FROM HERE". I told her son "Stephen.. be ready to run in that direction too (He's 17). I was gonna stay, I have 3000.00 worth of stock on my display. But I was ready to "run fast" if it got any crazier.
My worry was, What if they trample Sebastian? What if they start fights with the "whites" there. I seen that happen before.. they do it "just because" the place is in chaos. They are all young gang types.. I don't think they'd think twice what they did to anyone. Hundreds of them.
At first. It was 2 cops, trying to run out about 200 of them. They serious needed backup. It came soon. Soon there were cops everywhere. Soon there was the security, the fair officials. They escorted everyone out of the area. All blacks. I guess they did some "racial" profiling. Because the few whites left in the area.. weren't made to leave. Don't worry.. at that point there wasn't many whites around. Mainly just us vendors that wanted to protect our property, if we could.
This mob ran past my booth (front and back side). Past the other vendors beside me. And gathered in a mob mosly about 50 feet away. Once it looked under control (it was already getting late) every single vendor there decided to pack up and leave for the night early. They kept coming back (trying anyway).
The lady in the booth next to me was "still shaking" long after it was mainly under control. By then, it was just us vendors there, dozens of cops standing around to secure the area.
I don't "freak" out about much.. but this did scare me alot. mainly about "Sebastian". I just wanted him AWAY as fast as possible.
I've told you all. I don't consider myself "preduice". But I work alot of areas, where I see these things. A bunch of young punk niggers to me. Just there to cause problems. Now I won't call blacks in general "Niggers". Many are super cool. But these ones weren't.
We overheard over the Police radio, someone was "Stabbed". Now, I don't know if it was there or not. If it was.. this started a ways from my booth.. and moved towards it.
Anyway.. it was pretty "wild"!!
Other then that. The sales were good. Not as well as I hoped, but I didn't get the location I wanted either. We got into this one "late". Still a very "decent" show. One more day to go.
So this conclude, another day at work... lol.