Clubbing Safety
Tiredtraveler
Solo PL
I do not know whether this has been discussed recently.
Since the Ferguson riots how do all you white guys young and old feel about safety at the clubs.
I seldom worry about safety inside the club as it is always bad for business to have trouble inside or right outside the club.
Many of the most fun clubs are in questionable neighborhoods so how do you deal with feeling safe?
I never stay to late at a club and can't remember the time I last closed a club.
Do you go early?, avoid clubs in questionable areas, Simply go and not worry, plan you route carefully and park close ???
Since the Ferguson riots how do all you white guys young and old feel about safety at the clubs.
I seldom worry about safety inside the club as it is always bad for business to have trouble inside or right outside the club.
Many of the most fun clubs are in questionable neighborhoods so how do you deal with feeling safe?
I never stay to late at a club and can't remember the time I last closed a club.
Do you go early?, avoid clubs in questionable areas, Simply go and not worry, plan you route carefully and park close ???
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If first crossed my mind w/ the Treyvon Martin situation since he was from down here (Miami Gardens) – but I kept going to the black dives w/ no issues.
It then again crossed my mind w/ the Ferguson issue and actually did not go to a black dive on particular night b/c there had been protests being shown on TV that night so it made me think twice about being a whiteguy (usually the only one) in a black club – but I’ve never really had an issue.
So this is one white guy who won't be the victim of drive-by insanity due to the riots.
And if it does, so the fuck what? You can't live forever.
You'd be surprised how many/most of the black families in the "hood" are really strict and decent folks. And a lot of them are VERY religious.
And honestly, at the clubs I go, the staff and dancers are very respectful of non-white guys. They have some of the best club staffs of any club I've visited.
Yeah, a lot of crime, but I think a lot is gang-on-gang shit, which I'm in favor of (one less gang member is always a good thing), and drug/robbery stuff from drug addicts.
So yeah, it's higher risk, but practically, not a big deal.
And like Papi sez, it's worth it to get some of that delicious caramel nastiness.
I wouldn't hang out in Washington Park after dark, but that was true before the Ferguson thing went down. I figure the gangbangers of Washington Park and Harvey (South Chicago) don't care about an old white dude like me.
1. Go to more upscale clubs usually. Semi dives are usually for day time.
2. I only go to a place with safe parking that is close, well lighted, and preferably monitored. I use valet parking most times when offered. If the parking does not look100% safe I don't go.
3. Keep money organized and concealed. Only the DS knows what I have cause she walks out of the club with most of it,
4. Don't fight for dancers with guys who look like they could kill me and would have fun doing it.
5. Walk out if I feel unsafe. This hasn't happened in years since I've learned how to choose better clubs.
6. Do the necessary research in a new city before going.
7. Have a back up club in mind just in case
4.
"I'm from CA we have a large Latino population, 65%": In fact both Los Angeles city and county are about 48% Hispanic -- even South Central is under 60% Latino, though East LA's Latino percentage is over 90% -- and California as a whole is not quite 40% Hispanic.
". . . the South. It's like 55% AA": Here are the 10 states with the highest black percentage (I will concede that Atlanta is about 55% black):
1 Mississippi 1,074,200 37.30%
2 Louisiana 1,452,396 31.98%
3 Georgia 2,950,435 30.02%
4 Maryland 1,700,298 29.44%
5 South Carolina 1,290,684 28.48%
6 Alabama 1,251,311 26.38%
7 North Carolina 2,048,628 21.60%
8 Delaware 191,814 20.95%
9 Virginia 1,551,399 19.91%
10 Tennessee 1,055,689 16.78%
Studies show that people living in areas with large "minority" populations (i.e., national minorities are local majorities) tend to think that the whole country is, say, 30% Hispanic and 25% black, when in fact the national percentages are about half of those numbers.
As anyone who has lived here for any amount of time can attest, the Hispanic population is somewhere between 90-95%. Maybe more. In fact, I believe I'm one of the few remaining white guys in the state. I'm convinced that, during the night, the border with Mexico is secretly opened by a joint US/Mexico agreement, and zillions of Mexicans stream across the border, uncounted, and undocumented. That's why the statistics are so low.
Just sayin'....
As for AA population, the one shocking thing I remember reading is that a good portion of the AA population that was not in the south is moving to the south. I frankly find that weird if that's true.
The only couple of times I felt less than safe involved two black clubs, one that I visited in DC several years ago and, more recently, one in Jacksonville. In both instances, I was the only white person in the entire building (dancers, patrons and staff all were black) the looks I was getting from several fronts were less than welcoming, so in both cases I split after 1 drink.