I love my Indian friends at the Wartrce store . . . they are always so nice and especially the young guy who worked there at one time. He us to call me buddy all the time and he would always carry a conversation with me but he left to go to college in Pennsylvania but I still miss him!

Yesterday I went to get my drivers licence's. I have not had them for 10 years because I have had 3 mini strokes and the doctor felt I should not be out driving..Well I was given the clear to drive again..Any way there was a Somali lady there getting her driver licence's and she spoke very good engish and she seemed so very nice..She got her licences and before leaving she came back in and Thanked them all...Here in Wartrace a Indian couple bought our local little store..We worried about it at 1st. But i must say they are very nice people and they work very hard and they keep the store very clean and nice...In everyone white.black,or what ever we have our good ones and our bad ones..If children are treating these other children bad it is because they must have seen their mom or dad or some other adult doing it. Our children learn from us...No child should be treated wrong or scared because they have to be here if their mom and dad's are here..it is not their fault...We need to stand back and look at the whole picture...If I moved to another country I would not want to be treated wrong and I sure would not want my children to be treated wrong....Like I said there are good ones in us all and there are bad ones in us all..No matter what color they are....

I can honestly say that any problems that I had while living at Davis estates were always initiated by the Somalis. At first, I tried to resolve the any situation by going to the apartment management but they eventually quit doing anything so I would have to confront them myself. It was not my fault that they would run in and out of the hallways at all times of the night yelling and waking other residents up and losing sleep nor was it my fault that I had hideous smells start coming through the door from their apartments or the various nicks I received on my car from them parking beside of me and not paying attention to what they were doing. It is also not my fault they continued to get drunk or do drugs in the hallway or the parking lot and start arguments with each other.

Yet somehow, when I complain about these kinds of issues it is always the same story . . . I am not being sensitive to their culture or what they have experienced. I figure when I ask nicely to please be quite at 2 AM so I can sleep or not to hit my car then I am being civil but what happens when being civil accomplishes nothing. In my case, I decided to move because I was paying far too much money to be living in third world conditions.

It gets to a point though where they need to be held accountable for THEIR actions and start respecting other people. PLAIN AND SIMPLE! I have never had a problem with any of the Hispanic or Indian people that live here and I try to be friendly to all but I can only go so far with the Somalis before they need to start making an attempt too and they don't. I still haven't had anyone explain to me how it is fair that the Somalis forced me to move out of my apartment but yet I am not being sensitive to their needs? I figure moving out would allow me to avoid conflict but what is fair about that? They still continue to do what they please.