>>34563FWIW I'm pretty sure he's on Long Island, not in NYC. Or maybe far eastern Queens which is basically the same thing: suburbia. It's not at all a melting pot like the city but in fact one of the most segregated areas in the US. Super-racist as well, but the quiet kind because it's still in the middle of a blue region. Lots of redlining to keep towns and 'hoods white, or these days, Asian-exceptional as well.
As far as police harassment/abuse, it's like the old South. Black people keep their heads down and stick to their own kind. The lazy, well-paid, not looking to be cancelled police don't GAF about them as long as they know their place and stay there.
Kisime reminds me of a semi-schizophrenic black kid I knew in college. He was from St. Albans (Queens), lower-middle class upbringing, big vocabulary/no ebonics, and decent awareness of the outside world. But he was totally batshit, obsessed with comic books to where sometimes I wasn't sure if he knew they were fiction. His essays had a similar Dadaist/stream of consciousness cadence as kisime's posts. The professor would shake his head, some kids would laugh but I thought they were like poetry.