THE CELLAR DOOR OPENS to a winding staircase, descending into darkness. Cortland Dugger leads me past the water heater, past the boiler, past a bicycle, and into a separate room with two tables holding scales, plastic spoons bound by a rubber band, stacks of small containers, and a bottle marked “H2O.” He switches on an old light fixture and a bare bulb glows.
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1992 was NOT a serious racial riot...it was two groups of kids, one black and one white...and they were fighting over one boy having cheated with one of the other boy's girlfriends...they started to fight and all their friends joined in. That would have happened even if the boys were all of th same race. The ignorance of those groups transcended race. And made the entire student body suffer as we were all made to look racist and treated like gun toting gangsters. No longer allowed to carry bags of any kind or more than two writing implements.
Grew up in the West Medford area in 60's & 70's, when the world , as a whole, was a better place....
'black men from Boston & Cambridge began to bring guns & drugs to the community dances' begins to explain what happened to 'the Ville', and so many other communities. The great families that lived in the area moved away, allowing the real estate market to do it's thing, and the rest is history.
From a young white girl's perspective, West Medford, during that era, worked to support a good life; segregated communities and all!