Also, I never understood the appeal of Olive Garden’s breadsticks. It’s not good bread!?

@Carol Ann
Um, the Italian use of the term ghetto is just as racist when referring to Jewish people as it is when referring to African or Hispanic Americans. Just because you ‘use it’ all of the time doesn’t make it any less racist.

The use of the term ‘ghetto’ implies people of color, so that in of itself is a problem. There are many places in the U.S. that are sketchy as hell, high crime rates, and riddled with poverty that are predominantly white. Yet the term, ‘ghetto’ is never leveled at those areas.

And please don’t use “PC” as a flippant term to mean racially,ethnically, politically, or religiously insensitive.

GTFOH with that non-sense

It’s also just not nice to use because that’s someone’s neighborhood. For them (which it sounds like you know already), it’s not a bad place to go at night, it’s where they raised their kids, etc. So using a term that essentially is talking about what a dump it is, specifically one that has been used to describe a place that a specific racial or ethnic group may populate is not necessary.

And I’d agree about the PC thing. What folks refer to as PC is literally someone saying, “Hey, that demeans a group of people, it’s rude” but because it gets called “PC” then it becomes something worth mocking.

For your info KATE. I have lived in the ghetto for most of my life until recently.Most of the people here(well,there because I am no longer there) believe that most of the people going on and on about racism are privileged whites who know very little about it and do very little to help. When is the last time you were in the ghetto doing anything to make it better? Btw, I am white, but my niece is black and I have two cousins who are black. Their dad was killed when they were little because of being in the wrong area at the wrong time. They do not care for the neighborhoods they are in.(most of the crime here is black on black crime, so they do not want to be out at night either)They know how bad it is, but it is hard to ever be able to save enough to move anywhere better. The nicer areas of Atlanta are becoming more and more expensive.
I can’t tell you how many times I have personally dodged gun fire. At the grocery store, at the gas station (twice) and several other places. And each time it was during the day!
My husband lived in New York (he is 3rd gen Italian from the Bronx) before he met me and moved down here. He worked in sales and one of his areas was Bed Stuy. He told me he always had to head back before dark. He said even his emt friends had to dodge bullets because the people who shot the people would shoot at the people trying to save them. That is not prejudice, that is self preservation. That is why the LW’s state trooper boyfriend was trying to warn her.