My new neighbors aren’t what I thought they were going to be. I guess I expected a nice little family with 2.3 kids and a dog. But what showed up was six black guys in an Escalade. And I always see them coming and going. They haven’t actually moved any stuff into the place. All I see is that they come in and leave. I don’t know if they sleep there but I know they’ll come in and out really early. I don’t like them.

I think they’re using the house for crack. However, I can’t prove anything so I called my brother Jeff who’s a cop. He told me there was nothing he could do, ain’t no crime bein’ black. So I need to protect my family and kids. I got a wife and three kids and I don’t know if it’s safe anymore. That’s what made me get a gun.

I went to the arms store and they told me I could get it but I’d never be able to pay for it when I told the guys how bad my credit was and how I was broke. They told me to look up car title loans in Memphis, Tennessee online. I found that it was easy to get a car title loan in Tennessee and that I didn’t have a problem getting instant money in a loan because I owned a vehicle title.

I know that I’m safe now but there is still a rule at our house about not crossing into their side of the lawn.

-Jed R.

Memphis, Tennessee