By Nadra Enzi ——Bio and Archives--February 11, 2024

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I spent part of this afternoon watching two teen Brothers hang too close to unit beside mine and huddled around my front gate for roughly two hours.

Residents of stable areas where boundaries are reflectively respected might have puzzled looks on their faces after reading the above passage.

They may even rhetorically ask, "Why would these young guys linger so near your place?"

This is the third time I've noticed them hanging around here and unfortunately, this isn't unusual here on a macro level, meaning the city of New Orleans.

Some, critics conclude many, are raised to consider homes and businesses not belonging to them nor with whom they have any connection, as spots to hang out or using a word hated by certain friends on the Left, loiter.

Apparently today's youth either aren't being told at home not to loiter or trespass because it's wrong to do so; can lead to allegations and more seriously, could cause confrontations as residents or business owners surprise them.

I've heard many theories as to why such behavior is so pronounced in this city-and in urban areas nationally, to be fair-but whatever it's origin, this unassailable fact remains: loitering is not a good look.

In fact, it was such a bad look that past Black parents and proprietors drilled it into young people not to hang out where you weren't invited or didn't have a valid reason for visiting.

Such advice is literally life saving in these tense times.

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