So, suddenly I grew a pair.

It's actually fairly relevant to capturing the tension of the situation in my mind. If you had lived here, you would know how much more aggressive the black guys at my school were than the white guys. This, in my mind, added a sense of tension. However, I forget that some people live in mormon pretty pink pony land and probably have never had to deal with tensions from a disenfranchised and pissed off group of people. I forget that it's also insulting to refer to someone who self-identified himself as "black" as ..."black". REDNECK CITY BABY.