The second time I lived in a black world was when I was business manager of a black church and when I built a park for Street people.
Just as in the previous blog, borrowing and lending was a key part of the social contract.
The most significant difference from my earlier experience was being invited to parties. The parties began after midnight and ran on until daybreak. The language at the parties was very heavy black dialect, almost incomprehensible to me, and certainly incomprehensible to someone from outside the black community.
Having built a park, open on one side to a quiet alley, I saw another phenomenon. Several times a day a car would drive up, call to a friend in the park, give him an order for some object ( TV, car part etc) and drive off. The next day, the car would return and the object would be handed to the driver. It was a drive up theft service, in plain view, and very entrepreneurial.