My young, Black, single-mom, part-time stripper, cat-rescuing neighbor was walking down the higher-rent end of my street and saw a lady putting out a pair of 3' tall plastic vases on both sides of her porch steps. She stopped to chat and told her, "Don't leave those outside, Black people will steal them." Next time I went to take my neighbor to the SPCA with a dying cat, sure enough, the vases were in her living room. "I warned them," she said...