great thread..
Everyone in my community knew each other and it was really some open door policy type shyt when we were growing up in the early 90s....we would have neighborhood barbeques, we would stay over each other's house, our parents would hang out, and it was a general sense of respect and amiability. It was beautiful, but since we all got older and moved on, the neighborhood has deteriorated (thanks to state and local neo-apartheid policies and capitalist bullshyt). nevertheless, our childhood in the community was one of shared experience, like an extended family. That's what we need more than anything else to start overturning oppression