The caravan’s drivers have deliberately spread out so as to block the intersection, so a good bit of the honking is coming from other cars trying to get around them. On one corner, a cellphone vendor has put out a six-foot-tall speaker that’s bumping Biggie. It’s mostly drowning out the honking and whatever country-music nonsense one of the trucks is trying to blast, but the result is auditory chaos. It’s all a little corny. And yet Brooklyn cannot bring herself to find it funny. Open racists usually don’t come to Black areas, preferring to target isolated individuals, or other ethnicities
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