Don t be overly friendly to Blacks, since phoniness can be spotted. Love and be your friendly self. One way to express love is to bring a basketball with you and play some informal games with the kids and teens who are around. Open your heart to the lost of any ethnic background. Honestly recognize and repent of any sense of racial superiority.
Children are easily the most receptive persons in the housing projects.
They especially want to have a Bible, so try to carry with you copies of the NIV New Testament or complete NIV Bible. If they appear too young to know how to read, ask them to read a random paragraph that you select, and tell them that they can have the Bible if they can read the passage. Try to have a female on your team, which will make you less threatening, and so that women can relate to the mothers who will perhaps help you. Even better is to have a Black on your team. Blacks often distrust Whites, and vice-versa.