They don't even consider themselves brave. At least half are female. Occasionally they get beaten up or robbed, but not any more than middle class whites who don't live in the ghetto. This is not because ghettos are good places. But there are good things about ghettos.
Ghettos serve as a shield against the arrogance of the affluent world.
That's why gangs fight to protect neighborhoods they don't even own. That's the reason so many black kids who go to white schools feel torn apart inside. That's why gentrification is a bad word. Affluent people, especially affluent whites, don't know how to live in the city. They don't get to know their neighbors.