Will said children in East St. Louis had to carry clubs to beat off the strays. He found a way to focus attention on the problem. Some of those dogs went right into the offices and up to the women working there. He's not a racist, he doesn't dislike whites, nor does he try to use them. But he thinks black.
White people are afraid to come here.
Will's son Felix Xavier answered for Will. I'm afraid to go to Freeburg at night, or Pinckneyville, or lots of other towns. That's the difference between thinking black and thinking white. But most crime in East St. Louis is black against black. Thousands of whites still drive through East St. Louis on Bond Avenue, Missouri Avenue, State Street, even past 15th and Broadway, once thought the worst intersection in the city, unharmed every day.