"...effect"

My 'Hood began as an Orthodox Jewish one.

Southern Blacks began to move in during the 1940's

My Aunt brought a house then my father in the 1950's.

There was some white flight.

However not all or even most. Jews are different this way.

In particular because so many were Holocaust survivors.

This was part of my childhood.

I now live where I began. A circle has closed.

Seeing those green sometimes blue-black numbers.

This on their arms or wrists.

This was a  common sight in my growing up.

It had an effect.