How can you get respect — if you don't respect yourself?

Each and every day, I fight to learn about, understand, and debunk my own prejudices...

Then- I get detoured on my way to work through what many would call "the getto" and I saw yard after yard — back yards AND front yards — filled with litter.

I honestly don't understand why people litter or simply leave litter on their own yards.

You don't see that in any other neighborhoods. Whether you're in Mequon, Greendale, farms in rural Wisconsin, Franklin, South Milwaukee, West Allis, Wauwatosa, Bayview, Shorewood, the East side of Milwaukee, the south side of Milwaukee, and even downtown Milwaukee — If there's a home, the yard is not littered. I know too that if I see litter in my neighbors yards, I also pick that up on my way by.

What does it say about people when they litter their own homes? What am I to think of this?