If we were to film a television documentary that would capture the gestalt of Fort Lauderdale, we would open it on Halloween night in Rio Vista – one of the gilded neighborhoods on the eastside of the South Florida city.
    The setting?
    The McMansion home of a successful South Florida executive and his family preparing to welcome the costumed children in search of candy and other goodies during another night of ”Trick or Treat.”
    However…
     Like a growing number of families living in Fort Lauderdale’s affluent eastern neighborhoods, the McMansion family maintains two baskets of treats for the children to select from:
    The first, over-flowing with a delightful selection of the best and most popular candy, is for the white children from the neighborhood to enjoy.
    While the other basket, filled with cheapest candy from a local Dollar Store, is there for the children from other neighborhoods  -- mostly African American kids brought in by their parents from the Fort Lauderdale’s low income neighborhoods. 
    Naturally, at one point – after a laughing group of outsider minorities have dipped into the McMansion family’s basket of cheap candy – our camera would cut to the attorney’s wife, who would explain:
    “Well, after all it’s not as if these children actually belong here!”  
    The Mome Raths