Kitty next door

So the people who moved in under us have cats. They were only allowed to have two in the house so they have the third living on their porch. Rachel loves cats and goes out to play with it all the time. The couple is obviously trying to keep the cat on the porch, they have put up lots of different things so block escape but trying to keep a cat fenced in is pretty futile and the porch is pretty small. Anyway I have to tell Rachel again and again if we see it out you can play with it but we can't entice it out. It's kind of unneighborly.

Has anyone else noticed that the black cats are the sweetest and most tolerant cats. Why does everyone pick on them?