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Lately I have been having some problems that have been pointed out by a friend of mine...

When a black person comes into where I work I always watch them closely and 90% of the time they mess up shit or steal it. I always end up telling them to get out. This is NOT in the ghetto BTW. When they are at my neighborhood pool I avoid it. I can hear them a mile away always so loud and drastic. If a random black people is in my neighborhood I watch them, closely. If they visit my house I always check my belongings when they leave. I never walk close to black people (I was robbed by one at my school like 5 years ago) so they look at me funny when I obviously avoid them, shouting as screaming as they usually do.

I just can't get over my non-trusting ways of black people. Yet the friend who noticed it IS BLACK and he is a very good friend. Am I racist? Or do I just avoid moronic acting people? It's hard to tell because they are almost always black. Or maybe more black people just act moronic but its not because they are black.

I have been called racist many times and it's pissing me off

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I love my friend he is awesome and doesn't act like 'his kind'

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Jesus fucking Christ man what are you saying

Look man there is white trash culture and there is black trash culture. Both are VERY discouraging to any decent individual regardless of race. You are taking trash culture and take it as the standard for an entire race.

Look, in my neighborhood there are a good number of african immigrants. They have none of that ghetto trash MTV gangsta shit going. To generalize, they tend to be upbeat and polite, either friendly/outgoing or a bit shy and silent, put on a coat when its 70'F and tend to sing out loud in Swahili when riding their bicyle (I actually know Swahili when I hear it, so thats no assumption)

Nothing of the hoodrat thing you see with many African-Americans or African-Caribbeans. The underlying reason is simple: their great-grandparents havent gone through slavery and all the cultural racism following that.

As the Africans stay here longer, you see the new cultural environment have its effect, and quite often its detrimental.

What got you worried is the fucked-up side of black American culture. Realize that this is matched equally by the fucked up side of white American culture, except that is tucked away mostly in rural areas of the South.

Are you racist? yes, and I recommend you to deconstruct it to the point of getting no more feedback on it from your environment.

Your behavior actually INVITES being victimized. How do you think a genuine thug will take offense to:

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I never walk close to black people (I was robbed by one at my school like 5 years ago) so they look at me funny when I obviously avoid them

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should I just take the chance to get fucked up again by them so I can stop being called racist?

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A bunch of black poeple were around, no one tried to help.

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I don't however see how avoiding them invites me being victimized.

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I had no worry whatsoever and was actually reading my notebook while walking and studying. I think it is the LACK of attention I gave them that did me in.

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This is true, but race has nothing whatsoever to do with it. Any cop will tell you that when in dangerous surroundings, you should walk with a determined pace, look around bright and alert. That way, most thugs will leave you be. Thugs pick on an easy victim, they go for the old lady, the guy in the wheelchair or, you guessed it, the guy who seems lost, aimless or distracted. Dont seek confrontation but dont avoid it either.

Walk the streets like you own them. Be alert and energetic.

Sounds familiar?

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I know all black people aren't bad obviously my best friend is black

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Perhaps leaving the area will help me 'deconstruct' this part of me...

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Anonymous #5 said:

I don't hate hate black people, just trashy people, but most of the trashy people I meet are black.

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Anonymous #1 said:

I used to shy away from and disrespect the word nigger when I lived out west. Since living around blacks it really has become a every day word.

and I have heard that clapping hand joke before from my black friend.

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yeah nigga

what

Anonymous #8 said:

UR making a convenient mental structure for enabling ur bias. When u see a black guy steal u think its because hes black, but really hes just an asshole. blacks are just as diverse in upbringing as all other cultures.

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Anonymous #8 said:

In your example you have proved nothing in the observation. you cannot use an example such as that to draw the conclusion that black = asshole.

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