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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
Yes, I can honestly say that. I have been in situations where I was uncomfortable around people, but it didn't have anything to do with the color of their skin. If I see a pack of 5 scruffy looking white dudes with shaved heads, baggy clothes, and gang tats coming towards me on the street in a shady part of town, that's going to set off some alarm bells for me. If I pass 5 clean-cut black guys in business suits, I wouldn't think anything of it.
Skin color has absolutely nothing to do with the threat someone poses to you. I don't even believe in the idea of "race", honestly. It's a false concept.
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While I do totally agree with you, I will admit I used to be really uncomfortable around black people. My parents raised me not to be racist, I never conciously judged someone based on the color of their skin, it's just that growing up in Carson, I never saw any black people. In my high school, there were 2800 kids, and only 6 were black. I played football with a couple of them, and I'd talk to them and didn't hold anything against them, but it was just unusual to me. One of the guys was actually probably the funniest guy I've ever met, but I couldn't really talk to him. The good news is, I've gotten past it, and it never really impaired my thinking, but the first couple black people I met, I was really uncomfortable around. One was a guy my mom worked with, who I really like now, and another is a guy I met in college, who is still a friend of mine, and we talk every now and then, so please don't think I'm racist, but I see where he's coming from.