ldsfaqs wrote:I've said this before, but it's very common for black people to attack people just because you are looking at them.
ldsfaqs, I'm curious: what percentage of African Americans is your city of residence?
Funny, cuz I live in a city of over 800,000, and for 10 years I (I=an old white guy) took a city bus to my graveyard (midnight) job in the poorest, blackest part of town.
Other than one night when one drunk kept asking me if I was Jewish, no problems. Were there drunks and junkies who created problems? Yeah, occasionally. But nothing directed at me.
But far more common were the polite nods and smiles you make with someone you see night after night. The same person getting on at the same stop. Going home. Going to work. Tired. Courteous pleasantries:
"Didn't see you last week. Were you on vacation?"
"Went to my sister's in Louisiana. Had a great time."
"Happy to be back at Target?"
(Rolling her eyes) "Oh yeah, I just couldn't stay away."
And ldsfaqs, I looked many of these Negroes in the eye and they looked back at me, and yet I lived to tell the tale.