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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I'm not sure I can answer all of these questions, and you never answered my questions about whether you would cross the street or not.
I'm not even sure where you got the idea that I'm claiming that a black person did something to me personally which caused me to have fear of all black people. That simply isn't true. What is true is that I witnessed groups of young black men (boys) terrorize other people (boys) at a significantly disproportionate rate than other groups of boys (whether that's a result of institutional racism or not is not really significant through the eyes of a 15-year old boy). I saw it...my brain processed it...and likely stored that information for future use.
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I am very, very certain I saw a lot more violence from some of the white asshats I grew up among than any black folks I knew, whom I mostly knew through Church and my family's politics. But that doesn't mean the stereotypes didn't come into play and I didn't pick them up from somewhere. They persist even where there is experience to the contrary.
White people don't attribute violence by whites to race. A bunch of rich preppies at UVa gang rape a girl, and no one thinks white people are thugs.
