Ever been to Bed Sty?
No. But Black people are just like White people in the sense that there are ‘bad’ and ‘good’.
The problem is, when you force things down into a simple dichotomy of ‘Black’ v. ‘White’, the good - on either side - suffer.
The Black people I know are fully aware of the problems in their communities. They are doing their best to change things, in their personal families, friendship circles, churches and communities.
But that doesn’t change the fact that they are often deeply hurt, as Individuals, to be lumped-into and identified with the worst manifestations of their particular ‘race’.
I’ve known and loved a lot of these people, from my own infancy; and I KNOW how much this hurts them - and that’s why I protest the blanket condemnations of Black people that I see on some of these threads.
(And I’ve been very hurt, in turn, when some Black people have assumed that I’m an ‘evil racist’ just because I’m White.)