My parents taught me to never be prejudiced against black people. I never interacted with black people until high school, and I learned my attitudes toward them there.
We had three — count them three — black students who buckled down and studied. They socialized with their white classmates. They were shunned by the rest of the black students.
And what about those students? The majority faded into the background with the majority of the white students — there but not standing out in any way.
The worst of them traveleled in groups and caused trouble wherever they went with loud-mouthed insults, threats, and physical attacks toward whites.
So I learned that black people are like anyone else, but that a white person can be targeted by them just for being white.
All the black people I interact with are fine people. But there are black people I avoid, just as there are white people I avoid. It all comes down to class, and that has its roots in parental upbringing and putting the effort into getting a good education. And those are issues that the black community need to address themselves.
Interesting aside here but if it gets known expect more book burnings.
The original novel M*A*S*H was an excellent account about, amongst other things like war and surgery, an integrating US Army. One of Hawkeye's fellow doctor-draftees and tent-mate was a neurosurgeon with the nickname of 'Spearchucker', gotten as he was his college's QB and black. There was nothing further about race in the novel EXCEPT for this bit when Spearchucker had a group of friends in the tent, all black. Afterwards he asked Hawkeye why he had not stayed in the tent and Hawkeyes simple reply was "Do you like everyone who is black just because they are black?" I don't have the book in front of me so I am going by memory, however this was good race relations in a BETTER time.