"Attacking people who are different is a common occurrence."
Exactly. My son just had a run-in with a group of Mexicans in a car in NM. Mexicans starting yelling F...You...N......!
Knuckleheads will always be with us...so will the good folks.
(Love the Seinfeld reference).
You can be all-American, white bread, blonde-haired and blue-eyed, and still be yelled at and have things thrown at you from a passing car or truck just for jogging, biking, or walking along a road. There are heckling bullies and low lifes in the world, and one of the best ways to find out where they are is to jog or walk along a road with moderate to heavy traffic.