I gave my daughter the talk about the dangers of black crime and how very large the criminal fraction of the black population is in the city where she goes to college.
That’s necessary, and realistic. It’s sad, and serious, and frightening.
You either start with a satirical approach like Chris Rock, and stick with it, or you start serious and stick with it.
Friendship ought to be about more than cultivating people who are useful to you. And with race being the painful issue that it is in our country, you surely shouldn’t use people because of their race. There’s a recipe for well-deserved mistrust and ill will.
Or you can do what my liberal parents advise (and I’m 52) when visiting them in Portland, OR: Just don’t go to those “bad” areas.
So, being typical liberal cowards that can’t acknowledge the fact their social policies help create this mess, they just put up fences and “don’t go there”.
Hard to tour many cities doing that.