Isn't that the truth. When a friend of mine said she'd be afraid to visit my hometown (small farming community in OH) because they'd lynch her...I just looked at her and said “you aren't that special.”
She was confused...I had to clarify, people would look at you twice because you are a stranger and want to know who you are and who you are with (it's called small town living), but if you think they'd give up their lives, their families, or their livelihoods because of the color of your skin...well you just aren't that special.
Skin color isn’t the issue, culture is.
You subscribe to an inferior culture that believes working hard is a ‘white thing’, or that dressing like a criminal is perfectly ok, then yes, most people, black or white, will be suspicious of you.
That sums it up perfectly.
Do you think a big part of the problem might be that some blacks resent the fact they are no longer Priority #1?
My personal feeling is that most of the time, most of America has moved beyond race and that many blacks are unhappy about it.
Racism is no longer Center Ring and they yearn for their good old days when they felt relevant.
Once the mere accusation of racism was breath stopping.
Now it is a tired old joke that everyone has heard far too many times and the purveyors of racial animosity are now an irrelevancy.