No, that's not true. I have known during my life many salt of the earth black folk, and I have also known many scum of the earth white folk.
I would avoid places where thugs hang out, but I would not indiscriminately apply the same brush to all.
You might be more cautious with people you do not know, but let us not attribute the worst to so many of our fellow man.
Of course there are exceptions. It is a general rule. I would love to vote for Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell for some office. I vote for Sheriff Clarke every election.
That doesnt negate my general rule.
If we knew absolutely NOTHING more, then race, sad to say, would be a heuristic. The new racism is not like the old racism. The new racism is based on facts; the old racism was based on bigotry.
That being said, it is possible to learn to read people — and also possible to not go around cruising for evil, if I can belabor the glaringly obvious. You might get ripped off through abused trust just the same, but are far less likely to get brutally mugged, if you don’t cruise for evil.
And I have known some pretty ghastly bad white people too who also abused my trust and ripped me off. No color has a monopoly on that in my life.
When I would go out of town, I would tell my neighbor, an honest, righteous, black woman. I would give her my contact information and a set of my keys.
But I told her not to tell her son. Her son is a good man, too, but if he did not know he couldn’t casually mention it to any of his friends, or this friends to their friends.
That is why my house was never broken into. I guarantee you that two degrees away were thugs, guys he didn’t even know.
Well said. I've had run-ins with some crappy black punks and wish they were dead. However, I've had a lot of good black friends and still do. You soon figure out what type of person anyone is, whether white or black, and decide whether to allow them to get close. I know some crappy white trailer trash people and keep my distance. Punks come in all colors.