And, how unreasonable was it, really, for grandma to be nervous about black men she passed on the street?
We all have a pretty good intuition as to when to be afraid and when not. Why distrust grandma’s instincts the one or two or ten times she might have expressed that fear.
And, since a black male is 13-16 times more likely to commit a crime where the victim is injured, maybe grandma was on to something.
It wasn't unreasonable , if the woman felt fear. How many white college girls feel fear ..around black males...these days at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, or at Auburn University? Is it racist for them to feel the fear, or is it normal?
It is very reasonable, just as it would be reasonable for a black man to be suspicious of a white man he believes might be a racist bully based on the way he dresses, speaks, or some other indicator.
I am reminded of a young man who used to work in our office. A white kid with long hair down to his back, and a skateboarder. One day he came in with bruises and I asked him what happened thinking he had a skateboard accident. He told me he had been waiting at a local light rail station and saw a group of young black men coming his way. His initial instinct was to flee but then his second thought was his first thought was racist and he should give these guys the benefit of the doubt. Well they mugged him and took his skateboard.
I told him that discretion and caution are not racism and that any one of those young black men, had they been confronted by a group of whites he thought threatening, would have fleed the scene, and rightly so.
Obama's grandmother raised him and loved him....a racist would NOT have done that. Obama is a slimeball, he disgusts me.