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Originally Posted by NOEM1226
My honest answer to this is I am afraid of "shady" looking people. White, black, yellow, whatever.
Some people just make me uneasy-not specific to race.
This is precisely how I feel. Unless I get a strange vibe about a male or group of males regardless of skin color, I usually do not feel any fear.
I am afraid of young black men who look like they grew up in a ghetto/thug culture, just like I am afraid of young white, Hispanic, and Asian men who dress like they are ghetto or from a scruffy background. I am afraid of bikers too.
I am afraid of young black men who look like they grew up in a ghetto/thug culture, just like I am afraid of young white, Hispanic, and Asian men who dress like they are ghetto or from a scruffy background. I am afraid of bikers too.
Funny, I'm around a lot of bikers. I used to belong to a "bike organization" so that doesn't bother me unless I recognize their "colors" as something threatening. And you'd be surprised how popular the "thug look" can be with white rural youth. Nope, the threat factor has to be the context, Are they hanging around a liquor package store or the library. Are they swaggering down a city street in single file or 5 abreast. I grew up in the city there are clues you look for. My instincts must be good too. I was never mugged in 25 years of living and working in Boston's downtown.
If you're not, you should be... considering their incredibly disproportional crime rate.
Here is an interesting quote from an Arkansas Slave.
It seems funy in retrospect
" Ain't nobody can get closer to a white
person than a colored person. If we'd a wanted to kill 'em, they'd a all
done been dead. They ain't no reason for white people mistreating
colored people."
if they are gooning and armed its not fear of them, with them i know what to do,
its what will happen to me if i do do what i do.
when self defense is decriminalized boy is it guna change.
remember 50 years ago in new orleans when a poor black man would try to defend himself for any reason at all, i mean any reason, how unjust. well its kinda like that now for the rest of us.
fyi here is the kick in the head, i am non white
I am not talking about the black men you work with I am talking about the young black men you see in public and don't know?
If so why are you scared?
Be honest.
I'm not afraid of black men, as a category, any more than I'm afraid of white men, as a category. But I can be afraid of ANY man if I get the feeling that he means me harm. Statistically, white men are more likely to attack me than black men are. Or, at least, that was the statistic a few years back.
I'm not afraid of black men, as a category, any more than I'm afraid of white men, as a category. But I can be afraid of ANY man if I get the feeling that he means me harm. Statistically, white men are more likely to attack me than black men are. Or, at least, that was the statistic a few years back.
When I go hunting for deer or birds in the Maine woods t, the scariest critter I might encounter is a white male with a gun and a beer. So far I've been lucky.
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