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I hope it's okay for me to ask this question, because I don't want to be offensive or anything, but in your encounters with white people, do they generally treat you with respect, or are they typically rude to you and racist. I'm wondering about this because when I interact with the general public, I try to treat everyone, regardless of their race or ethnicity, with professionalism and courteousness, but I was wondering if minorities find this shocking or unusual.
Again, I hope I'm not being offensive, I just am genuinely curious about your experiences in the world, i.e. is racism constant and typical, or is it not typical but it's shocking and painful when it happens?
From my experience white people are cordial for the most part. Most whites I meet are in a professional setting. Many are very curious about me, as I'm usually one of the very few black people in any office I work in. I have found that white people do try to draw out my opinions on race. However I do frustrate them when they cannot seem to get an emotional response of of me. It's my fundamental worldview that one should not personalize ones race. So it's hard for me to get emotionally attached to race in general.
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