My dad's best friend from work happened to have dark skin and his ancestry was from Africa. Having grown up with his family and children, I never realized they were even black. They dressed nice, talked nice, etc. They are just normal people. As I grew up and went to school, I realized there was actually a difference between people and it shocked me. In third grade I had two black males hold me down and tried to steal my shoes. All throughout grade school it was a problem. When I got to high school, in freshman PE a black male punched me in the face for looking at his gf. I didn't look at her nor did I know she was his gf nor did I know I was not allowed to look at her. To this day I have not had an altercation that came to blows with another white person. Only the black people around here pick fights and demand my things. For this reason, I learned how to fight, bulked up, and started my firearms collection. Now in the apartment in which I live, there is only one black family. The male sells drugs out of there and has tried to corner my girlfriend and steal my dog.
In my experience, white people are more than willing to move past it and let things go. Black people seem to be the ones with the chip on their shoulder and in general feel like everyone else owes them something. They usually do not act tough alone, but quickly gain numbers and then get tough. It has been VERY difficult to remain unracist. I get offended when I hear people use words to provoke one another and keep the hate going. I'd like to see a day when everyone WORKS along side each other and when we can see a person of a different skin color and not even notice it. I was once that person, I'd like to get back to it.
I have left my retaliations out of this thread so as to appear somewhat sane.
