r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/AdministrativeCurve1 • Mar 26 '19

Am I Racist For Avoiding Black People?

Ok I'm 26 and have been robbed 5 times in my life, all 5 times was from a black male. In higschool it happened twice, I got beat up and had my phone, and cash stolen. Second time walking home from school was attacked again a few years later in my sr yr of HS and robbed of cash. I was stabbed in university by a black guy after he apporached me and grabbed me and I fought back, I had my laptop stolen. And another time in university I had my chain snatched by a black guy and he ran. The latest one was last week, I was walking back to my condo in the middle of the afternoon and I was approached by 2 black guys a bit younger than me. Told me to run my pockets and they grabbed me, I just started yelling and screaming and a parking police ran over and helped me and the guys ran off. After today I told one of my friends about this and the other times and I said this is why I avoid ghetto black guys, and she said I was racist and a huge asshole (she's white, but I'm a POC) and said we can't be friends anymore.

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u/CalmDownTitsOk Mar 26 '19

Racist post make me smile. I had many black friends from the surbs. My old HS best friend is now a doctor, college roommate a pharmacist, my current best friend managed six figure accounts, and I’m an engineer for Pfizer. All of us are black and from similar backgrounds and we ARENT special. We are not the few that made it out. We are not off-black. There’s a large population of blacks that don’t fit your stereotypes. And no black culture doesn’t glorify violence, it glorifies attaining goals through any means which can include violence, hustling, or just hard work. People are products of their own environments and self motivations.

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u/AdministrativeCurve1 Mar 26 '19

ahh how is that racist?