My as son has been attacked/ mugged by black people.

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My son has always had black friends growing up, unfortunately when he became a teenager he was mugged/attacked on at least 3 occasions by young black teens the same age which resulted with him leaving education at 14 because of severe anxiety & is afraid to leave the house. he will be 18 in June & is still anxious around black people & feels unsafe. I myself have been sexually abused on numerous occasions in my younger years by groups of young black boys , but still live in a area where i m the minority, as do my parents & brother who have been victims.

I was never brought up to hate black people, my neighbors are black & I get on well with, i go to college where i am the minority & have never judged people.

Since my son was mugged he has developed a hatred for black people which I have tried to discourage, but i am beginning to develop the same feeling due to experience not ignorance & feel the younger generation are ruining it for the older generation ( my neighbors) for all they have gone through.

The youth of today have so many complexes for what ! the black people of today need to look forward & stop looking back cause you are doing yourself no favors just segregating yourself more , stop being the victim & deal with it , cause i am starting to become angry & disillusioned about society because of experience & I don't like it .

I got beat up in school by all kinds of people but I did my fair share of beating people up to.

This sounds more like a geographic issue than a 'black' issue. I've certainly not come across this myself.

White people could have easily done the same. I was bullied by a Mexican boy but I don't hate Mexicans. That would be stupid and it would help nothing.

When a race is ghettoized the way so many African-Americans have been, racism quickly becomes mixed with classism. The stereotypes of lower class people are problematic enough, but when you start projecting them onto an entire race, things are really getting bad.

No need to become racist over a bad experience or a couple, not all are bad. Besides there are racists in all groups not only white here is a prime example I can show more but you get my point. I frown upon racism because its a display of hatred and ignorance that views other people as subhuman. I wish the whole world would open up and learn we are all the same species the only differences is the color of melanin in skin due to slight mutations and adaptations to different geographical climate. No ethic group is superior over the other. When you let hatred consume you, you become no better.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwI2Eyr9_Ss&feature=related[/youtube]

There are definitely a lot of toxic memes running through black American culture. Then again, there are toxic memes running though all American culture.

<sigh> you can say that again. I wish racism did not exist.

I understand how you feel. I went to a poor inner city public school and was a "minority" as well. I was lucky enough to avoid any real serious bullying but I had my fair share and certainly knew plenty of people that had it so much worse. I really don't know what advice to give you or your son other than to know that not all black people are like that and to separate race from the culture of the "ghetto".

It's hard to blame people who hold prejudices against groups of people they feel persecuted by them first hand.

It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with family and social influences. It just depends on where you live and what your social inflences are. I live in a well-to-do neighborhood, and I am certainly not afraid of black people here. Color has nothing to do with it whatsoever. Color means nothing.