i actually had a situation today which i feel helps understand this a little.
i also was raised in a place pretty much free of black people, and am in a completely new city and have had to use the subway to get around. the subway line i had to use tonight was predominently black, to the point where every single person on the platform, in the subway cars, conducting the subway cars were all black.
i am white. initially, the situation cowed me, because it felt alien, until i realised that all of them could be feeling the same way about me!
fear of black people
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i actually had a situation today which i feel helps understand this a little.
i also was raised in a place pretty much free of black people, and am in a completely new city and have had to use the subway to get around. the subway line i had to use tonight was predominently black, to the point where every single person on the platform, in the subway cars, conducting the subway cars were all black.
i am white. initially, the situation cowed me, because it felt alien, until i realised that all of them could be feeling the same way about me!
its about perspective-taking.