I got new neighbors and they are black. should i be scared?

A new family just bought the house next door to me. Black people. They have three kids around the same age as our son and daughter. Their two boys were in my backyard playing basketball with my son before I'd even met their parents. My wife fix them all lunch and I saw my son laughing and chattering away with them as if he'd known them forever. My daughter and the young black girl were likewise chattering away like old friends. My wife got chummy with the mother very quickly as well. Me and the father have so far kept our distance. We've waved in the morning as we got in our cars going to work. The truth is that I'm wary of him and I think that he is wary of me. Could this be racial on both our parts? The women and the kids think nothing of being friendly but why are men of different races so wary of each other? Is this normal?

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27% Normal
Based on 48 votes (13 yes)
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Comments ( 18 )
  • thegypsysailor

    Absolutely! Time to sell the house and MOVE. Your new neighbors are going turn your son into a drug addict and your daughter into a crack whore. His wife will keep popping out babies and collect welfare while he drives around in his Cadillac, keeping his string of street hoes under control. You won't be able to sleep at night because the rap and hip hop will keep you awake, and "you best not call de cops, if you knows what's good for you, mofo."
    Did I leave out anything?

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    • Energy

      Lol!

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  • sunshineanddandelions

    I voted for "normal" because it's a common reaction due to the fact that racism and racial uneasiness are still very much a part of the American culture. I'm sure your new neighbors are a nice family, and so is yours, but the husband probably senses your uneasiness and might be worried you're being judgmental, so he's keeping his distance. Meanwhile, you're worried he's judging you, or you're worried he realizes you're judging him, so there's this unspoken weirdness between the two of you. I suggest approaching him, introduce yourself and get to know him a bit. Then decide if there's something to worry about.

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  • charli.m

    I don't think it's "men" I think it's "you".

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  • Todays_food_is_tacos

    Your wife fixes them lunch?!?!?

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  • EccentricWeird

    I'm guessing you didn't bother to post this just to receive the requisite politically correct brow-beating. Instead I'll attempt to present a more realistic scenario.

    On our (very bizarre) side of the world, people from the time they're children to the time they're in college/university are fed a steady diet of the tenets of the ever-changing and so-called "politically correct" narrative. Old and even ancient historical wounds are publicly opened time and again to ensure that each new generation acts out the injustices, perceived or real, slight or grievous, of their assigned ancestral representatives.

    By some bizarre perversion of logic that would make even Marx smile, this policy was forcibly implemented in every Western village, town, city, province, state and country, to reduce and even eliminate past prejudices. Time and time again, this has been shown to have incurred many, very unsurprising, detrimental effects to all concerned parties.

    In your situation, you will soon (if you haven't already) start experiencing the effects of this social propagandizing agitation. Your kids will likely hear a number of cruel things being said about their ancestors and themselves in due time, and the non-white family's children, who are subject to the same propaganda, will amplify their concerns.

    You should begin to expect to have to answer a variety of very difficult questions, many of which will be rooted in deeply repulsive and deceptive (but state-promoted) notions. Your answers to these questions will have long-term effects on the world view of your children and their relationships with people outside of their larger ancestral group.

    I'm not going to tell you what to tell them, you'll disregard any such suggestion anyway. But I will say that this is your chance to make a stand for once, not to apologize for crimes and injustices you didn't commit (and expect your kids to do that as well for their entire lives), and put in your two cents against the wretchedly hateful and self-destructive tenets of "political correctness".

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    • CountessDouche

      What the hell? Did you give a real comment?

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      • EccentricWeird

        Maybe.

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  • Racism is absolutely normal, to a degree.

    If you're so uncomfortable, move. And just hope they don't follow you.

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  • anti-hero

    Would you have given him a shot if he were the same race as you?

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  • Hajer92

    Being white does not make you better than him..
    you need to grow.

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  • theheadhunt

    Anybody got some EZ-Widers? Need to roll me a blunt for the white boy.

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  • goodoleboy

    I am black and I really don't like you. Sounds like a nice family living next to you. Let the rest of your family be neighborly. YOU stay the hell away!

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  • GiveMeAFuckingNameAlready!

    Your property value just plummeted. Move quickly before your children OD on the marryjuwanna and your daughter is filled with afro american children.

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  • dickwashington

    they actually sound like a very nice family! you and the dad should have a beer together and chill like dads do the only reason he feels wary of you is because you feel wary of him hes no diffrent then you are

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  • bellatrice

    How wonderful of you to notice when someone is being rather awful.

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  • Avant-Garde

    You should only take concern of they are into Thug Culture. As prejudice as it may sound, I wouldn't want myself or my family to get involved with people who are in that culture. Doesn't matter what the ethnicity is. Thug Culture/behaviour is an underside able trait to have, much less have to be around. It's a negative influence.

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  • CountessDouche

    He's probably just wary around you because you're a cunt, not because you're a white cunt.

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