I believe in being respectful and thoughtful in all my interactions so thanks is not needed.

It seems to me that your opinions and observations are shaded by unfortunate things that have happened to you. But again that does not represent everyone’s experience or what they can expect to experience.

I’ve lived in all black neighborhoods for a large portion of my life and I have never been robbed, never been burglarized, nothing.

But I have been harassed and bullied when I lived in a predominately white neighborhood. I have been told to get back to where I came from. One of my first experiences as a child was back when Chuck E. Cheese was Showbiz Pizza in a white area a group of men threw bottles at us while screaming to leave in not so kind words. So yeah, I have had bad experiences in white neighborhoods too, but I don’t use those experiences to make population-level assumptions or judgements.

And I didn’t call you racist, I said the comments you were making were.

And you can’t tell me that you have gotten no negativity from some whites about being with a black woman. It’s not all rainbows and sunshine in poor white neighborhoods either.

Also using the NFL as an example of what happens with wealth redistribution is unfair because every person in the NFL worked for and earned the money they get and unless you know or knew them personally how can you call anyone a “gangbanger”. Who are we to determine what morals a person has or how they handle their vices.

I can appreciate your desire to want to help, but I think you should examine your biases and expand your interactions with blacks.

And you missed the point of the original story that continued racism on a systemic level has indeed played a role in the situations in very poor ghettos as you say. It’s not just black failure.