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White people and their self-imposed guilt are very amusing to me. If you move into a black neighbourhood, that’s gentrification, so it’s racist. If you move out of a black neighbourhood (because they *are* affected by crime - not because they’re predominantly black, but because they’re usually in poorer and more densely populated urban areas) it’s white flight, and that’s racist too. Maybe you guys should make up your mind and decide if you want to intermingle or not. It would *only* be racist if you avoided the neighbourhood *because it’s full of black people*, the association with crime is a negative stereotype, but it’s also prudent if it’s true. If you think that strolling through a hood proves you’re an anti-racist, you are unnecessarily exposing yourself to danger, not because there’s a bunch of black people there but because it’s crime-ridden, and you know that. “I have a black friend” is a meme - clearly you don’t associate *all* black people with crime in this example, you just said as much. You associate poor neighbourhoods with crime, and the fact that there are black people there is incidental. Plenty of mansions out there inhabited by black actors or musicians, not a lot of crime going on there.Sure and people might think they are ok with black people ("I have a black friend, he's one of the good ones" for example), but don't want to live in an area with too many black people because they associate black people with crime.
That is what discrimination is.
You don't have to dress in a white robe and leave burning crosses on peoples lawn to be racist, you can also hold racial prejudices.









