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Do most white people mistrust young black men ?

After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of the murder of Treyvon Martin, the whole discussion of racial profiling has come up again. I'm a black male and I've never been in the streets, but we have way too many black men choosing to live destructive lifestyles and being thugs and gangsters that I can understand the mistrust. I also support stop and frisk because it takes guns off the streets.

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Travon was loitering around in a black hoodie on a rainy night.

    I don't have any statistics on hand but I don't think that the average black person does this.

    I also don't think that this behaviour is related to race, anyone can do it.

    Trayvons race was hard to determine because of his hoodie, and Zimmerman did not know Trayvons race until after the police directed him to check for a visual description.

    To answer the question, I do not mistrust young black people, dressed up neatly on their way to law school early in the morning. But I do not trust people dressed as gangsters late at night.

  • dead7
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    Hard question its less about skin color than stereotypes put the same young black male in a 3 piece suit and the reaction is totally different. and its not just whites as chris rock said "I don't worry about the white guy behind me at the atm but a black guy I'm putting it the numbers standing backwards so I can watch him." the liberals meant well but they screwed the hood up with the entitlement system and the projects. Everyone now is looking for a check or out to hustle everyone else. I.ve lived in the hood the last 15yrs (i'm 50+) and have to worry if the guys are going to have a shoot out (1 killed 1 wounded 50ft from my door/ 6 murders in 3months) Sharpton, farakan need to change to culture in the hood and working on stopping black on black crime and education instead of going where the money's at sorry got on my high horse

  • 8 years ago

    I can understand the mistrust, but if the government really gave a damn about black people, and about the nation as a whole, they'd be working to end the cycles that lead to these lifestyles.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    i am not white but i don't trust them either

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