[JT26996]

First off, I would just like to say that what happened to you is absolutely terrible and I hope you're ok! Yet, I don't mean to be going against you but I kind of think that there are a lot of stereotypes out there. I understand that this terrible incident has happened to you and your friends only by African Americans, yet I don't think you should simply think that because it happened consecutively to you and your friends that it is the truth. Did all of these incidences happen to occur in really bad neighborhoods? I know that you probably won't agree but I do think that these incidences were coincidences that they were all performed by people of the same race. There is no need to immediately start despising an entire race because of a select few who performed such horrible acts. I think that a answer to your question of why would other African Americans not understand why others are nervous around people of their race is simple, because put yourself in the shoes of these innocent people of that same race. How would you feel if only a select few people of your same background completely ruined your name or your specific background when you had never done anything wrong? People in society ruin it for others. There is no need to automatically pinpoint and exclude people of a certain marginalized group due to stereotypes, which were created for the select 'bad guys' of its group. And like they say, appearance isn't everything, because you can see a person dressed in baggy pants and a 5XL coat, yet the one that might have a trigger pointed at your head will be a person nicely dressed in a suit, who you thought you could trust and you did, and now your assumptions were deceived when the guy in baggy pants could have been the friendliest person that you have ever met and then ends up saving your life! I guess i'm just trying to make the point that you really shouldn't judge a book by its cover, because you can't anymore in this deceiving world. You can't let your prejudice grow against the African Americans because it is just not fair and you would only be hurting society some more. Prejudice is such an evil trait in this world and slowly, one by one we have to diminish its terrible presence. The less stereotypes and assumptions about people that we automatically make when we see someone for the first time, the better off we will be in this world because the less hate will exist in the long-run.

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Name : JT26996, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 20, City : Cortland, State : NY Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, 

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