I wonder how many here grew up like I did in the 50's with not many but some negro friends. The number was dependent on the population. My neighborhood was small town (50K) with three areas. Mine was the mixed one. The East end was 100% Italian and Sleepy Hollow was$$$$$. When I returned from Vietnam I could not believe what my block looked like. Don't want to drag this out but during the riots and sitting on a toilet armed and looking out the window I have lost all respect for the negro race. This was over 50 YEARS AGO and nothing has changed, certainly not my now called racist views. Sorry I get a little emotional thinking I had a one year old daughter during this and my wife God bless her from KC MO. never gave an inch even when confronted.
I grew up in a white suburb of Seattle and rarely ever saw a black until the age of nine. That is when we moved to New Orleans. Talk about culture shock! The city was doing court-ordered desegregation and my parents put up with about so much of the violence from both the blacks and the whites before they pulled us out of public school and into hastily-arranged private schools. I have a memory of sitting on a bus with other white kids (city bus as NO didn't have school buses at the time) and having a busload of black kids pull up next to us at a traffic light. The black kids jeered, swore, and spit at us. It was something entirely outside my life experience at the time and I was totally unequipped to understand it.
We then moved to Huntsville Alabama where I spent the next several years. Race relations were far better there in general but the races mostly didn't mix. Eventually we moved back to Washington state to a different suburb. In my sophomore year of high school there were six blacks in a school that housed almost 2000 students. By the time my daughter attended that same school the percentage was 60% black. It's now over 75%.
The blacks in western Washington "found their voices" in the 80's and 90's and by the new millennium they were as obnoxious as they are anywhere. Gangstas and their wannabes are everywhere now and more overtly hostile every day.
I did the white-flight thing in 2008 and bought a place about 30 miles away from the worst of it. As plagues tend to go, it is slowly catching up with me. I missed the window of opportunity to get out and am feeling the nagging sensation of impending doom.
I would love for someone to show me a city or community that has been taken over by blacks - or hispanics, or muzzies and seen the community improved by their presence. If one exists I have not seen it.