How To Feel Good?

Am I afraid of my own kind (young black males)--how I feel about that and the Trayvon Martin case. Is it good?

• Being a young black man in america seems to be one of the dangerous aspects of this country. I'm sitting here thinking about this Trayvon Martin situation, it's all over the media right now. Everybody's talking about it and I thought about how the way all whites and foregners view blacks. Not just whites and foregniers, but how other blacks view blacks. I'm a young black guy who's nothing like these stereotypical, thuggish black youths out here. Some young black guys have been portraying themselves as violent, hardcore and gangsta to where it has frightening other blacks. Michael Medved said on the radio the other day that the vast majority of shooting victims are young black males caused by other black people. Sad but I think thats true. All of this made me wonder why I feel safer when I get around white guys than guys my own kind? Why can't I get the same respect from white guys from the brothers? Why do I feel comfortable walking through an alley seeing a group of white guys at night than the brothers? What's up with that? Stuff likes this breaks my heart because I shouldn't be afriad of my race, but since most of us claim to be hard, that's just how it is. I had this on my mind the other morning and I fell asleep and had a dream about it. I'm walking down 22nd & Dumensil about 8 o'clock in the evening. I heard breathing and footsteps behind me. I looked back and saw a black guy with a black hoody. I immediately jumped and got scared. My heart was pounding real fast. He looked like he wanted to do something to me, but I wasn't sure. I kept asking him "Hey. Are you a good guy? Are you a good guy?" He was looking at me and said "Dont be no b---h, ngger." Naw, don't be no btch" I woke up not too long after that, then I started thinking about how america views young black guys and how some of us are. People think whites are the only ones who feel this way about blacks, but other blacks feel this way too. Everytime a black person is getting ready to move, they always say "I don't wanna move where they got a bunch of nggers". Not a bunch of black people, a bunch of "n---gers" Not all black guys are like that. You got to be a fool to think that. We're all are not like that. But it's other blacks who gave us that reputation to where innocent black youths are getting killed by racial profiling. It's not right.

• Answer:

  My bag. I thought you were trolling. Even though I don't approve of the word. Most black people don't use the n-word with the "ER". Black people/our people are too damage from slavery. Many are suffering from the Willie Lynch Syndrome. Many suffer from self-hate. We don't have unity like other ethic group because their people was enslave and brainwashed to hate themselves. Like I said. Remember the Chris Rock joke. The media also plays in the role in why people fear black males. We don't have control of the media. Blacks don't even own BET. No way am I down playing black on black crime but other races commit crime too. Their crime are sweep under the rug. A black man can do the same crimes as a white man and is sentence longer. As far as having fear of another black man, I guess that's just a reality but there's white on white crimes. Asian on Asian crimes so on and so forth. Most victims of crimes is from people of their own race. Even though you might not see it on TV or read about it in the newspaper. Black people are outrage about many things that goes on in the black community. We are upset about the high rate of HIV, black unemployment, black on black crime, police brutality etc.etc. Don't believe the hype. I think some media outlets are once again trying to divide us as a nation. All races of people are outrage regarding the killing of Trayvon Martin. We want justice for Trayvon an unarmed 17-year who was shot and murdered for no other reason but being black.~~