Let me see if I can help you out here.
I am as white as they come.
I grew up with the 70s integration/Desegregation busing... taking the white kids and putting them on a bus and taking them to school in a black hood.
I have been beat spit on called every name in the book because I was a white kid.
But I have never been pulled over by the cops and had to wonder if its because I am white.
I have never been told they picked someone else to rent to and then wonder if it was because the color of my skin.
So..are you equating being physically beat up because you are white to wondering if you were turned refused a lease of pulled over because of the color of your skin? I want to make sure I am getting this right.
It sounds like are saying that wondering if the color of your skin was the reason you were inconvinienced is equal to being violently attack because of the color of your skin. You gotta admit that sounds pretty aburd.
Since we are running with personal stories, I will tell what influences my perceptions.
I used to work at a juvenile jail here in Topeka, Kansas. The population was dispriportionately black (as is typical across the nation for most jails). I can tell you that, at least in Topeka (and I imagine most of the rest of the country) the lower socio-economic end of the african-american spectrum (where most of that culture unfortunately lives) has it ingrained in them that all their problems are someone else's fault.
Every day I was called a racist any time I had to crack down on a resident (juvenile inmate) who was black. If I saw them punch someone and told them to lockdown, they would curse at me and call me racist. Even when seen by me and caught on tape taking some action that called for punishment, they would deny doing it and call me racist for bringing it up. This was not incedental and occasional, it was the norm.
Often at the jail, the black inmates would get agitated if I even tried to talk to them, but if a black corrections officer talked to them, the inmate would listen. Most black inmates tended to have a chip on their shoulder and an inherent hatred of white officers. Again, this was not incedental and occasional, it was the norm.
I have known white people here in Topeka who have been beat by blacks simply because of the color of their skin.
Contrast those actions with some of the african american's I know who do have character and sense of self responsibility. The black corrections officers I worked with at the jail were some of the best co-workers I have ever had, as well as some of the most quality people I know.
A black pastor I know is one of the best, most honest and humble person of strong character I know, period. Considering that I view the vast majority of pastors or "men of the cloth" (upwards of 80%, IMO) as narcessistic and self-agrandizing, that says quite a bit.
The black community has illegitimacy rates of upwards of 70%. The culture is dispreportionately poor. This is not due to society or other external factors, this is due to internal problems in the black community and in the black family.
Race peddlers like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Farrakan and Jeremiah Wright play off emotion and foster a sense of entitlement and no personal responsibility, which is further reinforced by hip-hop culture and the welfare state (among other things).