some places are still so black and white minded

actually this still happens..even here many of them treat us like that way. even when we entre into some particular country border, we are still, even now discriminated as blacks. i seriously hate this feeling and this treatment. i truly want to show humanity is also some way of means to deal with we are all one, one god's child, its not our fault we are blacks and some are whites, this seriously makes my blood boil sometimes :( our globe is growing to heights of success but more than that we are heading to more bad things..

Just a reflection. This could sound a bit harsh to you but this concept was initiated by the whites. What faults the blacks had that you enslaved and sawed the seed of discrimination as black and white? Now you have attained or assumed to have attained the sublimity and feel bad why the blacks are nasty? They were not good ether but they lived their life their way and you spoiled them and did all evil you hared then before now they hate you. Never mind this is the cyclic order. Please do not take it other way round. I was telling you the fact only. Lets be objective and look at things from their perspective too.

Truthfully, as long as they did not bother me, as in being nasty, it would be ok. I guess being the only white people, I would feel a little intimidated at first. Color isn't something I think about, but that may be just a little uncomfortable.

I live in a mixed neighborhood and I haven't had any major problems with anyone of any race. We have had a few car break ins from people outside the neighborhood and I have had the neighborhood kids throw eggs at my house but nothing too serious. I am white and it doesn't bother me one bit. As a matter of fact the non whites are much more cordial than the white people. Don't know why that is.

I am black and I find this very disturbing. I do not think any race should act or feel that a community is solely theirs because it is made up mostly by one particular race. Black people fought for intergration and then when neighborhoods are intergrated they are going to have a problem????? I do not understand that. I live in a mixed neighborhood and my landlord is white, there are no problems. Enjoy your new home, and ignore the ignorant ones and hopefully more people will be like your neighbor.

Yes, this happens alot still. I am white and my fiance is black, and luckily we haven't had a problem with any racism in our famiiies. On the other hand, we have gotten dirty looks from people out in public and on the streets. We usually just laugh it off, and don't let it get to us. We really don't care what strangers think of us. Most of them are probably just jealous anyways. The dirty looks don't happen very often, but when they do we don't even care.

it is really strange if you have been given this weird look when they get to know that you live in a black community. cause there is nothing wrong with it. as long as the neighborhood is really peaceful and quite like other communities. for me it will not bother me at all if in case i will be able to find myself living there. i just find it surprising cause i thought that black and whites do well already. i think that black people are nice people just like other people who are not blacks. i think if they are nice people whatever the color of their skin is, that we will find it to live happily and will not be bothered by their skin color.

wait you should probably clarify. Who looked at you funny like you don't belong. White people, or black people?

My children and I are house shopping at the moment. I, not unlike yourself, don't care what part of town we live in, as long as it is safe and affordable. The only houses I can afford right now are foreclosures in the city. The foreclosures here in Botetourt (which is, at the moment, the place everyone wants to live) start out at around $300,000. I found one in the city for $69,000. Big difference, huh? But the first thing my dad says when I find a possible house is "what part of town is it in?" I know that he isn't predjudiced (we are half-breeds ourselves...Lakota and white), he is just worried about crime (I am a single mom of 3). To tell you the truth, I don't want to live here. I have had nothing but problems out of the neighbors. Everyone in this county seems to think that Pit Bulls are killing machines. My dogs are big babies. Anyway, I am getting off of the subject. When I lived in Roanoke, I had no problems with anyone whatsoever. The problems I DID have, however, were from the people who lived around my parents. When they asked me where we lived and I told them, they would immediately say something such as "That has to be tough." Or, "Aren't you scared to go outside of your house?" No, nothing was hard about living in the city. No, I was not scared to go outside of my house. And I could forget about any of my friends coming to visit. They thought that they were going to be knocked upside the head and raped. The only friends I had were my children, my husband, and his friends. But that was OK because I didn't have time to socialize anyway. The whole situation still kind of makes me angry. Who is to tell me that I don't belong somewhere (even if they didn't actually say it in those words?) I agree with you. This is 2009. We should have been WAAAAAY past that mentality. I would much rather live in Roanoke, where I feel that the people are more accepting of each other. All of the rich a## h***** around here can kiss my @#$. LOL

Yes this has happened to me on many different occasions in my life. Currently I am living overseas in Egypt, and I am married to an Egyptian. Whenever my husband and I go to certain neighborhoods, where some of his family members live, I get stared at like there is no tomorrow. Most of the time I get stares since I am foreign, but in these particular areas its really bad. Women and children will even ask my husband "why did you bring her to this area, its not nice enough for her". Back in the US similar situations would happen when my husband would take me to his friends homes for get togethers. None of them where white, they were Arabs, Blacks, and Sudanese. Some would ask me if I have ever been to a neighborhood like theirs before, and if I was scared...I would laugh because one of my best friends lived right down the block. Prejudice comes in many forms. In my case and your case it has been harmless. Others aren't as lucky. My greatest annoyance in life is hatred that stems from ignorance.

Us is a very recis country, specially in California...