If you are white, how much experience do you have actually dealing with black people?

I often have to drive through the ninth ward, does that count?

I turn the channel to BET once a week for five min

Yeah and the Black people they know are more like the black people you see in commercials on TV. Not the black experience I saw.

I used to watch 'Good Times'. From what I know, blacks have hot-tempered fathers, ugly wives named after states, flashy daughters that wear disco garb, and declare "DYNOMITE" regularly.

There seems to be a lot of misunderstandings, typically remedied in under a half-hour.

Alot

Pretty much daily for 5 plus decades. I have no issue with other people based solely on their skin tone. Honestly, my biggest headache is liberal white women. They are flooding the Northshore. It is like a tsunami of “feelings.”

frick them.

My neighborhood and schools growing up were 35% black people. I've personally known several people that were murdered by black people including a friend in 12th grade that was shot point-blank as you can read in this article.

SATE of Lousiana v. Terry Vince

I road the bus being physically and verbally abused until high school. I had my basketball goal ripped down and things stolen from me.

I had a step cousin that lived with my parents that was black. He treated my dad so good while he was hospice that no one uses the 'step' part when referring to him.

I've really had more real life experiences with black people than I care to type and guess what... I don't hate black people at all. I laugh when someone who only knew the RB and PG that was black in HS tries to tell me what to think about black people. You can always tell who really grew up around black people and who didn't.

I grew up in a very diverse city and high school. Many black friends. I was always sort of blind to racism. That all changed when i served in the Army from 01'-06' in the 1st Cavalry Division. We deployed to Baghdad, Iraq in 2003. My entire chain of command was black. My Squad Leader, my Platoon Sergeant, my 1st Sergeant...all of them. My Squad Leader was from New Orleans. He was the most hateful human being i have ever met. Over 2 years of just extra duty here and extra duty there. It was spiteful and full of vengence. Once in Iraq, I was subject to the most dangerous missions and extra duty, time and time again. The only one in my squad. I went to my chain of command multiple times to express my concerns. We had 5 members of my company die while in Iraq, including 2 from our Platoon. The two replacements that we received were both black as well. I was an E-4 at the time and they were both PVT's. I was placed on an escort mission that came under small arms contact...this was after being on check point duty for 8 hrs in 120 degree heat. When i finally got back to our FOB, all of them (including the two FNG's) were in their rooms playing dominos. I absolutely flipped my shite and went straight to the the Company Commander(Who was black). The next day i was put on QRF after my check point duty and when i asked why couldn't the two new guys finally pull some duty, my NCO looked me dead in the face and said "because i said so white boy". Its one thing to be racist, but this POS was literally putting me in extra situations of potential harm and even death. He was putting my life at risk on purpose. On one of those missions, one of my best friends was killed by an IED and its haunted me every day of my life since. I will say this though, one of the other NCO's in my Platoon, who was black, stepped in and literally just took me into his squad. I have been best friends with him every day since. I talk with him every day like a brother and i haven't seen him in 15 years. Racism isn't unique to one race...its what's inside of people's hearts. The NCO who saved me, quite possibly saved me from the anger that was setting into my heart. I thank him every chance i get. There are good and bad with every race.

Didn't say there wasn't bigotry and hostility at all. There was. On both sides.