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Just a brief story. Make of it what you like.
I was sitting in a bar in a city in California. The bar's customers were 100% white. A black soldier in uniform entered the bar. He ordered a beer and in the process of drinking it he asked the customers at large if someone would be heading in the direction of such and such street. I knew this street to be in a predominantly black neighborhood. No one responded. Having, myself, spent a life time in the military, I told him that I would take him to where he wanted to go. He joined me at the bar and we finished our beers together.
I drove him to the area that he wanted to go and he said I could drop him off at a bar he directed me to. He was on leave and said that alot of his friends would probably be in the bar. I told him that I would come in and have a cold one for the road. He advised me not to enter the bar because I was white and he could not guarantee my safety. I took his advise.
The point of the story is, that he was apparently not afraid to enter a bar in a predominantly white neighborhood, nor a bar that had 100% white customers, but feared for my safety if I entered a bar, filled with blacks.
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