I had a very similar experience. White kid in a predominantly black, poor neighborhood. I was a true D&D playing, sci-fi-reading, sports-hating nerd who had to

I had a very similar experience. White kid in a predominantly black, poor neighborhood. I was a true D&D playing, sci-fi-reading, sports-hating nerd who had to learn how to fight and physically intimidate people in order not to get beat up. It was not an easy time. I've never been diagnosed with PTSD but it's pretty clear I had it. Zero racism in my heart. There are assholes everywhere in every race and gender, and truly, transcendentally noble, good-hearted people too. Find, and be, those latter; ruthlessly avoid the former. Most people just want to live peacefully, surrounded by family and friends. If that's your basic operating assumption, you'll have a good understanding of almost everyone. The racial category "white" is as absurd as "black" or "Asian". These categories are overly inclusive, reductive, and indicate absolutely nothing about the individuals thereof. Whites include European hereditary aristocracy, living survivors of Balkan/Baltic/Caucasus genocide, Barbary pirates, Levantine peasantry, Uralic ethnicities you have never heard of because their populations are in the single digits, on and on. Anyone who tries to make grand assertions about Asians, Blacks or whites, is, at most charitable interpretation, clueless, ignorant and uninformed. I am super clear about this.