If you fear a race, fear yourself!

Last night I had a dream and that dream was a lesson I will share with you.
As everyone knows there has been many stories of white cops shooting unarmed black men. This is not what I am writing about but does deal with things and comments I have read on news sites. Maybe my dream can help explain.
In my dream I was a child and in my dream my family did not live in Carrabelle, Fl but in a low income neighbor probably near Atlanta. We were a minority in the majority black neighborhood. I remember being frightened about living in the neighborhood and wondered if that meant I was racist, and that frightened me more.
You see there were things I saw around the neighborhood that scared me. There were robberies, drug deals, prostitution, and violent crimes happening that I witnessed now and again.
Now there was something else I noticed and that was the people. The people did not frighten me for most were not involved in the behaviors I listed above; they were just people living their lives like me and my family. They worked, laughed, played, and loved; and like me they did not like the criminal element going on.
When I woke I pondered the meaning and there are several things I discovered. The first is we are all people of the same God and created equal. We all can choose to do good or bad. No matter the neighborhood or the race it that makes up the majority all face the same problems. Most problems are social economic in nature so low income neighborhoods are more likely to suffer higher crime rates regardless if they are black, white, or Asian. The problem is when we see bad things in a neighborhood and lump everyone together and blame it on race. While people make up a neighborhood the person is not defined by what goes on in that neighborhood so why should a people as a whole be defined by certain bad individual s? They should not. Now some may say that the people should be responsible for their neighborhood and stop the criminal element? How? I know people try and do so to some success, but how can a person of any race who is working hard just to get by possibly give more time to their neighborhood to clean it up yet still have time for family? Could you in a similar situation? Now think of fear of retaliation? That plays a factor. There are many factors.
What I am saying do not judge a people because of what you think is the big picture presented to you by media. Look at a people by examining the individuals that make up the people and you will find the majority are like you and share the same values. Never be fearful of someone because of the color of their skin as God created all alike there is no reason to; if you do fear someone because of the color of their skin the person you should actually fear is yourself.