Originally Posted by
Bikenut
... befriend some black people (neighbors, folks at church or some function/event) and then set up an open carry walk/lunch/dinner and invite them along. ... But then... the above holds true regardless of a person's skin color.
I am currently visiting in and near Charleston, South Carolina, where I lived and worked for 35 years until I moved away.
I recall one black man as friend, my foreman through my apprenticeship. I would weep with joy to see him again.
I worked in the largest industrial concerns in the area for my career and had no black peer co-workers. They came and went as trainees but none stayed.
I was invited to and attended the odd AME Church service, invited by acquaintances, but may have been the only white in the chapel.
A white Episcopalian minister officiated at my wedding, he was the pastor of a black congregation in downtown Charleston.
I am dressed for 'high' Lutheran service in a couple of hours but don't expect to see any blacks in the congregation. The church that I will attend is three blocks from Emmanuel AME, the 'Mother Church' that Dylann Roof shot up.
I would say that generally the races here self-segregate if economically possible.
I was very active in the Nineties in the movement to liberalize South Carolina gun law, and recall no black activists. Regular open carry is still prohibited in SC, only such as hunting is legal.