I'll never forget the look in their eyes, they were terrified of me...

[gollygee]

2. You are absolutely right

When I was about 18, I was driving from western MI to visit family in the Detroit area with a friend my own age. We drove through Pontiac on our way to whatever all white suburb we were headed to, and our car broke down. My friend was from some Detroit suburb, but I grew up in an integrated school district on the west side of the state. (You're from Michigan - I bet you can figure it out which as there aren't many.) She was freaked out, like she thought we were going to get killed, but several people came up to help us figure out what was wrong with the car is all that happened. The friend had some expensive flashy stuff just sitting on the back car seat en route to the family members, and we spent much our our time away from the car a bit while folks were fixing it, and no one took anything. They just chatted with us, brought us out water to drink and snacks, and fixed our car just to be nice. But people really are afraid to drive through Detroit. I remember going with people to Tigers games back at the old stadium, and it was the same. They'd warn us not to make eye contact with anyone, like someone would charge the car or something. I'd ask, "What do you think they're going to do?" and the'd tell me that people in Detroit carjack. How common was carjacking in Detroit ever?

People are crazy irrational about race. I mean really crazy irrational about it. If they were as irrational about any other issue, they'd be advised to take medication for it. People drive in a huge circle around Detroit to get from a south suburb to a north suburb rather than just going through it. If you took a huge detour to avoid a bridge because you had an irrational fear of it falling, you'd be called obsessive compulsive. Bridges very occasionally collapse, but it's considered an irrational fear to avoid all bridges. So yeah someone somewhere might at some time been a victim of car jacking, but it is really uncommon.