Certainly a lot better than what goes on behind my eyes :lol: I really don't know what you're trying to get at here though; wondering about and trying to understand other people's thoughts and perspective, as I described, is precisely the opposite of what you're describing.
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I don't know which American teams would apply, but imagine two teams with a long-standing, mostly friendly rivalry: And then over the course of a few months or years a number of killings are highly publicized, almost all by fans of one team against the other. And then two guys in that team jersey are standing in an elevator and a fellow with the other team's jersey steps in too...
Like Albus Dumbledore said, just because something's in your head doesn't mean it's not real
Thing is, most American posters here seem to be agreeing that that kind of tension would have been much less likely a decade ago (and for me as an Australian, unheard of until I started frequenting this forum, at least as far as African Australians are concerned).
The point that my old rival Code is making in the OP is that to a large extent that "all in your head" stuff is manufactured: The media, disappointingly but understandably, hype up the racial side of things for the ratings. But would they do so as much if the politicians weren't making 'race' into a big issue? The D-team play racial tensions up to ensure they get a lot of black people's votes (and do little or nothing to make it better for fear of losing those votes if the issues are solved!). The R-team certainly haven't helped by the sheer level of hatred and wild conspiracy theories which have been directed at the current President, and they too do nothing to fix the issues because (I suspect) they are a lot more about urban poverty than skin colour directly, and R-team policies just don't seem to help in that regard.
_Sal mentioned something similar with regard to folk of Middle Eastern appearance. No-one enjoys tension, no-one wants to live in fear, and almost no-one wants to view others primarily by the colour of their skin, but that's where the politicians and the media of many countries seem to be leading us.