It’s a matter of perspective. I as a white man have been doing a bunch of research the last few years since George Floyd died and I think from what I’ve discovered I can try to assess what you’re saying and perhaps summarize it in part. Maybe you can see if I’m on the right track as I’ve been trying to understand this whole attitude black people have toward “whites” and seeing all whites the same. I could be way off and we have a complex history of race relations, so I don’t want to oversimplify. But here’s my guess so far:

If you are a black person, let’s say in the Georgia 300 years ago and saw a white person on the road, you probably would assume they could hurt you or kill you. You wouldn’t care about what “side” they were on. And you know they would get away with it. If you are a black person, in Georgia 250 years ago and saw a white person on the road, you probably would assume they could hurt you or kill you. You wouldn’t care about what “side” they were on. And you know they would get away with it. If you are a black person, let’s say in the Georgia 200 years ago and saw a white person on the road, you probably would assume they could hurt you or kill you. You wouldn’t care about what “side” they were on. And you know they would get away with it. If you are a black person, in Georgia 150 years ago and saw a white person on the road, you probably would assume they could hurt you or kill you. You wouldn’t care about what “side” they were on. And you know they would get away with it. If you are a black person, in Georgia 100 years ago and saw a white person on the road, you probably would assume they could hurt you or kill you. You wouldn’t care about what “side” they were on. And you know they would get away with it. If you are a black person, in Georgia 50 years ago and saw a white person on the road, you probably would assume they could hurt you or kill you. You wouldn’t care about what “side” they were on. And you know they would get away with it. If you are Ahmaud Aubrey 3 years ago in Georgia jogging on the road and saw a white person, you probably would assume they could hurt you or kill you, and you would run and fight at the last minute, like he did. You wouldn’t care about what “side” they were on. And you know they would get away with it. And you didn’t know they didn’t because you were dead.

So my conclusion from my research is that if I saw a black person approach and look at me on a dark and empty road in the evening, like yesterday when I was taking my walk like I do here in Texas, and he suddenly turned and ran, I should conclude he’s smart, not crazy, because he didn’t take any chances. From his viewpoint, he was just acting rationally from what he knows of white people, and he just didn’t feel like gambling with his life that night. Maybe it’s just a matter of taking a black person’s perspective.