I ' m a black man and I open carried for many years when I lived in an open carry state . The ONLY time a cop ever stopped me was to comment on my taste in 1911 s . I ' ve been pulled over while armed a couple of times and the officers handled it competently and professionally . I never feared for my life . I ' m also a firearm and self defense instructor . Been doing it for a decade . Been shooting guns since I was 4 years old . The firearm community has been nothing but 100 % accepting and I ' ve never encountered any racism and it grows more and more diverse by the day . This fear I ' ve been told I ' m supposed to have is not present in me . A lot of it is drummed up by the media and exaggerated to massively hyperbolic proportions . Most armed black people in this country go about their daily lives unbothered and unafraid . On the other hand I can tell you of a time I would probably have been killed if I weren ' t armed and it wasn ' t the police that were my assailants . There ' s a lot of antigun propaganda out there and minorities are the largest growing demographic of gun owners and concealed carriers . It ' s a shame many people have been brainwashed into believing the ability to defend yourself is only for white people . It isn ' t and not only will you be welcomed with open arms , the vast , vast majority of law enforcement will chill out once they see your CCW ID regardless of what race you are because as a demographic concealed carriers are the most law abiding in the country , even more so than police officers .