Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : Quick backstory is that I have a black family that is on one side of my property that’s lived there for generations and I’m a white man that bought the property on the street corner. We both have about an acre of land and are well off. Dad and his son are an outspoken black activist and I’m white so we usually disagree yet we have civil conversation that are productive and get along real well with bad blood till last weekend.

We are planning on replacing a fence between our land so we drew up a contract splitting the cost and putting it right down the middle of the line. The current fence was put up off eyeballing the line. Over time it became crooked and beat up so I had a surveyor come out and confirm the property line and found out that I actually gained a foot of property from him.

I invite him over Saturday to break him the news. Fast forward he got on the topic that his family lived on the property for generations and should just use the current fence line that the guy who owned my place before made. I told him we would be using the one from the survey since it’s legally my property and if he wanted to get a second opinion then he can and we would wait to move the fence. He said he wouldn’t pay to have a white man take more property from him. Its pretty important and can cost a lot more to move a fence after it’s build I assumed he would want to confirm it. He kept saying no and left.

On sunday while I was working over by the fence, his son who’s 19, come over ask why I “thought it was ok that a white man can take a black mans land just cause of some paper” i explained that property lines aren’t theft and it changed the value which set him off and how I’m taking money from them like my ancestors took everything. I got heated by being called a racist and told him my family fled Italy during WW2 to poor Detroit and wasn’t involved in his history at all. Basically the whole reparation issue was stupid and he’s crazy for using all white people argument since my family came in 1940’s. He walked away after I said that if the roles were reversed they wouldn’t have a problem and race shouldn’t be involved. (basically he's acting crazy)

Next time I saw them the son glared at me and the dad was pissed I fought with his son but knew he provoked me. We made friendly until he asked what I decided on the fence. I kinda chuckled and said were using the legal one. He was dumbfounded and I asked if he was crazy that I wouldn’t want to add more property. He got pissed and walked off after saying that he won’t pay for the fence and he wants his money back then and now we aren’t talking. Should I move forward with the contract or AITA

Tdlr: I get my property surveyed before replacing a fence and gains a foot and upsets my neighbors who blame me for being racist and stealing land. I call them crazy and they want to back out of their half and think I’m racist now.