It's sad to hear that that's not actually the case.

Sad to say but it's true from what I saw, we went there when I was in college. We stupidly had never been there and chose a cheap hotel, one night as we were walking back a fairly nice cab driver pulled over and pretty much asked us to please get in, in a drunken stuper we agreed. He was a black gentleman who explained we were risking our lives walking down the street in that area because we were white. He was actually very cool, he dropped us off at our hotel and took what money we had (we'd spent most of our money at the bars, he basically gave us our cab ride). So yeah he was cool, but still a scary situation. We asked and confirmed this with a police officer the next night when our carriage was struck by a cab, no animals or people harmed. So basically we learned some areas just aren't safe for white people, and cab drivers there drive like maniacs.