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I understand this assumption, however I should mention I am brown. I was born into a Sikh family and there is no denying my ethnicity (I have no issues showing my face if needed).
I suppose my experience would be different to someone else. If it's any consolation, the areas I had apartments in over the years was Fayetteville, Bentonville, and Rogers/Little Flock.
They're not evil, you're right. But that's a lot of casual racism where at I'm, especially after/during the Trump presidency.
My mom was talking to me late at night after everyone went to sleep and cornered me until I cried about how my Pakistani friends are going to come kill me in my sleep. A few weeks after that she was going on about the "war on Christmas" and she'd love to be wished a happy holiday for one she didn't celebrate and we shouldn't say happy holidays anymore.
My in-laws have also said more racist things since then, including my father-in-law "joking" about how he needed to hide the tools so Mexicans don't steal them.
Not evil by any means, but my mom's thing was way messed up. There are a lot more examples, but people are definitely more overt now.
I can understand your concern, though my first wife was from Gentry, AR and I lived there as well (I often forget that as she is an ex wife). It is possible for people to have different experiences to the rhetoric.