The black gunman who killed five police officers in Dallas set fire Thursday night to the gasoline-drenched state of American race relations — an escalating state of divisiveness two African-American callers said needed to be reversed Friday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

The first caller, born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, said he moved to Myrtle Beach because he saw the unrest and “failed policies” of his city and state under Gov. Martin O’Malley.

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“I really feel like race is absolutely not an issue in any of these police problems and all this stuff. I feel like what’s happening here is just fear,” the caller said. He suggested the unease and mistrust between police and urban blacks itself can lead to tragedy.

The caller recalled seeing police outnumbered by thousands of people on New Year’s Eve and the “tempo of the night got really out of hand” because “the people are afraid of the police” and meanwhile the “police started to fear for each other,” and it ultimately “caused a lot of problems” that night.

A poll taken by Gallup in Spring 2016 found 35 percent of Americans were worried “a great deal” about race relations — the highest percentage since the company first began polling on the topic in 2001. That same poll revealed that only 45 percent of non-Hispanic whites and 51 percent of blacks believed race relations to be somewhat or very good — the lowest percentages for both groups since 2001.

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LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham noted the fear caused by the divisive rhetoric against cops has caused a shift in how police operate.

“99.99 percent of [police officers] are doing their very best under very difficult circumstances,” Ingraham said. “Now they have to hesitate when a split-second decision has to be made.”

A second African-Amercan caller to the show Friday, named Terrell, said he’s “an anomaly” to his parents and friends because he chooses to exhibit respect instead of aggression toward police forces. He said he embraces it because he’s okay with himself and in his “own skin.”

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“I came on it by coming to the realization that everything in life that happens to me is not because of my race,” Terrell said, “I had to come to that realization.”

Terrell said he learned the importance of respect and compliance with police officers when he got pulled over and got to go home while driving with an expired license.

“When I got pulled over that time with the bad license and the bad tags I didn’t go to jail, but the person that was with me, the female that was with me, she was arguing with the police, and she went to jail.”

Terrell furthered the point, saying the “underlying effect” is that there is “no one teaching to respect authority.”