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mytigger 
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19th hole
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11147 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/10/12 at 9:46 pm to Bunsbert Montcroff)
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whites and blacks also lived "side by side" in the antebellum south and in south africa under apartheid. those periods/regimes weren't racist either, huh?
we're not in south africa or in the antebellum south. we're free people living next to one another, working next to each other and whose children play with each other.
I just don't see a lot of racism with people I know. Maybe I just live and associate with a bunch of good people?
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LT 
Southeastern LA Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2008
982 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/10/12 at 9:48 pm to Hugo Stiglitz)
I am from Louisiana and traveled extensively through the country for years. The perception of Louisiana's racism allows the closeted racists to let down their guard like you wouldn't believe. When people would hear I was from LA they would unload all kinds of bull shite. shite I hadn't heard from people here. Stuff like some races not having souls and all manner of awful shite that would make a young rebel flag wearer cringe.
We have our share here but you are fooling yourself if you don't think it is everywhere.
Oh and I fricking hate sagging arse jeans. Does that make me racist?
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Paul Allen
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Nov 2007
19278 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/10/12 at 9:48 pm to Hugo Stiglitz)
Yes
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805tiger
LSU Fan
Member since Oct 2011
1306 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/10/12 at 9:51 pm to LT)
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Oh and I fricking hate sagging arse jeans. Does that make me racist?
No
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LT
Southeastern LA Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2008
982 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/10/12 at 9:52 pm to 805tiger)
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No
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dewster 
Maryland Fan
TN
Member since Aug 2006
4431 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/10/12 at 9:52 pm to Hugo Stiglitz)
Everyone in every state is at least a little racist.
Louisiana (at least south Louisiana) is not even the most racist state I've lived or worked in. Not even in the top 3.
This post was edited on 10/10 at 9:53 pm
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Hugo Stiglitz 
USA Fan
Unfunny gif and meme connoisseur
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| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/10/12 at 9:55 pm to dewster)
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Not even in the top 3.
can I take a guess?
Idaho
Mississippi
Tennessee ?
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kingbob
LSU Fan
St. Amant, LA
Member since Nov 2010
9009 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/10/12 at 9:57 pm to theunknownknight)
All I know is that everyone that I've ever met from Ohio acts like Clayton Bigsby in private compared to me, but in public, even saying the word "black" around a black person is like a cardinal sin.
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lsu480 
Arizona State Fan
1488 posts
Member since Oct 2007
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| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/10/12 at 10:03 pm to mytigger)
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I just don't see a lot of racism with people I know. Maybe I just live and associate with a bunch of good people?
So if you choose to ignore the fact that certain races,as a whole,are superior to others you are a good person? 
This post was edited on 10/10 at 10:05 pm
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HappyTownTiger
LSU Fan
Member since Jan 2012
887 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/10/12 at 11:18 pm to Hugo Stiglitz)
Maybe a little, both ways.
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Interception
Providence Fan
Member since Nov 2008
8621 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/11/12 at 12:14 am to Hugo Stiglitz)
Yes the blacks are as racist as the whites
Oh wait, it's only racist if its white people
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MississippiLSUfan
LSU Fan
Brookhaven
Member since Oct 2005
9622 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/11/12 at 12:48 am to Hugo Stiglitz)
Yes. Black people are the most racist people. And there are a lot of them in LA, thus making LA a very racist state.
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MississippiLSUfan
LSU Fan
Brookhaven
Member since Oct 2005
9622 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/11/12 at 12:48 am to Hugo Stiglitz)
Dp
This post was edited on 10/11 at 12:54 am
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acgeaux129
LSU Fan
We are BR
Member since Sep 2007
13818 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/11/12 at 1:18 am to mytigger)
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we're not in south africa or in the antebellum south. we're free people living next to one another, working next to each other and whose children play with each other.
Most folks with adequate cognitive abilities would recognize that, but don't let that get in the way of his little childish appeal to extremes.
I grew up living in LA basically my entire life. Never have I encountered a more racially oppressive individual situation than when I worked in a Union state with less than 5% blacks.
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228Tiger
LSU Fan
Harrison County
Member since Feb 2012
11635 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/11/12 at 1:50 am to acgeaux129)
i make judgments on the way people act and are dressed all the time
not the color of their skin
if that makes me racist then everyone is
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skinny domino
LSU Fan
sebr
Member since Feb 2007
4421 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/11/12 at 2:51 am to Hugo Stiglitz)
Of course, it is. Just in the EBR parish area, Woody Jenkins is the head of one of the Better Business Bureau outfits. This is the same fellow who proudly displayed david duke signs in front of his mansion on North Foster drive back in the 90's. He has thrown his support behind Mike Walker for mayor of B R. Haven't seen or heard Mike telling him no thanks.
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dinosaur
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Louisiana
Member since Aug 2007
445 posts
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| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/11/12 at 7:54 am to real)
This is the most true thing I have read here in a long time. As long as there is someone who gains something by playing races against each other, there will be racists. Most of us are too stupid to realize that we are being used.
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LT
Southeastern LA Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2008
982 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/11/12 at 9:22 am to skinny domino)
They had one in a prominent position in the US Senate. Byrd, a true to life clansman. I think he was a big time leader like the grand unicorn or something.
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Mike da Tigah
Ft. New Richmond
Member since Feb 2005
36776 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/11/12 at 9:32 am to LT)
Two things affecting Louisiana, and more than just ignorance as it pertains to racism, but ignorance in general, a lack of change and a current condition which never seems to change. One is our lack of exposure to the outside world in traveling, and the other is our lack of importance placed upon being educated.
When you aren't exposed to anything that rattles your perceptions and refuse to read a book, how can you ever hope to grow?
Answer: You can't. You're screwed for life.
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dewster
Maryland Fan
TN
Member since Aug 2006
4431 posts
| re: In Your Opinion: Is Louisiana a Moderately Racist State? (Posted on 10/11/12 at 9:40 am to dinosaur)
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This is the most true thing I have read here in a long time. As long as there is someone who gains something by playing races against each other, there will be racists. Most of us are too stupid to realize that we are being used.
One could argue that exists in terms of partisan politics...not just racism.
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