re: Racism in Louisiana...

Not to say the north doesn't have its problems.

But we have ours SOLELY BECAUSE OF OUR ACTIONS.

Time to accept the truth. That's the only way to fix the problem if you want to

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doesn't affirmative action discriminate

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In a literal sense maybe, but that would imply that minorities and whites have equal footing , opportunities and similar historical and presen day implications.

That's 100% not true. So no it's not discriminate IMO

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This sounds really bad but having lived in LA and other parts, the black people in LA are very different

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I think this is an important point. And it isn't even just black people in general, but it is a large percentage of our black population. I work downtown and take Main Street all the way from downtown to N. Acadian every day. Drive down that street any day of the week at any time of the day, and most houses have someone on the porch or in the yard hanging out. You have to wonder how so many able-bodied people have that much free time. This is the case in most of north BR. That street is one of many.

As someone else mentioned, there is a lot of hatred towards white people here in BR as well. This was the case long before the Alton Sterling/Gary Chambers era. I can't tell you how many times I've been shoved into, cut in line, etc. by a black person (usually women).

Just look at your experiences in grocery stores or fast food places. It is very normal for us to just accept that we are going to be spoken to like shite. This rarely happens to me in CA, NY, etc.

I don't think this is unique to Louisiana alone, but I think it definitely put the racism here into perspective. And I say that as a huge lefty liberal. I am very defensive when it comes to racism and it is not okay at all to me. But being raised here and seeing black culture here does help me understand why some people feel the way they do. I don't approve of it, but I see the cause/justification they have.

haven't read the thread, but i can only speak from my own experiences that racism in LA isn't just relegated to one specific grouping, it comes from all over.

growing up where i did, i had never even heard the word 'asian' before until some white kid called me that in the 6th grade. I didn't realize it was supposed to be some derogatory term until I asked others what it meant. Same school year, i was called some crazy ching chong asian bullshite by a few black kids that i really didn't feel like standing up to and getting my brains beat in afterwards. It's obvious that those kids grew up not thinking much of vn immigrants, it's likely what their parents taught them at home.

I was told that my people had more advantages than real Americans bc we didn't pay any taxes...on anything and everything. Yeah, that's kinda fricking false.

regarding marriage outside the race, i had 2 sisters that married white dudes and i can tell you that my pops was strictly against it, until he realized that his daughters would hate him forever if he pulled some shite like trying to break it up. He only cares about their happiness, and now with grandkids, he wouldn't have it any other way. I don't think he's racist, but more of a traditionalist. I think we get too wrapped up in trying to pin labels on supposed racists that we forget that some people just haven't been exposed to these experiences, so they reject it at first.

There's alot of ignorance out there, too much of it...but it's not just here, it's everywhere.

Would a kid born to a crack fiend not have felt the implications of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagans admittantly racist drug enforcement policies? I could argue that baby's kids kids feel It too.


I agree with you on that, the war on drugs was and continues to be a failure. It played a big role in destroying the nuclear black family.

@LSUcjb318 It was Jones street jr high you guys were bussed to

my mother is the worst. she's hispanic, so it makes me laugh.

Maybe you have a problem with tolerance?
Maybe you can't understand racism and why it's useful?
You should accept racism.

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Imo, blacks are all racist, some more concentrated than others....they act like you owe them something because of slavery..the majority are on welfare and we pay for it, never got appreciated for that by them....have heard blacks call whites the Isis of america... lol

Define irony.....most blacks are democrats......white democrats consider you to be a under class that they control, fyi, when slavery was abolished....democrats voted in Congress to continue slavery....

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You sound very uneducated sir. That's unfortunate.