re: Racial division worst I’ve ever seen

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maybe there is suppressed tension

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There is for me. I know that no matter how nice I am to a black person, deep down he/she resents me. That in turn makes me resent them and not want anything to do with them. There is a marked barrier that simply wasn’t there before for me. I think they’re just getting antsy because deep down, they know that they should be able to take advantage of DEI but they can’t because they aren’t performing well enough. They’re losing it little by little and desperately trying to use the victim card to justify everything wrong with black America.

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It's not as bad as they want it to be; or at least it's not on the surface.

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Disagree. It’s bad.

I caught up with a good friend from high school I hadn’t seen since like 2014 when I went back home to NOLA for a few days… her dad’s white and mom’s black, all of a sudden had this “I’m black and everyone must know” attitude. I shite you not, the FIRST THING she said when we sat down at this bar (forgot the name) was “there’s too many white people here. This used to be a black bar.” And I said “I highly doubt the white people physically pushed them out, sounds like black people just didn’t want to be around the white people, who have every right to be there.” Then she dropped the “well that’s your privilege talking” line followed by “everything good in New Orleans is because of black people.” I held my tongue but what I wanted to say was everything bad in New Orleans was because of black people.

Not all of them are like that, but let’s be honest, most of them are now. She was not like that in high school. In fact I didn’t even know she was black until I knew her for a few years. She looks Brazilian. She was all of a sudden speaking Ebonics, I commented on it making a joke about it, and she claimed that she “suppressed it” for all those years in high school. No she didn’t. She wouldn’t even talk that way around black people who didn’t “suppress” anything. No one cared. Everyone loved her.

It’s a real thing. It’s pretty much over. We can only hope that the race card continues to wear off and eventually they’ll have to face reality that they have to fix themselves and stop blaming everyone, and that will only happen when people stop listening to their bitching en masse.