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re: Is the South more racist? - Article
Posted on 12/5/17 at 7:57 am to skrayper
Posted on 12/5/17 at 7:57 am to skrayper
I've mentioned previously on this board that I witnessed and heard more racial discord in my hometown of Boston and during the four years I lived in Indiana than anything I've experienced while living in the south.
Lived in Oregon for 15 months where they believe white people, not them but other white people, are born racist.
Lived in Oregon for 15 months where they believe white people, not them but other white people, are born racist.
Posted on 12/5/17 at 7:57 am to olddawg26
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I know people from Ohio and Boston
Boston school desegregation, 1976
Posted on 12/5/17 at 7:57 am to skrayper
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But those blatant displays of racism sometimes obscure the fact that there are people across the United States who politely tuck their racism in their pockets every morning.
So his conclusion is that white people are still generally racist, it's just that some hide it better than others?
Posted on 12/5/17 at 7:57 am to skrayper
I lived in Boulder for a decade. I was consistently told that the South was a hotbed of racism, replete with good old boys in sheets with torches, by people who had not interacted with a black person in months. All the liberal enclaves are like that- full of white progressives who imagine the horrible racism that exists in their mind elsewhere, while ensuring they are only surrounded by well- heeled white Progressives who eat endive salad and drive Volvos with diversity stickers .
This post was edited on 12/5/17 at 8:48 am
Posted on 12/5/17 at 7:57 am to skrayper
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it makes VERY solid points that work well when your friends from up North or out West try and state that the South is "racist".
Why should I care if someone thinks I'm a racist?
Posted on 12/5/17 at 7:58 am to SlowFlowPro
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Boston school desegregation, 1976
Look at that gentleman waving the negro through with an American flag. THAT is how you welcome people to your school
Posted on 12/5/17 at 7:58 am to HonoraryCoonass
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The OP’s question was “IS the south more racist,” not WAS the south more racist.”
I don't know, I've never seen Confederate flags or Nathan Bedford Forrest statues in Minneapolis.
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:00 am to KSGamecock
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I don't know, I've never seen Confederate flags or Nathan Bedford Forrest statues in Minneapolis.
well it's good to know you're just trying to one-up your own drive by gotchas in this thread and adding nothing of actual substance
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:00 am to skrayper
Ain't no ways more racist than the northern breed.
My life long experience is my testimony.
My life long experience is my testimony.
This post was edited on 12/5/17 at 8:02 am
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:01 am to KSGamecock
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I've never seen Confederate flags or Nathan Bedford Forrest statues in Minneapolis.
And that is a relevant anecdote......,your Civil War comment was infantile.
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:02 am to KSGamecock
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I mean, Southerners fought a literal war to keep a whole race enslaved.
The fact that you think this is why the war was fought tells me that I dont need to try and re-educate you. Lost cause.
Good luck in life
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:03 am to gthog61
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All you have to do is look at racial housing patterns in cities up north.
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:04 am to skrayper
I'm from the north, lived there most of my life. Been in the south over 6 years now. I don't need the article to tell me anything. The north, Midwest/near Omaha, isn't racist, just like the south isn't racist. The population of black people is smaller there, however the Hispanic population is larger it seemed. These statements are all my perception, so if statistics dont match....then maybe it's that the north seems to be more segregated. So maybe the north is more racist...in the south you can knock on 3 doors in a row and find three different races of people. You can't do that very commonly around Omaha. The south is more diverse at least.
I think a true comparison is which race is more racist...and I would vote that Caucasian is the least racist.
I think a true comparison is which race is more racist...and I would vote that Caucasian is the least racist.
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:05 am to SlowFlowPro
You guys are desperate to have a black man validate your belief that "Those damn Yankees are more racist than us!", while you cling to your confederate regalia and all talk shite behind closed doors.
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:07 am to BlackHelicopterPilot
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THAT is how you welcome people to your school
except that is nowhere near a school
that's City Hall Plaza. The building in the very back is the Old State House, to the right is now a Staples & a new Wax Museum(? its weird), just off frame on the left is a Bill Walton statue where food trucks park. City Hall is immediately behind the photographer
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:08 am to KSGamecock
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I don't know, I've never seen Confederate flags or Nathan Bedford Forrest statues in Minneapolis
Yo need to read "The Ku Klux Klan in Minnesota" by Elizabeth Hatle for your own edification.
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:08 am to TaderSalad
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e fact that you think this is why the war was fought tells me that I dont need to try and re-educate you. Lost cause.
"The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away... Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it—when the "storm came and the wind blew, it fell"
- Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens, March 21, 1861
Southern leaders were pretty open about it being about Slavery at the time. The Lost Cause narrative so many Southerners buy in to is the American equivalent of the German Stab-in-the-back myth. Good luck believing it.
The war was about Slavery. That is why it started.
This post was edited on 12/5/17 at 8:10 am
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:08 am to KSGamecock
Racism doesn't exist like you think it does in the south
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:09 am to KSGamecock
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ou guys are desperate to have a black man validate your belief that "Those damn Yankees are more racist than us!"
Says who, dipshit?
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while you cling to your confederate regalia and all talk shite behind closed doors
I would love for you to name the posters that are doing that in this thread.
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KSGamecock
You are what we call, a dumbass. You have preconceived notions of "the South" and you back them up with your own misguided opinions. You don't seek truth. You don't seek objectivity. You don't seek answers. You simply hurl insults, yell "South is racist", and back it up with ZERO facts.
Sometimes, throwing out that bat signal that you're an ignorant bastard isn't the best idea. Your posts in this thread is a perfect example.
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:09 am to skrayper
I didn't read every word in the linked article, but skimmed through to the author's conclusions. They were pretty much what I suspected...the South gets a bad rap from the rest of the country regarding race.
Makes you wonder what part of the country is really close-minded and ignorant.
Makes you wonder what part of the country is really close-minded and ignorant.
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