re: Before all this woke stuff started several years ago, didn’t race relations seem good?

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Nothing was simmering until activists and the media turned on the burner.

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It just wasnt as prevalent in the news cycle but there was plenty of fricked up shite happening before Barack Obama.

In 2007:

Sheriff's deputies gunned down by "Aryan" gangsters in Bastrop, La. Tax protesters with bombs arrested in New Hampshire. Gun-toting white supremacists marching in Jena, La. A police officer murdered in Salt Lake City. Nativist leaders demanding sniper teams and mines along the Mexican border. Calls for assassinating politicians, immigrants and Jews. Rapidly spreading racist conspiracy theories.

FBI stats showed a 35% increase in hate crimes against Latinos from 2003 to 2006.

But yeah, when the black guy got elected is when things went to shite. He's still rustlin y'alls jimmies.

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I don’t agree.

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That's fine, and I'm going to make a guess that you're white and middle to upper middle class and don't interact with many black people outside of your social class(that's not a criticism of you as most people don't). I've been working with local non-profits since before the Obama administration and can tell you a lot of the racial problems being expressed today have been there a LONG time.Recent events have given those frustrated people an avenue to express it.