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

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Maybe, but a lot of these problems have always been simmering under the surface.

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I don’t agree. I feel as if a narrative was created to rile people up. Nothing was simmering until activists and the media turned on the burner.

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I graduated in the early 2000s from a public high school in the south. From my experiences there and at LSU I can easily say no to your question.

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Why do you say no? What’s your experience?

And did you go to public school in New Orleans?

I went to public school in the Houston suburbs.

I wonder how many people in this thread posting they “didn't see any racism 10-15 years ago” or “racism is an illusion” are white?

I’d be curious to hear from minorities if they feel the same.

Somehow, electing a black guy President made it worse.

race relations are still fine regardless of what the media wants you to think, it's pretty simple to just treat people how you want to be treated

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I feel as if a narrative was created to rile people up. Nothing was simmering until activists and the media turned on the burner.

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this kinda contradicts itself, no?

I don’t think anyone claimed there were never any incidents of racism. I was simply saying that overall race relations seemed pretty good.

I still feel like race relations are good in real life overall (outside of protests or Twitter-type stuff), but as a white person, it's making me hate a decent amount of white people, so there's that.

It did, but, that's also from "our point of view."

Have had a conversation with one of my good black buddies, who plainly told me there were a lot of things they just didn't force the issue with - mainly, they are flat out terrified of the police. This dude is a super sharp, pretty fahkin' wealthy investment banker - and still says he gets shite from police officers in the southern parts of Georgia on family road trips to Florida to see family. Things like "where did you get this car?" type stuff.

I also got a history lesson on redlining, and how that's impacted black communities and the general wealth gap. Was also given some cold, hard facts about how home loans are given out these days - in 2020, a white person with the same credit profile as a black person is virtually certain to get a better interest rate than their black counterpart, particularly with regional banks.

The way some stuff has gone down has been uncomfortable, however, after hearing some of the stuff that they go through on a daily basis, I can at least understand and appreciate the ongoing plight of inequality.