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re: How many of you grew up in a racist environment?
Posted on 1/21/20 at 2:50 pm to Slippy
Posted on 1/21/20 at 2:50 pm to Slippy
I can remember when I was six listening to my uncle say I needed to watch out for the blue gum ones because they were poisonous and would bite me if I got too close. My grandmother had a “little black sambo” in her backyard.
Yeah I’d say it was a pretty fricking racist environment.
Yeah I’d say it was a pretty fricking racist environment.
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Posted on 1/21/20 at 2:53 pm to TheCaterpillar
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I have literally seen a version of this said on this website at least a dozen times.
It is fricking insane. Because of the melanin levels in one's skin.
Yeah, I am always surprised when there is a thread that involves a black person or something race related at how many people are just down right racist. There might be a few who are joking or post something just to get a reaction, but at least a quarter of the people on here are racist to the point they don't agree with mixed couples, they have strong stereotypes about black people, etc.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 2:54 pm to OweO
quote:ohh stfu man
Yeah, I am always surprised when there is a thread that involves a black person or something race related at how many people are just down right racist. There might be a few who are joking or post something just to get a reaction, but at least a quarter of the people on here are racist to the point they don't agree with mixed couples, they have strong stereotypes about black people, etc.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 2:55 pm to CharlesLSU
quote:Often my thoughts on this as well. I remember very well my dad raising me with MLK's words to not judge a man by the color of his skin but by the content of his character.
If my grandfather saw an injustice to a minority, he'd be the first person to defend them, but would/could never understand that he, too, was being racist.
It's almost surreal how blatant it used to be......now, there has been quite a bit of progress, but much of it is still camouflaged.
Point is, there are still strides to be made even when it's not in-your-face like it used to be
But the casually racist jokes, using "canadians" as a euphemism for black people, and just the general demeanor towards any example of a nonwhite culture don't fully compliment his sentiments. He's a good person whose help and good intentions wouldn't be partitioned by something as trivial as race, but he and so many others just don't realize when they're stepping over thinner lines that frankly didn't exist until very recently.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 2:55 pm to Jim Rockford
When I was a wee lad I lived in a small town with my parents near Rapides Parish.On Friday and Saturday nights I would hear screaming and shouting.I asked my dad what that was and he said that was the Colored Quarters and you didn't want to go there. Louisiana used to have defacto segregation by the old French custom of neighborhood "quarters". After serving in the Army I learned everyone was just Green.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 2:57 pm to StringedInstruments
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I can remember when I was six listening to my uncle say I needed to watch out for the blue gum ones because they were poisonous and would bite me if I got too close.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:00 pm to fallguy_1978
Didn't they cover that floor with wood and not have the confederate flags in the 90s?
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:00 pm to Slippy
My parents were not racist. Worst spanking I ever got was when I said the N word. My maternal grandfather was very racist.
Most of my friend's parents growing up were racist, or at least were very gratuitous with the N word.
Most of my friend's parents growing up were racist, or at least were very gratuitous with the N word.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:00 pm to SantaFe
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After serving in the Army I learned everyone was just Green.
"Green is the only color that matters there..."
-Life
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:00 pm to Slippy
I bet most people grow up in a racist environment no matter what color you might be.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:02 pm to Aristo
Cheerleaders still had rebel flag uniforms until about 10 years ago 
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:09 pm to NATidefan
Closet? hahahahaha
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:12 pm to Sun God
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Cheerleaders still had rebel flag uniforms until about 10 years ago
Our football uniforms used to as well. That whole school had confederate flags all over it in the 80s-90s.
We used to get sent to the principal to get spanked with a big arse paddle with a confederate flag carved into it. They called it "getting the stars and bars tattooed on your arse". Different times
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:12 pm to Slippy
Shove it, whitey
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:13 pm to sicboy
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he saw a poster of a black boy and white girl enjoying a picnic or something and he straight faced said "I just don't think that's right".
That's every other Thursday on the OT board.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:15 pm to NATidefan
Nobody did
This post was edited on 6/7/20 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:17 pm to Slippy
I went to Comeaux High School in Lafayette in 2000, and they had Mr. and Miss Black Comeaux awards separate from the white ones.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:20 pm to Slippy
i didn’t grow up in a racist environment but was definitely exposed to it at times. i spent a lot more time around my dad growing up, as my parents divorced when I was young and he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body (my dads family is from west texas, moms family south louisiana) . my grandpa was pretty racist though. i don’t recall him ever saying the N word in front of me but the way he spoke of black athletes when we’d watch sports together gave me an idea.
my moms side of the family is a complete different story. i wouldn’t say they’re blatantly racist, but definitely more forward about it. i love lafayette (my hometown) but i’m glad i moved to Dallas when I was young for that specific reason.
my moms side of the family is a complete different story. i wouldn’t say they’re blatantly racist, but definitely more forward about it. i love lafayette (my hometown) but i’m glad i moved to Dallas when I was young for that specific reason.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:21 pm to fallguy_1978
I am really bothered that the Confederate flag is partially covering up the 3 point line. That would make it extremely difficult in that spot to judge 3 or 2.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:26 pm to Lsupimp
Weird flex, but go on ahead I guess.
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