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re: How many of you grew up in a racist environment?
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:15 pm to little billy
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:15 pm to little billy
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I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with this.
You can go here for validation though: LINK
I don't need validation from the likes of you. Sorry.
This post was edited on 1/21/20 at 5:17 pm
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Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:16 pm to Golden Goose
That's why I provided the link my fine feathered friend.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:16 pm to 3nOut
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I saw an article where some UW student group got in trouble for only having one or two black kids in their promotion. Then read that Wisconsin’s black population is only 5% so it was fairly accurate
There was one black family in my county growing up.
Yes, entire county. I'm not northern WI either.
This post was edited on 1/21/20 at 5:17 pm
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:18 pm to little billy
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That's why I provided the link my fine feathered friend.
I don't base my life or worth on "validation" in an Internet forum.
My sympathies to anyone who does.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:19 pm to Golden Goose
Like two adults we should just agree to disagree on this issue then.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:20 pm to BuckyCheese
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There was one black family in my county growing up.
Yes, entire county. I'm not northern WI either.
The little suburb I grew up in was pretty much 100% white in the 80s. The odd thing was that you could drive 3-4 miles down the road to areas that were 100% black. We had kind of defacto segregation.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:20 pm to Slippy
I would say that just about everybody over the age of 60 probably did.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:20 pm to prostyleoffensetime
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Yep. It’s really interesting. I’d actually go further and say there is a certain amount of love among that generation. A lot of it stems from pre agricultural mechanization where these people grew up together and the black family were working for the whites or were sharecroppers on the land and the farm was basically it’s own town with a population of 50-150 people.
Black people will be sitting with the white family at the white elder’s funeral in a church that has stained glass windows dedicated to local Confederate officers that started the church... And then if you have a black elder die, the whites will drive to the rattiest and most primitive churches to attend the funerals
Yeah. It’s a very strang dichotomy. My MIL was a coach for 30 years at the same small school of less than 1k kids and coached a girl that was an Olympian. When she got inducted into her college’s Hall of Fame, she invited my MiL because they were still close and genuinely loved each other.
In the same breath, she couldn’t believe that her niece (my wife’s cousin) was dating a black guy for a while.
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My mother was sort of typical for the time, a sort of benevolent racist, using the N word as casually as describing a blue sky,
My FiL once said “one of my best friends in the service was this N named John.”
It just weird how that generation works.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:24 pm to Slippy
I grew up in what most would consider a racist environment (via my grandpa who lived next door and was chief of detectives in Baton Rouge during the 60’s), but I was never prevented from having black friends or taught by my parents that one race was superior to another.
It’s absurd that white folks are the only ones held accountable for being “racist”. Asian folks want their kids to only marry Asians (Chinese to Chinese, Japanese to Japanese, etc...), Indian folks have their own caste system and Patels are only “supposed” to marry other Patels, I’m sure something similar is prevalent in most cultures. It’s weird that those cultures get a pass.
It’s absurd that white folks are the only ones held accountable for being “racist”. Asian folks want their kids to only marry Asians (Chinese to Chinese, Japanese to Japanese, etc...), Indian folks have their own caste system and Patels are only “supposed” to marry other Patels, I’m sure something similar is prevalent in most cultures. It’s weird that those cultures get a pass.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:39 pm to Slippy
I live in one now, Mississippi/Alabama black prairie. Black people hate white people
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:42 pm to Golden Goose
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Race relations hit a low point under Obama.
Yeah, how dare the black guy win the presidency and offer a perspective of black man on issues. The fact that you think this is because of anything Obama did while in office is laughably absurd. Guess what else happened during his tenure? The number of white nationalist/supremacy groups exploded.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:46 pm to Slippy
What race do you want an answer from ? Don't you think that whites, blacks, and asians all grow up with the same issues ? Are there no black or asian racist ? Or is it across the board for all races. The difference may be if you actually ACT on it. Words are just words.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:55 pm to fallguy_1978
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The little suburb I grew up in was pretty much 100% white in the 80s. The odd thing was that you could drive 3-4 miles down the road to areas that were 100% black. We had kind of defacto segregation.
Ditto. As a general rule blacks and whites have different cultures and I think because of this they prefer to live among others who are like minded.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:55 pm to Tigeralum2008
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(Jehovah's Witness)
I bet you and a lot of blacks in your neighborhood felt the same about JW.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 6:00 pm to samson73103
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The little suburb I grew up in was pretty much 100% white in the 80s. The odd thing was that you could drive 3-4 miles down the road to areas that were 100% black. We had kind of defacto segregation.
Ditto. As a general rule blacks and whites have different cultures and I think because of this they prefer to live among others who are like minded.
Pretty much. A black guy isn't going to have much luck getting a haircut and his woman isn't gonna find a weave in my town.
Seriously, this has been an ongoing issue with the Packers. They actually bring in a barber once a week from Milwaukee last I knew.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 6:01 pm to The Spleen
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Yeah, how dare the black guy win the presidency and offer a perspective of black man on issues. The fact that you think this is because of anything Obama did while in office is laughably absurd. Guess what else happened during his tenure? The number of white nationalist/supremacy groups exploded.
That's pure horse shite.
Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and ISIS happened during his tenure.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 6:03 pm to Slippy
Posted on 1/21/20 at 6:03 pm to Slippy
I grew up in Livingston Parish in the 80's so yeah. I even am ashamed to admit I had a david duke sticker on my car at age 15.
Gave two nice black guys I knew from school a ride home from a basketball game at I think things started clicking for me at around that time that I was pretty stupid about such things.
Gave two nice black guys I knew from school a ride home from a basketball game at I think things started clicking for me at around that time that I was pretty stupid about such things.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 6:04 pm to Slippy
Racism is dead, except in northern/liberal cities
-the OT
-the OT
Posted on 1/21/20 at 6:05 pm to SCLibertarian
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I feel we're more honest about it down here than up North
I agree fully. I'm from a northern state. I've dealt with more racism in the north, than I have down here. Don't get me wrong, I've dealt with it here, but it's different up north.
I wouldn't say that my parents are racist, but whenever I had a girlfriend growing up I would always get asked if she was white or black.
It was interesting when our families met at our wedding dinner. Someone in my wife's family actually dated David Duke a lifetime ago. It was awkward at first, but now they get along fine. Politics are a different story. My family is Liberal, her's, Conservative. Me, Libertarian.
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