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re: Post a story or scene from your memoir on your experience with race in the South
Posted on 5/8/20 at 10:02 am to baybeefeetz
Posted on 5/8/20 at 10:02 am to baybeefeetz
Don’t care. Don’t do hood rat shite and you’ll be good.
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Posted on 5/8/20 at 10:04 am to AUFANATL
Growing up in Jefferson Parish I felt like race was an issue for both sides. Black kids kind of intimidated some weaker white kids (girls were as bad as the boys). In P.E., there was a black basketball game on one side of the court and a white one on the other. Some white kids liked to act black, which was a weird suburban subculture.
Some groups got along (athletes were in general much cooler than those individuals who were just there until they dropped out or got arrested).
I lived in NOLA after college for a few years. Racism on both sides was very real. The attitude/terrible service a white person (and probably black person too) frequently gets when interacting with service level people is pretty bad. I can imagine it's the same for a black person dealing with stupid white people in many instances too.
Texas doesn't seem to have as much of this. I think it's because of poverty and education mostly although segregation is a big part of it too. It's amazing the difference in experience here.
Unlike NOLA, most Texas cities really don't have neighborhoods with blacks and whites mixed. Not like uptown with mansions blocks from slums.
Diversity is actually a lot higher (Mexicans, Asians, etc.) but blacks/whites are not in as close of proximity.
Overall, when they are, things seem less tense.
Some groups got along (athletes were in general much cooler than those individuals who were just there until they dropped out or got arrested).
I lived in NOLA after college for a few years. Racism on both sides was very real. The attitude/terrible service a white person (and probably black person too) frequently gets when interacting with service level people is pretty bad. I can imagine it's the same for a black person dealing with stupid white people in many instances too.
Texas doesn't seem to have as much of this. I think it's because of poverty and education mostly although segregation is a big part of it too. It's amazing the difference in experience here.
Unlike NOLA, most Texas cities really don't have neighborhoods with blacks and whites mixed. Not like uptown with mansions blocks from slums.
Diversity is actually a lot higher (Mexicans, Asians, etc.) but blacks/whites are not in as close of proximity.
Overall, when they are, things seem less tense.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 10:15 am to baybeefeetz
I went to 1st grade in Starkville, Mississippi in 1970, Mrs. Craddock’s class at John Overstreet Elementary School. Integration finally started all over Mississippi that year. But this is how they did it, "gradually" at least in Starkville. The black 1st graders were in the school, but were all in one classroom with a black teacher. The white kids were in a different classroom with a white teacher. About once a week in the afternoon, we would swap about 7 or 8 black and white kids between the classrooms in a kind of experiment of integration. I guess they were trying to ease us into it. Which was a stupid approach, as of course out on the playground, we would all play together.
The N-word was commonly used back then. I remember the first and only time I said it at home, at the dinner table in an innocuous way, sort of like, “oh, he’s one of the n-- boys at our school”. To which my dad calmly and gently explained that it was not correct, nice or polite to say that word, but instead to say “negro”. Poking at my breaded shrimp, I agreed to follow that instruction… Maybe we were moving towards something there, maybe it was the fact that we had a black maid/nanny named Mary and they didn’t want me to insult or embarrass her. But that dinnertime exchange sticks with me to this day.
The N-word was commonly used back then. I remember the first and only time I said it at home, at the dinner table in an innocuous way, sort of like, “oh, he’s one of the n-- boys at our school”. To which my dad calmly and gently explained that it was not correct, nice or polite to say that word, but instead to say “negro”. Poking at my breaded shrimp, I agreed to follow that instruction… Maybe we were moving towards something there, maybe it was the fact that we had a black maid/nanny named Mary and they didn’t want me to insult or embarrass her. But that dinnertime exchange sticks with me to this day.
Posted on 5/8/20 at 10:53 am to Salmon
quote:
The day Karl Malone called me a racist:
Because you are!
Posted on 5/8/20 at 12:55 pm to QJenk
quote:Welcome to ClubPaleFace.
But on the other hand white women can be very difficult.
There’s millions of white dudes around that would echo your observation.
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