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Were you raised in a racist environment?
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:39 am
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:39 am
I very much was. Not many days went by in my childhood or adolescence that I didn't hear a conversation or rant about "those damned n*****" or "those worthless n*****". This came from family, friends and acquaintances of family, pretty much everyone in my environment. That is not an easy thing to overcome.
I started to challenge those ideas when I reached high school. I played sports and had several teammates of other races whom I got along well with. As an adult, I've tried to put that upbringing completely behind me, and for the most part I have. What I can't deny is that those thoughts and feelings, instilled in me from childhood, creep back into my thinking from time to time, especially in today's America where race is thrown in your face by the media and special interest groups constantly.
I know that I'm not the only one here like that, and I'd like to "have a conversation" about it. I'd like for admins to consider not anchoring this. If no one is interested, it will anchor itself.
I started to challenge those ideas when I reached high school. I played sports and had several teammates of other races whom I got along well with. As an adult, I've tried to put that upbringing completely behind me, and for the most part I have. What I can't deny is that those thoughts and feelings, instilled in me from childhood, creep back into my thinking from time to time, especially in today's America where race is thrown in your face by the media and special interest groups constantly.
I know that I'm not the only one here like that, and I'd like to "have a conversation" about it. I'd like for admins to consider not anchoring this. If no one is interested, it will anchor itself.
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Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:40 am to High C
Yes
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:40 am to High C
Nah, my family wasn’t trash, baw.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:41 am to High C
Yes. I tend to give everyone the benefit of doubt. Certain cultures tend to always let me down and reaffirm my hatred.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:41 am to High C
Same here, but things have changed for the better.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:41 am to High C
subtle "I have black friends" thray
i have at least 3
i have at least 3
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:42 am to High C
My parents are cool. Not racists. My cajun grandfather was though in a passive way at least.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:43 am to High C
Yes, from my LA family (grandfather and uncles), not my mother or father.
Have so much respect for her because she met my dad (Honduran) at LSU and married him against all of her families wishes.
Have so much respect for her because she met my dad (Honduran) at LSU and married him against all of her families wishes.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:44 am to High C
Pussy
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:46 am to High C
I was raised on a plantation home in the summers growing up.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:47 am to High C
Of course. I’m from the south. It everywhere, on both sides of the coin. My freshman year I was put in a dorm with a black teammate. My parents weren’t thrilled about it but his hated it. We became great friends and still are to this day.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:47 am to High C
No. Open racism was around in isolated examples through my early college years, but the n word never became "normal" it was always something that uneasily received or openly objected to. Stuff like racial jokes were more common, but they usually didn't have the attached hostility that people ranting about black people or using slurs would exhibit.
Racial issues were on the surface, though. Atlanta has experienced a lot of migrations of various communities from one part of town to another, and the visible improvements/declines and related issues can't be avoided.
Racial issues were on the surface, though. Atlanta has experienced a lot of migrations of various communities from one part of town to another, and the visible improvements/declines and related issues can't be avoided.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:48 am to High C
You tell me.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:48 am to High C
My environment wasn’t racist, but it was selectively prejudice.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:48 am to High C
It's kind of interesting, but it seems my family has evolved through the years. It's not like I was raised by klansmen or anything but certainly folks might let some verbiage fly here and there back then.
It's gone down dramatically through the generations.
My own kids have never heard the n-word... granted the oldest is 7.
Hopefully they never will.
It's gone down dramatically through the generations.
My own kids have never heard the n-word... granted the oldest is 7.
Hopefully they never will.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:49 am to Hammertime
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Pussy
Thanks for your valuable input.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:51 am to MobileJosh
I grew up in the south too. Being in the south and having trashy racist parents are 2 different things.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:52 am to Redlos
I grew up in Baton Rouge in the 90s so yeah but it wasn’t a hateful type of racism. My dad had and still has his belief that there are two type of black people if you catch my drift. The racism as I felt it was more of a we will stay over here y’all stay over there type of racism and growing up going to a CSAL School didn’t help my views. We would tell n word jokes without any thought of it being wrong. Going to Redemptorist for high school did so much for me to eliminate some of that racism. Having black friends for the first time in my life helped me see that segregation was completely unnecessary
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:52 am to High C
Being born in 52, I grew up with the old "Jim Crow" laws being in place and if you were black back then, it was a whole different world than it currently is.
There were separate amusement parks with whites going to the old Pontchartrain Beach amusement park and blacks heading out N.O. East to Lincoln Beach.
Movie theaters allowed blacks to see movies, but they had to sit in the balconies and not in the general seating area.
Swimming pools, bathrooms, drinking fountains and other such things were segregated.
Many restaurants would serve black customers, but only through a window from which they ordered food from the sidewalk and waited for it to be given to them.
On public transit they'd pay their fare and were made to sit in the seats behind the side door exit on busses. That's the premise of the whole "Rosa Parks" incident.
If you were black back in my youth, it was a pretty shite life.
There were separate amusement parks with whites going to the old Pontchartrain Beach amusement park and blacks heading out N.O. East to Lincoln Beach.
Movie theaters allowed blacks to see movies, but they had to sit in the balconies and not in the general seating area.
Swimming pools, bathrooms, drinking fountains and other such things were segregated.
Many restaurants would serve black customers, but only through a window from which they ordered food from the sidewalk and waited for it to be given to them.
On public transit they'd pay their fare and were made to sit in the seats behind the side door exit on busses. That's the premise of the whole "Rosa Parks" incident.
If you were black back in my youth, it was a pretty shite life.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:53 am to High C
No.
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