What is the most racist city or town you have ever been in?

@Bang5luts A community where you had better not be a certain color or race when the sun goes down.

@latinbutterfly oh. Where i live right now is every race, if you're not driving a nice car you better not be out after dark.

@latinbutterfly I'm not in any way down playing what racist cops and small minded people do in other parts of the country, I am simply stating the town I live in they cops try to talk everyone into a night in jail

@deadgerbil Exactly right.

@Carissimi it represents slavery, treason AND racism whether you like it or not - can't hide history just because it makes you uncomfortable

@dancingtongue Wow, unbelievable. I know that in my old neighborhood of Little Village, you don't want to be there after dark if you are not Mexican. It's pretty much the same as it was 35 years ago, sadly.

@latinbutterfly I love those shows. I always think about you and Dan when I watch them. Do you see lots of places you recognize ?

@bijouxbroussard Yep, I sure do 👍🏼.

@HijabaDabbaDoo It made me vulnerable to my father's financial and racial agendas. Much of the motivations to why people hated me I didn't understand until later in life.

Can't pretend that it doesn't affect me still. Meeting people I know are family related to those who wronged me while in field work. They rarely can recognize me without my first name.

I think despite how horrible it all been. How horrible I became in my teens. I was lucky. I had help after. And I didn't die in there.

There are few people I do admire from there because they did help us. One being the nurse I mentioned in one of my venting. He offered his home to kids during a flood. And a man who literally covered me with his back from his fellows while I hid between the truck and a wall. He just saw me there and stood to hide me instead of pulling me out.

Lot of things happened. Sometimes I don't remember them, other times they force themselves into my brain.

Eventhe darkest places can have the greatest people

@Miram it's often these situations where
examples of humanity come from. Reminds me of a question a lecturer would ask his students.

Imagine a plane makes an emergency landing and breaks into three parts. As the cabin fills with smoke everyone inside realises they need an escape. What happens?

On planet A, the passengers turn to their neighbours to ask if they're okay. Those needing assistance are helped out of the plane first. People are willing to give their lives, even for perfect strangers.

On planet B, everyone's left to fend for themselves, panic breaks out, there's pushing and shoving. Children, elderly and people with disabilities get tramped underfoot.

And then he asks what planet do we live on?

According to him, majority would think Planet A. But histories most momentous disasters have played out on Planet A.

We fall prey to the idea that civilisation is nothing more than a thin veneer that will crack at the merest provocation. People need an 'other' to make sense of their world or the world they've been conditioned towards, but when crisis hits we humans become our best selves and I'm glad you had some to remind you of this amongst the struggle and unjust treatment.

I imagine it's been difficult processing all of this, even as an adult. I'm just glad you made it out safe and I'm also really glad and admire you for continuing to share your experiences. You're a voice for people who have lived and still live similar experiences.

@Miram Wow. I'm very sorry you went through that.

@Mrsbetweenfatandfit I was going to say "That is just crazy to me" but you already said it all. Bless ya for trying to stick up for the local girl in question. You're a wonderful human, a great mum and I 100% agree with your last sentiment. the fact that this is not a story from a more bygone age absolutely staggers me.

@Muldoon I was born there and it's fucked up.

@tindrummer maybe they had surgical gowns with giant red crosses

At least you know they wore hairnets

@bowman81 Richland County is different now. Especially in Columbia.

@Zonuss If that's true, then there might be hope for us all. I haven't been back there since the summer of 1971. Never wanted to see the place again

@bowman81 SC is way different now. Especially on the coastal areas. You wouldn't believe how much it has grown here. Or how diverse it is in 2021. 🙂

@GeistInTheMachine Unlike your history right🤣

@SW-User Exactly right.

@V00doo What do you consider to be mixed. Because being English Irish or English Italian is not considered nmixed here in the US.😂

@Zonuss What's my mix. Go from there. And the US isn't the be all and end all of what's meant to be understood.

@Zonuss Neither of them are races

@PetalsOfLilac Wall St has the biggest slave auction block in the country.

That area has always been magic for commerce!

@PetalsOfLilac Fayetteville NC or AR. 🙂

@Zonuss I've heard AR is very racist but I experienced NC

@SkyeJade wheres that?

@AthrillatheHunt little place outside Liverpool

@PhoenixPhail Great flick. I brought it with me when I had a sleep test a while back. I was hooked to a million wires and couldn't move. The movie had a million n words in it and the guy in the next room was black.

Serous cringe 😮

@SW-User I hope it wasn't a problem for him.

@PhoenixPhail O mever heard anything. He prolly went to sleep like we were supposed to do

@latinbutterfly ok ,I've been to alot of places in Arkansas don't think I've been there

@vetguy1991 I just talked with my mom on the phone and she doesn't remember exactly, but she thinks it was somewhere outside of Little Rock, AR.

@latinbutterfly ok been a while since I was down there

@Tres13 And with a name of "Christchurch"? Shocking.

@ProfessorPlum77

They still are on now. On both the ME-TV's

@SW-User I mainly read, now. I might look for a clip on Youtube.

@ProfessorPlum77 I love slapstick. The absolute ANTITHESIS of pc

@Jenny1234 IS is St Pete I believe. But that's still mind boggling

@SW-User I’m being as honest as the day is long

@Jenny1234 No doubt. Just yahoos with zero business sense

@ProfessorPlum77 Wow. He's still stuck in 1975 as well as everything else

@PrivateHell My mom doesn't remember exactly where it was, but it was somewhere outside of Little Rock off of I-30.

@latinbutterfly Van Buren is closer to Ft Smith

@SW-User Don't worry, I'm not being cute! That is literally the setup to that movie. Guy passing through - just wants through, doesn't want to stay in the little dive town - but the sheriff basically politely warns him and yeah is sort of polite but at the end of the day...harassment is harassment. He's actually taking exception to him just being there passing through.

@SW-User Yeah, it's been a while since I have seen that movie.

@latinbutterfly It's a good movie. Really sorry you had that experience, by the way. These people are pricks.

@ProfessorPlum77 But it does turn black on the roads in Spring

@AthrillatheHunt Newark, NJ? Not to mention that place is a crime ridden dump.

@latinbutterfly total shithole

@latinbutterfly Hideously corrupt even by Jersey standards.

I don't know how many ex mayors they have in prison

@BlueMetalChick I just call Bostonians McNuggets.

@ExperienceDLT Sad, but true.

@latinbutterfly in alot of cases its true but some people here have proved me wrong

@SW-User 🤡😵

@SW-User To be clear: Not all Yanks are racist.
But, we hate ALL black males? 🤔

@ProfessorPlum77 Join your brothers

@empanadas Mexicans started to settle in the Magnolia Park neighborhood in 1911, and yeah they pretty much stayed centered there due to discrimination.

@latinbutterfly I actually never been to houston. I gotta check out that neighborhood. Never knew that the League of United Latin American Citizens was founded there. yeah, my grandpa told me stories about how fucked up it was. Main reason why he left.

@empanadas I saw written on a bathroom stall "if black is beautiful I just shit a masterpiece"

@SW-User Black is Beautiful was a huge expression in the 70's