Is racism in the southern U.S. different than other parts of the country?
I've heard that parts of the southern U.S. have Jim Crow era racism, but I have never been there so I wouldn't know first hand.
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REMsleep · 41-45, F
In my opinion not really its not like they make it seem on TV.
I was born and raised in Texas and for the past 3 years I have been traveling the country to places big and small every week.
In the South it is much like everywhere else. Lots of interracial couples (I don't consider this a metric against racisim but some do).
Most larger cities in the South are extremely diverse. Houston has one of the largest Nigerian populations in the world outside of Nigeria. 64% of San Antonio is Latino because afterall this was the capital of Tejas when it was part of Mexico.
You can't just believe propaganda.
Florida is just as diverse. You are just as likely to hear Cuban Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese or Hatian Creole as you are English when you walk down the street in Miami but the South is Southern.
This means that most white people have some ancestors that fought in the Civil War for the South and they are probably proud of it.
In states like Alabama and Mississippi the Confederate flag flies everywhere but not all people who fly the flag are racist.
Old Plantations are everywhere and yes there are a large group of people that would prefer that minorities remain in "their place".
Most people are friendly and kind.
If you look at all of the shooting of innocent black people in the news by the police most of these didn't happen in the South. I personally think that racism is everywhere pretty much equally.
It just had a different flavor and style depending on where you are from.
I was born and raised in Texas and for the past 3 years I have been traveling the country to places big and small every week.
In the South it is much like everywhere else. Lots of interracial couples (I don't consider this a metric against racisim but some do).
Most larger cities in the South are extremely diverse. Houston has one of the largest Nigerian populations in the world outside of Nigeria. 64% of San Antonio is Latino because afterall this was the capital of Tejas when it was part of Mexico.
You can't just believe propaganda.
Florida is just as diverse. You are just as likely to hear Cuban Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese or Hatian Creole as you are English when you walk down the street in Miami but the South is Southern.
This means that most white people have some ancestors that fought in the Civil War for the South and they are probably proud of it.
In states like Alabama and Mississippi the Confederate flag flies everywhere but not all people who fly the flag are racist.
Old Plantations are everywhere and yes there are a large group of people that would prefer that minorities remain in "their place".
Most people are friendly and kind.
If you look at all of the shooting of innocent black people in the news by the police most of these didn't happen in the South. I personally think that racism is everywhere pretty much equally.
It just had a different flavor and style depending on where you are from.
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Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@REMsleep Those are some good observations but they don't address the problem, which is overt racism against native Black Americans, aka African-Americans or Negroes.
The two groups that are specifically targeted are those and Haitians. They hate Haitians because they defeated the Whites in three wars. They defeated the French, the Spanish, and the British. That is why Haiti will always be the poorest country in the Americas.
They may not especially like other foreigners but their burning hatred is reserved for Black Americans and Haitians.
One outcome of the Ukrainian dust-up is that the country will be able to get some White refugees to balance the influx of other ethnic groups. Expect 100,000 soon with more to follow.
The two groups that are specifically targeted are those and Haitians. They hate Haitians because they defeated the Whites in three wars. They defeated the French, the Spanish, and the British. That is why Haiti will always be the poorest country in the Americas.
They may not especially like other foreigners but their burning hatred is reserved for Black Americans and Haitians.
One outcome of the Ukrainian dust-up is that the country will be able to get some White refugees to balance the influx of other ethnic groups. Expect 100,000 soon with more to follow.
bijouxbroussard · F
@Carla I believe that, as well. It was the flag that represented the fight to maintain an economy built upon owning other humans in a place where that shouldn’t have happened, and became popular again during the Civil Rights movement among people who were anti-integration.
And I remember people waving it in celebration after MLK was assassinated. So I’ll never see it as other than racist. Possibly after my generation is gone, people will pretend it means something else. 😔
And I remember people waving it in celebration after MLK was assassinated. So I’ll never see it as other than racist. Possibly after my generation is gone, people will pretend it means something else. 😔
SW-User
@Carla Of course you do.
It was a flag under which a large region fought for independence. Like what the entire US fought, and won, for a mere 80 years before.
But, then again, undoubedtly you scream the stars and stripes are racist
It was a flag under which a large region fought for independence. Like what the entire US fought, and won, for a mere 80 years before.
But, then again, undoubedtly you scream the stars and stripes are racist
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@Carla On a scale of 1 to 100 the American flag probably rates 97 racist and the Confederate battle flag an 86. The Confederate battle flag became an acknowledged symbol of racism after WWII, when the country had to start giving up its obvious racist practices in order to claim that it was better than the commies. Until then, the racist KKK marched under the American flag.
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@Diotrephes The racist KKK which comprised the Democrat party
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TurtlePink · 22-25, F
@latinbutterfly look at you schooling this idiot 😅😅
Carla · 61-69, F
@SW-User fought for independence? No. They were treasonous individuals fighting to maintain the right to own, abuse, exploit, torture, rape and murder human beings. Any other narrative is espoused to whitewash history.
The idea that you can equate that to this country's fight for independence from a tyrannical monarchy, is absurd. But maybe you see the desire to abolish slavery as tyrannical.
As far as the kkk being a southern democrat group? Yes they were. Were. You are more than well aware that the democratic party broke away from that mindset, while the republican party embraced it.
White supremacists, for years, have identified with the republican party, where they are welcomed with open arms.
No, I dont see the american flag as a racist symbol. But i do think pledging allegence to it is ridiculous. I know the pledge well, but it doesnt really hold true, does it?
And when one group of people chastise another for what they think is dishonoring the piece of cloth, they do things like planting the face of a despot on it and wave it around proudly. Patches on clothing, flags flying alongside old trump 2020 signs, dirty and tattered. So much respect, right?
The idea that you can equate that to this country's fight for independence from a tyrannical monarchy, is absurd. But maybe you see the desire to abolish slavery as tyrannical.
As far as the kkk being a southern democrat group? Yes they were. Were. You are more than well aware that the democratic party broke away from that mindset, while the republican party embraced it.
White supremacists, for years, have identified with the republican party, where they are welcomed with open arms.
No, I dont see the american flag as a racist symbol. But i do think pledging allegence to it is ridiculous. I know the pledge well, but it doesnt really hold true, does it?
And when one group of people chastise another for what they think is dishonoring the piece of cloth, they do things like planting the face of a despot on it and wave it around proudly. Patches on clothing, flags flying alongside old trump 2020 signs, dirty and tattered. So much respect, right?
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@TurtlePink Shouldn't you be getting a car battery for your new vibrator?
TurtlePink · 22-25, F
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@latinbutterfly Is it. Anytime the 5 remaining Klansmen show up anywhere it's somewhere far north (midwest, upstate NY, or the Pacific NW)
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bijouxbroussard · F
@Carla Yes. The person you’re speaking to has either blocked me or is blocked by me. But it’s funny how things have devolved to the point where southerners either want to teach a revisionist version of events—or if they have to tell the truth, they don’t want it taught about at all as they label it CRT.
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@Carla Says alot about you that even lobotomized I annihilate your bitter, shallow "arguments" with zero effort. Every time
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@Carla I'll take your word for that. You are much more of an expert on mindless hate than me
Carla · 61-69, F
@bijouxbroussard unfortunately, it isnt just in the south. Much of rural america is on the same train.
The crt thing is an excuse to pretend that after the civil war, blacks were free and everything was peachy thereafter. That way, they can continue to hold racists beliefs by not recognizing the impact racism has, and had, on a large segment of our population.
The crt thing is an excuse to pretend that after the civil war, blacks were free and everything was peachy thereafter. That way, they can continue to hold racists beliefs by not recognizing the impact racism has, and had, on a large segment of our population.
bijouxbroussard · F
@latinbutterfly My parents didn’t watch it. That flag bothered them. They wouldn’t have forbade us to watch it, but they never did.
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