Who says you can eat here?

[KS Toronado]

[Walleye]

1. Don't kid yourself, this is the same generation. These guys grew up to be magas

These white teenagers who are harassing black kids in the 60s are right now the same white guys with the red hats doing everything they can to make life miserable here in the United States. Only now they are armed with semiautomatic assault rifles. I wonder how many of the white guys in the picture actually ended up at the Capitol on January 6.

[rampartc]

2. "gee sheriff, we were just havin' a little fun with the stranger

we sorta need a cultural revolution here in the usa.

[KS Toronado]

3. Oh, I agree 100%

Some people never learn to grow up and treat others how they demand to be treated.
So it is the same people now as then.

[IronLionZion]

4. A lot of them think racism is patriotism.

they love saying that someone is not American or less American to justify "you don't belong here".

[Farmer-Rick]

6. How very Nazi like of them

The racists are nothing but Nazis.

Who could guess we fought WWII to beat the crap out of them?

[paleotn]

8. The Nazis learned a lot from our codified system of racism. Jim Crow.

In the 30's, they considered American a model for how that would work.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/11/what-america-taught-the-nazis/540630/

https://time.com/4703586/nazis-america-race-law/

[Farmer-Rick]

12. Yeah,

It came as a surprise to Hitler that Americans would join in against him, because of what America did to the indigenous culture and the black freed slaves. He thought we were liked minded. And among the filthy-rich, Americans were in agreement with Hitler. A lot of the filthy-rich today have ties to Hitler and Nazis.

[wnylib]

11. Absolutely true.

Racism is patriotism to racists. They are steeped in beliefs about the nation's founding by White people from Europe. Therefore, to them, "true Americans" are Whites of European descent. All others are interlopers.

Descendants of the New England Puritans had a tendency to move on to found small towns and villages as they spread out from New England after the American Revolution. Many of their ancestors had come from British villages and that remained as a cultural preference for their American descendants.

In the South, descendants of colonists also spread westward to small towns and villages, often in the Midwest and West.

That's one reason why there is such a rural versus urban divide politically today. Larger cities absorbed an influx of immigrants and became more diverse. But rural areas remained less diverse and have been committed to the belief that they represent the "real" America.

For a long time, there was a divide between northern and Southern Europeans in the US. Immigrants from the UK, Germany, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, and France (northern France more than southern France) were accepted without much opposition. Irish were excluded from acceptance because they were "too Catholic."

Southern and Eastern European immigrants were not received well. Italians were "too dark" as well as being too Catholic. Polish, Hungarians, Czechs, Greeks, people from Balkan countries were "too foreign."

Blacks, Latin Americans, Native Americans, Asians, and Jews from any nation were beyond acceptance as human, let alone as American. They had to be kept segregated from the good Whites.

That view is so ingrained in people who grew up accepting it that any suggestion of equality for everyone is being anti American in their minds. True patriotism, to them, is America for Whites only. Or, at least non Whites should imitate Whites - straightened hair for African Americans, curled hair for Native Americans and Asians, and using various treatments to "look White." And non Whites should definitely act quiet and reserved so they don't seem intimidating to Whites.

I am not knocking the use of cosmetics and hair dye for any ethnicity or "race." But it should be a matter of choice, and not something people are pressured into in order to disguise their ancestry and be accepted as American.

[Wonder Why]

5. You can't eat here because SCOTUS said our "Church of Bigotry" religion

doesn't allow it and it violates our religious rights.

[RussBLib]

7. Even in 2023

Makes me think that some will NEVER overcome their racism. Stunted development, poor upbringing, bad education. That's America, baby.

[plimsoll]

9. He shouldn't have tried that in a small town.

[KS Toronado]

10. LOL