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In reply to the discussion: Must be quite a shock to see this vulgar return of overt white racism [View all]Solomon
(12,652 posts)13. I knew as a child, when i first heard the words "all men are created equal", that the shit was going to hit the fan one
day. I just didn't imagine it would look like this. That it would be this bad. And it is bad. I was far from fooled about Obama being elected means we're past it. White folk have always hired black folk to clean up a mess. Obama might as well have been a janitor mopping the floor. I took note that police were shooting black men in the head and in the back when he was president. I felt bad for Obama because I think he knew it was because of him. Too bad there's so many people who don't believe the laws of physics. When a white mates with a non-white, another non-white is produced. They will never be able to make America, all white. But they believe they can. And if they can't, they want to stay in charge as a minority.
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Must be quite a shock to see this vulgar return of overt white racism [View all]
malaise
Wednesday
OP
A shock. Not at all. On the contrary. I've been WARNING about it for at least a DECADE now.
B.See
Wednesday
#1
Oh! Idk That detail! I was angry in general about it - did they call that "The Brooks Brothers riot"?
electric_blue68
11 hrs ago
#83
It's been building particularly since drumphf frst insulted Candidate Obama with the birth certificate lies...
electric_blue68
11 hrs ago
#81
Nice story. Sometimes it takes just one real encounter to understand that we are all one, all the same.
erronis
Wednesday
#19
A heartening story! In the 70's I remember I had a pen pal in Geogia...
electric_blue68
10 hrs ago
#89
I'm a Northern white woman, and I've countered [luckily infrequently] things other white people have said to me....
electric_blue68
11 hrs ago
#86
I think it was evolving some, BUT that made the racists more entrenched, and vicious...
electric_blue68
10 hrs ago
#91
True dat. This explains the history of modern American racism. We've gone back to the future.
Marcuse
17 hrs ago
#66
I knew as a child, when i first heard the words "all men are created equal", that the shit was going to hit the fan one
Solomon
Wednesday
#13
Hooo, I'll bet. Clicked on the article will read. Glad some of your famimy has some good sense!
electric_blue68
10 hrs ago
#93
As someone born an raised in the south, my reply is to ask "What do you mean, 'return'?"
OldBaldy1701E
Wednesday
#17
More of our electeds and candidates must do a FAR better job of denouncing, demonizing, and delegitimizing...
pat_k
Wednesday
#24
I would partly disagree...least for back in the late '60's, early '70's
electric_blue68
10 hrs ago
#94
Not a shock. The racism never left. Like cockroaches, they hide in the shadows awaiting the dark
Scalded Nun
Wednesday
#30
Seems not too long ago comments like this would get a rash of shit from southerners claiming the north is just as racist
Hassin Bin Sober
Wednesday
#31
Sheathing for eight years with a black president their brains filled with putrid puss.
Hope22
20 hrs ago
#44
But as long as slavery existed, those dipshits wouldn't be on the lowest rung of the socio-economical ladder.
Aristus
16 hrs ago
#69
I would say it was like today's poor Americans who take the side of the wealthy
misanthrope
16 hrs ago
#70
Living in a blue bubble as I do, it's always a bit shocking to see or read about
Ocelot II
18 hrs ago
#61
Roberts and the five of the other justices have been paving the way for this for a while
LetMyPeopleVote
17 hrs ago
#64
Red-lining does exist in NYC, but less so. Has been fought against in the past several decades
electric_blue68
9 hrs ago
#99
Unfortunately I am not shocked. It's alway been there, just more quiet etc.
themaguffin
14 hrs ago
#80
I guess no. I've sure known there's plenry of racists still out there!. I guess the sort of shock is....
electric_blue68
8 hrs ago
#101
Beyond my naive reckoning. Shocking. Part of my white privilege: I didn't have to see it until it would not ...
marble falls
8 hrs ago
#102