Institutional racism has been pretty much eliminated outside the deep south, right?

[TreasonousBastard]

4. I suspect that what happened was...

with all the work to bring the South up to speed, places like Wisconsin were ignored and allowed to sit back and pretend to be the good guys.

None of us are good guys in this-- racism is a basic human instinct coming from an historic fear of strangers and we have to fight it until that instinct is dead.

Every so often I spend some time at the Slave Cemetery in Orient New York. Yeah, Long Island had slaves. Most were buried in unmarked graves but this one owner had some sort of respect for his and thought they should have a proper burial. Had himself and his wife buried there, too. Various parts of NY and NJ, though, occasionally see bones dug up during construction projects, and often the assumption is slave burials.

It's not just your state, it's a human problem we have to accept and deal with.

(OK, fat chance of that.)