The day I got the living shit beaten out of me.

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30. "much more prevalent in the South"> No, just different. I have been around more than 60 years,

lived in many of these states and been halfway around the world a couple time. They are just as bigoted in Seattle and New York as they are in Texas or Georgia.

It's just different. But a lot of folks would rather pretend they aren't part of it all, that it exists "over there".

You choose not to see it because you are part of the problem. For that matter we all are. It exists because we are enabling it, every day, feeding it every time we choose to keep the plantation going another day without fixing it, perhaps murdering another person of color along the way.

Those bodies laying on the ground, the lack of investment in people by our government, the tragedy - those aren't anecdotes - those are people's lives.

Just because people don't wear hoods and sheets doesn't mean they aren't rotten under their dresses and suits. Heck, they may even be more dangerous, acting as infiltrators and spies among the decent people.

Sounds like you agree with the bigots on this. Your choice, of course, but odd to hear it here.