Black Farmer Calls Out Liberal Racism In Powerful Facebook Message

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235. Here's an interesting fact from another "liberal" city

Austin, Texas (a/k/a "The People's Republic of Austin&quot

Like Charlotte, Austin remains largely segregated, despite years of "progressive" city government. There is, however, another statistic that is perhaps more relevant to Mr. Newman's experiences. I say this because, as the Atlantic article points out, segregation has been a long time coming and will be a long time going. In fact, in my humble opinion, segregation will fall ONLY after reparations for the $60 trillion that were stolen from our ancestors. Segregation is simply integrated (pun intended) into too many elements of the majority society to be eradicated with anything less.

Statistical analyses have been done of law enforcement encounters in Austin. Police practices are something that could be changed overnights and yet, despite years of progressive leadership in Austin, continue to display an incredibly disturbing pattern.

Let me make a brief aside here. White people, whether liberal or conservative, will read what I just wrote and say, "Yea, we know all about how there are way more law enforcement encounters with black people than white." The liberals will then break off into discussions about getting "racist cops" out of police departments and the conservatives will launch into their racist diatribe about black people committing more crime. Regardless of whether it is true that the number of per-capita encounters between cops and people of color dwarfs that of per-capita encounters between cops and white folks, that isn't what is really disturbing about the analysis of these encounters.

What is disturbing is WHERE these encounters occur. Surprisingly, there are not that many more police encounters in black neighborhoods than there are in white neighborhoods. Instead the overwhelming majority of encounters between cops and people of color is along a fairly narrow line between "black" Austin and "white" Austin. In other words, even in liberal Austin, there is a blue wall between its majority white residents and its black residents. This is the wall that we as people of color face in every city. It's the wall Mr. Newman faced. Given the fact that police encounters between people of color, and especially black males, usually ends badly, it is a wall as imposing as any in history.

In a city where no confederate monuments stand EXCEPT one on the Texas State Capitol grounds and beyond city control, a wall stands between black and white, a wall that could be torn down overnight.

Are there conservative cities which are worse? Of course. Is there a difference between those cities and places like Austin and Charlotte? Absolutely. Is their ANY justification for a liberal to deny that such a wall exists OR that it is harmful (and even deadly) for people of color? Is there ANY justification for a liberal to accuse a person of color of being a Trump supporter for saying this is unacceptable? Is there ANY justification for NOT STARTING TODAY to work on racism within our party?

Again, in my humble opinion,

F' no.