28 Common Racist Attitudes And Behaviors

[Number23]

11. It has not just been "the last few years" on DU, seabeyond.

Have you noticed the number of black posters on this board? You can damn near count us on two hands. And while the stats that show that black folks don't own computers as much as whites may pay a part in our low numbers, my $$$ is on the nearly unrelenting sea of over privileged white cluelessness that has blanketed DU for YEARS. Not just the last few years, since its inception and it hit overdrive after the election of President Obama and the Prop 8 unpleasantness. It's only been in the last 4-5 months that the admins have really started cleaning house and getting rid of some really blatant assholes. But there are still more than a few roaming around. The Zimmerman threads, ANY thread discussing Tim Wise, and the moaning and pining for FDR and The Good Old Days of middle class white joy at the expense of everybody else have proven that beyond all doubt.

If you go to the old AAIG forum on DU2, you will see black posters (many of which were some of the smartest, most interesting people on DU) fuming about the racist attitudes of lots of DUers and how hostile this board is to minorities. And many of them don't post here anymore and haven't for years even though some of them have been DUers since this place got started. One of the reasons I got so disgusted with the "if this was about racism, this would be handled sooo much differently on this board" posts is because they are not true and never have been.