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Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by HurricaneDC
b bb b but i thought Texas was full of racist cowboys who hate Mexicans and blacks!!
No. Look into our Governor's immigration policy. He's cool with immigrants coming from Mexico to make a living here. He encourages it.
The cities here are nearly 25% Black, there's no hatred for them. Some of the Houston posters on CD are African American, if they felt hated in Texas, they wouldn't be so proud of it.
Just saying... these stereotypes and whatnot are getting a bit old. Do people in Boston still do their hair like this and dress like this;
Now now, what would this world be like if all stereotypes were still true?
I'll be sure to be thinking of these posts the next time an African American man is chained to the back of a truck, a gay person is tortured, strapped to a fence....oh wait, those happened in Texas and Wyoming....how the hell did those states end up in the top 5? These events weren't generations ago, they were last decade, if I recall. These are the same states that teach that creationism is fact and Darwin was some heathen infidel...
I was just pointing out that what was pointed out and accepted here seems to go against conventional wisdom. The mark of a decent education is to question. The OP didn't even list a source. But you conservative hacks, who hate the liberal northeast anyway [so you need no excuse], were just looking for a reason to attack someone who question these findings, also seeing has how the OP his doing the math himself, rather than just quoting a source. How do you know he's right?
Seeing has how I actually live here [and you don't], the only crime that is committed it usually minority on minorty, inner city stuff. Gay bashing, race bating, sexual assaults are of such rarity up here. Seriously. I know this must come as a shock, but yeah, we actually have laws against hate crimes. I believe it took the James Byrd event in Texas for them to pass a Hate Crimes law.
I've never seen a white on black crime, or a hetero on gay crime. I've lived in MA for 24 years. Even my parents remind me/brothers how thankful we ought to be for living in a tolerant region, as compared to the rest of the nation.
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by lmkcin
I'll be sure to be thinking of these posts the next time an African American man is chained to the back of a truck, a gay person is tortured, strapped to a fence....oh wait, those happened in Texas and Wyoming....how the hell did those states end up in the top 5? These events were generations ago, they were last decade, if I recall. These are the same states that teach that creationism is fact and Darwin was some heathen infidel...
LOL well, have fun thinking that. I guess you've learned quite a lot of great things in the school system of Massachusetts. We'll enjoy gaining more people of all races in our oh so "dangerous" state. I'm South Asian, looks like I have to watch out for some hillbilly stealing my homework and calculator next time I go to class.
Southern hacks? Not living in the Northeast? Haha, I prefer the Midwest anyways. Chicago > Boston, IMHO.
No, what you were trying to do was quite evident, be ready to have people to call you out on whats wrong and whats right, apparently people in Massachusetts's lack proper etiquette.
Anyways, like I said, enjoy your life. Hating and being bitter is a apart of it? Then cool, you're such a big boy, all grown up sitting behind the protection of a computer screen and shouting out your hate for people. Nice, nice.
Oh and nice job editing your post after you read my response, haha trying to play victim?
A black man held by a white man, about to what appears to be stabbed with the American flag by another white man in Boston. That city has been known to be racist even with it's super liberalism.
I'll be sure to be thinking of these posts the next time an African American man is chained to the back of a truck, a gay person is tortured, strapped to a fence....oh wait, those happened in Texas and Wyoming....how the hell did those states end up in the top 5? These events weren't generations ago, they were last decade, if I recall. These are the same states that teach that creationism is fact and Darwin was some heathen infidel...
I was just pointing out that what was pointed out and accepted here seems to go against conventional wisdom. The mark of a decent education is to question. The OP didn't even list a source. But you conservative hacks, who hate the liberal northeast anyway [so you need no excuse], were just looking for a reason to attack someone who question these findings, also seeing has how the OP his doing the math himself, rather than just quoting a source. How do you know he's right?
Seeing has how I actually live here [and you don't], the only crime that is committed it usually minority on minorty, inner city stuff. Gay bashing, race bating, sexual assaults are of such rarity up here. Seriously. I know this must come as a shock, but yeah, we actually have laws against hate crimes. I believe it took the James Byrd event in Texas for them to pass a Hate Crimes law.
I've never seen a white on black crime, or a hetero on gay crime. I've lived in MA for 24 years. Even my parents remind me/brothers how thankful we ought to be for living in a tolerant region, as compared to the rest of the nation.
Conservative hacks? Really?
This so-called conservative hack happens to be a gay liberal who voted for Obama.
How pathetic and typical of you to label anyone who dare question your views of New England as some utopian paradise to resort to name calling and insults. Get over yourself.
I was born and raised in New Jersey, I have Florida in my location because I spend time there just as I spend time in New York and New Jersey. People in New England are pretty racist actually, if your not white you must not have an education. You can go stick it with that Harvard mentality.
From my personal experience living in Connecticut, I do have to say I thought it was far more segregated & racially heated than living in Houston. It was a surprising wake-up call actually. Perhaps other people felt differently.
The rural areas of Texas might be different, but honestly, most Texans have some sort of Mexican in them.
Look, racism goes on everywhere it's not just a regional thing. As I said I am from the NY/NJ area and remember hearing about Italian guys beating the crap out of black kids who were walking through the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York. Stuff like that happens everywhere, but I posted those pics to just prove that Boston isn't so "open" as people think it is.
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