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Old 01-24-2018, 06:42 PM
 
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Nonsense. I grew up near Cape Girardeau & it doesn't seem any more or less racist than anywhere else. And the article you refer to is talking about the 1920's for crying out loud. Virtually every part of the country was racist in the 1920's.
True, but Missouri of course was quite a bit more segregated, racist back then than a state like NY or PA for example. MO is a border state, was a slave state. Totally different culturally than others states like that.

Missouri couldn't even pass a state level civil rights act until after Kentucky passed theirs.

Heck, in 1976 when the referendum was on the ballot in Missouri to take out the educational institution segregation in the MO constitution, 43 percent of voters voted to keep the segregation in the state constitution.

You just don't see that stuff in places like the northeast or Midwest except for Indiana had it to an extent and so did Kansas but their were not as strict as the Missouri constitution was. Remember, that wording in the MO constitution was put in by southern democrats and former Missouri Confederates when they got back into power after state level reconstruction in 1876.

Ironic those democrats are the ones who helped ban concealed carry in Missouri by putting it into the constitution and making stricter laws against it. In 2014 that wording was taken out by voters and Missouri now has some of the strongest state level protection of the right to bear arms in the country now.
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Old 01-29-2018, 07:42 AM
 
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Why not a warning for white people that some areas of KC and St Louis are not safe for them? Having lived and worked in both cities, there are those areas.
As far as open carry, our local sheriff, in s central Mo, says that anyone who can legally carry, should be carrying.
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Old 01-29-2018, 09:06 AM
 
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I am not American and definitely do not feel very comfortable in the more rural areas of Missouri, having had some not super pleasant experiences (akin to profiling, weird comments about stealing jobs, etc). I am white European so I can imagine how much worse things get if you are non white. I stick to the City and parts of the County which are fine.
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Old 02-01-2018, 08:36 AM
 
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Why not a warning for white people that some areas of KC and St Louis are not safe for them? Having lived and worked in both cities, there are those areas.
As far as open carry, our local sheriff, in s central Mo, says that anyone who can legally carry, should be carrying.
Whites being unsafe/profiled against doesn’t make the media, it’s a one way road unfortunately.

I currently live in the Bay Area, and certainly parts of Oakland are this way as well
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Old 02-03-2018, 09:25 PM
 
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Grow up. Your small_town world is nothing you are making it out to be. Missouri outside of the major cities it seriously segregated. Ask the city of Ferguson.
Ferguson is part of the St. Louis metro, so I'm not sure what it has to do with anything. Try again & get a life.
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Old 02-04-2018, 10:43 AM
 
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Ferguson is part of the St. Louis metro, so I'm not sure what it has to do with anything. Try again & get a life.
True. Basically it's a part of St. Louis city. Not too far away and has the same problems the city has. It's a small town because of the municipal size, not location. It's not like it's a town in the middle of nowhere like Hayti.
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Old 02-04-2018, 10:53 PM
 
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If you had things your way, blacks would live obscurely and in subjection to whites. Just admit that you are a conservative and a racist.
Please, do yourself a favor and stop while you can.

You sound like a crazy left extreme from Berkeley who throws out the word racist every chance they get, just stop

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Old 02-04-2018, 10:56 PM
 
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Ahem, and you wonder why minorities tend to despise and distrust whites? It's a one way road because there are more places that are against certain ethnic groups, usually blacks than whites. Do your research. Ask around. Visit places. A few rough neck places where whites feel unsafe have nothing on the places that are restricted for blacks and Hispanics. You sound like a white nationalist with an agenda to downplay racialized discrimination
I don’t disagree that there are definitely more places where blacks/minorities have a disadvantage, tougher, etc... And that sucks for them, as it shouldn’t be this way

I do however think the media doesn’t cover all stories equally, and that certain cases get more attention than others, when in fact, ALL humans of ALL colors, races, etc...should be treated on the same level. I don’t like what America is, and I don’t see it getting better either
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Old 02-05-2018, 10:57 AM
 
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Grow up. Your small_town world is nothing you are making it out to be. Missouri outside of the major cities it seriously segregated. Ask the city of Ferguson.
I live in a small city in south central Mo. No segregation here.
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Old 02-07-2018, 09:11 PM
 
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Telling me to get a life doesn't make this post or some of the comments any less racist.
I don't get your point at all. I don't feel that any of my comments have been racist, nor have I defended racist comments and/or racists. I simply offered an opinion that you disagree with.

You telling me to grow up doesn't negate my opinion.
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