Where are the real racist parts of Texas?? (Houston, Dallas: live, versus)

[chica_bella813]

I love Dallas and CAN'T wait to move there. Florida is the pits!!!!

[brubaker]

Originally Posted by babygurlllll2

I heard that it is not just a black white thing but the latinos in texas are very racist against black people especially in San Antonio. That came from my friend who resided in SanAntonio for years until she could not take it anymore. What is the deal that it seems that many other cultures have very negative opinions about black culture/race?

Yeah I was amazed by that too. I guess I'd just had it drummed into my head that whites had a monopoly on racism but had my eyes open when, as a kid, I was in JobCorp with these guys from Mexico that were saying sh** that I would never dream of uttering aloud even if, in my darkest & most racist mood, I had stooped to think it.

Also, they have some quasi-racist ads down there that would never fly here in America.

Check it out:

Thats the 'cleaned up' American PC version
Here's what they looked like 5 years ago:
http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/brands/0014/6525/brand.gif (broken link)
http://guanabee.com/2009/10/negrito-bimbo/
By the way they taste like second rate twinkies.

[hoffdano]

Originally Posted by babygurlllll2

I heard that it is not just a black white thing but the latinos in texas are very racist against black people especially in San Antonio. That came from my friend who resided in SanAntonio for years until she could not take it anymore. What is the deal that it seems that many other cultures have very negative opinions about black culture/race?

I think this is absurd and your friend is generalizing perhaps an isolated incident he/she witnessed.

Race relations in San Antonio are all things considered - healthy.

[texasdiver]

As a northerner who's lived in Central Texas for the past 7 years I'd say that the most racist parts of Texas are the rural areas where slavery was prevalent in the pre-Civil War days. That is mostly east Texas (east of (I-35). After the civil war in the rural slaveholding parts of Texas you generally had separate segregated black and white neighborhoods emerge as former slaves came off the plantations and settled in the nearby towns. These are the sorts of places (like in the rest of the deep south) were the most deep-seated racist institutions and practices emerged during the Jim Crow era and to some extent continue today. On the surface everyone is very polite in these small towns, but the racial divide is deep and wide. And if you are black and "don't know your place" the racism can come down hard and vicious.

The big cities are completely different. Everyone is too new and too busy making money to bother with much overt racism. Not saying there's not racist attitudes in places like Dallas and Houston. Obviously there are. But generally speaking they are modern places with large black middle and upper classes.

The west texas plains and panhandle really never had as much slavery to as the land wasn't conducive to plantation agriculture. So while the good old boys out there might be plenty racist, there don't tend to be the historic separate black and white communities in each town to generate the sort of racist institutions and traditions that one finds in east Texas.

[wanderer74]

The racism is mainly in East Texas, like others have said, and in the smaller and more rural towns. However there is still a very deeply buried and hidden racism under the surface even in the cities, but the same is true in many other parts of the country. I lived in the Dallas area for 8 years and honestly the racism is far less than I see every day in Michigan (where I grew up and currently live, though I'm looking to get out again). Have you spent much time in Dallas? Before I moved there, I was really expecting it to be redneckville - I'm wondering if you feel similarly since you mentioned moonshine - but really, my experience in Dallas/Fort Worth was the complete opposite of what I was expecting. It's a big city and the "deep south" image of the racist hillbilly is pretty much non-existent. You really have to travel far outside of the city to find anything resembling that, and statistically racism is more common in rural areas in any part of the country.

[blkgiraffe]

Racism is not confined to East Texas. You have quite a few racist areas spread out around the Central Texas area.

You should watch "American Violet". Very realistic and good representation of the racism within Texas. It's based off a true story that took place in Hearne, TX.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78SyNyyH_Qc

[Metro Matt]

Jasper or any other one stop light town.

[chica_bella813]

Originally Posted by texasdiver

As a northerner who's lived in Central Texas for the past 7 years I'd say that the most racist parts of Texas are the rural areas where slavery was prevalent in the pre-Civil War days. That is mostly east Texas (east of (I-35). After the civil war in the rural slaveholding parts of Texas you generally had separate segregated black and white neighborhoods emerge as former slaves came off the plantations and settled in the nearby towns. These are the sorts of places (like in the rest of the deep south) were the most deep-seated racist institutions and practices emerged during the Jim Crow era and to some extent continue today. On the surface everyone is very polite in these small towns, but the racial divide is deep and wide. And if you are black and "don't know your place" the racism can come down hard and vicious.

The big cities are completely different. Everyone is too new and too busy making money to bother with much overt racism. Not saying there's not racist attitudes in places like Dallas and Houston. Obviously there are. But generally speaking they are modern places with large black middle and upper classes.

The west texas plains and panhandle really never had as much slavery to as the land wasn't conducive to plantation agriculture. So while the good old boys out there might be plenty racist, there don't tend to be the historic separate black and white communities in each town to generate the sort of racist institutions and traditions that one finds in east Texas.

Very Well Said...Thank you for the input...

[chica_bella813]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

Jasper or any other one stop light town.

Very funny but probably true....

[chica_bella813]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

Racism is not confined to East Texas. You have quite a few racist areas spread out around the Central Texas area.

You should watch "American Violet". Very realistic and good representation of the racism within Texas. It's based off a true story that took place in Hearne, TX.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78SyNyyH_Qc

Wow..Saw that clip you posted..Very interesting yet sad...Too bad that movie didn't get enough funding for advertisement. I must rent that...