Where are the real racist parts of Texas?? (Houston, Beaumont: condo, crime)
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^^^In LA, the Korean community seems to have a very real dislike for African-Americans. Probably because Koreatown and alot of Korean owned businesses were destroyed during the Rodney King Riots.
^^^In LA, the Korean community seems to have a very real dislike for African-Americans. Probably because Koreatown and alot of Korean owned businesses were destroyed during the Rodney King Riots.
The Korean-Black relations out there were shot to hell long before that.
I know that there were still a lot of people sore about the murder of Latasha Harlins that happened back in 1991.
There was also an underlying resentment about the Koreans coming into "their" neighborhood and taking "their" money. Add that to the divide-and-conquer and the "woe-is-me" victim mentality a lot of us black folks (especially from the hood) have and you have a recipe for disaster.
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Vidor and Jasper are both in East Texas. That tells you a lot about that side of the state right there. It's really naive to think that mentalities just automatically died out when Jim Crow was abolished. Lots of outspoken and closeted white nationalist types out there. I've also dealt with quite a few when I was living in the Dallas suburbs.
When my father was younger, he went to college in Louisiana and drove down to Houston with some friends of his. Their car broke down in Vidor of all places. It was almost 8 pm at night. A cop rolled by and told them they better push that car over the river (to Beaumont) before he turned around and came back if they knew what was good for them. They hauled you-know-what and got out of there. I know many black folks that refuse to stop in Vidor for ANYTHING to this day.
Quite a few Hispanics can be quite racist towards blacks as well. I tend to see it more with the more recently arrived illegal immigrants who come from countries that aren't exposed or as enlightened about black people. Some have this attitude that they do the work that us supposedly dumb, lazy blacks won't do. I know enough Spanish to get me by, and some of the things they say about blacks would make a Grand Wizard blush.
Look at the race war against black people going on out in LA. It wouldn't surprise me if something like that were to occur in Texas soon due to the overwhelming growth that Latinos have bought to the state.
Most Mexican's don't seem to be crazy about white folks either.
When I lived in Dallas, I met a few militant blacks who had some pretty awful things to say about everyone under the sun who wasn't black. I can't say that was the majority of the black population there, but they're out there.
^^^In LA, the Korean community seems to have a very real dislike for African-Americans. Probably because Koreatown and alot of Korean owned businesses were destroyed during the Rodney King Riots.
I also hear there is/was lots of tension between Asians & Hispanics out there, especially in Long Beach between the Khmer & Mexican gangs. Cali. isn't as "integrated" as most people make it out to be. In fact, its easily one of the most segregated states in the whole country if the truth were really known.
No surprise there. There are forces bigger than you or I that want to keep the population under control and compliant. I refuse to be a puppet of propaganda...
I've never understood the reasoning behind racism. So you're going to hate someone and judge them based upon how they look? As if they had any choice in what color they were born. Racism and prejudice is pure ignorance and is most common amongst low class losers.
No surprise there. There are forces bigger than you or I that want to keep the population under control and compliant. I refuse to be a puppet of propaganda...
no, just a forum troll. i have yet to read a post of yours that isn't filled with negativity and ignorance
and with every word you type, the validity of your statements is falling to pieces
My father was African American, my mother is Mexican American (though she prefers to be called a Latina--her choice), I call myself a Blaxicana . . . because I can. When I was a little girl my father would take my mother to visit my Great Grandmother on my mother's side (the Latina), if my mother's father (a Mexican American born in Sweetwater, Texas) learned that my father was near his mother's house he would rail for her to "Get that n***er away from my mother!" The man had absolutely no love for black people. He said horrific things about me and some of my other cousins with mixed-race backgrounds. Strangely, he loved to date white women.
I've had Asian friends who've told me that their parents would FREAK if they ever dated a black person.
When I lived in Oakland the Pakistani store clerk at the local store I shopped at around Lake Merritt would say TERRIBLE things about the African Americans who frequented his store. He would do this in front of me because I guess I don't look black to him.
Even so, I must say that there was not as much self-segregation in Oakland (not in the hills, but near the Lake or in East Oakland, where I lived) as I tend to find in parts of Austin. I attended a museum opening at The Oakland Museum of California and saw ALL types of people there dancing to music, sipping on beer and champagne, and really mingling.
As to the OP: I have never been to East Texas so I can't affirm any of what I've read in these posts. I recall that year when James Byrd was killed in Jasper and could only think to myself, "That could have just as easily been my father." It disturbed me. It really did.
When I was a little girl in West Texas, specifically Abilene, there were people there who said things to me which I would NEVER have permitted someone to say to my child. I'm not very dark, but I was called a n***er baby by a white woman in a supermarket and told I had too much "n***ger" in me by cousin's first husband. He was Mexican American. Also, my father was actually beaten up by the cops in Abilene. But believe it or not I don't use it as an excuse to hate law enforcement, it just makes me hope for a time when stupid sh*t like racially-motivated police brutality is a thing of the past.
My father was African American, my mother is Mexican American (though she prefers to be called a Latina--her choice), I call myself a Blaxicana . . . because I can. When I was a little girl my father would take my mother to visit my Great Grandmother on my mother's side (the Latina), if my mother's father (a Mexican American born in Sweetwater, Texas) learned that my father was near his mother's house he would rail for her to "Get that n***er away from my mother!" The man had absolutely no love for black people. He said horrific things about me and some of my other cousins with mixed-race backgrounds. Strangely, he loved to date white women.
I've had Asian friends who've told me that their parents would FREAK if they ever dated a black person.
When I lived in Oakland the Pakistani store clerk at the local store I shopped at around Lake Merritt would say TERRIBLE things about the African Americans who frequented his store. He would do this in front of me because I guess I don't look black to him.
Even so, I must say that there was not as much self-segregation in Oakland (not in the hills, but near the Lake or in East Oakland, where I lived) as I tend to find in parts of Austin. I attended a museum opening at The Oakland Museum of California and saw ALL types of people there dancing to music, sipping on beer and champagne, and really mingling.
As to the OP: I have never been to East Texas so I can't affirm any of what I've read in these posts. I recall that year when James Byrd was killed in Jasper and could only think to myself, "That could have just as easily been my father." It disturbed me. It really did.
When I was a little girl in West Texas, specifically Abilene, there were people there who said things to me which I would NEVER have permitted someone to say to my child. I'm not very dark, but I was called a n***er baby by a white woman in a supermarket and told I had too much "n***ger" in me by cousin's first husband. He was Mexican American. Also, my father was actually beaten up by the cops in Abilene. But believe it or not I don't use it as an excuse to hate law enforcement, it just makes me hope for a time when stupid sh*t like racially-motivated police brutality is a thing of the past.
oh it's not so much the post as the poster that i have trouble believing
No surprise there. There are forces bigger than you or I that want to keep the population under control and compliant. I refuse to be a puppet of propaganda...
Very well said sista!!!
Let's ALL get together and pray for Al Green this Sunday--evidently he feels that he sets the barometer for life and race relations.....so sad
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There are forces bigger than you or I that want to keep the population under control and compliant. I refuse to be a puppet of propaganda...
-evidently he feels that he sets the barometer for life and race relations.....so sad
