Life in Charleston, SC. How bad is the racism in Charleston, SC? How do people react to Interracial dating there? (North: university, income)

[Casher O'Neill]

As long as you are comfortable in your relationship and with each other you shouldn't worry about some ignoramus says.

[Casher O'Neill]

Originally Posted by Eugene Paul

It has been my personal experience that the degree of animosity displayed by alert white citizens toward many members of the black citizenry has everything to do with antisocial criminal behavior on the part of the latter -- most particularly on the part of young black males. There are three dead white women in my liberal neighborhood in Oakland, California who were stabbed to death by black men. Two of the women were found by their husbands.

In the third murder, which happened in a house I can see outside my front window, the husband came home from work to find his pediatrician wife dead with her throat cut. The lady next door, also a pediatrician, told my wife she was sure the husband did it. But the suspect husband had a friend in the FBI who told him to watch for signs that someone was using his wife's credit cards. Someone was, and it turned out to be the man who was installing carpets in the murdered woman's house.

I, for one, notice little things like this, and anyone who is blind to them has been seriously diseducated.

Well, I am a middle-aged, Ivy-League educated 53 year old woman -- and I engage in "antisocial criminal behavior?" Really?

[eskercurve]

This thread has been an interesting read.

I'm white, and am married to an asian woman. We plan on having children. We would very much like to live in an area where we will feel accepted.

Here, in Seattle, the city and the burbs are very much more accepting than the areas in Chicago I lived in. I mean, seriously ACCEPT people for who they are and not their color. If you haven't been here, you don't understand what it's about... even my family back home was uncomfortable me marrying a non-white woman and THEY'RE pretty tolerant for Chicagoans. Hell and high water would have had to be paid if I married a black woman, but I digress.

Given though that Boeing is hellbent on leaving this gem of a corner of the nation, mainly because of the idiotic IAM, I think maybe within about 10 years we'll see more and more jobs leave Seattle and more to right to work states like SC, and I'll be confronted with a choice.

After reading what people think passes for tolerance and acceptance ...literally being color blind (or what they think passes for it) ... I'm starting to feel that my wife and I won't be welcome. Any comments?

[southbel]

Originally Posted by eskercurve

This thread has been an interesting read.

I'm white, and am married to an asian woman. We plan on having children. We would very much like to live in an area where we will feel accepted.

Here, in Seattle, the city and the burbs are very much more accepting than the areas in Chicago I lived in. I mean, seriously ACCEPT people for who they are and not their color. If you haven't been here, you don't understand what it's about... even my family back home was uncomfortable me marrying a non-white woman and THEY'RE pretty tolerant for Chicagoans. Hell and high water would have had to be paid if I married a black woman, but I digress.

Given though that Boeing is hellbent on leaving this gem of a corner of the nation, mainly because of the idiotic IAM, I think maybe within about 10 years we'll see more and more jobs leave Seattle and more to right to work states like SC, and I'll be confronted with a choice.

After reading what people think passes for tolerance and acceptance ...literally being color blind (or what they think passes for it) ... I'm starting to feel that my wife and I won't be welcome. Any comments?

Charleston has distinct areas. Mt Pleasant would suit you well and not to be a snob, but here it's more about class than race, if you know what I mean.

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally Posted by eskercurve

After reading what people think passes for tolerance and acceptance ...literally being color blind (or what they think passes for it) ... I'm starting to feel that my wife and I won't be welcome. Any comments?

Well, you just told us that your family in Chicago is a bunch of prejudiced people and yet you think they are pretty "tolerant"....

... so I don't think you'll find SC too bad at all. Heck, we have telephones and computers here and everything. You even have interracial marriage, believe it or not...

Get over the stereotypes. I think you have more of a problem with stereotyping than you realize.

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally Posted by carolinajack

exactly Led, I just lived in Philadelphia for the last 10 years and I am southern and black. Baltimore has alot of racism, as does Philadelphia and southern Jersey. It might be more subtle than in the deep south but It is still just as insidious.

Yep. I'm tired of the urbanites always trying to stereotype the South because they have their silly political agendas to support. Hypocrites! I've been all over the world. The southern United States is more laid back than most places I've been. Sure, we have prejudice here, but the people know how to act civil towards one another, even if they don't feel it.

My experience has been that Northern cities have some of the most rude and obnoxious people on the planet. And I do mean REAL rednecks.

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally Posted by Casher O'Neill

I hear you -- Like many black people, I would like to retire down South. I am sick of the cold and all the nasty people here. My family comes from South Carolina and Florida. In a way it would be returning back to my roots. People talk about how racism is bad down there, but I'll take my chances. It can't be much worse than it is here.

well, thanks for reading my rant. Best of luck to you.

Come on down Casher. It isn't cold in Charleston. You can leave your snow shovel up north!

South Carolina is a lot friendlier and more laid back than up north is. People still act civil toward one another in Charleston. You don't see a lot of the crazy crap going on down here that happens up there. I'll just be glad when all those phony liberals up there stop trying to act so sanctimonious and fake when they stereotype the South. I also hate that fake rap they lay on us about religion.

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally Posted by jbburke

Judgemental much? I've found that racism and political acceptance isn't "Northern" or "Southern". With all that being said, I can say the places I've lived MOST/MAJORITY of people are accepting of people of all races, religion, and political belief....both Southern and Northern States.

No. I'm not judgemental much. I just tell it like I see it. Northerners like to pretend like they are so superior to Southerners and act like they have no problems at all and constantly stereotype the red states on the basis of their whacked out liberal politics.

At some point people have to wake up and realize that campaign speeches are just campaign speeches.

[carolinajack]

Originally Posted by Led Zeppelin

Well, you just told us that your family in Chicago is a bunch of prejudiced people and yet you think they are pretty "tolerant"....

... so I don't think you'll find SC too bad at all. Heck, we have telephones and computers here and everything. You even have interracial marriage, believe it or not...

Get over the stereotypes. I think you have more of a problem with stereotyping than you realize.

good points led you are right. northerners think they are tolerant but still act racist but demand that southerners have to be tolerant and not racist. interesting that the guy in seattle thinks its ok for his parents to be racist. btw, seattle and portland oregon are very unfriendly and not any less racist than charleston

[Barbara]

The thing with northerners (I am one) is you always know where you stand with them, good or bad.