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If Long Island counted as a city maybe it. It's listed as about the most segregated place in America and the only people I knew from there went on about how Obama isn't really black and that his father abandoned him because "that's what black men do." Not that they necessarily represent Long Islanders, they were cops and I think cops are a bit more prejudiced on average, but rightly or wrongly I think LI has that image. Other possibilities going by segregated index: Chicago, Detroit, and Milwaukee.
Although really this is potentially inflammatory and most places have some racists.
The unfortunate and sobering reality is that racism exists everywhere. And it's not just in the U.S. and some other countries, but everywhere in the world of humanity. It's not something you can fight once and be done with either. You have to fight racism like you have to fight for freedom - constantly and vigilantly.
I was driving to work this morning listening to WGN radio out of Chicago. The radio host was talking about the libertarian party and what appears to be a veiled attempt at racism, by wanting to allow 1st amendment rights to overceed civil rights of the 1960s. For example the host of the radio program asked his audience if they thought it was OK for a white restaurant owner to deny entry to their restaurant based on the color of skin (black, Mexican) and also if the reverse should be allowed, a black owner denying entry to his restaurant based on someone being white. The entire topic seemed sort of, well, awkward and a bit silly. I thought to myself- are their really still people who think that is OK in this day and age. I expected people to call in and be outraged at such an idea. The responses from callers were jaw-dropping. Every singlecaller...10-15 callers in all...said they thought it should be up to the owner of a business whether to discriminate on the basis of race (even though it is outlawed) the idea being that it would eventually put the owner out of business. Many callers thought that the 1st amendment is far more important than peoples civil rights. Some thought that being black was somehow the same thing as being overintoxicated at a tavern.
I was stunned. The DJ host was stunned. I'm sure many listeners were stunned.
Chicago has always had a reputation for closet racism, and I have often defended Chicago on this board, but I can't defend the amount of hate I heard this morning. The host went on to say ...
"I cannot belive we have this many callers that think this would be OK, to hang a sign that says no blacks allowed in 2010..we'll be back in a moment on WGN Chicago..on what I think is still planet Earth"
Is this a common attitude in many big cities...New York, L.A. etc? Are people really living in the 50s?
Read this article. It addresses fully this libertarian "1st Amendment" idea--and what would really happen (and what actually did) when businesses engaged in discrimination:
Any large city where the majority are Republican would fit the "most closet racism\ bigotry" criteria. But right off hand, I don't know of any large cities [500,000 or more] that vote Republican.
no, Republican cities are where they will be more openly racist people because they don't care who knows it. Democratic cities will be where there are more closet racists because people are trying to be politically correct.
Ive heard that Metro Detroit is the most or at least one of the most segregated areas in the nation. Other midwest cities are also segregated like that. Chicago, Milwaulkee, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis are all very segregated. Rural Michigan and Indiana have a long history of klan activity, and militia too. There are far more tense race relations in the midwest than there are in the South or Northeast.
St. Louis seems very segregated. Whenever I'm there I hardly ever see black & white people interacting. They seem to keep their distance from each other. In Memphis, I see blacks & whites interacting all the time.
Chicago, for one. While I didn't see much racism when I visited, in retrospect I thought that whites were the vast majority (when they really aren't). I didn't see many blacks where I was.
DC seems pretty segregated. It's diverse, but not necessarily 'integrated.' Birds of the same feather and whatnot.
St. Louis seems very segregated. Whenever I'm there I hardly ever see black & white people interacting. They seem to keep their distance from each other. In Memphis, I see blacks & whites interacting all the time.
Yeah St Louis is really bad. They seem to be one interracial crime away from an all-out race riot. Black-white relations in the south might be love-hate, but at least there is a long history of interaction. Can't say the same for many of the rustbelt cities. In fact, segregation was pretty much a direct response to black migration to the north.
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