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I've been down south with minorities traveling with us. I never noticed any racism. But I'm sure many people "find" racism down south because they think everything is racist. As for the hanging man. We don't even know if someone else killed him. And if someone did kill him, it was not necessarily as race issue. More divisive race-baiting from the media.
Not long ago, research for a work project netted the info that Mississippi has the second highest rate of KKK per capita of U.S. states... the state with the highest rate: Iowa.
Thus, one of my personal taglines: "I'd be better off in Mississippi."
Kind of interesting, that factoid. But I've never met KKK members, never seen one, and don't know anyone who has.
They probably exist, though.
Every black person hanging from a tree results in an indictment of Mississippi, though. We're used to it. If there were more trees in Chicago and Detroit maybe things would be different.
That's from the LA Times, but it's too late. We, The People of Mississippi, have already been tried and convicted. Again.
Of course, there will be outrage. And demands for a new autopsy. And accusations of a cover up. And Jesse Jackson will ask for "badly needed funds" to recover the costs of a march. Again.
Racism is still very much alive particularly in the South, as whites there tend to be provincial and uncivilized. I know someone who lives in north central Florida who said that there are places in the small towns there where minorities simply don't go.
I'm going to go ahead and assume that you don't live in the South. (Obviously not if you don't know that Huntsville is home to NASA and some of the largest research facilities in the country). I have lived in the South my entire life. The first 20 years were in the Deep South. My hometown in Monroeville, AL... famous for "To Kill a Mockingbird". You might assume it's a town still deeply rooted in it's racist past, but you'd be more wrong than you can imagine.
When I graduated high school, there were 3 whites in the class, myself being one of them. We all get along extremely well back home and even where I live now. We were taught to respect human beings for their contribution to society, not the color of their skin.
So what you are essentially doing is perpetuating the racism by making comments like you made above based off hearsay from a "friend", not from your personal experience. There are no towns from Panama City, FL to Huntsville, AL that minorities cannot go. Could you find a racist person in all of these towns? Absolutely, on both sides of the color spectrum and everywhere in between. But that is the minority of the population, not the majority.
That's from the LA Times, but it's too late. We, The People of Mississippi, have already been tried and convicted. Again.
Of course, there will be outrage. And demands for a new autopsy. And accusations of a cover up. And Jesse Jackson will ask for "badly needed funds" to recover the costs of a march. Again.
too late. the screams of 'racism!!!' are already reverberating through the echo chamber of imbeciles.
I didn't understand your post either. What are you getting at, exactly? Black people commit crimes?
He's saying that when someone starts a thread that seems to lean towards a Black person at fault that they don't wait for all the facts to come out before jumping to their own conclusion. Yet these same people appear magically to want to hold a thread that might vilify a White person to a much higher standard. Like this one.
That's from the LA Times, but it's too late. We, The People of Mississippi, have already been tried and convicted. Again.
Of course, there will be outrage. And demands for a new autopsy. And accusations of a cover up. And Jesse Jackson will ask for "badly needed funds" to recover the costs of a march. Again.
Just like Trayvon and Mike Brown, the racists jump to the wrong conclusion again. Just once it would be nice to see these folks wait for the facts to come out.
Just like Trayvon and Mike Brown, the race baiters jump to the wrong conclusion again. Just once it would be nice to see these folks wait for the facts to come out.
Waiting for the race baiters to eat some crow.
Gonna be a long wait.
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