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This sort of thing took place in many cities. In 1960 my parents were selling their home in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. The street and the immediate neighborhood around us was white. The neighbors found out that a black family was interested in buying the house and they pleaded with my father not to sell. He had already purchased a new home and needed to sell as quickly as he could. I was told later that there was even talk in the neighborhood about people chipping in and buying the house as a group just to keep the black family out. They breathed a massive sigh of relief when a white buyer came along with a higher bid and got the house.
Prejudices could be other than white vs black or "all American" vs immigrants. Several years earlier my parents had another home for sale, in a Jewish neighborhood. When our next door neighbors heard the surname of the buyers they were very upset. It seems that by their surname, the buyers were the wrong sort of Jewish family.
Peoples' preset ideas and prejudices change slowly, but they do change.
They change on the surface. How much they change below that, is an open question. I think race relations in the US are worse than twenty years ago.
Race relations certainly hit some nadirs in the Sixties, but for overall foaming-at-the-mouth racism the past few years are as bad as the desegregation years of the Fifties. Perhaps the fact thta Obama is both black African and has Muslim heritage has caused what seems like a lot of Americans to slide full-tilt into fascist nightmares.
Baltimore is still a very racist city and if anything promotes fascist ideas, this incident on a bus promotes it more than anything Obama can come up with. The fact that this was not treated as a hate crime makes many whites wonder what becoming a minority in the new america is going to be like.
Woman beaten on bus - Examiner.com (http://www.examiner.com/a-1089067~Students_beat_woman_on_city_bus__police_sa y.html - broken link)
Baltimore is still a very racist city and if anything promotes fascist ideas, this incident on a bus promotes it more than anything Obama can come up with. The fact that this was not treated as a hate crime makes many whites wonder what becoming a minority in the new america is going to be like.
Woman beaten on bus - Examiner.com (http://www.examiner.com/a-1089067~Students_beat_woman_on_city_bus__police_sa y.html - broken link)
Poor, wretched woman, her face looks like Emmet Till's did.
America splintered into segments from the eighties on rather than being a unified community. Changes in economics and communication (such as the internet) drove this. There is no longer one America any longer, even as an ideal, there are many. Its why racism has grown.
America splintered into segments from the eighties on rather than being a unified community. Changes in economics and communication (such as the internet) drove this. There is no longer one America any longer, even as an ideal, there are many. Its why racism has grown.
Although "the new racism" is more linked to economics and classism than "the old racism". It's rising now due to economic crisis.
I think its been rising for decades. Its just becoming obvious now, as is common with such phenomena. It grows slowly out of sight and then blows up in a major recession. In 1929 Adolph Hitler was an all but forgotten street thug. Four years later he was Chancelor of Germany.
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