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Well my family moved out of NY when I was 15 to CT, and I have to say that when we moved it was def a culture shock. Everyday, I was reminded of the fact that I was african american and my skin completion and hair texture was always topic of discussion because I wasn't super dark and happened to have longer hair. I always got the "you must not be 100% black because your skin isn't as dark and your hair isn't as tough". For years I always told people that I felt like the reason why dating was increasingly difficult for me was due the fact that I was black and lived in CT. People always looked at me like I was crazy and even told me that it wasn't true. Now at 29, I live in the DMV for less than 2 years and I've been on more dates here in less than 2 years than the 12 years I lived in CT. I always felt out of place in CT and couldn't wait to leave, although I was lucky enough to meet a few nice people while living in CT. I also went to college in Mass. and I remember another student who was also from CT, saying to a friend of mine who happened to be white "how can you be friends with her? she's black!"....Not everybody is racist, but the atmosphere is very different from DMV and even when I visited NC...just saying.
From my experience, having lived in both the South and the North, racism exists in both regions but in different forms.
In the South, people are accepting of racial minorities as individuals (i.e. the nice "colored" cleaning lady or the state athletic champ) but not large groups (the NAACP, Urban League, etc.)
In the North, people are accepting of racial minorities as groups (i.e. "The African American Vote" or The Harlem Boy's Choir) but not individuals (the minority couple that wants to buy a house on our block!)
The study did not measure racial hostility. It asked people (not only whites) to rank various population groups for intelligence, industriousness and trustworthiness on a scale of 1 to 100. One item gleaned from that data was that non-blacks rate blacks lower than their own groups on these criteria by an average of 15 points. And people in states with large black populations (Southern states) tend to rate them lower by larger margins.
The most racist people I have ever encountered were in Boston and LA.
Are you black? Didn't think so.
I'm from New York. I've lived on the East Coast and do extensive national travel for work. The South takes the cake for being most racist in this country. It's not even close.
I had always lived in the south, Its always been a black white thing, they tolerated each other but wasn't exactly friendly. Then i moved to detriot, the south had nothing on detriot, they hated everybody, itialian american, jewish american, chinatown, it wasn't just black white, it was everybody against everybody
so yes the north that i saw was 300% more racist than the south
I had always lived in the south, Its always been a black white thing, they tolerated each other but wasn't exactly friendly. Then i moved to detriot, the south had nothing on detriot, they hated everybody, itialian american, jewish american, chinatown, it wasn't just black white, it was everybody against everybody
so yes the north that i saw was 300% more racist than the south
....you clearly do not understand the meaning of racism, even based on your own experience.
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