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Riiigghhtttt, there's no racism in the north. <sarcasm>
No one said there wasn't racism in the North. I even admit this. However, the South was doing the Jim Crow laws, and even using violence to enforce Jim Crow. This was i addition to stubbornly holding on to the institution of slavery. Alot of Blacks were leaving the South between 1910-1970. One can say jobs were a big part, and it was. However, during that time, why were more Blacks moving to New York, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, and Philadelphia than to Atlanta, Birmingham, or even Memphis?
It was primarily in the South where Jim Crow was the law of the land. One reason my grandparents left the South. One reason alot of Blacks started leaving the South.
No doubt. As I said, anyone that thinks otherwise is just lying to themselves or uneducated on the historical facts of the situation.
No doubt. As I said, anyone that thinks otherwise is just lying to themselves or uneducated on the historical facts of the situation.
I think many are lying to themselves. There is a very bad history in the South. In some cases, many people don't want to admit it. Some cases, some people are proud of it .
No one said there wasn't racism in the North. I even admit this. However, the South was doing the Jim Crow laws, and even using violence to enforce Jim Crow. This was i addition to stubbornly holding on to the institution of slavery. Alot of Blacks were leaving the South between 1910-1970. One can say jobs were a big part, and it was. However, during that time, why were more Blacks moving to New York, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, and Philadelphia than to Atlanta, Birmingham, or even Memphis?
But you still vote for those who brought Jim Crow about. The Democrats, so go figure.
But you still vote for those who brought Jim Crow about. The Democrats, so go figure.
1) What does this have to do with anything I said?
2) Why do you care who I vote for?
3) Why has the South suddenly become Republican when it voted Democrat during Jim Crow days?
4) What makes you so sure that I only vote for Democrats?
5) That low blow comment shows me that you display an inability to confront the subject matter and that you are handling what I said in an irrational manner.
And you don't know what the southern strategy was. Go figure.
Bringing up "voting" was merely a way to deflect from what I was saying. When one doesn't want to discuss what was said, one tries to deflect with an arbitrary subject. Basically, it's a way of dodging a topic.
This thread is about the Confederate flag in Mississippi and how a group of students decided they didn't want it representing their school any more. The Confederate flag is still revered by many in the South, but obviously not this younger generation. Which has exactly what to do with the North immediately following the Civil War?
You're ignorant comment about the South being racist is just that.
The sad part is you're doing the same thing you claim people from the South are doing, grouping people into a category and saying disparaging things about them. That's what bigots do.
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Oh that's right, absolutely nothing.
It proves you're being hypocritical, yet again and also a bigot.
Go ahead make some more demeaning comments about people in the South and you'll get more of the same truths from me.
Last I checked, people weren't being lynched, bombed, and burned for being black up in the North.
That's on you for being ignorant. New York draft riots with over 100 dead. "We aren't fighting for blacks" The demographics of the city changed as a result of the riot. So many blacks left Manhattan permanently (many moving to Brooklyn), that by 1865 their population fell below 10,000, the number in 1820.
I guess you never watched the Gangs of New York.
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