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So when Democrats finally changed their ways, many of them changed registration to Republicans. And to this day explains why so few blacks are Republicans.
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Originally Posted by RowingFiend
False, but good job repeating the DNC’s lie on that. The only Dixiecrat that switched parties was Strom Thurmond.
The Southern Democrat was a unique brand within the overall party. Thurmond was a Southern Democrat in the Dixiecrat era. He ran for president on a platform of segregation. He lost.
Civil Rights, especially school integration, changed all that. Thurmond switched to Republican because of his opposition to Civil Rights legislation.
The RNC appealed to the disgruntled Southern Democrat and began flipping states.
Decades later the chair of the RNC publicly apologized to the NAACP for using race in politics.
Of course said person will blame this on "Blacks are brainwashed".
How else do you explain doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?
Not even Obama could change the racism, police departments, justice system, and gangs in this country during the 2015 Baltimore riots, but we blacks think Biden will be different.
If blacks are too tunnel visioned and Stockholm syndrome to realize help won’t come from the same government that once sanctioned slavery and never paid reparations, then we don’t deserve any change we desperately seek.
How else do you explain doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?
Not even Obama could change the racism, police departments, justice system, and gangs in this country, but we blacks think Biden will be different.
Obama, nor Biden nor any Democrats want to "change things" for Blacks in America. Keep them thinking they're victims, need government dependency and thus keep getting their votes. That's all.
Your "Community Organizers" have also sold you out as has your entertainers like Oprah, and Michelle.
Except it is the the left that has always been and still is the party of racism.
The democrats owned the slaves
Their President threw over 100,000 American in prison without due process based on ethnicity during WW2.
The right wing wasn't the klan, the democrats were.
Democrats voted for all 4 Civil Rights Act in a lower percentage than republicans
Every single Jim Crow law was passed by a democratic legislature. The republicans didn't gain control of the Southern Congress until the early 1990s.
George Wallace the known bigot, would have won the democratic nomination for President in 1972 except he was shot. He lost the popular vote by less than 3 percentage points and he didn't campaign in California or the last 1/3 of the primary.
Sen Byrd was probably in Congress longer than almost anyone and he recruited an entire klan chapter.
All the major hate groups got their start with democrats. The Klan, La Raza, and the Nation of Islam.
I look at it like this. I'm part of the Black population. I know I'm going to face prejudice. At the same time, I have to live my life. What has worked for other people hasn't always worked for me. What has worked for me hasn't worked for others. It took me a long time to figure out where I could fit in living in Georgia.
Well, some of the people I met from Minnesota and Wisconsin were nice (I went to college in the suburbs of Atlanta, alot of out of staters moved there). I can't recall a Minnesotan or Wisconsinite I didn't get along with (my father is from Wisconsin).
Floyd had a criminal record, but was able to turn his life around. And that he managed to find a niche for himself in Minneapolis says that he was able to make it there.
I know about the Somali community in the TC area. From what I've heard, there are tensions between Black Americans and Somalis.
You mentioned that Black Americans would have problems fitting with the Germanic culture in the Midwest. I started thinking about how I would fit into all of this. A big part of me has wanted to return to the west coast for years (I spent part of my childhood in the Pacific Northwest). I also have a few relatives in the Midwest (Illinois and Minnesota).
Yes he did.
From what I understand he liked very much living in Minnesota and he was liked by many.
That cop pushed a very wrong button killing him.
Omaha has been having issues for ages. Omaha was one of those cities where Blacks rioted occurred during the 1960s. And in 1919, thousands of Whites rioted against Black neighborhoods in North Omaha.
Gang violence has been an issue in North Omaha for a while. I know that Chicago gangs established themselves in Milwaukee and Minneapolis. Omaha, I could see the Chicago influence. However, the California influence is more surprising to me. I associate that more with St. Louis. St. Louis was always a rough city before the "banging on colors" took place.
From what I've heard, the crack era is when North Omaha really started to take a turn for the worst. Other things hurt North Omaha, such as building the North Omaha Freeway. It split the neighborhood, alot of housing was lost, and crime went up.
I didn't know how segregated Omaha's Black population was until I found this out. Omaha has about 65,000 Blacks (out of a population of 478,000 residents). Close to 38,000 Blacks live in Near North Side (which itself is 65% Black).
Tulsa has had a reputation for being kind of a rough city for years. Sure, California gangs have gone to Oklahoma, both Tulsa and Oklahoma City. At the same time, OKC and Tulsa were having issues in the 1980s, when the oil economy declined, and crack came in. Perfect storm. These are Republican ran city, and the ghettos still have problems. My whole point is that political parties have nothing to do with it.
Now, one difference between Texas and Oklahoma is this. Alot of Black middle class people have been moving to Texas. Not nearly as many have gone to Oklahoma. The Black middle class residents have moved to places like Dallas and Houston, thus not as much gang banging. Gangs live in their own worlds separate from the rest of America.
St Louis criminal gang culture comes from California too. All gang culture that produces high murder and incarceration rates comes from one of three places. New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles. These large gangs that migrate an wreck havoc all come from the most liberal places in the country, that's my point. Crips have killed alot of people in Oklahoma, alot of crips are in prison in OK, crips are not originally from Oklahoma. You bring up crack, crack was a NY, Bay Area, an LA phenomenon at first, only there till gangsters from those cities started distributing it nationwide.
Like all national gangs, crack itself is a product of the most blue place in America, so is the entire crack epidemic an the modern history an culture of gangbanging, nationwide. Also as is all racist prison an street gangs that operate nationwide and laws enacted that led to mass incarceration. To leftists it's not enough to just destroy where they live, they want to leave where they are from an destroy other places too.
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Minnesota has always had a reputation for good education, good healthcare and clean politics. You may be interested that in the rankings above, MN was #3 in economic opportunity.
If Minnesota has problems with racial injustice, it's probably because there are so few minorities living there. It's a very white state. I don't think the people are racist, but the average Minnesotan has no idea what it is like to be black.
"but the average Minnesotan has no idea what it is like to be black.'
I would wager that the average Minnesotan doesn't care. Between unemployment, the Coronavirus, and life's other problems, that's probably enough to keep the average person occupied.
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