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Don't be part of the problem.
Don't make excuses for people that are part of the problem.
I disagree about it being a never ending cycle. Things are so much better today than they were 40 years ago and 40 years before that clearly we have made progress. The big difference is that with the media and their need for ratings and profits the actions of the worst behaving people are what often makes the news.
There is all the ugly in this world at your fingertips on the internet, don't let it warp reality that most folks are decent, but that's boring.
Well the media and the microaggression nuts, the people fixated on monuments and the people digging up stuff from 40 years ago and the people mistaking a garage tie for a noose, take the focus away from serious issues that still exist. People using the "N" word is not a big deal. People in poverty, in crime ridden neighborhoods and with poor education is a serious issue.
Kansas had a strong abolitionist foundation unlike other states to the east and south.
Kansas is where were some Black pioneers would settle after the Civil War. Nicodemus is one of the Black towns that were founded in Kansas.
Kansas, like the rest of America, had its issues. However, I will say this about Kansas. Brown vs Board of Education came about, desegregation seemed alot more peaceful in Kansas than it was in Mississippi, or in Boston (1970s Boston at that).
I had similar problems growing up in a German family in Rosedale in the 1960s.
My father, born in Germany, jumped ship in New York City in the 1930s when Hitler took power. He enlisted with the US Army and went back to fight Nazism in his birth country!
After the war ended he returned to NYC, and bought a house in Rosedale. But hatred was still so great for Germans in the 1950s that my parents had to send my brother back to Germany to live with his grandparents for several years. And I still suffered in the 1960s as well - being called a Nazi, Heinie, Kraut, etc. which got me into a lot of fights at school and in the streets. Our home even had swastikas chalked on our sidewalk in summer and marked in the snow in winter.
The bullies in my case were Irish Catholic - my best friends were Jewish - go figure.
We moved from Rosedale to South Florida in 1967, just before things got really crazy!
Andy Young said nothing down south prepared them (MLK) for the racism they faced marching in the north. IMO the south was more homogeneous in its racism and in the north due to its ethnic enclaves was not. For instance I met a black man who said in the 60's his father bought a house on a corner in an all white neighborhood in a northern city and not once through out his childhood did they face anything unpleasant. I think maybe things could have been altogether different for the family had they bought a house a mile or so in another direction in this same northern city.
I by no means agree with this or making excuses for the behavior. But why always just showing one side.
You cant talk about the other side of things without it being called racist also.
It would have been much worse for white kids to walk in a black neighborhood. Even they even made it out alive.
Even today 10 times safer for a black to walk in a white neighborhood than the other way around.
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