I feel like it's asking which eunuch has the biggest balls, but...

Poll question: What is the most racist part of the United States?

Poll result (52 votes) New England (5 votes) Vote The Mid-Atlantic (NY down through DC) (1 votes) Vote The Southeast (29 votes) Vote The Midwest (12 votes) Vote The West Coast (1 votes) Vote Texas (4 votes) Vote

— home to Houston — had 33 of them. In 2013, there were only 11 such exonerations in the U.S.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/27/drug-cases-in-texas-help-lead-to-record-number-exonerations-in-us-in-2014/

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/texas-students-flash-white-power-signs-during-basketball-game-against-mostly-black-high-school/#.VOPz1mNb4Gc.facebook

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Flower-Mound-students-White-Power-via-Twitter-800x430.png

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-arrest-houston-islamic-center-20150216-story.html

I don't know what's worse

the arson, or the arson not being charged as a hate crime

you gotta take the Mid Atlantic off the list.

...are distinct from New England and the Southeast?

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I'm tryna be better off, not better than...

I've never seen so FEW mixed race crowds as I have since I moved here.

couples and multicultural families than any other place on EARF.

i'm serious. that fact i must made up is true!!


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I'm tryna be better off, not better than...

than they were in the 1960s

I mean...i used to live 10 minutes from Rosewood :(

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AR sits on top of Mississippi and west of TN
but yeah everything east of Houston and south of Kentucky all the weay to the Atlantic Ocean is hillbillyish as FUCK

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huh

>

when all the Africans were brought over and enslaved....
and then the part when slavery was abolished but Black folks were still considered as animals and had no rights....
and then the part when...................
should I stop?

>I feel like it's asking which eunuch has the biggest balls,
>but...

Los Angeles to Fergusson to Cleveland down to Houston over to Florida
niggas cant catch no breaks man.
not a single break.

Southern overt racism vs. Northeastern covert racism vs. ...

Just a different fragrance to the same shit.

the south can be bad but i think there are enough black ppl down there to balance it out

followed by the deep south.

no minorities up there for them to deal with (except the ones on the reservations but "they don't count")

shit man any comment section on anything featuring a black person.

The south HAS black people. These states have very, VERY few, and that creates some...interesting situations when those people wander outside of that N&S Dakota/Wyoming/Montana/Utah region

in a small town

1. Ozarks
2. Appalachia
3. Mountain West
4. Gulf Coast
5. Texas
6. Southwest
7. Great Plains
8. Southeast

For the most part, I'd feel safe stopping in New England, Mid Atlantic, Upper Midwest and the West Coast.

They hate niggas too, but I'm probably less likely to be lynched.

black prince md came here for a vacation. he's gay and black and had a nice time in some small town in kansas i told him no to go to because it would be boring, not dangerous. the great plains is bordred by colorado which has legalized weed and iowa which often votes democratic. even omaha voted for obama the first time around. there are so few black people they basically don't worry about them like northeasterners or southerners.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

http://blackpeopleonlocalnews.tumblr.com/

I'm not saying the rest of New England ISN'T racist, but they're at least civil.

shit is super condensed. Why do I say that? Because of THIS!

http://images.worthpoint.com/files/94/045846f7644a1e2187cfb239de661626_0.jpg

It aint the late 70s no more

^^^^^^^^^

And I have lived in 3 states down south

What part of boston did you live and what part of boston did you experience the most racism?

i've been in some shitty MA towns (brockton, worcester, taunton, fall river, new bedford, springfield, holyoke, amherst, north hampton, framingham, north adams, etc) and i never got a "nigger go home" vibe.

boston seems so west coast with their racism to me

each time I have been there I stayed with people who lived there. I was staying in dorchester in mission hill.

Boston is easily more racist than anywhere I have been in the south and I lived in the south for 30 years. You are one of the few black people I know of that cops pleas for boston. Pretty much every black person I know who has been there says it's way racist.

Granted the US is a racist society, so it's normal for a city in this country to be racist. Boston is just way more racist than the "normal" amount of racism that I'm used to. I can feel it in the air when I'm there.

Also the weather sucks, the accent sounds stupid, and the streets make no sense. Fuck that place.

>Also the weather sucks, the accent sounds stupid, and the
>streets make no sense. Fuck that place.

No offense, but I held my breath and tried to reason with your argument up until this emotionally-charged, and immensely ignorant and bitter statement. I was born and raised in Boston (I also happen to be a dark-skinned black man) and I have never encountered overt racism my whole life that I have lived there. Not once have I even had any brushes with law enforcement. It generally all depends on where you were when you visited or briefly lived in Boston. What other neighborhoods, besides what was mentioned, did you go to? (Dorchester and Mission Hill are mixed neighborhoods by the way, even though the majority has always been Afro-American and Hispanic). What types of people did you hang out with or encountered? Yes, Boston does have a tainted history with racism, but so does EVERY city in America and around the world where there are mixed races of people with different beliefs, values, philosophies, politics, religions, idealizations etc. Racism happens everywhere, and to single out Boston is a rather clouded and narrow-minded view. For the most part, Massachusetts (and all of New England) is one of the most important areas in the nation that took part in the establishment of America. It also jump-started education, progressiveness, liberalism and the abolition of slavery: not to mention some of the most important figures in African-American history were from Massachusetts and had fought in the The Boston Revolution: the war that helped to create the United States. So while I agree with you on some level (and I'm sorry you had to encounter racism by a few bad apples) you can't ignore and fail to acknowledge Boston's important role in African-American history.

LMAO. Strangely I never met Bobby Brown, or The Wahlbergs, or Matt Damon. And it's not like I've been living under a rock.

It's nothing personal. Rep your city. if you love it, that's fine with me. I mean shit, if you hate philly (my 2nd home) why the hell would I care? Do you.

I've been there plenty of times and I know what I think about the place. Nobody is changing my mind about that. In my book boston is america's asshole.

I apologize if I offended you and you took what I said out of anger. I did type some strong words. But being a native, I just wanted to enlighten you about the great things about Boston aside from racism (which as I explained before) is prevalent all throughout this country that was mainly built on slavery and genocide. Philly has a history of racism too, but there are so many great things about Philly that I wouldn't look at the racial aspect. Race is such an overrated topic beaten to death. I look at things in a broader perspective.

I'm just sticking to the topic at hand here, which is racism. Of course the city has a much more complex history than I'm describing in this post. A conversation about that would require a post of it's own.

Race is such an overrated topic
>beaten to death. I look at things in a broader perspective.


but im banned tho.
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I'm over race matters. I don't beat myself up or wallow in being a victim. From my experience (as a dark-skinned black man) I grew up in a mixed community. I shared the same playground with whites, went to school with them, and drank from the same water fountains. Have I experienced some level of ignorance? Who hasn't? But when some of us wallow in being victimized and then turn around and blame a particular race for our bad choices and personal pitfalls, that deserves a "side eye". This is why white people accuse of us of playing the card at every turn, especially with a man of color in the White House. The very same black folks crying foul over oppression are in their communities tearing down their own, neglecting their own, not providing for their own, and raping / killing their own. Hate begets hate. I cannot stress that enough.

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huh

I'm not even going to waste my time going back and forth over this. I'm basing race matters on my own personal experience and how I see things, so I don't know why that's considered trolling. I'm not invested in this topic anyhow, but, do you.

and also afro-american

spell it out or say Black but...

tells me that Boston is racist as fuck... I suspected it from your reply up above, but this was confirmation... lol



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Unless you can come up with solid examples of how Boston is racist (from my response) your argument is not sound to me.

Just visit the city, already. Ease your mind, b. Hell, I'll pay for your ticket. You won't know anything about Boston unless you're there to experience.

beyond you saying "you can feel it in the air" i really dont have a sense of why u consider it so racist and id like to know?

ive only been to boston once, on a college tour and to do the tourist stuff so i cant really speak to it but i enjoyed boston and i didnt get a bad vibe off anyone

at the same time ive been to mobile once and can tell u i would never go there again because they have so VERY small minded ppl there

i was going to Harvard School of Public Health and I taught at RCC
So after class at Harvard I would walk through the projects in Mission Hills to get to RCC to teach my night class.

But this is OKP and you never know how these niggas be carrying themselves in these streets.
Now, I'm not no step-n-fetch it type negro in the least bit
But I've never worn "tall tees" or "tims with the one pants leg rolled up" neither

I know nothing good will come out of giving a more detailed reply. Also, I don't have the kind of time required to get into a back and forth about a topic I'm not invested in.

Any of y'all that have had better experience than me. Good for you. Mine was different.

>each time I have been there I stayed with people who lived
>there. I was staying in dorchester in mission hill.


Mission Hill is its own community filled with puerto ricans and cape verdeans. Pretty low-income.
Dorchester is really black with a buncha west indians. still low(er) incomed compared with the rest of Boston.

>>each time I have been there I stayed with people who lived
>>there. I was staying in dorchester in mission hill.
>
>
>Mission Hill is its own community filled with puerto ricans
>and cape verdeans. Pretty low-income.
>Dorchester is really black with a buncha west indians. still
>low(er) incomed compared with the rest of Boston.

Dorchester also has a lot of Irish and Vietnamese.

>Dorchester also has a lot of Irish and Vietnamese.


so yeah i'm up on game but as i said REALLY black
not all black
a lot of the viets is bleeding over to Quinzee now.

LOL this post made me think of all the words bostonians say that don't look how they pronounce them

shout out to all my mami's in Murdapan and a big ups to Academy PJs

Some parts of Mission Hill are considered lower Roxbury, along with Roxbury Crossing and the Heath Street part of Jamaica Plain (where I grew up).

i dont know where this allegedly racist part of boston is but i didnt see it & i was all over that bitch


does it really matter?

for all my fans who keep my name in their mouth: http://i.imgur.com/v2xNOpS.jpg

^^^^^^^^


>i dont know where this allegedly racist part of boston is but
>i didnt see it & i was all over that bitch
>
>
>does it really matter?
>
>for all my fans who keep my name in their mouth:
>http://i.imgur.com/v2xNOpS.jpg

>^^^^^^^^
>
>
>>i dont know where this allegedly racist part of boston is
>but
>>i didnt see it & i was all over that bitch

i dont have colors
my mmsic:
www.soundclick.com/sylana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brb8g8f18xE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NgNuVHrEKI

Thank you!

You can't tell some folks on here anything, who hate to be wrong when they are.

My fellow road trippers and I agreed that it was the only place - we stopped over at New Orleans, Tallahassee, Daytona Beach and Miami along the way - that we felt "Black" during the entire trip. You could cut the tension in the air with a knife.

Black mayor and everything.

SCAD kids and tourists are racist as shit

like 30-40% or something?

...if you felt like it was a highly racist area, it probably was due to preconceived ideas y'all had about the town. I used to live south of Savannah and visited Savannah for years and not once did it feel like I was under some racial tension.

I've never been, but Western Oregon, western Washington and Idaho seem like I place I need not visit.

Add in Utah outside of Salt Lake City. Arizona outside of Phoenix and possibly Tucson are cool.

"...don't go there."

I try to use that as a general rule when travelling to unknown places. I'm gonna change my answer to those big spaces between the interstates.

and New England is about that concealed cism...so that's who I voted for...

i'm from the Carolinas...and I've seen more cism living in RI than back home...

My people from Pittsburgh love to tell me about all the lynchings and rebel flags down south...

then turn around and say "nah, we aren't going to this bar because they hate Black people"

HANDS DOWN. I'm 50 miles east of Atlanta. I've seen and heard and felt shit out here I've never EVER felt while living in Boston.
My wife is from Southeast DC. She says the exact same thing.

?

to figure this out...

i agree 100%

http://oi57.tinypic.com/2rxi7ir.jpg

I remember a stat back in the day that said Jersey and Ohio had real high KKK numbers...

or at least not classified as such in that Texas to Florida stretch.

down there went out of their way to be nice to you like they were actually embarrassed about the shit their ancestors did, lol.

from ppl who never been there lol. And know nothing about present day
Mississippi.

When you kick it with white folks in Mississippi, there's more of a
sincerity there. With others, it's an agree to disagree type thing.

When you kick it with white folks in Dallas, with a more Northern style
racism, you're not really clear on who has white supremacist beliefs
and who doesn't. And too often they do, all up in your face grinnin.

Even back then MLK himself said the midwest was worse and that's where
most of the sundown towns were.

They'll be nice to you and love you, but actually you're opinion and thoughts mean just about as much as the dog's. If that makes sense. Where I live now in Georgia is 10 minutes from the cotton fields.

& NY. So what's ur point?

Different than anything I've seen before.

Ur in what, the Rome area? And ur comparing that to the entire South?

That video with the white chick calling dude "nigger" repeatly was
in NY. I'm from Mississippi and have never seen anything like that.

How bout Marky Mark's rap sheet? I can't relate, sorry.

In all my years as a Southerner I have never witnessed one of those. The thing is, dude is younger than me by a number of years.





Since 1976

I'm not comparing it to the entire south but I'm pretty much everywhere that's not in the metro area most of the time cuz I got folks from Statesboro to Augusta. I use to say the same things y'all say till I had a chance to actually be constantly around the white folk out here. My perspective has changed. That's all I can say.

That nice shit is just surface level. I don't care how many Black folks move there. The kind of racism I grew up with in the 80s and early 90s was a lot like the kind depicted in movies about the 60s. Stuff like not being allowed to swim in the public pool in Porterdale, which was eventually cemented over to avoid integration. The Klan marching during the homecoming parade. Fighting at the high school because white folks didn't want a Black valedictorian. It's still there, though. It just doesn't bubble to the top as quickly as it used to.

but in places like new york they just don't make up a majority so they have less power...

nyc has the most segregated schools in the country and the reason why is discrimination is so rampant and the norm when it comes to housing.

it's a smiliar situation when it comes to employment, but as many non-white people are doing the hiring as whites.

basically there's a smaller percentage of racist people in power. probably the whiter the area, the more affected you'll be by racism.

there's not enough diversity there to force white people to NOT be self-righteous fucktards

å>there's not enough diversity there to force white people to
>NOT be self-righteous fucktards

that's not true at all.

Of the country?

Oh.

Okp is strange sometimes, ain't it?

like in any other part of America, including states that are supposed bastions of diversity

The major metropolitan cities in the midwest are diverse though. I mean not like NYC, but still...

Have you ever spent extended time in other regions of the country that have ethnic enclaves? Say, the latino west coast or southwest, or the asian west coast or Atlanta Metro, or the black southeast, or northeast?

The midwest is where all that american essentialist mythology is taken to heart FOR REAL FOR REAL. And where other parts of the country have at least some smatterings of immigrant communities or Black people in rural areas to kind of FORCE white people to get out of their own ass for a minute...the midwest lacks that outside of some of the major cities. And hell, in some major cities the black communities are FUCKED UP in ways that you'd be hard pressed to find in major cities in other parts of the country.

All that leads to a white entitlement that's on a grillion

>Have you ever spent extended time in other regions of the
>country that have ethnic enclaves? Say, the latino west coast
>or southwest, or the asian west coast or Atlanta Metro, or the
>black southeast, or northeast?

Yes, I grew up 10 minutes from the largest population of Middle Eastern folks outside of the Middle East (Dearborn, Michigan)


>
>The midwest is where all that american essentialist mythology
>is taken to heart FOR REAL FOR REAL. And where other parts of
>the country have at least some smatterings of immigrant
>communities or Black people in rural areas to kind of FORCE
>white people to get out of their own ass for a minute...the
>midwest lacks that outside of some of the major cities.

Disagree completely. I could name you ethnic enclaves outside of every major Midwestern City from Missouri and eastwards...I cant speak for the Dakotas if ur considering that Midwesst (some ppl do) tho lol.



And
>hell, in some major cities the black communities are FUCKED UP
>in ways that you'd be hard pressed to find in major cities in
>other parts of the country.
>
>All that leads to a white entitlement that's on a grillion

Cant comment on that. not my lane. Ill leave that up to someone else.

topic, lol

Y'all tripping

we answered with examples.

Detroit, Flint, Cleveland, St Louis, Gary, Milwaukee, etc. The problem is when people label 80% of this country The Midwest. There are sub-regions.

Great Lakes Hate Region aka Up South.

We are not Midwest. Damn it
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huh

see: Oregon. Washington. Maine. New Hampshire. Vermont.

^ white as hell. on the coasts.

Fuck all that though:

http://www.rightcode.net/development/beyonddiversity/article.html?id=114253795054397

Check the map. The heartland of the US is white as hell.

Northern Border states like Idaho, Montana, and North Dakota are not the midwest

And the far northeast is statistically the whitest, by a lot

The races aren't equal but everybody just lives together/on top of each other
A real mixture
But Culver City cops are neck and neck with racist ass Irvine/Orange County cops

i have ever dealt with

Torrance is pretty bad too

>i have ever dealt with
>
>Torrance is pretty bad too

Man you ain't never lived, they don't have shit to do and want to feel tough like the LAPD that patrols Venice (which is gentrified as fuck).

Torrance is bad, but not as much as they used to be, back in the 90's when they had NNITAD, it was wild. Now, they just do pointless harassing which takes place mostly in North and East Torrance.

.

Or have personal grudges.

No one was ever lynched in the Midwest or New England.

There were no Rosewoods in the Midwest or New England, unless you count Tulsa as "midwest".

Martin Luther King was murdered in the SOUTH.

Medgar Evers was murdered in the SOUTH.

The Ku Klux Klan was formed in the SOUTH.

Jim Crow was created in the SOUTH.

Cheney, Goodman, and Schwerner, Viola Liuzzo and numerous other Civil Rights activists were murdered...where? You already know.

An entire Black town, Rosewood, was burned to the ground...in the South.

It's the South by a mile and the other regions don't even come close.

strongest black community in America.

Most major Black American movements have started there

the closest we've ever had to autonomous black communities have been in the south.

And if you think all riots/lynching/racial violence is isolated to the SE US, you need to learn more about American history

I mentioned Tulsa, OK, the race riots that decimated that Black enclave. Indiana had some notorious lynchings, too.

But incidents like that, historically speaking, were overwhelmingly Southern. It is permanently etched in this country's history.

>And if you think all riots/lynching/racial violence is
>isolated to the SE US, you need to learn more about American
>history

nm

i think we've been able to spread our racism across the whole country quite nicely

its definitely spread a little thicker in the south for sure

>Or have personal grudges.
>
>No one was ever lynched in the Midwest or New England.
>
>There were no Rosewoods in the Midwest or New England, unless
>you count Tulsa as "midwest".
>
>Martin Luther King was murdered in the SOUTH.
>
>Medgar Evers was murdered in the SOUTH.
>
>The Ku Klux Klan was formed in the SOUTH.
>
>Jim Crow was created in the SOUTH.
>
>Cheney, Goodman, and Schwerner, Viola Liuzzo and numerous
>other Civil Rights activists were murdered...where? You
>already know.
>
>An entire Black town, Rosewood, was burned to the ground...in
>the South.
>
>It's the South by a mile and the other regions don't even come
>close.

That's why there are so few blacks there to begin with

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_St._Louis_riot

And I mean that literally, in that at the during the 1920's the KKK controlled that states Governor's office and half of the legislative assembly, including other state and local positions.

There are so many Hate groups in the Midwest it isn't even funny.

By the way. I've lived in Wisconsin, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Florida, New Jersey, Virginia, DC, and South Carolina.

I feel like I have enough experience in those parts of the country to tell you that no, racism is pretty much ubiquitous in this country.

I lived and went to school about 30 minutes south of there.
I never saw nobody with sheets on their heads.

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Meriden, Connecticut
Jacksonville, Florida
Pre-Castro Cubans in Miami
Upstate New York
Central and Western Pennsylvania
Southern New Jersey
Western Maryland
Maryland north of Baltimore
Annapolis, Maryland
Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Sacramento, California
South Carolina
Tennessee
...

I could list more but I have other shit to do.

And specifically the Pacific North East. A lot of Oregon and North East Seattle gets wild with it, Shit Oregon was the No Black People state for the longest time. Them fuckers still act passive aggressive every now and then in Portland.

Idaho, Montana, the Dakotas and etc... Are super bad. Like someone said earlier , them No Black people states can be scary.

What I don't get is the high concentration of the Klan and Nazis and skinheads in the Midwest. They don't even have that many minorities...

I find their intense fear of the unknown to be scarier.

n/m

Here's the link...and I'm copying/pasting the two things that struck me

http://gizmodo.com/oregon-was-founded-as-a-racist-utopia-1539567040


"Two hilarious (okay not that funny) things. A. They were so racist they said no to slavery because it would mean more black people. B. There were so many white people that as fast as the klan caught on it died out because there were little to no minorities to terrorize."




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You cannot hate people for their own good.

once you get to the "interior" of the state its basically oklahoma

Cali, Washington, New York, Penn, etc. (internationally too, I think)
The further you get away from the coast/metro areas, the more conservative it gets

>Here's the link...and I'm copying/pasting the two things that
>struck me
>
>http://gizmodo.com/oregon-was-founded-as-a-racist-utopia-1539567040
>
>
>"Two hilarious (okay not that funny) things. A. They were so
>racist they said no to slavery because it would mean more
>black people. B. There were so many white people that as fast
>as the klan caught on it died out because there were little to
>no minorities to terrorize."
>
O_o

free black people within the state lines get whipped every 30 days or some shit...?

America is fuuuuuucked up.

AKA "the cities you drive through and maybe get gas in while on a road trip between two real cities that are more than 100 miles apart."

http://gizmodo.com/oregon-was-founded-as-a-racist-utopia-1539567040

is nothing but people getting pissed off at other people naming the area where they live as being the most racist

and then they throw darts at places away from where they live

rinse and repeat

The distinction between regions is the skill at masking/refracting it.


In the south (outside of major cities), cats give no damns. And in a way, that makes (some of) them less racist and more just xenophobic.



As for the greatest concentration of intensely racist thinking...follow White Flight™. In my area, that will be the ring of suburbs one level past the ring of suburbs that surround Atlanta. Follow the demographic shifts of the last 20 years in other metro areas nationwide, and you'll see similar patterns, within context.

it's the spaces that're racially homogenous - that's where it's at. usually those ppl have gathered together like that b/c they don't wanna live around The Other(s). why come? b/c they racist. by definition.

Southwest is racist as well but covert racism is worse than regular pre-2009 racism. The midwest isn't racist relative to the populations that exist within the boundaries. Prejuidice white people exist everyone until you meet their sons and daughters.

Northwest is on some extra shit. However, anyone with street smarts gets it and plays the game accordingly.

Y'all seen Soons beard? I'm hating for no reason.

i was in a store and the white lady was acting all funny around this black chick and they were selling confederate flag shirts when i was in north carolina i think or south carolina...


i dont have colors
my mmsic:
www.soundclick.com/sylana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brb8g8f18xE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NgNuVHrEKI

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/05/arizona-hip-hop-illegal_n_6419558.html

Teaching Hip Hop Illegally Promotes Ethnic Solidarity, Arizona Official Says

When did "chicano" become acceptable? I used to use it out of ignorance but when I read the history of the word I stopped.

I know latinos use it among themselves and such, but that's their backyard. Gotta love that don't teach them the whole truth approach to history though.

smh*

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When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
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You cannot hate people for their own good.

but that is a blanket coastal line saying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jesse_Washington
http://www.death2ur.com/james_byrd_gravesite.htm

Brutal, inhuman lynchings (Henry Smith), sundown towns (Vidor), James Byrd dragged behind a truck, James Byrd's grave desecrated; they had to put a fence around it to stop the vandalism...oh, and the Governor has a ranch called Niggerhead.

That one state has as much racist history as entire regions of the country.

But I guess Austin negates all that.

The James Byrd lynching happened while I was there. My roommate at the time was FROM Texas, and he had crazy stories about playing HS football games in Vidor and the Texas Rangers having to escort teams with Black players.

A football team needed Ranger escorts? Wow.

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When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
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You cannot hate people for their own good.