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Originally Posted by Monkeyman
Theyll get the chip off when so many white folks stop discriminating, fearing, start allowing, start worshipping with, stop following in stores, start marrying, stop walking on the other side of the street, stop putting the entire minority group in 1 house while the white kids go 2 by 2 to other homes while ministering in a Louidiana church, stop coos from stopping them for no reason, oh yeah, in your world, this doesn't occur, that stopped 150 years ago, riiiight,
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Originally Posted by Irreligious
CC1 has been nice to me and I don't want to burn any bridges, but....
Monkeyman, I just stood in my living room and gave you a standing ovation. Every single point you made...worship with, follow in stores, MARRYING, etc., you are AWESOME!!!
When I first moved to the city you grew up in, it was my first culture shock after spending my life in an all-white town. I wasn't shocked at the presence of people who didn't look like me, I was shocked at the way that the people who looked like me, treated those who didn't.
I had memorized most of "I have a dream" in high school and thought that stuff was all gone. Your home town taught me that it wasn't gone at all.
Again, standing ovation.
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No doubt such places exist, all over the world too; but maybe I'm just blessed. Around here skin color truly doesn't matter for the vast, vast majority of people - especially the "people who look like me." Where I do encounter racism, and have encountered it all my life was from within the "minority community." I usually just took that as being some remnant of an old "chip on the shoulder" from a very ugly past history.
Our state government actually had to call out the National Guard and "invaded" the capital city which was in the control of the Klan back in the 1920's. That was long before my time, but I still like to remind the Democrats around here how the Republican govenor had to step in with troops to straighten out the Democratic party.
My wife's great-uncle was burned alive by a mob of Klansmen in another state back in the 1960's. Ironically, I have seen her cousins face some discrimination from fellow African Americans because they are "not Black enough." They have gotten it from all sides.
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