Running racism in America thread

I'd heard

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Both tied atop the horrifically racist leaderboard.

 

Huxtabled

 

As long as you stick to the liquids and don't consume the food, you should be safe.

 

Drinking Mountain Dew without sugar is like watching porn with the naughty bits pixelated out.

 

Nah. More standard and accurate, I think, and less offensive-sounding (to me, at least).

Homogenized, or, assimilated, maybe? I think that's it. There was a word I was grasping for, that I know, that wasn't coming to mind.

 

That's a very old joke. I'd heard it before I left Atlanta in 1978. That's not the worst one I'd heard, which I'll quote for racist joke depth.

"What's white on the outside and white on the inside and smells like a N-?"

"A MARTA bus."

Yeah, I grew up in the deep south. There's good reason for my having no use for racists.

 

I'm searching online, and it appears certain stores in my county may have it (Super Walmarts, perhaps?). One closest to me is not a Super Walmart.

 

I grew up there. Basically, it's no different from anywhere else with a large African-American population. There were/are decent white people and there are racists, both closeted and overt. My take is that humans in general are a mix of good people, decent people, and bad people, white, black, or brown. Since institutional Jim Crow racism had been the rule there, old school racism was more common among older white people, while the younger generation had fewer really bad racists. They were there, products of their upbringing mostly, but the percentage of virulent racism was dropping over time.

As was common during the 60's, once a black family bought a home in a white area there would be a wave of For Sale signs on homes. People feared that the property value of their home would drop, so they sold fast and fled to white suburban Atlanta. This left a higher percentage of black people within the city limits, as well as eroding the tax base as the more affluent took their incomes and the tax base with them when they moved to an outlying county. The result was a city of Atlanta with fewer tax dollars, which led to poorer schools, etc.

Over time Atlanta became a largely black and generally prosperous and successful southern city. I really don't think that it was/is any worse than anywhere else in a general sense. I'm now in Birmingham, which had the same white flight cycle, probably to an even greater degree. That said, both cities have had black mayors since the 70's, and I tend to think that other than at the extremes race relations are pretty good overall. If you can't get along with black people you will have a difficult time living in either city without a lot of friction and angst. There are lots of black folks here, and the vast majority are good people. It's just an accepted fact that as you move around you're going to see, work with, deal with, buy from/sell to black people. There are still plenty of racists, but they tended to be fairly quiet about it until Trump. Maybe I'm not the one to ask, as I never ran with that crowd.

 

Have you considered if even Walmart doesn't carry it, that's a sign?

 

Walmart carries it.

 

That's why when someone mentions Atlanta, the thought of the Atlanta city limits never really enters my mind. "Atlanta" is certainly everything inside 285, and you might was well throw in Marietta.

 

It used to be a seven county metro area. Now it's up to nine.

That's still not as bad as Houston. "Metro Houston" is roughly seventy miles E-W and 100 miles N-S.