Running racism in America thread

Ragu-

I took the NJ Transit to a high school that was pretty well a quarter Black/Asian/South Asian. That was more a reflection of the state than the school as I came to understand it.

Atlanta is not going to get whiter. Mitch, Lindsey and the rest are being engulfed by changes they can't stop. That is why there is such a pathetic frantic Keystone Kop aspect to it.

As long as those individuals can stave this off while they're still alive then it's all good for them.

 

abbott, duly noted, hope you are well.

Why did Rachel Nichols's CNN talk show bomb-out? I really don't know.

Medill grad, family connections, her rise to the top is no unsolved mystery, to me anyway

 

MariaTaylor makes $5 million a year. $1.8 million in net worth is the demarcation for the top 5% richest Americans. You’ll excuse me if I dont a shit about 2 bougie multi-millionaires. But non-black working women are a demographic that needs respect and should not be pushed aside to make good for others.

 

Ragu,

The pool has been open to them for years, but this year there has been a sharp increase in
black customers due to Harrisburg city pools remaining closed. Agreed it’s not systematic racism by the township. The racism, latent but still there nonetheless, is coming from township residents that, after years of rarely voicing complaints about the facility, are now commenting about things like “overcrowding” (a factor that has always been there on 90-plus degree days. I can remember parking on grass four years ago because all of the spaces were taken, yet haven’t had to once this year), “butts exposed” (again, a factor that’s always been there, especially with teenagers regularly there who buy swimsuits based on influencers) and then citing that they smell marijuana or see alcohol (got news for these people again: a lot of the older whiter divorcees haven’t been sipping Gatorade out of those Yetis these past years).

As a result, we have township police coming through the place like TSA once an hour to check things out. I know a township cop and he’s told me this is all blown out of proportion and a waste of resources, but a couple of old yentas have raised hell and here we are.

 

Latent racism fuels systemic racism.

The sublevel bigotry and biases held by the general populace, represented by the various examples here - the rise in complaints at the public pool, objecting over an apartment complex while welcoming the noise and traffic of a grocery store, et al - comes from the same tap as the decisions that lead to passing over people of color for promotions, vastly different disciplinary records for white students vs students of color, differences in policing, and more.

When latent and systemic racism is as pervasive as it is in this country, you can't avoid the identity politics portion of the discussion.

 

I’m now wondering what twp BYM lives in. I did my time in the mid-state. None of what he says surprises me.

 

I saw a story the other day about a Black dude arrested while blowing up balloons for a children's party.

That was the most pitiful one of these I've seen.

All charges were dropped.

 

From spending nearly three weeks out there, there’s several possibilities.

 

One thing I feel is important to add...

Segregation existed in large portions of the country less than 50 years ago. The ramifications of that don't disappear overnight. It takes generations of social change. And guess what? We haven't exactly been eager to embrace that change as a country.

And, of course, the roots of the issue go much deeper and much farther back than that.

Trevor Noah has one of the best perspectives on race in America that I've ever heard. The guy literally grew up as evidence of a crime in apartheid South Africa - the son of a black mother and white father.

 

There were segregated schools into the late 1960s in some areas.

 

The WWI was as close to 1969 as 1969 is to today. Is 50 years ago really a relevant point?

 

Since so many of the people alive then are alive now ...