Running racism in America thread

Then you're missing out. It's a beautiful, walkable city with excellent restaurants, fascinating neighborhoods, world-class museums, a great pro sports scene and more historical sites than just about any city in America. If your standard for being willing to visit a place is the utter lack of racism in its past or present, good luck finding that place.

 

Understood. A bit different... but that's one of the reasons I have no desire to ever visit Jerusalem.

 

Soooooo, y'all are saying most rural southern small towns are more integrated on a day-to-day basis than most urban northern cities.

 

White flight in liberal states is a real thing. And people love to talk about it as a problem as they pack their U-Hauls for a "quieter" neighborhood with "good schools."

 

And it wasn't any different prior to 1861.

 

But the Housing Act has forced "I'm not racist" to get more clever about it.

 

I obviously bristle when every southerner gets painted as Simon Legree and every northerner gets championed as John Brown. Reality is much more complex than that.

 

Agreed. The "but the South was way worse" only can be used so many times.

 

Mass. law was changed this year to mandate multi-family housing in communities that have public transit. They're building a couple apartment complexes close to me and the howling from the "too much traffic" crowd has been interesting.

https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/what-the-mbta-communities-law-means-for-your-town/

 

In America, racism is everywhere.

Now this:

The Rocky Path to the College Board’s A.P. Black Studies Course

In a statement on Saturday, it said that the governor and the Florida Department of Education were posturing to stoke publicity: “We have made the mistake of treating FDOE with the courtesy we always accord to an education agency, but they have instead exploited this courtesy for their political agenda.”

And, in a statement to The Times, the College Board added that the Education Department showed “ignorance and derision for the field of African American studies.”

 

DeSantis’s corporate donors under fire for ‘hypocrisy’ over Black History Month