Running racism in America thread

I, for one, am shocked.

 

Great Truman's ghost! The Washington Post co. donated to a right-wing governor?

 

It is also one of prime areas in the country for technological advances and some really important bio-tech, health and pharmaceutical research efforts that literal life-savers in the near future.

 

Rep. Lauren Boebert raged against historic performance of 'Black national anthem' at the Super Bowl

 

A Bruins home game on St. Patrick's Day is still on my bucket list. The only game more fun than their visit to Nashville on SPD that season was the weekend the kids from UAH came to play in a Div III exhibition series. #HometownBallWillAlwaysTrumpThePros

 

How do you feel about Philadelphia?

 

Let's have Carl Lewis sing both, and Charlie Steiner can pick which one we go with.

As soon as he stops laughing.

 

Milwaukee and Chicago were the same way. And we can't discount the influence of racism in each of us.

 

I’m surprised she was watching. I thought the far right deemed the NFL “too woke” about 5 years ago.

 

This is true, and I share that resentment. Otoh, there is good reason my current home was known as "Bombingham". We have a Civil Rights Museum and historical markers all over town, lest we forget.

When my family moved to Atlanta from Tampa in 1964, they bought a house in a new subdivision close to Greenbriar mall, the second mall built in town. We'd lived there a couple of years when the local real estate agents informally decided that SW Atlanta was going to be the Black side of town. They started "block busting", finding a white family who was willing to sell to a Black buyer (or to pretend they didn't know). Once there was one, For Sale signs went up across entire neighborhoods, and the race was on to sell "before property values dropped".

While I think that in a general sense race relations are a bit better here, where we live, work, and move among Black people basically every day, there are valid reasons that stereotype grew up.

Its just that it was every bit as bad (or worse) in places like Boston, Kansas City, San Francisco, etc which were not hung with the reputation for it.