This isn't true! I mean come on! Maybe back in the 60s...

[Royd]

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Bussing as well as Affirmative Action are failed social experiments. They go against common sense, and sound economic principles.

Due to this mentality, we now relegate the cream of the crop to the back of the line, to be fair to those who make little to no effort.
I walk into a city or state building and it is not representative of the racial demographics in that area.

Go to any large airport and just do visual survey of the TSA agents. The only qualification is that you are not a straight white male, with a healthy BMI.

Sorry, but turning the world on its head to prove that you are magnanimous and open minded, just isn't working out, as planned.

Maybe it's because Jacksonville and surrounding areas are filled with active and retired Navy that I don't see the blatant racism, which so many speak about.

You know, they call them neighborhoods for a reason. I would not fit into the gated community, with the $300,000 home and the manicured 1/4 acre of lawn, where leaving a car in the driveway or on the street will get the local HOA burning a cross on your front lawn.

 

[Royd]

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LOL!! He meant Lousiana - the other LA.

No. That would be La.

 

[the Pollo Loco]

are you sure it's not Lower Alabama?

 

[Ridgerunner]

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LOL!! He meant Lousiana - the other LA.

No. That would be La.

Yeah, Louisiana is La. Lower Alabama is LA.

Seriously, Los Angeles does not currently zone those areas for a specific ethnicity or give them that name. Birds of a feather flock together. The Marshalese are reasonably well represented in my area because some came over, did pretty well, and suggest to their friends that this is a good area for them.

I went to a fairly small university, not a big State school. One specific Pakistani extended family sends their US educated kids to that specific University. Most Pakistani kids in that school have the same last name. Birds of a feather.

 

[Royd]

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No. That would be La.

Yeah, Louisiana is La. Lower Alabama is LA.

Seriously, Los Angeles does not currently zone those areas for a specific ethnicity or give them that name. Birds of a feather flock together. The Marshalese are reasonably well represented in my area because some came over, did pretty well, and suggest to their friends that this is a good area for them.

I went to a fairly small university, not a big State school. One specific Pakistani extended family sends their US educated kids to that specific University. Most Pakistani kids in that school have the same last name. Birds of a feather.

Exactly. And invisible boundaries get drawn. How many times has someone taken a wrong exit off an interstate, and suddenly felt the hair on their neck stand up. They knew that a thousand eyes were upon them. You are just hoping that you can get through or turned around, without running into a dead end.

 

[LegginMF12]

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I am white as they get. I dated almost exclusively Mexican. One time I was out having drinks with my ex (we stayed friends) and a huge group of Mexican's were there. They kept at us with derogatory remarks for about 2 hrs, we moved to a different table 3 times and bought the entire group a roundof drinks trying to keep the peace. I told him that I was going to leave as it was going to be a fist fight and I wanted no part of it. I was on a first name basis with all of the bouncers at the bar (it's a restaurant also, though don't get me wrong i can put away a few tequila's). When I went to leave I went to the restroom...... and 3 of the girls in the group jumped me in the bathroom. I proceeded to beat the holy crap out of all 3 of them. Then the cops showed up. It turns out that this entire group of people were COPs and their WIVES, From Los Angeles! I was handcuffed and they told the officers that I lured the 3 women into the bathroom and that "my attack was racially motivated" I then introduced the nice police officers of our area to my (ex) Eduardo (he used to be cop in L.A.)! I heard through a few cop friends I know that the visiting party was very politely informed to NEVER come back and their CO were notified of the incident with testimony of me and the employees at the bar. What really scared me was that these were Cops engaging in this kind of behavior. I am very live and let live, I don't see the color of your skin I see the color of your soul. My grand daughter is mixed raced and my daughter dates only black. What is wrong with that?

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

What do you mean there isn't segregated schools anymore? There are segregated schools HERE in California.

My boyfriends brother took his 5 yr old son to be enrolled in the kindergarden where he attended when he was little and the lady that does the enrollments said "we encourage kids of hispanic origin to enroll here" and he was like "I went here", and she said "that was a long time ago", and then he said "so I can't enroll my son here", and she said "no"...

You better believe he was ticked off...

This was like a month ago...

 

[conny63malies]

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They are not racist. THey just done like outsiders period. Mountain people od all appalachians states are set on their way of life. they just want to be left alone and live their life. In many ways like chicken owners, just let us have our chickens and we are the happiest people, but if you mess with our chickens we can get very angry. BTW the creepiest state i went through was Arkansas we came from Memphis rolling through towards Florida. THe first 2-3 miles went went into Arkansas i saw two ATV driving down the SR, a guy peeing in the bushes and two more guys noodling for catfish. I thought get me out that Hill billy hell. Scariest black moment for me was when our GPS thought it would be funny to take us through the hood in Memphis, my husband had a revolver loaded with shotgun shells ready. We were the ONLY white people and we saw people dealing and shooting up.

 

[bgelber]

Until I went to high school I had not gone to school with blacks. I didn't attend a private elementary/junior school, it was public. But blacks were not allowed, I don't think that changed until after I graduated in 1989 ( I'm telling my age aren't I ).

I've never given much thought about race, you have good and bad in all races. But I have faced racism, I used to work with a few older black ladies that would look you right in the face and tell you they hated all white people and to get away from them, don't speak to them, touch the table they were sitting at or even look at them. I just said okay to each his own, I also wasn't taught to disrespect my elders.

Also I have been on the receiving end of racism due to being from the south when I have visited my husband's family in Ohio.

I was taught differently. I was taught that there is good and bad in all race of people and each and every one of us know that that is so very true.

 

[dainerra]

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LOL!! I was born and bred a WV hillbilly

. I don't live there now. But in all fairness, you can find pockets of THAT in just about every state. You did have me busting a gut laughing though, because I could picture the scenario. Some places there can be very clannish (not referring to KKKish).

Sounds like coal country to me!! If you want to see the "worst" of WV, there is a documentary called Dwild and wonderful Wh ites". I think that is the title about the White family from a small coal mining community.

Believe me, there are places down in the southern mountains (and some eastern too) that no one but the locals go. The kind of places that only see the sun at high noon, the hollers are so deep. You know, the very worst of the hillbilly sterotype come alive!

Many small communities in WV have a strond and deep mistrust of outsiders and esp "guv'ment" workers as they call them. The kind of mistrust that makes them shoot first and ask questions later and where, even if you buy a home, you're still an outsider 20 years later.

I'd never deny that there is ignorance and racism in the north, west. Or anywhere for that matter. I laughed till I cried at the white walmart employee in WV talking in louder and louder voice and hand gestures to the Hispanic customer to "show me your recipt-o". Its an area that had its first Hispanics move in in the last 5 years.
Here in AR, though, is the first place I've lived where racism seems the excpected social norm. In other areas I've lived, its there but hushed upand DEFINITELY not something you voice in public. Here, I can't count the number of times that people have walked up to me, a complete stranger, and start talking about the steps that need to be taken to get those dirty *racial slur of choice* out of our town.
As I said, it might be because the birthplace of the KKK is only a short distance down the road. But the racism is not only alive and well but NORMAL. I am strange and mistrusted because I'm NOT racist. It doesn't seem that people here can grasp the possibility. And that makes me ashamed to be human, really. Not white or a woman or living in the south, but ashamed to be the same species as these people. Of course, they don't consider people of color to be the same species anyway.

I just don't know how it is possible, in this century, to have areas with that level of willful ignorance.