SobieskiSavedEurope
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If you are raised in a community in which racist behavior is not recognized as such and is just normal behavior, you are not likely to be bothered by it. Generally if there were no conflicts between the races, killings, riots, etc. then everything was fine."i was a kid and didn't see it" in not a non sequitur.
It is an opposing observation, just as valid as your second hand observations, if not more so.
There is nothing hypocritical about my complaints about anti-white discrimination or policies.
You, attacking people for racism, while making racial slurs, is hypocritical.
That you don't understand this, makes you look pretty stupid.
Your argument is a complete logical fallacy. And you're bloody stupid to realize it.
I'm sure that when you were a kid, you went into stores and everything was just jim dandy.
But that doesn't mean that in other stores when you weren't around, blacks weren't treated like they were sub-human.
When I was about 12, I started to become political aware.
I read about racism in the papers, and I believed it.
There wasn't any around me. Even though it was a fairly diverse neighborhood and my parents were older than the norm. I just figured that my family and neighbors were exceptional.
When I went to a high school, I wondered if I would see all this racism, I was still reading about, but again, I did not. And again, I just figured that my school and fellow classmates were better than average people. Very progressive.
Then I went college in the near by city, and, well you get it. I was in class with minorities, we socialized together, ect ect ect. And I just figured that my city was one of the better ones.
THEN, I read that racial activists considered my city one of the WORSE ones.
And I realized that it was all bullshit.
My first year in high school was in the South in the early 50's. Nobody thought of themselves as being racist. Blacks went to a black school, an old wood frame building and Whites went to a White school, a new 3 story brick building. Blacks did jobs blacks did, cut grass, picked up garbage, and general manual labor. Whites did white jobs, worked in offices and stores, and skilled jobs. Whites lived in white neighborhoods in nice houses and black lived in black neighborhoods on the edge of town in shotgun shacks. It was all good. There were no racists. Everybody was happy, of course no one every ask any black people about this.
Are Blacks doing better in areas with presumably low levels of racism like Portland, or Seattle on the West Coast, as opposed to some East Coat cities which are obviously much more racist?
It seems Blacks are nearly the same everywhere, while racist beliefs widely vary by city, county, state, region etc.