We're not racist, just thirsty, eh?
Posted on 01/11/2015 11:18:30 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
ATLANTA — THE groundswell of protests over police brutality in the closing days of 2014, when people dropped to the marble floor of Grand Central Terminal and shut down the Brooklyn Bridge, blocked Lake Shore Drive in Chicago and chanted “I Can’t Breathe” from Boston to Oakland, summoned ghosts not only of the marches of the civil rights era but of the larger forces that led to the arrival of so many African-Americans in the big cities of the North and West in the first place.
Dozens of cities would ultimately join in these demonstrations of discontent. But a map of the largest protests those first nights, and of the high-profile cases of police violence in recent months, lit up like a map of the Great Migration: New York, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Washington, Los Angeles, Oakland, all of them the major receiving stations of the movement. These were the places to which generations of African-Americans fled to escape the state-sanctioned violence their descendants have now faced in the North and West.
In matters of racial injustice, the South has been the center of attention since before the time of the Civil War. But the North, with its shorter history of a mass black population, has only more recently dealt with the paradox of an enlightened ideal coexisting with racial disparity. The protests have become a referendum on the black condition since the Great Migration. “The protests are beginning to wake people up to the idea that the problems are not only there but have been obvious all along,” the historian Taylor Branch told me. “It feels like the South in the 1950s.”(continued)
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If you think your life failed because of the color of your skin, you are racist. And until you get past it, unhelpable.
Red States provide residents with most prosperous lives.
Now Red States are less racist?
The NYT is slipping.
We're not racist, just thirsty, eh?
They do not care about the black/yellow/red man(women), they want the white man locked up and his bible and gun confiscated.
And all his ideas that brought West civilization burned to the ground.
let us not forget the plight of French African...-Americans/s
So this is the kind of tripe that passes for journalism at the new York slimes these days?
When will the "blacks" repudiate their racism?
> “When Will the North Face Its Racism? —The New York Times”
When will the New York Times go away?
Lol. How about, "I Can't Draw Cartoons" or, if you prefer,
Je ne peux pas dessiner des dessins animés(courtesy Google translate).
While you’re at it, look at Irish slavery in the US.
Start by disbanding the overtly racist Congressional Black Caucus.
The Jewish Slavery In Eygpt....back a few years ago.
Exactly True !
And the biggest racists are the blacks themselves
who identify everyone by skin color, and the deepness of skin color.
Blacks up north are way more racist than those down south
(...not sure why Politifake spelled “Ku” as “Klu.” Thanks, Public Schools!!)
I think the Kreep on the left (with the Flag) is a chick.
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