When Will the North Face Its Racism?

The New York Times ^ | January 10, 2015 | Isabel Wilkerson

[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)

[LostInBayport]

Sorry, Isabel. The American public has had it with the perpetual “racism is everywhere” crap. Besides, the national focus is now on Islamic terrorism after what happened in France (and earlier in Canada and Australia). By the way, look at the French if you want to see how an attractive, inspirational, compelling demonstration is done (Daily Mail has great photos). No looting, no thugs, no harassment of innocent restaurant-goers, no bobble-headed Al Sharpton yelling every sentence into a microphone like Garrett Morris in that old SNL skit. In other words: class (except for racist Eric Holder being invited).

[SoCal Pubbie]

What Irish slavery?

[I want the USA back]

Typical for this leftist America-hating rag.

[Vaquero]

cries of Racism, like cries of ‘Gore-Bull worming’ is part of the Marxist mantra to complete the take over and destruction of the free enterprises system.

[x]

Wilkerson wrote a book on Black migration northward. It doesn’t look like she actually has anything to say about the North or about race. She’s just recycling her material, which is something writers do to keep a little money coming in.

[jsanders2001]

Yeah why no black Santa or black Jesus?.../s

[driftless2]

Just another s...load of lies by apologists for black failures by another lying scoundrel. Most Americans are quite fed up with black pathologies.

I live in an area with a tiny black population of about one or two percent in a metro area of over one hundred thousand. Yet black crimes are constantly in the local rag and on tv.

I have a friend who used to work at the county jail. He related to me one time how many blacks end up in the county slammer. He said some weekends it was just an endless stream of black perps. I guess the area police are just a bunch of nasty racists looking for innocent blacks to throw in the klink. (snicker) Enough is enough.

[GSWarrior]

The North Face is a fine sporting goods store. They are in no way racist.

[Straight8]

The North won’t face its racism because the libs run the most racist cities in the north: NYC, Detroit, Chicago, _____ (fill in the blank)

[Eagles6]

http://www.infowars.com/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/

[vpintheak]

The left is racist because they do not think that anyone can make anything of themselves without the “good” leftist help.

[socal_parrot]

The North Face is a fine sporting goods store. They are in no way racist.

Have you noticed how white the North Face of Half Dome (their logo) can appear? Just sayin'.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The narrative you grasp will color your life. Why pick such a gloomy one? It’s the devil, not God, telling you that you are going to fail as a black person if not every white person kisses up to you.

[elpadre]

In a country where Political Correction (PC)is accepted as the law of the land, free speech is impossible.

[IronJack]

Hey, Times. YOU are “Northern.” You first.

[RaceBannon]

I have been living in Dixie for 4 years

and that statement you just made is 100% correct!

[wardaddy]

That is true but some urban areas here are working on i
First black hostility I ever knew was Manhattan 1969

[usurper]

Blacks up north are way more racist than those down south.

I have noticed that as well. The ones in California have a bad attitude as well.

Never had a problem in the south.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[SoCal Pubbie]

Alex Jones is not a credible source for anything as far as I’m concerned. Indentured servitude was not the same as slavery. While there may have been individual cases of forced servitude that criminally resulted in near slave conditions, I remain unconvinced that any widespread, systemic, and legal slavery of whites took place in the thirteen colonies or the United States at any time up to 1865.