I'm so glad you wrote that! I moved from South Carolina to Southern California in the early 90's, just in time to experience the LA riots and the OJ trial. I'll never forget a young lady who, upon hearing I was from the South, said "you have racial problems there, don't you?"
I had no clue how to respond. My experience has been that the South is no better or worse than any other part of the country in terms of race relations. I truly believe that Durham is not representative of most Southern cities.
Most the west in SF are such rookies on the topic of racism, and the south. That's why they are so hot to use the word "RACIST" all the time; it's supposed to cover up their own ignorance of the matter.
I'm so glad you wrote that! I moved from South Carolina to Southern California in the early 90's, just in time to experience the LA riots and the OJ trial.
Oh gawd... I hope you know it was hell at that time in the sister city of LA -- San Francisco. We had riots, and protests and general disgusting stupidity going on.
I'll never forget a young lady who, upon hearing I was from the South, said "you have racial problems there, don't you?"
ROFL!!! You met a "Valley Girl" (aka "wonder" woman)... Are you still in Hell-A?
I don't think it is. In fact, if I were asked to compare race relations in CA to race relations in NC? NC wins, hands down. Durham has seemed to embrace a "New Blank Panther/NOI/Culture of Corruption" sort of .. practice of governing. Some locals of Durham have told me that Durham defines the lips on the Face of Satan.
In fact, Durham puts me in mind of certain locations in the San Francisco Bay Area: inner city Oakland, Hunter's Pt (SF), El Cerrito/Richmond.. in how "things" are run. And how uncivilized it can be to live in places run this way.