Posted on 09/09/2005 2:35:47 PM PDT by RWR8189
With any luck their time in Utah will make them realize that they've been the victims of liberal propaganda all those years in New Orleans.
thanks for your advice, but I think he was talking from his own personal experience.
LOL... I've always wondered - where exactly is Caucasia???
That would be 'grammar'.
Question: does the Latter-Day Saints church (Mormons) still hold a tenet that black people cannot attain the highest level of afterlife, or hold high office in the LDS church? I grew up in an area of the East coast (DC) which had quite a few Mormon families, and these ideas of mine may have been misunderstood by me from talking with Mormon classmates, or overturned by the LDS church since then.
i've experienced that myself. Black women tend to get very angry, in general, when they see Black guys with white women. However, I have lots of Black female friends as well as guys. I think it's important to be able to talk about it. There's still a lot of discomfort. Plus, I've made lots of comments on this website and have gotten many more replies from this one comment than any I've made in a year! Interesting!
I'll bet if he lost the dreadlocks, dressed neatly, spoke politely and dropped the attitude he'd get a lot less of it. Look like part of the subculture and you risk being treated like part of it!
Typo. I make a lot of typos and misspellings because I type fast and don't take the time to check my spelling (don't even use the spell checker half the time).
They were SO afraid of how they'd be treated in Tucson, that this was plastered on our front page today. I can't imagine the outcry if the words were changed to "white" and the situation reversed. Tucson is not exactly a hotbed of segregation and racism!
"Tucson blacks prominent in evacuee welcome"
By Jeff Commings
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"Blacks make up only 3 percent of Tucson's population. That's about 18,000 people.
And it seemed like all of them were making their presence known this week to support the arrival of the evacuees from New Orleans. Whether at Tucson International Airport or the Tucson Convention Center, organized groups and individual well-wishers made sure the first thing the evacuees saw were what they call "faces like ours."
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/katrina/92507
I was born in Mississippi, lived there many years, and returned to go to college there. Since then, I have lived in many areas of the country (including northern California), and overseas as well.
Mississippians are unrivaled for their caring, warmth, and generosity of spirit. The news talks about the horrible things that have happened, but they don't talk about the remarkable, unselfish attitudes of those who are living this disaster. I have to hear this from my family and friends, black and white, who are struggling to maintain dignity and sense of purpose under horrible circumstances.
I'm a little oversensitive maybe.
You CLEARLY don't understand the deep South, or San Francisco, for that matter. My grandfather was sherrif of Neshoba County, Mississipi, during the depression (only served one term because he didn't tolerate the Klan) and my father was raised in Philadelphia, MS. I grew up in New York, went to school in Texas, Boston and New York and ended up living in SF for the time between 77 and 82. After 5 years back in New York I ended up back in the "mid south" in the Memphis area, so I've seen it all.
If your boyfriend was afraid of being lynched in Mississippi for dating a white woman he should be honest enough to admit that the odds are equal that it would be a group of black women as a group of white men doing the lynching.
And as far as places "blacks can't/won't go" there are a ton of places in New York, Boston and, particularly, San Francisco, that a white boy better not go or they be dead real quick.
You don't want to be a whitey hanging out near Sam Wo's and the Golden Dragon at 3 AM. You don't want to be a black person in the hispanic sections of South City, Redwood City or the Potrero most any time of day. You don't want to be an asian in the wrong part of Oakland EVER. And you don't want to be ANY other ethnic group and wander into an area where Tagalog is the primary dialect.
There is more harmony and brotherhood between the "traditional" American ethnic groups (black and white) in the deep south than any other place I've lived. Don't get me started on South Boston during the busing riots! The white population in Memphis area is doing amazingly well in dealing with the large influx of hispanics from Mexico and further south, as well as the amazing increase in the asian population, particularly Korean and Vietnamese.
The folks in this area who are having trouble dealing with minorities are the black activists who have finally gotten control of the city government and insisit "it's our turn" to get rich off of graft and nepotism the way white people did through most of the 20th century. They can't stand the idea of other minorities "horning in on their action." There are signs of hope in the "traditional" black community, particularly the new County Mayor, AC Wharton, and some of the up and comers in the next generation (Harold Ford Junior is as partisan as they come, but he is rational).
So do a bit of introspection on your bigotry towards an entire quarter of the country you are part of and try to be a bit less prejudiced. Oh, and try to understand when the 99% of the US looks at the loons in SF and cries "WTF are you talking about?"
Just west of Asia and just east of Europe, a little north of the Middle East.
Thanks for the education.
The people in the Rocky Mountain states may be the least racist in the country. Why?
The region was settled by sturdy individualists. In the earliest days, trappers and guides included blacks, half-breeds and Indians, Mexicans, etc.
Survival was the test, not your race.
An article a few years ago in US News, or Time or Newsweak featured a Medical Doctor, that moved to Wyoming. He also had a ranch.
He said he was most welcome. That he held some novelty value, but that was all.
In Utah, there are a whole lot of non-Mormons, too, if that is an issue.
If you were a democrat, you could get elected president.
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