United States and Racism

Racism is an ugly thing and like all ugly things we tend to not be so proud of it.The United States for all its young history as a country racism has been unfortunatly a big part of our history.On the other hand racism changed our country in ways that made we don't even realize now.

I went to the Deep south in 1989 when I was 2 with my parents and they like to tell the same story over and over. We were getting a bus in Atlanta and I wanted to sit at the back of the bus where the black people were. Now, as a 2 yr old, I didnt really care about racial politics but the black people were uneasy we were there for whatever reason.

I haven't been to the south myself all that often but I heard yeah racism still unfortunatly has its hold in the Bible Belt but there is always hope for the future and I heard that it's actually has been going down.

edited 14th Sep '11 12:46:31 PM by joyflower

This is interesting btw Joy

Then again racism is a form of stupidity mixed with hatred so it can happen anywhere.

I blame disaster events that happen and then a race group gets blamed examples Pearl Harbor(Japanese) and 9/11(Middle Eastern Looking People).

edited 14th Sep '11 1:24:56 PM by joyflower

I made a good post (according to Black Humor, anyhow) about this in another thread, but it basically boils down to, the US has shoved racism under the surface (barely...) and now people honestly believe it's dead when it's really out of sight, out of mind.

One trip into a slum of any mid-sized city will tell you it's alive and well, however...

Yeah, it's largely a Crapsaccharine World situation.

One of the things I don't like about America's current race relations is the insistence on erasing evidence of certain things that happened. Like the Censored Eleven. Most people I know (black or white) have never even heard of them. Nor do most people I know know about The Red Summer. Except for a few historical institutions or organizations specifically geared toward black history, there are just SO MANY things about black history and culture that have been all but erased.

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That would be all of US History, in a nutshell.

I don't know everything about Black history and what happened in Segregation years but it would be an enourmous mistake about I don't know anything about the lynchings,the thanklessness when black soldiers came home from the war,Emmet Till,the KKK,and many other nasty things.

I have been taught black history a lot in my life and I have the books to show it.I think it wavers between we do know but we need to find more smarter ways of handling it.