Mardi Gras--STILL racially divided

[Ferrets are Cool]

While this article is 5 years old, it still holds true today. Mardi Gras is one of the more racially divided events still held in America.

The glitter and mayhem of Mardi Gras in Mobile, Ala., cannot disguise the fact that some Carnival parades are still racially segregated, with krewe members of a single ethnicity, AL.com reports. Yet interviews with Carnival and city officials showed that most do not believe the problem needs to be addressed, as AL.com reports.

Leaders of both the historically black and historically white Carnival associations told AL.com that the Carnival "promotes inclusion, rather than exclusion." But that is not the reality on the ground, AL.com reports, as evidenced by the race of riders, a 2004 event at a Carnival ball, or a 2008 documentary that raised the question: "Could Jim Crow still hold sway in Alabama's venerable port city?"


https://www.mardigras.com/new_orleans_parades/article_87b09234-edb8-5928-816e-67df97d217f5.html

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. I think all this shit Trump stirred up is causing the racial

divide to get worse.

[Rebl2]

2. Of course

He made it okay to show racism in public and to be proud of it. He is disgusting to say the least.

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. I am not talking about racial violence.

KCMO has a large population of all ethnicities. What I'm seeing is that everyone is being incredibly polite because no one wants trouble. So the whites are sticking with the whites and blacks are sticking with their own kind. Everybody is on guard.

It's kind of sad.