The day I got the living shit beaten out of me.

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98. I'm sorry, but you're wrong

Not about racism, because you can find it all over the world, but you are wrong about the North and the South. Your experience sounds horrific. What you encountered in MA were assholes. What you would have experienced in AL would have been State Sanctioned assholes. That is a huge difference, and it's why you can't compare the pockets of racism in the North, to the State Sponsored terrorism of the South.

The comparison is so wrong, it's almost the same as saying; "well, there's no difference between the parties".

No, what happened to you was deplorable, but it was NOT sanctioned by the powerful arm of the state.

Did your girlfriend have to move to the back of the bus because it was a State Sanctioned LAW?

Was your girlfriend able to sit in the same diner as you, or was she barred by a State Sanctioned LAW?

Could she drink from the same water fountain as you, or was she barred by a State Sanctioned LAW to only drink from a fountain for blacks?

Did her parents have to pass an absurd literacy test, sanctioned by the State, for the right to vote?

No, there was a reason that MLK marched in Montgomery, AL and NOT Boston. MA.

There was a reason that Freedom Fighters marched across a bridge in Selma and NOT, Dudley, MA.

What you experienced was disgusting, but those people were idiots...NOT idiots with the force of the State behind them

That is a huge difference that should never be forgotten.

So yes, there is racism in the North and the South, but the way the power of the state was brought to bear in the South will always make the racism of the South IN NO WAY COMPARABLE to the North.