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In reply to the discussion: Here's a White guy about to stab a Black guy in the chest with an American Flag. [View all]Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)8. Long ugly history or racism isn't over yey
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Here's a White guy about to stab a Black guy in the chest with an American Flag. [View all]
WilliamPitt
Jun 2015
OP
The south is the only part of the country where white and black people see each other regularly
Recursion
Jun 2015
#121
You're wrong, AllTooEasy. I remember the riots in Boston. I also remember the Stuart murder case
catbyte
Jun 2015
#134
I really don't see how saying that racism is just as bad in the north as it is in the south
catbyte
Jun 2015
#140
Maybe you and I are reading the responses to AllTooEasy's post differently...
Missn-Hitch
Jun 2015
#155
Ted Landsmark's nose was broken (from a punch), and he has gone on to do a lot of work in art and
Brickbat
Jun 2015
#15
The photographer says the guy was swinging the flagpole and the swinger didn't connect.
MADem
Jun 2015
#81
I remember that horrible time but never saw this photo....racial violence, as American as apple pie.
haikugal
Jun 2015
#3
Our other disagreements notwithstanding, this is one hell of a refutation! My sincerest
KingCharlemagne
Jun 2015
#139
I've heard people say that the South has more structural racism but individuals are friendlier...
DemocraticWing
Jun 2015
#38
Naaah...he really hasn't said "I was wrong." He said he was a hot-headed kid, but he justifies
MADem
Jun 2015
#83
I can take you to lots of racist places in California but that would ruin the DU stereotype.
Throd
Jun 2015
#48
I accept people as they come to me. "Regions" are not good or bad, "people" are.
MADem
Jun 2015
#144
I have some family roots in one region of USA, but I've spent half my life outside America.
MADem
Jun 2015
#163
That "Black guy" is Ted Landsmark, who has had a long and distinguished career in the city.
MADem
Jun 2015
#54
There are 'code word' ways of indicating it--when people start talking about the "character" of a
MADem
Jun 2015
#82
yes, there are Racists everywhere but there seems to be more acceptance of it in some Southern areas
JI7
Jun 2015
#73
I have a 60 lb terrier mix, and a 6 lb chihuahua. That little dog can hate on that big terrier all
jtuck004
Jun 2015
#117
We cannot remove a thing when we deny the full breadth of its existence...
LanternWaste
Jun 2015
#168
The difference, of course, is that one group is still trying to relive the "glory days." n/t
Gore1FL
Jun 2015
#128
You don't see it much here in Seattle. Sunlight is a good disinfectsnt and all that.
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2015
#141
It's odd that focusing rather on the thought-provoking substance of your post
LanternWaste
Jun 2015
#167