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Is this where we really are in 2016?
Dec 4, 2016, 10:07 PM
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Im so sick of racial garbage. I spent 20 years in the Marine Corps where AK-47 rounds did not care what your color was or IED's, for that matter. I am white, grad from Keenan High School in Columbia. 80 percent Black school. Lifelong friends there and zero racial issues. I grad from SCSU and was on the Marching 101. Again, no racial issues and lifelong friends. I am so sick of this bull ####. If it was said, I would almost bet the farm it was a Black player to another Black player. My best friend since HS is Black and he uses that word often when talking about his own race that pisses him off in his life. We pull for a team that is overwhelmingly Black, nobody cares. We just want to win games. I am so disgusted with the constant racial ######## in this nation. We are so much more alike than we are different. Southern Whites and Blacks have so much in common yet we sit here and act like we are so different. They eat the same foods, care about family, church, and local stuff all the same. I live in San Jose, CA. Blacks and Whites in the South have nothing in common with their likenesses out here. This is a different world. If we spent time realizing how much we are alike, ditch the stupid trifling insecurities, and grow up as a society, we would not have these asinine issues. I am so sick of this crap that it is sickening. Get over it people. Blacks use the word all of the time. You have so much in common that it is comical. Grow the hell up and live. Stop making each other pay for your own insecurities and inadequacies. Its tired and played out.
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Re: Is this where we really are in 2016?
Dec 4, 2016, 10:14 PM
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I don't know how to do the +1 stuff, but if I did I would try to do 1,000^2 of them for this post.
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Re: Is this where we really are in 2016?
Dec 4, 2016, 10:16 PM
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Hear Hear !
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When people out here in Cali ask me about racism in the South I laugh.
Dec 4, 2016, 10:19 PM
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They talk #### about Mexicans and Richland/ Oakland (primarily black) in ways we wouldn't tolerate at home. They also don't interact daily the way we do at home.
We're way more open minded and together in Charleston than a majority of communities in the majority of California but they judge us. Its crazy.
This includes most of the North Bay, parts of Sacramento, and all of the foothills of the Sierras.
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Orange Blooded [4403]
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No question about it
Dec 4, 2016, 10:23 PM
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Amen brother. Blacks from the South and Whites from the South would band together if they lived out here. They have everything in common but spend their time suspicious of each other so often. If they ever got out and saw the nation they would bond like crazy.
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Orange Blooded [4403]
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You ought to see the attitude towards Oakland
Dec 4, 2016, 10:33 PM
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Out here. Folks act like Oakland has the plague. The worst parts of Oakland are about where I grew up in Columbia yet they act as if its a third world nation here.
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It stunned the rest of the country when Charlestonians
Dec 4, 2016, 11:09 PM
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and South Carolinians, black and white, came together after the church shootings. Of course there was slavery, then Jim Crowe and a century of segregation and discrimination, but through all of that blacks and whites were interacting and living and working amongst each other. Our cultures are shared in that weird way, and while the rest of the country did not have institutionalized racism to the extent we did in the south, blacks and whites didn't grow up interacting to the same degree either.
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This won't be popular, but there is a deep seeded tribalism
Dec 4, 2016, 10:45 PM
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in human beings that will always be there to some extent. I would argue it pertains more to culture than skin color, but both definitely are in play.
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Orange Blooded [4403]
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Agree, but a ton of it is rooted in insecurites
Dec 4, 2016, 10:48 PM
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And fear, both of which are garbage.
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Re: Is this where we really are in 2016?
Dec 4, 2016, 10:56 PM
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It amazes me how we have had a black president for 8 years now, yet it seems like we took a 50 year step back in time with all the racial tension in our county. Don't know who's to blame but it just seems like its backwards from how it should have went.
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Orange Blooded [4403]
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You and me both
Dec 4, 2016, 11:01 PM
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Mind boggling, in fact. Insecurities fuel so much of it. Stupid stereotypes too. When you get out and see the world and nation, you realize what an absolute joke it all is.
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Re: Is this where we really are in 2016?
Dec 4, 2016, 11:59 PM
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Obviously, people will have different experiences, but I have been fortunate to have only experienced only a couple of minor incidents involving race in 40+ years. I am black, but most of my friends, co-workers, former roommates, etc. are white. I went to predominately white schools and churches. Never a problem.
I've lived in culturally-diverse Northern Virginia for 30+ years, but have also lived in Philadelphia, Georgia, South Carolina, and other parts of Virginia. Racial tensions haven't been part of my experience. My black friends don't use the N-word. Most of my family doesn't use the word as a regular practice.
I'm not saying this USuCk story is part of it, but in my view, a divide and conquer, order out of chaos agenda by mentally unstable rich elitists is what helps keep racism alive, and drives much of the racial tension covered by the media. I hope the tensions are more hype than reality, but I don't know.
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Re: Is this where we really are in 2016?
Dec 5, 2016, 12:27 AM
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I'm okay with what the OP states, but I have tremendous hatred towards the BLM terrorist group that kills our innocent policemen, and colon crapnick for disrespecting our country's anthem. That hatred will not change as long as the BLM exists, and crapnick is still in my country. He can take his cronies with him if we can figure out how to get him out of the country. And take all those a-holes that said they'd leave if TRUMP was elected. I don't like any of them either.
I have Black friends and get along fine with Black people. Heck, I like many of them better than I like some White people. Last year I drove 70 miles to buy dinner for an old Black friend of mine just because he's a friend that I haven't seen in 10 years. Their skin color is NOT the problem. It's what they do that needs correction. White idiots and Muslim terrorists are not welcome in my world either, so you don't have to be Black to be on my short list. LOL
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Re: Is this where we really are in 2016?
Dec 5, 2016, 1:34 AM
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I have always contended that people from other parts of the country look down on the South due to our dark past regarding race. However, I grew up with Black people as well as Hispanics and have a much more open mind toward race than people I have known from other parts of the country. Now, don't get me wrong, there are racists in the South, but most people I associate with do not see race as an issue. I have friends of all races and there is little difference between us.
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