(June 9, 2012 at 5:52 am)Tiberius Wrote: Everyone seems quite sure this was done for racist reasons. I don't see anything to justify that, can someone explain?
if you live anywhere as a black person in america, you will get to see it daily. you'll likely never get "evidence" (the apparent holy grail here, haha) on this story, that the people were racist and you know that already before you asked. but i and a lot of people here seem to notice it as well.
quick aside - see, when you spend decades and decades honing the skill, you get quite good at disguising it. here, it was quite obvious. and that's in most of america btw, the "dirty souf" is an entirely different beast. they're so blatant down there that a lot of the blacks i know who live there have an inherent slave mentality, especially the older ones. i'll be 41 soon, old to some, not so much to others, but i make the cut to the side of younger folks that can just get over hard racism because i was never sprayed with a fireman's hose or attacked by police dogs - or witnessed anyone being hanged. they still do that kind of stuff down there even today.
that slave mentality is a very weird phenomena to see in person. generalization: old black people HATE white people but not actively, so when you see them together, the black person is all smiles and overly polite. and what's weird is that, if you've dealt with and seen what those older blacks have, you can understand why some have chosen to just smile it away. there's some painful shit involved mentally, physically, emotionally and socially and some have surmised that it's best to brush off the memories than let the stress kill them.
the evidence is there imho.
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