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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHeartbreaking, that this even has to be said.
and what is even worse, I'd wager a good majority of the most ardent Republicans don't believe it.
That is what is really heartbreaking.
Cha
(297,346 posts)mimi85
(1,805 posts)is a large part of it. These fools like the Turtle still haven't gotten over it. I honestly get tears in my eyes when I think how much ugliness and hate has emerged over the last 6 years.
Lobo27
(753 posts)I'm half white and half Mexican, so I'm slightly tanned in skin color, and have experienced racism. But nothing compared to so many black folks. The reason say that the hate is so ingrained is because I see it daily and not just from white folks. But rather almost anyone that isn't black.
Some example from my life.
A Mexican friend of the family hasn't spoken to daughter for 2 years because she is dating a black man. They live in the same house and imagine not talking for 2 years.
In 2012 around 3-4 in the morning someone tried to forcibly open our door. My wife called the cops, when they arrived they asked if had seen the person trying to get in. We didn't see, but the cop asked us if we thought he may have been black.
Daily life anytime something is stolen someone mentions probably a black guy.
How hispanic minorities have a slang term for black people. I know the name, but I will not type it. Sad. Sad....
It as if the society itself programs people to detest black folks. Really sad.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Most of the South is dominated by the Southern Baptist Church, which was set up in the first place to defend slavery as a righteous situation.
You're damn right, society programs people to detest black folks.
AND the SBC cozies up to hate radio and Fox News and Pat Robertson and the GOP.
PsychGrad
(239 posts)a picture of a young male black child holding a sign that says the same thing as a reply to a news story about Michael Brown. The racists came out of the woodwork. Talking incessantly about how "this needs to be posted on every street corner since they kill each other so much". Ugh. I wonder if some people will ever get it.