re: I don't think the racial tension in America is as bad as the media portrays...

Birds of the same feather flock together.

I can’t see some black fellas riding back roads drinking beer listening to old country music. (yes I know some do)

Same as you’d never see me playing basket ball cause I’m a short fat white fella.

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I don't think the racial tension in America is as bad as the media portrays...

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Its not...its also not non-existent as many pretend. Its about like it has been my entire 59 years. I think overall minorities are treated better than they were when I was a kid but there is still some racism and racial tension and I don't know that it'll ever get much better.

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Do you think there will ever be actual racial and cultural integration?

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Hopefully never

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country is clearly racially segregated

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More segregated via class/income

Well, you have an ideology and political party that has a long history of incompetentance and policy failures. Without any racial/minority division, they wouldn’t win office.

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People tend to want to settle and be amongst people who share the same cultural values as them...I'm not sure why we have to see that as a negative

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I think the negative part is assuming that different color means you must have different values. I don’t know why we got to this point. They won’t all be the same, but if they’re entirely conflicting you can’t have a unified country that way. We do have to have some common ground and overlap if this is to be a country and not just a facade.

Keep cultural traditions, great, that’s fine, as long as they don’t consist of killing everyone who doesn’t believe in Muhammad or something. At the same time don’t get pissed about people being influenced by it, calling it cultural appropriation when a white guy does rap, and don’t get pissed when a black guy does country (as long as they both do it genuinely and artistically, more like Eminem / Darius Rucker and less like Beyoncé who had no authenticity whatsoever in her stupid pandering country song that went to #1). We gotta stop this “don’t touch our culture” stuff. And it’s mostly a problem in the black community. White people don’t give a shite if a black kid wants to learn all 32 Beethoven sonatas or if Darius Rucker sings a good country song.

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There is no reason to hate white folks more in 2024 than there was in 1974...in fact just the opposite is true...but its also less likely to cause you some trouble in 2024 if you say what's in your heart as a black person that it was in 1974.

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This is not the question. I agree, there’s no reason to hate them more in 2024, but it is happening. Racial unity was at its strongest in the early 2000s IMO. But social media happened, Kaepernick happened, Obama happened, and it’s become just a “thing you do” as a black person to hate white people.

I’ll give you an example. I was visiting NOLA (hometown) and saw a friend I hadn’t seen in 10 years. She’s mixed, white dad black mom. Fast forward to 2022. She picks me up from my hotel, all of a sudden she’s speaking thick Ebonics. She did not speak even remotely that way in high school, in fact I didn’t even know she was black until I knew her for several years. I playfully gave her shite about it, and she goes “I’ve always spoken this way I just toned it down in front of white people” (total bullshite, she was one of the most loved people in HS, wayyyy more well liked than I was, and none of her other black friends “toned it down” around me in HS).

We sit down at a bar, and she immediately goes “there’s too many white people here, this should be a black bar.” I said, “I highly doubt the white people kicked them out, sounds like a bunch of racist black people to be honest.” She says “well that’s your privilege talking. Where do you think everything good about New Orleans comes from?” I said, “who do you think built New Orleans?” It was a tense moment. I said “I’m sorry you hate white people so much.” She said “I don’t hate white people, I’m bitter towards them.” That was pretty much my cue to leave.

They see an opportunity to get special victim treatment and they’re taking it. Part of the responsibility of the black victim is to hate white people. It’s that simple. It’s just what they do at this point. Not all of them, but most of them have this bitterness that we didn’t see 20 years ago. THAT is the difference between today and when I grew up. I’m 37.

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its also less likely to cause you some trouble in 2024 if you say what's in your heart as a black person that it was in 1974

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For now. I don’t know how much longer white people are going to listen to anti-white racism, though. Black people get away with a LOT and the race card is way past its expiration date. The average 8 year old black kid in America has grandparents that weren’t even alive before affirmative action or the Johnson administration. Until they drop the whole thing it’s just going to turn on them eventually.

It's elevated out of proportion on social media.

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folks are meant to be different.

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Exactly. Blacks and whites have different cultures. As do Latinos and Asians. Not saying one is superior to the other, they are just different. And most people want to live around and socialize with others who share the same culture. It doesn't make anyone racist or prejudiced. People are just more comfortable with whatever they have a general familiarity with.

It's not, the powers that be, want to keep us separated