Why the racist anger toward minority groups?

Fruityfact said:

Your victim mentality is showing. Go back to your safe space on 8chan or whatever.

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Welcome to my ignore list, your race baiting and trolling is a complete waste of time. Feel free to reply, i wont be seeing it or any other post from you. By by now:2wave:

Kobie said:

Ever since the Civil Rights Act, racism has essentially been privatized.

Black people have a harder time getting loans. Black people have a harder time getting jobs. Black people have a harder time getting credit.

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And in cities like Dallas, (South Dallas, to be specific) black people have a tough time just finding nutritious food at a store.

Food "deserts" in South Dallas:



A "food desert" is a region where there is a shortage of readily available nutritious food. Most food deserts are instead a collection of convenience stores, fast food franchises and liquor stores, and the food which is available is not a substitute for a well balanced nutritious diet.

In Dallas, Interstate 30 has always been the historic "color line" and most black people live in South Dallas.
You simply could not rent or buy a home north of Interstate 30 if you were black, no one would rent to you or sell to you.
As late as the late 1970's and even 1980's, homeowner associations had "covenants" that prohibited white homeowners from selling their homes to black families without a severe financial penalty.

And South Dallas is where most of the food deserts are located in the DFW area.
Strangely, Forth Worth, although similarly divided historically along color lines, doesn't seem to have the same severity with the food desert problem. There are a few small areas but nowhere near as bad as its sister city.

Huey Freeman said:

Says the guy whose icon is in Blackface. Sit down, clown. Sit down.

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Some people did something to PoppyCock's argument. :lamo

Last week, I finally got a "round tuit" and watched the series.

As with Skip's other work, it's outstandingly good.

I won't enumerate all the details and trends that I learned of from the shows, but there were quite a few. Watching the program, I couldn't help thinking our people are truly disserved by standard high school US history classes' omitting and/or glossing through much of the content the program covers.

• How are folks like Robert Brown Elliott largely unknown?
• How is the overtly contrived foundations -- quite literally the selling of white supremacist ideology, just as today ISIS promotes/advocates its ideology, just as the Alt-Right promotes its ideology, to a populace that preponderantly wasn't ascribed-to by the white citizenry on the whole -- its of black stereotypes not detailed in our history instruction?
• How do we not of Thomas Pike's malevolent use of "fake news" to confuse and create misconceptions about people? Pike's book and other texts like it are literally the 19th century analogue to the Russians' co-opting of our 2016 political process. The 19th century media was books, pamphlets and bills; the 21st century's is Twitter, TV, Facebook and blogs.
• How do our textbooks omit so much as mention of Congress' KKK Hearings? It's 8,000 pages of testimony given by American citizens, yet it's largely unmentioned. Can you imagine Congress today taking 8000 pages of testimony today and most folks not even knowing it'd done so?

Another observation I took from the series was the similarity in slavery's separation of family units and Trump's child separation policy. The veritable indifference with which Trump would have immigrant kids separated from their parents is strikingly similar to the glibness with which plantation owners separated Black families by trading slaves, adult and children.

The program also highlights some themes I recall being taught, but that I think many folks forget. Foremost among them, and most poignant again today: corruption happens, the notion and recurring story of how naivete among senior political leaders is no less fertile ground for corruption than is reprehensibility in those same figures' character.

Overall, however, perhaps the greatest value of the series is found in it's reminding us of how, if we are not cognizant of our past successes, failures , mistakes, and corruptions, we are doomed to repeat them. Looking at today's politics, hearing the political rhetoric, seeing how some would treat Blacks and immigrants, one cannot help but see us headed toward substantively, even if not literally, repeating the worst ills of the Reconstruction and subsequent half century of years.

Grim17 said:

There does seem to be a greater cultural difference between white people and black people, than there is between white people and any other minority group in America.

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That is a very important point to remember whenever one discusses this controversial topic.

Huey Freeman said:

Government and business cannot ask for race, news agencies would be prohibited from stating an individual's race, pictures that identify a person's race or ethnicity would be purged,

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BUT if the police ask the public to be on the lookout for a bad guy/gal, how would we be able to identify him/her without knowing that individual's ethnicity?



Some years back, the Los Angeles Times warned people that "young men" were robbing people in a fashionable part of town. But it did not specify the bad actors' ethnicity. So many readers protested that the Times belatedly added that critical information.

We do NOT want to go back to the days when newspapers routinely would headline: "Martian Robs Store" instead of today's "Man Robs Store." But sometimes a bad actor's ethnicity is a vital and legitimate piece of information.

Huey Freeman said:

So I was watching "Reconstruction" on PBS the other night, and was pretty shocked at the level of violence described toward newly freed blacks of the era both from private citizens and from actual governments of the day. Then I thought about it, and realized that it's continued forward until the present day against blacks, although in an arguably less violent form.

I don't get it. By that, I mean I don't get the hateful angry part. Similarly, I can't quite understand the virulent hate that's been around in Europe for centuries toward Jews.

While I don't agree with it at all, I can at least understand how white America might have had a patronizing, superior attitude. Or how medieval Europeans might resent Jews for being the chief moneylenders of their era (despite having been forced into it by Christian governments), and having a certain irritation toward them for being part of the group that crucified Jesus (despite Jesus himself having been a Jew).

But neither of those attitudes really lends themselves to being quite so angry, hateful and willing to do such horrible things. That's what I don't get. At all.

Anyone have any insight?

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People need someone to hate, some kind of scapegoat. When there are problems, there is a need to blame someone.

By the way, about Jesus -- some people who wanted him killed were Jews, but it was the Romans who actually killed him. And we don't see any hatred directed at the Romans because of that!

Jews often lived as outsiders in Europe, speaking their own language and practicing their own traditions. Being different is often enough to get you hated. We are tribal animals, and no amount of education and sophistication will change that.

And, as you said, Jews were the bankers. Not forced into it, but they took advantage of a loophole in the Jewish law. (Don't charge interest on loans, except if you are loaning to a non-person who isn't Jewish).

Don't forget the Jews didn't think too highly of the idol-worshiping Christians either.

Hate will always be with us as long as there are humans on earth. If you don't think you feel any hate towards anyone, you are in denial. Sure you might not hate blacks or Jews or gays, etc. But there is some kind of person you hate.

SDET said:

There are a significant number of white people that are still uncomfortable around black people. They hide it because society forces them to. It doesn't make them bad people. Shaming them is certainly not the solution.

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Most people like to be around birds of a feather. Our close friends have similar education levels and interests and economic status. It's silly to care about skin color but sometimes those things coincide. If by chance we are thrown together with someone from a different race or ethnic group, we might get to see past their surface appearance and connect with them.

But if you had a white middle class upbringing and a college education, you are not too likely to bond with a black who grew up in a poor neighborhood and dropped out of high school.