How racist is your city?

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Mine is very racist. We had two cross burnings recently (article below) and it wasnt even a big deal. The first black man moved to Dubuque, IA in the early 90s and shit still hasnt gotten any better. I know classmates and their parents who are active members of the KKK and I can honestly say I think I live in the most racist city in the midwest if not the whole USA.
http://www.thonline.com/news/tri-state/article_5a582736-0b5c-54a7-b4b3-4daa70ab6358.html

So how would you rate your hometown/current city's racist tendencies? Are they bad or not?
 
Pretty racist. But its just ignorant racism that comes with not actually meeting anyone of a different race save the one black kid who plays running back and the Indian who's dad owns the AM/PM. Not joking, the only kids we had of other races fit a lot of stereotypes so those stereotypes were definitely reinforced. Plus just of em are just plain dumb. This kid's IG name from my hometown is "chief_hang_a_n*******" but when I actually brought my black friend to his house when he was drunk already he didn't say shit but maybe cuz he's about 5'5" 125 lol.
 
Pretty racist. Small community in south east Alberta (rig pigs and ranchers) that has a huge immigrant population (Sudanese, Somalian, Colombian and a ton of others). It's not necessarily in your face, but it's definitely there.
 
Pittsburgh isn't very racist. At least not obviously. I've lived in different parts of Pittsburgh for 19 years and haven't noticed any obvious racism. Nothing like a cross burning. But I worked with this kid named ty in the seven springs rental shop and once I saw him wrap a snowboard boots laces arround it like a noose, hold the boot so it hung from the laces and say "ha ha now you're all ni**ered up!" Shit was pretty disturbing. I didn't tell anyone but I blamed everything on him after that and eventually got him fired. So I came out on top.
 
13675675:YungBuoy said:
Pittsburgh isn't very racist. At least not obviously. I've lived in different parts of Pittsburgh for 19 years and haven't noticed any obvious racism. Nothing like a cross burning. But I worked with this kid named ty in the seven springs rental shop and once I saw him wrap a snowboard boots laces arround it like a noose, hold the boot so it hung from the laces and say "ha ha now you're all ni**ered up!" Shit was pretty disturbing. I didn't tell anyone but I blamed everything on him after that and eventually got him fired. So I came out on top.
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I miss Pittsburgh a lot. As long as you liked the steelers and penguins everybody got along. Some day I'll move back.
 
Pretty damn racist. We were half typical rich suburban kids/half country rednecks. But like said above it was def ignorant racism because it's 98% white so you can go around dropping jokes and no one cares but people wouldn't actually say shit to anyone's face unless you were one of the rednecks who was seriously racist lol.

The only black kids at my school are former football players(Buffalo Bills) kids so no one really fucked with them.
 
My hometown demographics was like 98.XX% white the last time I checked making like 2 times the national average income on average. Yes...most were spoiled rich white kids.

Personally...I loved it. Crime free, safe, great education. Couldn't ask for a better town.
 
I live in Pittsburgh. The city is pretty chill. Everyone is real laid back. But once you start moving out towards the countryside you'll start seeing a few Confederate flags. Which is honestly the dumbest fucking thing, because its highly likely that the people that proudly display the flag had ancestors who fought for the Union.
 
13675725:evan_pynchdong said:
I live in idaho.....
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Yeah my brother is living in CDA/Sandpoint area now with a bunch of far right Christians in a rehab center and he's astonished at the blatant racism there.

13675737:THEDIRTYBUBBLE said:
I live in Pittsburgh. The city is pretty chill. Everyone is real laid back. But once you start moving out towards the countryside you'll start seeing a few Confederate flags. Which is honestly the dumbest fucking thing, because its highly likely that the people that proudly display the flag had ancestors who fought for the Union.
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SO FUCKING STUPID. This kid from my hometown posted a photo of him shaking a Guatemalan homies hand in front of his Chevy on 36in tires with a giant confederate flag flying and it said "Haritage not hate!" (He actually spelled heritage with an A too lol) but it actually made me so mad. First of all last time I checked Guatemalan weren't suppressed by the confederacy, and 2nd, this mother fuckers family been in WA for generations. I have 100x more southern heritage than him and I don't fly that shit.
 
Heber, Utah. Lots of farmer folk and oil workers and white trash. Pretty damn racist. Its the type of town where people grew up in the place and just never left. Reminds me of the shithole small towns back in the Midwest chock full of dumbfuck hayseeds.
 
I live in the cow-country of Wisconsin... every redneck despises people of color. It is disgusting. Most of the kids around here have never left a 100 mile radius (Seriously) so they are ignorant as fuck. These kids see a guy with black skin for the first time and they have been taught that blacks are thugs or whatever and they lose it.

My dad is the most racist person I know... He shares the "mexican word of the day" on facebook all the time and blames all of the governments problems on black people. Dude is a bitch.
 
13675757:Bodhisattva_ said:
Yeah my brother is living in CDA/Sandpoint area now with a bunch of far right Christians in a rehab center and he's astonished at the blatant racism there.

SO FUCKING STUPID. This kid from my hometown posted a photo of him shaking a Guatemalan homies hand in front of his Chevy on 36in tires with a giant confederate flag flying and it said "Haritage not hate!" (He actually spelled heritage with an A too lol) but it actually made me so mad. First of all last time I checked Guatemalan weren't suppressed by the confederacy, and 2nd, this mother fuckers family been in WA for generations. I have 100x more southern heritage than him and I don't fly that shit.
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Not very racist, but some kid at my school got suspended 10 days for drawing black people hanging from a tree and wrote Alabama wind chimes next to it on a black kids laptop
 
I live in a small town in upstate new york and the only real racists are the kids that drop out of school and this guy that flys a flag with a swastika on it outside his house
 
13675995:JudMaster4 said:
I live in a small town in upstate new york and the only real racists are the kids that drop out of school and this guy that flys a flag with a swastika on it outside his house
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They keep changing the bathrooms around here(WA) to "all inclusive" or "gender neutral". Mumble.Ineedmyurnal.Mumble. I haven't seen any overt racism in the four years that I have lived here. Although, last week this crazy dude was just yelling super loud over and over "this bitch is trying to be a nigger". Classic case of the crazies
 
13675725:evan_pynchdong said:
I live in idaho.....
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Depends on where in Idaho. Up north it's bad. Down south it's not bad at least from what I've seen. Then again it's hard to have racism with only 3 black people in all of Idaho...

But the Muslim hate here is pretty bad. My family has a lot of muslim friends that we pretty much call family that have recently gotten death threats and what not.
 
I don't see a lot of blatant racism but Milwaukee is the most segregated city in the US. Whites on the east side and downtown, Blacks on the north and northwest side, and Hispanics on the south side.
 
I don't see much racism in my area but 95 percent of the people here are white

My black friend doesn't seem to complain so I don't think it's much of an issue here
 
I live in a really white town. Like 1 black person in my high school and he's half black. Most racism here is super ignorant racism but no violence or bullying as far as I'm aware.
 
But the neighborhood my family grew up in had A LOT of race issues. There was a large KKK presence in the town. They really hated Catholics. If you were Catholic, you were a target. If you were an Irish Catholic, you were a HUGE target. My family is both so they had a fuckton of issues with the local Klan. My grandfather told me about how his dad beat the shit out of a Klamsmen banker, not because he was in the KKK, but because the guy was a Protestant haha. They had burning crosses on their front lawns occasionally, so my grandfather and all his neighbors went and got street justice. The Italians in the town also hated the Irish. They use to drive by and throw rocks through the windows. My grandfather never fought them, he just went and stood out on the front doorstep with his middle finger up while screaming "Fuckin Dago's". The one time he went to raise his middle finger super fast and he accidentally punched himself hahaha. Then the local economy in the neighborhood collapsed and 85% of the people (including my family) moved out. It's a ghost town now with a lot of drug issues.
 
not very racist in my city.

pretty white though, few blacks, lots of brown people and asians cause of the university.
 
13675618:Bodhisattva_ said:
its just ignorant racism
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13675618:Bodhisattva_ said:
the only kids we had of other races fit a lot of stereotypes so those stereotypes were definitely reinforced.
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same with mine, we had no hispanic people and a handful of asians and indians who all were super into math and science and didn't play any sports. the people in the town aren't bad people, they just don't really know much about other cultures.
 
Like alot of your hometowns theres not alot of overt racism in minneapolis. That being said its called institutional racism n thats why when you look at the statistics it turns out minneapolis is very racist. My neighborhood probably has like 2 black people out of like 20,000 people. Some meighborhoods in North minneapolis would be exactly the opposite. In the 60's when they were revamping the freeway system in minneapolis they leveled the two succesfull black neighborhoods where working black proffesionals lived putting a 12 lane interstate in the middle (when the interstate came near my upper middle class/ wealthy white neighborhood they made it 4 lanes) and making their community center into the police station that was recently responsible for killing the unarmed and pasive Jamar Clark when he had a lawsuit pending against the officer who killed him. Even though whites and poc smoke weed at roughly the same rate and poc make up only 35% of the total population poc are 6 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana in minneapolis. We have the largest student achievement gap in the country in between white and black students (mostly because the white students in minneapolis score highest in the country but doesnt make it right). Lastly I'll add some striking statistics that are prompting reform in the MPD right now. First of all the police union chief (a man named Bob Kroll is a know white supremacist. Second the police department has paid out 11 mil in police brutality settlements since 2010 but hasnt charged or fired a police officer in any of those cases. Finally every person killed by the MPD has been a POC. This is all to say that even if you dont see people acting racist there is still probably extreme amounts of racism in the systems around you.
 
13676336:foolmetwice said:
Like alot of your hometowns theres not alot of overt racism in minneapolis. That being said its called institutional racism n thats why when you look at the statistics it turns out minneapolis is very racist. My neighborhood probably has like 2 black people out of like 20,000 people. Some meighborhoods in North minneapolis would be exactly the opposite. In the 60's when they were revamping the freeway system in minneapolis they leveled the two succesfull black neighborhoods where working black proffesionals lived putting a 12 lane interstate in the middle (when the interstate came near my upper middle class/ wealthy white neighborhood they made it 4 lanes) and making their community center into the police station that was recently responsible for killing the unarmed and pasive Jamar Clark when he had a lawsuit pending against the officer who killed him. Even though whites and poc smoke weed at roughly the same rate and poc make up only 35% of the total population poc are 6 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana in minneapolis. We have the largest student achievement gap in the country in between white and black students (mostly because the white students in minneapolis score highest in the country but doesnt make it right). Lastly I'll add some striking statistics that are prompting reform in the MPD right now. First of all the police union chief (a man named Bob Kroll is a know white supremacist. Second the police department has paid out 11 mil in police brutality settlements since 2010 but hasnt charged or fired a police officer in any of those cases. Finally every person killed by the MPD has been a POC. This is all to say that even if you dont see people acting racist there is still probably extreme amounts of racism in the systems around you.
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Meant to say every person killed by the MPD in the last 10 yrs has been a person of color
 
Only 0.43% of the population of Montana is black, and other minority populations are pretty low. So, it might be safe to say my city is hardly racist at all. However, living in an area with no diversity can create a culture shock when you travel. I went to Washington D.C. several weeks ago, and it is basically all black people. I'm not racist at all, but it felt strange being a minority for once.
 
I live in the country so idk. I have like 2 black friends that i rarely ever hang out with. Everybody i know is white and there isnt really any blatant hate towards other races.
 
I live in what I've heard is the most multicultural city in the world, Toronto.

Where I grew up though is a very different story.
 
I live in East Atlanta, so not very racist.. Well a lot of people arent huge fans of white people, and Ill get asked if Im a cop occasionally.

Outside of Atlanta can be pretty bad.
 
13676083:Mingg said:
One time a black student put up "white only" signs up across our campus. lol. go figure.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...o-student-hangs-white-signs-article-1.2366089
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Lol what a fucking idiot. I get what she was getting at but really?

I'm gonna go put up swastikas around my school to remind everyone of how messed up the holocaust was, because that is definitely the most effective way of getting my message across.

Seems like she was just lazy and uncreative and tried to justify it with being "artistic." Also, when she said:

"Any white person who would walk past these signs without ripping them down shows a disturbing compliance with this system."

WTF? How about the fact that you hung them up? Is that not equally messed up? College kids are always cooking up dumb, wanna be avant-garde bullshit.

The other day a kid was handing out Malcolm X pins on the U campus. What does shit like that even accomplish?
 
I mean my local electorate voted this cunt in for about 20 years straight so...

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13676469:Nikolaus said:
i live in boulder so basically none
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I live in Madison, WI which is kinda the same as boulder is many ways

It doesn't seem like a place that is racist, but when you actually look at it there is quite a bit of racism it is just more hidden and unconscious. Many people only socialize with other upper middle-class white people.

Also in Madison we have horrible segregation, education gaps, etc, etc

But because people in Madison think that we have such a great environment and couldn't be racist at all, most people try not to confront it and talk about it. That can be even worse in many ways.
 
13677381:DFJ said:
I live in Madison, WI which is kinda the same as boulder is many ways

It doesn't seem like a place that is racist, but when you actually look at it there is quite a bit of racism it is just more hidden and unconscious. Many people only socialize with other upper middle-class white people.

Also in Madison we have horrible segregation, education gaps, etc, etc

But because people in Madison think that we have such a great environment and couldn't be racist at all, most people try not to confront it and talk about it. That can be even worse in many ways.
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theres definitely income inequality and the like but nothing explicitly racist
 
I live in Portland Oregon so it used to be super racist and now it's not really. For the most part it's super white and liberal, so idk.
 
13675725:evan_pynchdong said:
I live in idaho.....
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How's it going fellow Idahoan.

I really haven't noticed any racism, but it's pretty much a Caucasian and Mexican community, the only black guy I've ever seen in our local area was snorting cocaine off a picnic table at Brundage Mountain when I got to work one day.
 
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