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Seriously, is Louisiana that backwards that

in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
edited September 2007 in A Moving Train
there is still crap like this going on? WOW..


http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/21/car.nooses/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
"What a stupid lamb."
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
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  • bostonloubostonlou Posts: 2,849
    this belongs in the moving train


    you start some odd threads there P


    then again... so does everyone
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  • drtyfrnk29drtyfrnk29 Posts: 846
    That whole Jena 6 thing is crazy. I listen to the news reports and cant believe what I'm hearing
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  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    Love how ignorance, or just low intelligence causes people to stereotype an entire state over an incident.
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  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    know1 wrote:
    Love how ignorance, or just low intelligence causes people to stereotype an entire state over an incident.
    Yeah, seriously.
    I was born and raised in Louisiana -- New Orleans, to be exact.

    When i was 5, the woman who ran my afterschool program was black. Everyone loved her.

    The little black girl, Kadisha, in my kindergarten class was so fond of me, she'd bend down and fix my shoes if they came un tied.

    I attended many a birthday party for class members where 1\3rd of the kids were black.

    At Camelia Grill, every single server and line cook is black, and the mostly white guests are always chuckling and laughing with them. Last time i went there two years ago, the custom of the servers interacting had extended to the point that they usualy "gave dapples" (close fisted hand "shakes") to guests as they paid up and left.

    My uncle is an assistant district attorney in New Orleans. Since Harry Connick Sr. (of relation, yes) retired, Eddie Jordan has been the new District Attorney. Guess what? He is black.

    Racism is a personal problem.
    It is also a problem that can stem from poor education.
    Lousiana just happens to be trailing the nation in education (when i was there it was 49th, it may be 48th now).

    Don't be as bad a "them" by caving to stereotypes and painting with broad strokes of black and white.

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  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    in_hiding79 wrote:
    there is still crap like this going on? WOW..


    http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/21/car.nooses/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

    Not to pile on inhiding, but this kind of stuff happens everywhere. There are ignorant racists in every state. Definitely here in Texas. Remember Jasper?

    Lately it kind of seems like racial tensions are really building in this country with this incident, Michael Vick, Don Imus, and whatever else Al Sharpton decides is worth hollering about. I just hope it's just the media blowing it all out of proportion. Of course they are partly to blame.
  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    gabers wrote:
    Not to pile on inhiding, but this kind of stuff happens everywhere. There are ignorant racists in every state. Definitely here in Texas. Remember Jasper?

    Lately it kind of seems like racial tensions are really building in this country with this incident, Michael Vick, Don Imus, and whatever else Al Sharpton decides is worth hollering about. I just hope it's just the media blowing it all out of proportion. Of course they are partly to blame.


    Jasper, how can I forget?! That was so horrible...I'm still in disbelief!
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • polarispolaris Posts: 3,527
    it's like everywhere else ... major urban centres - it's not that relevant but as soon as you go to small town ... it definitely gets worse ...

    racism is a problem only so much as ignorance is ... and there is a lot of ignorance ...
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Maybe thats why they didn't play the south...

    But seriously, that's fucked up.
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  • MahoganySoulsMahoganySouls Posts: 357
    I have to disagree. It is not like that in "urban cities". The use of nooses, confederate flags and burning crosses is definitely of prominence in the southern setting.

    I have family who moved from here (up north) to NC. Very deep NC and they were in total social shock to find segregation still alive and well there. Albeit unwritten and unspoken. The whites don't talk to the blacks and vice versa. Specific areas of town, restaurants, stores etc. are "known" to be for specific "cultures". School was a very difficult adjustment to the kids. Their daughter saw a fellow classmate who was black at the mall one day and went up to say hi. The girl was quickly surrounded by other black kids and told she had no business talking to the black girl and that she better watch herself. She was scared.

    Such a shame.
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  • Innocent_BystanderInnocent_Bystander Posts: 615
    My new neighbors moved here from Louisiana. They have a truck with a "Coons Ass" bumper sticker, and they called the cops on a black guy literally just walking by. So yes, they are a little fucked up.
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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    It must be pretty low stress being that fucking stupid.
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  • hippiemomhippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I know that there are places in Ohio where that could happen. It's not just Louisiana. I despise racism in any form, but I don't want to paint an entire state as racist just because a handful of assholes live there.
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  • qtegirlqtegirl Posts: 321
    Somebody should make those kids watch "American History X"
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    It must be pretty low stress being that fucking stupid.

    It is.
    I mean...we would do stupid stoned drunk shit when I was that age, just to provoke people...nothing racist like that, but stuff. Like running naked around the block. Or, if we were in a hurry, biking naked around the block.
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  • DerrickDerrick Posts: 475
    I grew up in a _very_ white city in Ontario, Canada. We still had a "black hotel" just outside the city lines until maybe 5-10 years ago, although I think it was abandoned much earlier.
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