Racism - Always and Forever

How consequential can it be when we are fighting a cold war version today and al it led to was Jim Crow, it didn't end anything.

Meanwhile Stonewall was the most part of the start of a battle for human rights, it is as important as Brown vs Board of Ed.

 

Can't believe someone knocked her up 6 times. At least only 3 of those kids will be as horrible as their parents. I am betting 3 will get out in the real world and resent their upbringing.

 

Howard Beach, Bensonhurst, Staten Island? NYC has a 20-30 percent Republican population and we did end up with Guilani after Dinkins and Bloomberg thrice so I would wager Midtown, UES and FiDi helped that happen.

 

Just because there are a lot of dumbshits doesn't make it a sundown town though. He seems to be making the Both Sides logical fallacy and that just doesn't work here.

The closest thing NYC has to a sundown town is Kiryas Joel. I can't really argue with that.

 

There are many vast majority white 'burbs in the Northeast & elsewhere. But we haven't perfected the whole "N-word - get your ass outta Shelbyville before dark, ya hear?" signs posted on the way into town

 

That's simply gauche, dearie.Just say you're non discriminatory,and then price the houses above market rate.Soooo much more civilized!

 

I was driving to an interview to be a sub at a fancy smancy private school in Northwest Bronx. It's where Horace Mann is and has a healthy Hasidic community to boot. I forgot the name of the area but very close to Riverdale. Anyway, I got lost in the daytime looking for the school. Probably took me an extra 5-10 minutes to figure my way back around which turn led me astray. By the time I pulled up near the school for parking which is about a block away there was a police car pulling up beside me asking if I needed help. So you tell me!?!

 

See!His first question wasn't if you were armed!
PROGRESS!!!!!

/s

 

Absolutely racism everywhere and Hasids are not necessarily known to love the "schwartzes" like Jewish fans of jazz do. But IIRC we were talking sundown towns in NC.

 

It's all the same
everywhere

 

Yeah, it is. Just different flavors & accents.

A map showed that the Midwest had the most sundown towns. With all their aww-shucks-real-Americans-hanging-out-in-diner-ness and telling it like it is.

 

Article from the Peoria Journal Star from about a year ago on this very topic, regarding my home state of Illinois.

https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/history/2022/01/28/sundown-towns-illinois-what-to-know/9238833002/

Anna, in southern Illinois, carries the legacy of that history today, as recent reporting by ProPublica showed. Cicero had such a reputation in the late 1960s that civil rights marches were held there on the subject of housing discrimination.

Pekin's legacy included Ku Klux Klan activity and a high school's nickname — abolished more than 30 years ago — that was a racial slur used to refer to people of Chinese origin. But it was also the home of U.S. Sen. Everett Dirksen, whose support helped ensure the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Other spots in Illinois with reputations as sundown towns or of racial discrimination include Benton, Effingham, Salem, Vienna and Granite City in southern Illinois.​

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Effingham is ********ed up.I wrestled in Pekin, Cicero is best known for being singled out by Martin Luther King on his mid-60s visit to Chicago. Granite City played my high school in the first every play-off game for high school football in the 70s. To steal a line from Shirley Povich, my classmate Craig Lovelace integrated their endzone late in the fourth quarter for the win.

This book is by a professor from Decatur, Illinois



Illinois is a weird state. My town was 16-18% Black, nearly all of my Black classmates were middle class AF, largely because their families settled there in the Underground Railroad days. Decatur was similar. But other towns... They were bypassed by the Underground Railroad since the idea was to get away from that shit.

 

Damn... Loewen also wrote Lies My Teacher Told Me, which I found a pretty doggone interesting read.

And I remember the name Pekin C h i n k s...

 

My sister lives in the next town to Anna, Il.
She told me that the "good people" of Anna say ANNA stands for "Ain't No N****ers in Anna". I avoided going there when I have had to go to the hellhole of Southern Illinois.

 

How depressive do you have to be to see that as the important thing about your town? We need to send Pizzaman there so at least it can be "Ain't No Noodlers in Anna."

 

Jonesboro? They used to have a good basketball team for a small school.

 

I've mentioned this a lot before... but wrestling those guys... squaring off with my opponent and staring at the logo on his singlet... a coolie pulling a rickshaw with the C-slur in italics underneath it. . . I was 15 at the time, so I couldn't put it into words, but I remember feeling that this was just ********ing weird. Here's a basketball log from a decade earlier...



Cobden high school, incidentally, was the smallest school ever to complete for the state championship game before the state started having multiple tournaments based on school enrollment. Their non-racist nickname is memorable enough to survive . . .

The Cobden Appleknockers.

 

I'd prefer not to say which podunk little crap town where my sister lives.

 

Ironically,Apple knocker was a slur used against orchard planters (typically Catholic) by dairymen (Methodists usually) implying that the arborists had sex with their produce.

 

Cobden really hit the daily double there. The asian slur reminded me of when my family first moved to Kentucky. Some older kid a few houses down called me one and it bothered me (there were a lot of Rambo-type movies rewriting Vietnam). I didn't know why at the time but I knew it was bad. Looking back at it now, I realized I was the first Latino (and asian ) he ever met and he honestly had no idea what latinos (and asians) looked like

 

Pekin didn't change their name until 1980, and even with the move to the Dragons it is still suspect since Pekin was HQ for the KKK in the 1920s.

My favorite Illinois High School nickname is the Freeport Pretzels

 

I can't remember if it's East Aurora or Rockford East, but one of those schools used to be (maybe they still are) the E-rabs.

Effingham is the Flaming Hearts. Given the town's history, it's a miracle it wasn't The Flaming Crosses at one point.

My high school was called the Silver Streaks. There was a certain fad in the 1970s that put a new twist on that nickname...

 

Pretzels actually represent the arms of a monk crossed in prayer.Just so all you Baptists know that.

 

The Fightin' Ducks?

 

On the NCAA coverage they said a yoot hailed from Poca, WV. So the mascot is...