Not a bit, but I know geography better than most. I know NY and PA are not in "the South" and I also know nothing in the USA is at 5.5° N latitude.
Maybe you just feel more at home in the South. Maybe you have just found your comfort zone amongst the southern racists. You definitely are defensive on race issues and you don't ever express support for ideals like racial harmony and multiculturalism. It comes through very loud and clearly. Sometimes it is more telling what you don't say than the lies you tell to yourself out loud.
Yeah! And just maybe you don't have a clue what you are talking about. The absolute most racist people I have met are from your neck of the woods.
I've met racist people all over the country but nowhere is racism more institutionalized than in the South. This isn't a theory or an opinion or hearsay, by all objective facts the southern experience in this country is one of racism. Are there people in the south that aren't racist? Sure. Are there people in other parts of the country that are racist? Sure. But nowhere else is the racism as institutionalized as it is in the south.
You might as well say that racism isn't theory, opinion or hearsay, but fact in Boston, MA. Alright I'll say it for you, Boston is, in fact, a racist city. Always has been. Here's just one example: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0...the-victim-who-stepped-outside-the-frame.html View attachment 524 Instead of acting like you know what you're talking about on the topic of racism, try joining a black gang anywhere in the North (Chicago, Detroit, New York, etc.) and tell us what happens.
My understanding is that Boston started going to Hell when the Irish moved in. Uninvited, I might add. Same problem in New York. If real Americans had just sent them back to where they came from when they had the chance... Too late now probably. Let this be a lesson to all of us.
"The Soiling of Old Glory," Stanley J. Forman's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph. Boston, April 5, 1976.
You get a gold star, Little Joe. You either recognized the photo or you read the link I posted. Good job!
Thanks for your condescending gold star. I will treasure it always. I figured that if you had to look back 36 years for an instance of southern style racism in the north, and not by some institution but some individual, you probably couldn't find any instances of institutionalized racism north of Dixie. Besides, the guy with the flag in all likelihood is a Republican anyway.
I'm pretty sure racism is alive in one way or another just about everywhere. Fueled by religion and stupidity in many cases. In many cases they are intertwined. On the other hand what about Legitimate Rape?