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These threads are so stupid. Lefty is just here to drop a bomb and then leave.
I don't know anyone from there as you say you do, but I've done work there and the general area many times and never noticed any undercurrent of prejudicial behavior.
I still think it has to do with poverty and education levels more than anything.
Being a cafeteria Catholic, I could tell you a story or two about the KKK in my own past family.
These threads are so stupid. Lefty is just here to drop a bomb and then leave.
Thanks for the tip.
I'll keep that in mind from now on like I do Kools threads and TGYs threads.
What the ? I'm as white as Amon Goeth, got. You know thisMexicans like you always try to get the attention off your illegal people
I don't care who's racist...I got Army guns and I love my Caucasian babes by the pound
Those that brag the most about their prowess usually are the ones most lacking.
Northern Idaho and it really isn't close tbh
Union Grove, Texas
New England has the least racist whites in the country, except for possibly the northwest. There might be a reason for that...
The national media hasn't been very excited to report on the violence in neighborhoods that have been black dominated being overtaken by Hispanics. Compton is probably the best example. It's been happening in east Houston and south Dallas too.
It's of course true that a lower income makes a person more likely to be a criminal. But you can control for income in crime stats.
http://muse.jhu.edu/article/258891Between 1890 and 1960, thousands of towns across the United States drove out their black populations or took steps to forbid African Americans from living in them, creating "sundown towns," so named because many marked their city limits with signs typically reading, "******, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On You In —." In addition, some towns in the West drove out or kept out Chinese Americans, and a few excluded Native Americans or Mexican Americans. "Sundown suburbs" developed a little later, most between 1900 and 1968, many of which kept out not only African Americans but also Jews.1
This is a misunderstood phenomenon, especially as manifested in the North. African Americans surely never uprooted by choice, and investigation reveals that most white towns are so by design. In Illinois, for example, 502 towns were all white or almost so, decade after decade; many still are. Research confirms the formal and informal racial policies of 219 of them. Of those, 218, or 99.5%, kept out African Americans. About 500 Illinois communities—two-thirds of all incorporated municipalities larger than 1,000—were sundown towns. Some still are. Oregon, Indiana, and some other northern states show similar proportions.2
These facts remained hidden because of our cultural tendency to connect extreme racism with the South. In reality, sundown towns were rare in most of Dixie, and the places they did spread reveal interesting facets of the region's racial history after Reconstruction. The later development of sundown suburbs in the South emulated northern patterns of race relations.
Perhaps it's Nigton, Texas?
We must Worry about the racism within ourselves. That is the only one we can control absolutely. Let others do as they will. Guide your families. Be an example. Peace.
I have books on these things...Nigton? yep...founded by former slaves. used to know a cat from Nigton...learned how to play a 5 string guitar. He was missing the A string. Guy would mix blues with some of dat old time slave singin'. I'm not a cryer but when I heard him play...it took me back in time. Really hit home. Closest thing we have today...think of...something between Lifehouse and Sublime.
Said I used to know him...lost track of the guy but saw a friend of his sister's when I was roaming the backwoods a few years ago. She told me...yep...got shot.
Lifehouse and sublime????
Yes...it's not a perfect analogy but the stuff that...can't remember his name anymore... . But he'd blend in the blues along with those old slave songs.
As I said in another thread, the South has had so much scrutiny that racism is different here. Like obviously, it's here, but the non-racist parts are REALLY non racist, and even KKK member have accepted black people as belonging to their areas. In the North, there's a good deal of pressure to stay with your ethnic groups. Like I didn't get called anything in Philly, but the fact that my friends were multicultural didn't sit well with the native blacks.
And girls? Please. So many dirty looks from everyone if they saw me with a white or Asian woman.
"All music is the blues. All of it." - Carlin
what we have is many modern types of music do originate with dem blues. Rock, Country, Reggae, Pop, Trip Hop, Rap...
But then we have many types that have nothing to do with the blues...Classicl, Easy Listening, Jazz, Celtic...
It's about reading and learning and listening...you can't Google this stuff
Fair'nough. Peace.
what's with the dumb guy routine? If you want to learn something ya need to listen...got it?
Yes...I can tell you some great cuts to listen to get you started:
Start with some blues from across the pond...
The Trooper - Iron Maiden
Sooner or Later - English Beat
Then bring it across to...Canada
Tom Sawyer - Rush
We'll be Fine - Drake
Then down to Texas
Another Thing Comin' - Judas Priest
Rooster - Alice in Chains
I'm Proud to be Black - Run DMC
Then over to Cali
Dream On - Aerosmith
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
Smack My Up - Prodigy
One thing I have noticed about the North compared to the South is that I think it's easier for races to segregate themselves in the North whereas in the South is much harder. For example you can live in a white neighborhood in the South but you will still have interactions with blacks when you go out to public places such as stores,restaurants, etc. Also the public schools in the south tend to be more racially diverse than the north. Even though the South is racist I feel people down here have confronted those racist feelings a bunch of times and dealt with them where the North hasn't really gotten in touch with their racist feelings. I feel everybody has some racism inside of them but doesn't realize it until their put in situations where they have to confront it. In the North you can have people say they are tolerant and not racist but that doesn't mean anything if they are living in an all white area like Vermont. I believe you can't say you are tolerant until you have had a ton of interactions with other races. It's interactions which are good or bad that dictate how racist a person is going to be. The North pretty much limits those interactions and hence you have a lot of people who are uncomfortable socially interacting with each other up there. Granted the South is still super backwards but I feel the way people interact down here socially is much more natural than the North. I have lived in both so that's how I can tell.
I always loved the way this incorporated the blues in his music....
That was funny.
Yep...what we have with Moby is development of the blues and incorporating electronics with it. It's just like a smartphone is just a later version of an old dial telephone.
Now...if we want to turn back towards the dial phone....
whoops...wrong video...here's the blues one
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