re: #276 Obdicut

Well, the North and South thing isn’t a dualism— especially not a Manichean one. That’s what I meant by ‘crude’— as in, even though it’s a mass over-generalization, one can very crudely say that racism in the South was more (but just more) violent than in the north, with the number of lynchings and other murders much higher, and in the North was less violent, and more ostracism, ghettoization, et al.

So, the approach to combating racism when what you’re dealing with is, say, a silent conspiracy not to rent houses in an area to blacks and Jews, and when what you’re dealing with is guys driving up to the house of a black man who looked at a white woman and shooting him, is going to be different.

Those conditions can exist simultaneously against all three parties, in the same locale, regardless of region. The violence against each is every bit as visceral.

If you’re in doubt, ask any Asian-American with roots in Washington State.

You really seem like you’re having an argument with an entirely different person, someone who thinks that the North was pure and good in race relations and the South was evil and terrible (which is what it would be if it were a Manichean division).

Lol silly invention, and hyperbole, in order to win an argument on the internet.

Race Troubles in America™ isn’t limited to just north/south. I’ve been saying this for what, 45 minutes, now?

t’s still not a picnic. That was kind of my point.

What’s your problem with what I’ve been saying for that past two hours?

Why did you have an issue to begin with?