re: #715 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

Lol try growing up Black here. The experience will be quite different, I guarantee you.

Tbh, the use of the n-word isn’t really a good measure of much, afaic.

Try growing up black where? It’s probably not easy anywhere, but it was especially hard for the first black family that moved into my Houston suburb in the 1970s. A doctor’s family in an upper mid class neighborhood, and they still had to deal with a cross being burned on their front lawn.

This isn’t rocket science. The South, unlike any other part of the US, seceded and fought to maintain slavery and a racist hierarchy. It’s only natural that there would be more lingering vestiges of racism in the south.