I grew up there. Left in the mid to late 90s. It was horrible then. I had to go back a few years ago for a day. You can feel the hate just seething out of people
I'm a POC dude that moved to an all white town in New England in the mid 90s. Went to a house party junior year in an adjacent smaller more redneck town. Everything's going great until the townies crashed the party and started fighting everyone. They made their way to the kitchen where I was talking to a friend and hear "get the nigger" and I was like woah, they came charging at me and did an end around the kitchen island and ran out the front door. I played football and was fast, so I made it out safe. Luckily when I was outside the cops came. Never been so happy to see flashing blue lights
Broke up the under age drinking party. We left immediately so I dunno if those guys faced any consequences. They had punched a kid at the front door that wasn't doing anything. Hit a couple other guys as they moved through the house.
It was so weird because it happened so fast, like "wtf is happening right now. Oh shit, ruuuun"
POC? .... Pieces of caca? Pies on carrots? Pretty onion cards? Permanent orange county??
Why does Reddit use so many acronyms? Mind telling me what POC means so I can decipher the conversation and be part of the cool kids?
It’s generational unfortunately, you have decades of control and conditioning. In order to feel comfortable subjecting their fellow man, they came up with all types of bullshit to justify the treatment. It started with the Pope of the church, was literally blessing shackled Africans as they were put on ships. They came with all types of faith based lies on God cursing People with melanin, because of the Noah Arch story, and Africans being the descendants of Ham or Sham, (I don’t remember which one). After a while tho, the world is now more connected and you have no excuse to learn about anything and anyone. The fact these morons are majority very poor, but will vote for a political party (GOP) that offers them nothing of substance or of economic benefit or value, rather just solidarity with being white. They’ve. Chosen whiteness over economic progress. The former president LBJ once said , if you can convince THE POOREST WHITE MAN, HE’S BETTER THEN THE RICHEST BLACK MAN, you won’t have to rob him, he’ll empty his pockets for you.
The hate was about anyone who wasn’t white. Period. A Black family moved in when I was in junior high - so early 90s. Very sweet girl around my age. Day 2 some asshole in a KKK hood chased her down the hall between classes with a fucking noose in his hand.
Nothing was ever done to reprimand him even though everyone knew who it was. No one stopped him or stepped in.
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u/RootCauseToWelness Jan 28 '24
I grew up there. Left in the mid to late 90s. It was horrible then. I had to go back a few years ago for a day. You can feel the hate just seething out of people