Well, I'm a country boy in a city. I'm thinking you would probably faint if you came in my house after I haven't done the dishes
edit- Jesus forget about my sink, you would probably die of fear trying to use my toilet sometimes
Did you just really say that blacks are a shit hole element and to keep them out of your town?
Yes, and, No. What you want to keep out of your town are people who are going to drag it down - who would want to dilute the niceness of their town? No one. So if you have a town that has historically been nice, and is 99% white (almost no town is 100% white), why, given what's happened to all the communities that have allowed other races in (all communities that are working class, the richie rich communities are basically immune to this given their income levels), would you take the chance who you're letting in is going to have the same values as you (and thus, the town niceness remains)? You wouldn't, not if you had a choice.
The problem is, color is easy to go on, so, it's gone on. You simultaneously want to keep the white trash out too, even though they're the same color in this example. Basically you're discriminating on whatever you can discriminate on to get the best possible chance the person moving in won't F the town. You aren't going to get anyone aware of history in this area to enthusiastically say, Yeah, lets only sell to blacks, because, it's worked so well before!
So I'm not really picking on blacks here to pick on blacks, it's just that in the Chicago area, since blacks predominately have been poorer than whites, that's what you have. Sorry if this is inconvenient truth, but, it's the real Reality that P.C. people don't want to acknowledge...
Damn it all
I agree with you. This sucks.
I agree with a lot of your posts, it don't suck
Would you consider yourself republican or democrat?
Oh, absolutely, x2. It's also a clearly Realist statement. It doesn't matter if it's poor white people, poor black people, poor brown people, and so forth, moving from their shithole to a nice town, the issue is, once the nice town starts getting too many poorer people, the town starts becoming a shithole just like the town the poor people left. When you have a lower middle-class to middle-class town of whites, and poorer blacks (lets say blacks, as is common theme in the Chicago scheme of things) start moving there because they want out of their shithole (and no blame on them there, who wants to live in a shithole?), it triggers two things: 1.) white flight - they're getting the F out not because they now have a black living next door (most of them don't), but because they're getting out before the town goes to shit (and, historically, it does, so in the end, they're right), and 2.) the word gets out from those moving in that Yeah we moved to <x>, it's so nice there!, and, more come.
When it's almost all white communities with blacks moving in, and the town goes to shit, it's not hard at all for whites to conclude that when blacks start moving in, things are eventually going to go bad (that them doing a white flight adds to the problem doesn't cross their minds)...it's easier to see due to skin color. If it was poor whites moving in the effect would be almost as bad, however, because of same skin color it's harder for original town inhabitants to determine, so less/delayed 'white flight'. We can actually see that in towns on the border of the now shithole towns. There is still a really good % of white there but it's not middle-class whites only now, we've got the whites are indoctrinated in shithole living. And surprise surprise, the towns are slowly becoming shitholes.
The long and short is this: If you're in a nice town, you want to make sure you keep the shithole element out. You want people with the same core values, and application of those values (because wanting a nice looking yard and actually putting forth the effort to have that nice looking yard are two completely different things), to move/stay in your town, and you want to keep those that have lessor (relative to you in the town) values out. I really can't blame the owner in your example, why take the chance of adding to white flight and that your parents wouldn't share the values and application of those values? Sucks for you and your family but for those living there, makes perfect sense.
Well at least you admit it is racist. And as you said a clearly lazy view.
edit: You actually describe Racism pretty well. If we move it to the work world. Given that corporate America is predominately white, an employer can ask, why take the chance and hire someone who has different values than me. I might as well just hire white people because a black person has a higher risk of having different values.
That is what is dangerous about the view that you have. You dress it up as just risk mitigation. So, people can rationally say it and rationally believe they are just mitigating risk by taking the lazy way out, grouping people based on race. But that in fact sums up racism up perfectly and also white privilege (as the economically dominant race in this country is white and they are the ones that will be most likely excluding people based on race).
And just because you couch in in a more palatable form of risk mitigation doesn't make it any less racist than those who just call African American animals. In fact yours may in fact be more dangerous as it comes from a very reasoned place vs. the others.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...former-ferguson-police-officer-darren-wilson/
Report says claims that Brown had hands up and was surrendering are simply 'not true'.