Actually, I met you and Darby very briefly at the meet last year, but you wouldn't remember--I was there for only a couple of hours.
You're probably right. I'm sure some of it goes on here, too. I think I'm partly confined to people who share my values and language by either having lived here a long time or by the roles I play (teacher, etc) that what I see is filtered, whereas in Chicago I just was meeting people in a working class neighborhood who did say amazingly racist things.
I and most people I know in the south were brought up not to say those overtly racist things--my mother considered the n word worse than a four letter one, and made it plain at an early age that we weren't to hurt black people's feelings by that kind of talk. But yes, it is here. For sure. And along with the talk goes some action in some places. Or inaction, in the case of education and other services.
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Date: 2005-05-22 08:50 pm (UTC)You're probably right. I'm sure some of it goes on here, too. I think I'm partly confined to people who share my values and language by either having lived here a long time or by the roles I play (teacher, etc) that what I see is filtered, whereas in Chicago I just was meeting people in a working class neighborhood who did say amazingly racist things.
I and most people I know in the south were brought up not to say those overtly racist things--my mother considered the n word worse than a four letter one, and made it plain at an early age that we weren't to hurt black people's feelings by that kind of talk. But yes, it is here. For sure. And along with the talk goes some action in some places. Or inaction, in the case of education and other services.