Premmy's Big-Long Anti-Racism thread.

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Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

This is pretty much a better version of my argument and I think it is really the most compelling argument that you have to make.

Bear in mind, of course, that I'm speaking on average. There are certainly areas throughout the country where full-on lynchtastic cross-burning sheet-wearing bigotry is operating in full effect. My time in Shasta County, California, for instance, provided quite the horrifying reminder for me that we as a nation still have a long way to go. A 17-year-old autistic boy who wandered out of his house one night and got lost ended up being beaten by police, having his arm broken, and hauled off to jail, which probably wouldn't have happened had he not been black. A seriously ill white woman failed to receive treatment at the local hospital because the man who brought her in was black. That sort of thing.

Not exactly a hospitable area for someone who wasn't a straight, white, Christian man, and as someone who doesn't strictly fall into three out of four of those qualifiers, I didn't exactly make an effort to involve myself in the community.