I know this is late, but Gavin was talking about how southern leftists are probably more chill than northern ones and it definitely stuck in my craw because in the South, SJWs, leftist, BLM etc feel they have a REASON for their positions. They are more emboldened because various injustices have been more recent and lets say actual.
If they are natives or transplants they go out of their way NOT to be aligned with racism or religion. They are the type to abide by ALL talking points and rules, because not to do so would mean they are equivalent to Bull Conner. They quote Martin Luther King's statement "the suburbs are a “high-income white noose” around black inner cities." Ignoring the violence and mayhem within these cities, that blacks are fleeing. They stay in dangerous cities even after their loved ones are violently attacked making excuses for the system. They are particularly contemptful of religion and seak out nonreligous daycares and schools.
I live in Memphis and I feel abandoned by Tennessee. All of the cities in the south are no different than the cities in the north.
Southern leftists are justified they feel. In the city I lived in in the south the state university actually was found guilty of paying women less for the same positions in the 80s!! Do you know how hard that is to prove?!?! That case was one of the few if not the only successful lawsuit of its kind.
When I started my transition to "traditional liberal" or "not left." One thing that I kept thinking was that the right, republicans need to specifically address their past racism. Or at least specifically address it. Racism is the key. Black people in the south are never going to be republican unless this is done.
I really don't know if I should edit my post or what is the best way to respond to everyone making this point. I realized when I wrote "republicans need to address their past racism" it was going to be an issue.
I'm here telling you guys, and you KNOW this, republicans = raycis and dems = not raycis to 90% of black people, so what do we do?
Like I mentioned in my circles of college educated, smart, kind creative funny people of all colors the idea of democrats being racist is absurd. If we are to question the "party switch" like myself it is confused and befuddling. I am telling you my personal experience trying to learn about it.
I really appreciate your comment about the real party switch. But I only have my grandparents to go by and for a large part of my life i believed them to be racist. I always saw them be kind to everyone. However, on my first day of middle school my grandfather gave me advice to "not hang out with the black kids because they didnt want to hang out with me and if i tried to hang out with them white kids wouldnt want to hang out with me." Now, in hindsight, this sounds like he is saying this from experience. However, to a kid in the early nineties who grew hung out with real-life urkels or 'blerds" and the only people she knew who liked NWA were white boys, this just didnt make sense.
I'm not communicating as best I could, but we have to acknowledge and address head on the issue of race , the "other side" has realized a large group of people can be easily manipulated and control ed on this topic for their own gains and we are just sitting around waiting for them to have time in their lives to find out who thomas sowell is, it isn't going to work.