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Racial Diversity in a Small Aouthern Town
By christingirl07 - Posted on April 3rd, 2007
Tagged: Take Action
• Personal freedom
I live in a small southern town called Sandersville. Everyone knows each other some way, so everyone knows each other's business. I do not want to say that everyone in my town is a racist because not everyone is, but a majority are.There are guys in my high school that openly do not like black people. The people in my town will walk on the other side of the street if someone of the opposite race is walking towards them. White ladies will avoid talking to a black man if they are by themselves. There is discrimination in jobs if a person is white or black. My little town needs to gets in shape and realize that this is the 21st century and not the time before the civil war. Racism seems to be a problem in my liitle town.
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I'm originally from Wrens. What you have said is completely consistent with my own experience. Not EVERYONE in small southern towns is racist, but I do agree that MOST are.
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i can't believe that there is still that kind of open racism and I hate to hear that. I still experience it at my university because I am one fo the few black men here. But you should take action to stop that open racism. I am sure it will always be there, but try and subside it.
I think that people who look down on others because of something as silly as skin should be discriminated against. If you see one in public, treat them the same way they treat others. At the same time have compassion- these people are missing out on life, shortchanging themselves of friends.
It' not just skin color like people like to say - there is just cause for concern. Many overlook because they lack the facts - The disproportionate representation of black Americans in the U.S. criminal justice system is well documented. Blacks comprise 13 percent of the national population, but 30 percent of people arrested, 41 percent of people in jail,and 49 percent of those in prison. Nine percent of all black adults are under some form of correctional supervision (in jail or prison, on probation or parole), compared to two percent of white adults. One in three black men between the ages of 20 and 29 was either in jail or prison, or on parole or probation in 1995.One in ten black men in their twenties and early thirties is in prison or jail. Thirteen percent of the black adult male population has lost the right to vote because of felony disenfranchisement laws.