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re: Arkansas - does having the most racist city in America hold you back in any way?
Posted on 7/30/20 at 11:40 pm to FayetteNAM
Posted on 7/30/20 at 11:40 pm to FayetteNAM
Completely different state, might as well be the moon.
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Posted on 7/30/20 at 11:40 pm to CrabInMyShoeMouth
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Progress, but only before sundown.
Meh, they wouldn't do anything though. One of my coworkers had a black girlfriend and they lived right in town, never had problems. I had kids enlisted who were black and from the area. There are plenty of black athletes at NAC that live in town and come to play in Harrison. There's a lot of people who think they are fancy or big deals around there that really aren't. It's more clique-ish of town pride like people in Valley Springs think they are better or Harrison people think they're better. They do all kinds of weird shite, like literally burying racism on the square. shite, Eureka is 40 mins away and its lib as hell.
Now there are people there, Harrison, who don't like blacks but the town is like 99% white and no matter what your color they can sniff out outsiders.
Most people forget that green forest and Berryville are 20 and 30 mins away and those towns have tons of Hispanics because of Tyson.
Its definitely overblown
This post was edited on 7/30/20 at 11:43 pm
Posted on 7/30/20 at 11:48 pm to momentoftruth87
Let's also not forget that Missouri is the state where the Klan adopted a highway. Not Arkansas.
KKK Adopts a Hwy in Missouri
KKK Adopts a Hwy in Missouri
This post was edited on 7/30/20 at 11:49 pm
Posted on 7/30/20 at 11:53 pm to Inadvertent Whistle
Posted on 7/31/20 at 12:11 am to momentoftruth87
I'd say Mizzou has definitely been fricking pigs since at least 2012.
Posted on 7/31/20 at 12:17 am to SEC. 593
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I'd say Mizzou has definitely been fricking pigs since at least 2012.
Thought that was a daily thing when ya'll get all fricked up on meth
Posted on 7/31/20 at 12:36 am to momentoftruth87
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Bliss, a 31-year-old white man from Los Angeles,
Are you invoking the ole Mississippi Burning/1960 'outside agitators' defense?
It doesn't matter a whit where the guy is from. What matters is the community reaction to him holding a BLM sign and in this case it's ugly as hell. How different southern towns would treat it is very likely different depending on the town. The South isn't a monolith. Even within a single state there's a wide variance of culture.
Posted on 7/31/20 at 12:39 am to Prof
Small towns like that certainly can smell an outsider, it would happen in many towns that size or smaller. It may be an excuse, but a town that minds its business and somebody comes in and does that, they will get reactions.
Posted on 7/31/20 at 12:42 am to momentoftruth87
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Small towns like that certainly can smell an outsider, it would happen in many towns that size or smaller. It may be an excuse, but a town that minds its business and somebody comes in and does that, they will get reactions.
They will get the truth of how that town feels -- at least the louder parts of it. A lot of small towns across the US, not just the South, are rotten to the core. They smell outsiders because a handful of families within them treat those towns like their own personal fiefdoms. It's not surprising they feel free to express their racism. They do worse regularly to the less popular, powerful, and/or wealthy in their own town every day and have done so for generations.
Posted on 7/31/20 at 12:44 am to Prof
Yeah and if I walk through a black community I'm sure I'd stand out and have thing's said to me. Some people love drama though and I'd put money there is more to the story.
Posted on 7/31/20 at 12:54 am to momentoftruth87
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Yeah and if I walk through a black community I'm sure I'd stand out and have thing's said to me. Some people love drama though and I'd put money there is more to the story.
There might be more to it but I don't necessarily think so. We have some ugly arse people who are racist af and don't mind expressing it. The South doesn't have a stranglehold on racist dickheads but we do have more that feel free to speak their stupidity publicly.
Posted on 7/31/20 at 12:57 am to SEC. 593
Have you ever been to Vidor Texas ?
Posted on 7/31/20 at 8:59 am to piggilicious
Nice town. It can't be that bad. It does have the greatest walk on in college football history.
Posted on 7/31/20 at 9:09 am to momentoftruth87
Yes you would, I have done it many times through an outreach program. I would say that people probably got more upset with what the BLM movement stands for as opposed to trying to claim it’s simply just racism towards all African Americans
Posted on 7/31/20 at 9:21 am to Rip Torn
How about any of these democrats who want people to worry about bigotry or racism go wear a trump shirt in downtown Portland, Seattle or San Francisco and then we can talk about where things stand in 2020.
Posted on 7/31/20 at 9:29 am to Gullah Gullah Island
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Pretty much, there’s nothing in that part of nwa.
Harrison isn't part of NWA.
It's in the northwestern quadrant of Arkansas, but NWA refers to a metro area. Harrison is nearly 2 hours east.
I go to Harrison occasionally, passing through omw to parts of the Buffalo. It's kind of a shite-town, lots of billboards, and typical strip mall stuff. Nothing really nice about it at all.
There is a KKK presence nearby apparently.
This post was edited on 7/31/20 at 9:30 am
Posted on 7/31/20 at 9:37 am to SEC. 593
Boston ain't in Arkansas.
Posted on 7/31/20 at 10:23 am to SEC. 593
I would guess 99% of recruits that attend Arkansas or visit the university have never even heard of Harrison, so no.
Posted on 7/31/20 at 11:03 am to SEC. 593
I am pretty sure the norTh has the most segregated schools in the most segregated neighborhoods in the most segregated cities In the most segregated counties.
Dearborn, New York, Boston
List goes on mang.
Dearborn, New York, Boston
List goes on mang.
Posted on 7/31/20 at 11:07 am to dstone12
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I am pretty sure the norTh has the most segregated schools in the most segregated neighborhoods in the most segregated cities In the most segregated counties.
The rest of the country wants to look down its nose at the South in regards to racism without acknowledging the fact that the South had to face many of its racial issues early on since it has the highest amount of black residents per capita.
Its easy to not have racial incidents when you live segregated or without diversity at all.
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