re: Football Integration Time Line--For The Record

Yeah I guess when you let people shite where-ever they want your level of tolerance for anything is off the charts.

Tell me you don’t know history without telling me lol

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1971--Alabama, Ole Miss, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU

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Willie Jackson and Leonard George signed football scholarships to play at UF in 1969, shortly after Ron Coleman, a long jumper and triple jumper, became the first black athlete to sign an athletic scholarship at UF

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We all know racism still exists. And we all know a lot of southern states still wish we were segregated. We all know Mississippi, Louisiana , and Alabama are still the most racist states still to this day. Y’all have most monuments of confederate generals than Union/ united states generals. How much yall try to deny it, the confederate states only wanted to secede from the Union was bc of slavery. Holding on to an evil past is not a good look in the black community.

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Such a bunch of BS, I don't even know where to start.

Does racism still exist? Yes, of course. But it exists ALL OVER THE U.S., not just the South. The South went through it the worst in the 1950s-1970s because Whites and Blacks had to intermingle regularly, unlike the North. And look, you're always going to have good ole boys who are racists, that will probably always be around.

But the important thing, the institutional racism is gone. Blacks don't have their own water fountains and restrooms anymore. Blacks can open bank accounts anywhere. Blacks can buy a home anywhere if they have the money. Blacks can play college football. The police no longer look the other way, so whites can brutally hurt or kill blacks. The KKK is more of a myth than a reality. And let me remind you, the KKK had more active members in INDIANA than anywhere in the south.

I'll admit that I've known 3 blatantly racist individuals in my life. I'm not talking about people who say things like "blacks should eat fried chicken, or blacks are thugs". I'm talking about people who wanted blacks out of the United States. People who considered blacks to be animals, behind 500-1,000 years in evolution and people that should've been sent back to Africa after the Civil War.

The first one was a friend of a friend. I ended up cutting both of those individuals out of my life. The second was a co-worker who would spout stuff off when he was around white people and thought he was safe. He didn't make it long and was quickly fired and I cut off any contact with him. The third one is a neighbor who is older. We've established we can't change his opinion on race, but to not bring it up to us. He's the only one I still have any contact with, but even for me it's not a lot.

Where did these 3 individuals come from: NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA and MICHIGAN! Not a single southern state, so s*ck on that.

You say southern states still wish we were segregated. Northern states in many areas still are more segregated than pretty much anywhere in the south. I can go to many counties in the northeast and midwest and not see a single black person. And trust me, there are many communities in the Northeast and Midwest where, if a black person tried to move in, they would get the memo they are unwelcome very quickly.

Honestly, the North is actually significantly more racist now. Cities in the north like Chicago and Indianapolis are far more segregated than any southern city. And I would say at least 75% of the time I hear anything even remotely racist, it's from someone from the north.

Sadly they get away with it because they are able to hide it behind a more general elitism. Plus with the media based out of New York, they aren't ever going to say anything bad about the Northeast.

The whole "the south is racist" thing is now just used as a way for northerners to try to still feel superior. The south is now better in a huge amount of metrics. We have better weather, better food, better outdoor activities, better manufacturing (why do think all the car manufacturing is moving to the south?) and better economies. We even have better infrastructure (outside of Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Tennessee, which I'll admit are awful). And we absolutely have better women.

The south continues to grow, while the midwest and northeast continue to hemorrhage their population. It seems like half of Ohio has moved to South Carolina, and more than half of New York has moved to Florida. You sure as heck don't see the reverse happening.

The north uses "racism" just to make them feel better about themselves, and to try to keep a false moral superiority over the south. Of course it's not true, and it doesn't hide the fact that, by so many metrics, the south is now a far better place to live.

But don't worry, if you need to, I can give you some names of towns in the northeast and midwest where you'll be able to find plenty of racists. Of course you won't go, because that will break your narrative.

Racism isn't even a word with an agreed upon definition any longer.

It is a useless moniker that the corrupt media uses to stir up minorities and other liberals who are too stupid to understand they are being played.

Also RA'd to move to the poli board.

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Racism isn't even a word with an agreed upon definition any longer.

It is a useless moniker that the corrupt media uses to stir up minorities and other liberals who are too stupid to understand they are being played.

Also RA'd to move to the poli board.

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The term "racist" has been completely watered down. Honestly, it's lost all it's teeth.

I'm old enough to remember when it was genuinely insulting to be called a racist. And if you're were called one, you would reflect if it was actually true.

Now if you disagree with a black person or any minority, on anything, you are called a "racist". I hate to be political, and I agree this should be moved to the poli board, but the racism term really got diminished starting with Obama.

If you were white, you were not allowed to disagree with Obama without being called a racist. It didn't matter that your disagreement wasn't about race at all. Take Obamacare for example. I disagreed with that. Obama could have been the whitest President in history with 100% European lineage and I would've disagreed with it. But if you disagreed, you were racist.

They didn't realize, and probably didn't care, that they were corrupting the term. And now, to me, when someone uses the word "racist", it probably has very little to do with racism. If anything, a lot of times people resort to the "racist" term, it means either someone has brought up an inconvenient truth, or a person has lost the argument and are now just resorting to name calling to shut down the conversation and ignore the fact they lost.

Tennessee is ranked #23 in the country for infrastructure and I-75, as are all interstates, is Federal.

Having monuments does not equal racism and is certainly not an endorsement of slavery - we are proud to be Southerners and there was a lot more to the war than just slavery

Do you really think institutional racism is gone? lol