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In reply to the discussion: Must be quite a shock to see this vulgar return of overt white racism [View all]OldBaldy1701E
(11,447 posts)One nice thing about being rural is there is no one other than the locals there to see just how racist some people are.
And, when most of the town of 500 agrees with them...
(You may have guessed that even Warp Factor 20 could not get me away from there fast enough, once I was able to do so.)

The sad fact is that racism is just as alive and well as it was at the turn of the last century. It was not able to be as overt after the eighties, but it was still there and no one dared to question it, unless they had another place to live before they asked.
And, the unfortunate truth is that once I did start traveling around, I leaned that it was still just as pervasive as it always was. Some places were much less so, but it was still everywhere.