Dear Caucasians (R82, talking to you!):
African Americans know that emancipation took place hundreds of years ago. They also know that unfortunately, some people didn’t get the memo. Then, Jim Crow was abolished in the South, and again, white Americans didn’t get the memo.
The resistance was bloody- literally. White Americans did everything from passing laws that are today known as “Charter Schools” , in order to continue to segregate African American children, from white, American children. Charter school legislation has changed demonstrably, from state, to county, city, etc., but today, in 2020, Betsy DeVoss has violated orders from a federal court, in order to test America’s legal system, with the desired outcome of repealing legislation which protects and reviews for profit, and private schools and their unfair business practices, when granting loans to low income and medium income families. She has also helmed the closure of public schools that have larger percentages of minority students, in order to create voucher programs that basically, allow for segregation, and the schools that do not close, will suffer, due to the unfair practices of redistricting counties, in favor of controlling funding for poor students, which affects their lunch programs, the books they receive, the pay the teachers are offered, and therefore, force schools in these poorly funded districts, to slash more programs, than they already have. These practices yield more votes for the GOO party candidate disproportionately, from towns, cities, counties, state governments, all the way to Congress and the Senate., which ultimately intercepts with the ability for African Americans to have DNC representation, across the board.
Currently, I am living in the South. I can attest the following to you: the white population here in my county, and surrounding counties, are predominantly white. I grew up and have lived in areas that are predominantly white, in major, metropolitan cities. The way that I am treated here in the South, by white men and women, is profoundly different, than my treatment from Caucasians in metropolitan cities.
Today, for example: I went shopping. I decided to purchase a bunch of stuff that I genuinely need, and stuff that I want. I didn’t interact with anyone in the store, because I was focused on getting in, and out. Before I knew it, my cart was pretty packed, and as I walked around, looking at my list, and procuring the stuff I needed, white women spoke rudely to me, acted as if though our same, exact actions, of pushing our carts around each other, was a courtesy which they were extending to me, rather than a service offered by a privately owned department store, in a state where segregation was found unconstitutional, decades ago. Sales clerks followed me around as I shopped. As I guided my cart through aisles, women spoke curtly to me, as if I had encroached on their personal space (I hadn’t), and did so, btw, before I was anywhere near them, yet slowly advancing forward. The more items I had in my cart, the more aggressive these total strangers became. When I finally went to purchase my items, the sales girl (white) who had been so chatty and friendly with the previous white woman at the cashier, suddenly became sullen, spoke sharply to me, was curt, and the entire interaction was sadly, really negative.
I am highly observant. As I became increasingly aware of the micro, passive aggression directed at me, I noticed that it was also being directed at other minority shoppers, in the store. Thankfully, I didn’t have horns and a tail that everyone but me could see, and to my Jewish friends on here, please note that I understand the origins of that description, and am using it in solidarity with you, to describe similar treatment of American minorities in America, as Jews too, experienced and still do, all over the world.
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