I lived in Homestead, Florida when I was twelve. One time I had my friend Leo who was black come over to my house that we were renting. One of our neighbors called the landlord, and the landlord called my dad and was swearing at him about having a N word in his house. My dad told him to **** himself. Unreal.

Grandma of my sister's boyfriend calls brazil nuts "****** toes."

Lol I haven't heard ****** toes in a coons age.

Coons age? Move out of the sticks Mark 29595039282.

Question: is it racist for a white guy singing along to bob Marley to pronounce "they" as "dey"?

No.

I and I be glad tah here dat, mon

Depends on why he's pronouncing it that way.

b

Was Bob white or black? The answer is both and the skin color of a person singing his songs is no more significant than the color of their eyes.

I would suspect that this experience has less to do with you moving and more to do with the US becoming less racist over this time frame.

if you're correct, things are brighter than i thought. it doesn't seem like many people in this thread would agree. are neighborhoods in la and ny less segregated now?

source: The conservative Manhattan Institute

A rebuttal

Things are probably brighter than most people think until they have an experience that wakes them up to the changes that have been going on in the background that aren't so obvious.

Every year that goes by is another year of children that are a little bet less racist, a little bit smarter and a little bit more aware of how to treat each other better than the year before. Like a child growing up in front of you, you don't realize it until you look back.

I don't think a person could say racism isn't better than it was 10 or 20 years ago. I doubt many would say that it's been better every year, but it's obviously true when looking back in longer periods. We just can't pinpoint when it happened.

I've watched neighborhoods in Montgomery, Al become much more desegregated over the last 30 or so years I have lived off and on in the area.

Not long ago, I was at a laundry mat on the southwest, historically black, side of town on a Sunday and it looked like the United Nations. That is brightness.

The 'white flight' to the east side of town has also failed as the black community in the area has grown it's middle/ professional class. There is still a stark income/class divide, but there is definitely less of a racial divide.

Yeah I know, not a major city, barely even a minor city by population, but one of significance when it comes to the history of race and segregation in the U.S.

I haven't done research on every neighborhood in every city in America, but racism is slowly becoming less of a problem. It has been a slow process and racism will always exist to a certain extant, but that curve is bending. With less racism comes less segregation. (references: any newspaper from 20 years ago)

Orly?

It's more complicated than that. While attitudes are definitely better, practice may not be so. Where people live is still pretty segregated. That is obviously due to economics. While there may be much less racist whites as far as attitude, that doesn't mean they are going to choose to live in a black or mixed neighborhood. Poor blacks obviously have no choice but to live in their neighborhoods.

Obviously the closer you live and the more you interact with other races, the chances are you're less inclined to think badly of them. Urban areas are just less racist. 50% of the US lives in cities now.

I firmly believe if the economics can be brought more in line, it'd bring the two groups together more because they'd have to live in shared communities more often.

Desegregation is not just about where people live. Where they work, shop, learn, and play are elemental factors.

Of course they are, but the housing situation seems much more segregated than the other elements you mentioned.

Seems people are self-segregating online. White people in the mid-seventies, black people in the mid-sixty percent, was it?

Housing ain't got nothing to do with who you associate with online.

Fyp..economics has a role, but much of that is due to racism also. Job segregation, and (still) housing segregation(many studies show minorities aren't shown the same number of houses in the nicer areas that Whites are when house shopping. Some don't even get a call at all(for rent or real estate) as sometimes the sound of their voice over the phone excludes them.

This doesn't mean they're less racist. They might be more integrated, primarily with non-Whites(which is far different meaning than less segregated).

Many (White) communities are trying to protect their 'areas' via population density policy. It's the new way of saying only those already in a place have claim to the place. This submarines many housing project proposals for building more housing in those areas.

b

Oh no doubt I think that's a factor. But many times its simply access to the best resources. Buying a house and moving into a "nice" neighborhood is the goal of families because they want to have safety, access to good schools, etc. I'm in that situation now. In my area all of the "nice" neighborhoods for families are mostly white (right outside of the city). "Cool" neighborhoods are almost always mixed. Almost every neighborhood in our city is mixed. Almost all of the burbs are not.

It might seem that people are segregating on purpose, but many times its because the better schools are in those areas. So some of them are doing it inadvertently.

Improvement is improvement is improvement.

I am far from suggesting that we don't have a lot of work left to do, but progressive is clearly winning.

My post was about how America is becoming less racist. I didn't see anywhere in this article that compares recent numbers to similar numbers from our country's past.

Part of the reason a higher % of whites only have others of their race in their close knit circle is because they are the majority. In a country with 98 white people and 2 black people we would see a huge % of whites who only have whites in their inner circle while 100% of blacks would have an inner circle made up of people of mixed races.

I'm about to sell my house and I'm pretty sure I'm not in the minority when I say that no thought will be given to the race of anyone trying to buy my home. I can't imagine a significant amount of home owners turning down an offer for their house based on race.

If a black person gets a real estate agent, who gets paid a % of the purchase price of the home purchased, do you think that RE agent is going to not show that individual nice homes in a predominantly white neighborhood?

I'll buy into your argument about the existence of racist landlords but even that seems so -EV that I would think it happens far less than one would think.