Shocking ?

By Please Think About This
Published/Last Modified on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:47 AM CDT

Blog today :  Well known Chicago bar "Mother's" accused of Racism.  You mean there is racism in the

North ?  I have always heard that didn't exist in the north.  What about the news the last few months of

Black on Black crime, especially among teens.  To me this is a crisis.  Who's paying attention, Jesse,

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Al, who ?  Who's calling for hearings about gang killings, teens killing teens, the high dropout rate,

drug deaths being an epidemic in Chicago?

And believe it or not there were plantations in the North !!!  Look it up in history.  Forty five years have

passed since the Civil Rights Act.  Please realize that racism does exist even in the north.  I am tired

of the South being blamed as if we invented racism.   Has anyone checked the last decades the move

by Blacks to the South ?

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Comments

    Missionary wrote on Nov 11, 2009 11:38 AM:

    " Many years ago we took a bus load of students from a local church to Chicago to do mission work at several churches which the populace of these churches varied in ethnicity. While riding in traffic in the city, our bus driver opened the door to see down a street. A man jumped on and asked if we brought any blacks with us and then yelled "did you bring any Mexicans" . We were shocked and I was stared at the most by this psycho. (I am half Latino and half cajun) For a bunch of teenagers it was traumatic. "

    Say it Loud....Im BLACK and Im PROUD wrote on Oct 28, 2009 7:01 AM:

    " Ignorance = Racism. People of any race, if they are ignorant, can not trust or understand that skin color doesn't make you who you are. Gangs are an entirely different issue...do you think gang members care what color your skin is? The reason kids join gangs is to feel powerful...to feel like they belong to something powerful, usually because their home or school life isn't filling that sense of belonging. But people are too ignorant to recognize that. Forest Gump got it right..."Stupid is as stupid does." Leave ignorance in the rear view...there's no future where there's ignorance. "

    me wrote on Oct 27, 2009 10:49 AM:

    " I worked in the northeast area for about 10 years and I can tell you racism is alive and well in that area. People I worked with could not believe I lived in a town where blacks and whites lived in the same neighbor hoods. "

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