US Politics on Sidechat | Growing up in the Mississippi delta, some of the left’s centralization of race and identity are fucking annoying. Like how many fucking black people do you know outside of your little bubble on TikTok that’s entirely homogenous? -a leftist

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US Politics 1w

Growing up in the Mississippi delta, some of the left’s centralization of race and identity are fucking annoying. Like how many fucking black people do you know outside of your little bubble on TikTok that’s entirely homogenous? -a leftist

Anonymous 1w

Grew up/ live in one of the most left leaning cities in the US, if not #1. And my mom’s side is from the south/ am very close with that family. The way people talk abt the south up here is often classist and racist, and they don’t even realize

Anonymous 1w

Only to be completely fair, where in the US are communities less racially mixed, and where in the US is culture less racially divided than in the Mississippi delta?

Anonymous 1w

Sorry, not ur target audience but yeah I’ve always found this odd but also I think it shows how the American social system is so set up based on race that they find it hard to think outside of its context

Anonymous 1w

I think #1 made a really good point here. You live in a region where everybody is disadvantaged, while a lot of other people come from places where black people are much more disadvantaged than white people.

Anonymous 1w

That’s the issue, ppl don’t want to talk about race but it’s so integrated in American society it has to be talked about. Little things you wouldn’t think are racial literally are.

Anonymous

#1 1w

More racially mixed*. Excuse the typo

Anonymous

#1 1w

We don’t want to hear about fucking race. We want to hear about how we can fix the problems in our fucking communities. We know the history, what are we actually going to do to make shit better like fuckkkkk. Ugh, it pisses me off.

Anonymous

#1 1w

I’d say our culture in the Mississippi delta isn’t racially divided. We’re all poor and struggling, and we’re all going to the same schools because there’s only like one or two in the whole damn county/parish. We all shop at the same stores. We all live minutes away from each other, unless you’re in the next town over. We all eat at the same damn places. We all hangout and get fucked up. I could go on.

Anonymous

#1 1w

But that’s specifically in the delta, and I’d argue likely the same in the black belt. The rest of the south, segregation is still a problem.

Anonymous

OP 1w

You’re repeating my exact point back to me. In much of the US, culture is race-dependent, which leads to tensions. I wish it wasn’t that way but I hope you see my point here that on the issue of race your region is an anomaly. There are very few places in the US where culture precedes race.

Anonymous

#1 1w

Have to point out that I typed this before I saw your second reply

Anonymous

#1 1w

But suffice to say, centralization of race is just fucking inevitable in this country. Even in places where all races have the same rights in a legal sense, the cultures just don’t mix and you’re not going to see that change in political discussion for a long ass time, albeit unfortunately so

Anonymous

#1 1w

It makes me sad. 😢

Anonymous

#1 1w

Regardless though. I’m sick of hearing white people specifically saying we don’t talk about race enough. It’s fucking weird. Like this guy going on his spiel.

Anonymous

#2 1w

Like many of the WHITE homies I have won’t come down there w me out of fear…. Like okay mostly it’s just polite Christians who are different from u and are largely apolitical lol