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I think you'd be surprised at how non-white males are treated in the Deep Red, is again my point.

by meat_fist 10y ago

austenallred 10y ago
Are you speaking from experience?
- muzz 10y ago
  I'm non-white and lived in a red state and experienced some serious racism.
  - kpennell 10y ago
    Good thread here
- mozumder 10y ago
  I can confirm. Growing up in the south, as a non-white, it's not if you've been mistreated, but how many times PER DAY. Your identity is that of an outsider. You're not part of the white culture. It's so common that it just becomes the usual part of life, and you deal with it from there. You are definitely lacking any idea of the experience of other races. Mormons, they go around house-to-house trying to convert people. Try doing the same thing as a Muslim, with a long beard, in the deep south, and then let me know if you still think you'd be more comfortable expressing your views in the deep south. =^D
  - austenallred 10y ago
    I've only been in the south a handful of times, and it definitely seems much more racially charged. Utah was so insular that we never even talked about race, even when there were minorities around.
    - mozumder 10y ago
      Do you think the minorities talked about race and their experience with racism in Utah?
  - selimthegrim 10y ago
    I live in New Orleans. My family is Ahmadi. (I don't care for religion particularly). A couple days before the executive orders on immigration, a Muslim guy in a bar down the street from my house drinking from a water bottle (with a trimmed beard, if it matters) was telling his white friends about the mercies of Sharia and how awesome it really was. I interjected and asked him what the fate of my family would be. Without missing a beat he said "Execution, in an Islamic state, if they don't repent or continue to profess their faith in public." I wonder why his outsiderhood hasn't given him any empathy. (Both he and I are Pakistani-American)
ZeroGravitas 10y ago
I'm surprised he'd be surprised given what the official Mormon church position on black people used to be until relatively recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_and_Mormonism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_and_Mormonism

I think you'd be surprised at how non-white males are treated in the Deep Red, is again my point.

austenallred 10y ago

Are you speaking from experience?

muzz 10y ago
I'm non-white and lived in a red state and experienced some serious racism.
- kpennell 10y ago
  Good thread here
mozumder 10y ago
I can confirm. Growing up in the south, as a non-white, it's not if you've been mistreated, but how many times PER DAY. Your identity is that of an outsider. You're not part of the white culture. It's so common that it just becomes the usual part of life, and you deal with it from there. You are definitely lacking any idea of the experience of other races. Mormons, they go around house-to-house trying to convert people. Try doing the same thing as a Muslim, with a long beard, in the deep south, and then let me know if you still think you'd be more comfortable expressing your views in the deep south. =^D
- austenallred 10y ago
  I've only been in the south a handful of times, and it definitely seems much more racially charged. Utah was so insular that we never even talked about race, even when there were minorities around.
  - mozumder 10y ago
    Do you think the minorities talked about race and their experience with racism in Utah?
- selimthegrim 10y ago
  I live in New Orleans. My family is Ahmadi. (I don't care for religion particularly). A couple days before the executive orders on immigration, a Muslim guy in a bar down the street from my house drinking from a water bottle (with a trimmed beard, if it matters) was telling his white friends about the mercies of Sharia and how awesome it really was. I interjected and asked him what the fate of my family would be. Without missing a beat he said "Execution, in an Islamic state, if they don't repent or continue to profess their faith in public." I wonder why his outsiderhood hasn't given him any empathy. (Both he and I are Pakistani-American)

ZeroGravitas 10y ago

I'm surprised he'd be surprised given what the official Mormon church position on black people used to be until relatively recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_and_Mormonism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_and_Mormonism