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[quote=Anonymous]To my aunt, the suggestion that "people in The North are racist" is an attack on her as a racist. She is unable to differentiate her participation within a racist system (upwardly mobile, not racially profiled, [i]able to move to White suburbs, [/i]etc.)

There are loads of white suburbs I cannot move to because I cannot afford to. Which suburbs are there that a black cannot move to?   There are also many whites who are not upwardly mobile and blacks who are.

I would suggest that while structural racism may well exist (and racial profiling by police should stop), there is a lot of casual, offhand discussion of it that is inaccurate, that causes some of the annoyance with it.

I posted about the black exclusion laws in Illinois and Indiana - but there was opposition to them. And thousands of white men from those states gave their lives to end slavery (and yes, that was what the war was about, contra both Confed apologists and some black radicals) And those laws became moot with the 14th amendment, passed with the support of those states.  And while there continued to be racism in such places, nonetheless blacks moved to those places en mass in the 20th century, partly for economic opportunity, but also to leave behind lynchings and Jim Crow. [/quote]

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