Theres loads of examples like this, where to an outsider, the racism is instantly obvious, but somehow, some americans are so brain-washed or just performing Orwell's double-think (the ability to hold 2 contradicting ideas in your head and beleiving them both to be true, like "Im not a racist" and "I hate black people") that they dont see it anymore.
2 examples:
Cops in flint michigan, wanted or did pass a law, where you get fined if your pants are sagging below the waistline. A clothing trend that is often chosen by some part of the black youth today. So ok, boxer shorts are like tennis shorts right? So white preppies wearing tennis shorts ok, black kids where we can see part of the tennis shorts, not ok.
This, for an outsider, is an obvious attempt to harass young black kids. Like something you can use to harass them, a racist tool.
Jena, Lousiana. Some black kids decide to sit under a tree that was traditionally a place where only white kids sat. A couple of time after, some nooses are put up in the tree, fights break out, kids are suspended. A journalist asks a librarian at the school if she thinks nooses in a tree are a racist symbol. You know, when they used to do that to black people for no reason beside them being black? She says that she cant find whats racist in it.
Mississippi school, 2010:
Until Friday, it was standard practice in Nettleton, Mississippi's Middle School--though illegal--to segregate student body elections. This practice was enforced by documents that articulated the race requirements for specific offices (e.g., president, vice president, etc.) and went so far as to set aside 12 leadership positions for white students and four positions for African-American students. For years, the policy went unchallenged, virtually unnoticed by the district, which proudly displays on its homepage the motto, "teaching today what matters tomorrow." Given what has now been exposed to the nation, this begs the question, what, exactly, were they trying to teach?
There are many glaring examples like this where america's racism is just jumping at you.
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