I'm not sure where to even start so I will just jump right in. Please inform me of what type of pass you are referring to because I have no idea what you mean. I've never thought that dating black men gave me any special privileges. I don't see it as being any different from dating any other man. It doesn't make me any more or less special than anyone else.
In the county that I live in, the vote was 40% Obama and 60% McCain. I wasn't in the poll booth with my neighbors so I don't know how they voted. I will say this though. In my neighborhood, there were more Obama signs than McCain signs. So, I don't feel my neighbors are the ones that voted-in any morons. Several of my colleagues and I campaigned for Obama. Some of them even spent the last weekends before the elections in the battleground states of Missouri and Ohio knocking door to door trying to get voters to the polls and to vote for Obama. Unfortunately, we didn't win the battle in our state, but we did win the war. I suppose that you think all of us are dumbasses too just because we live in the South even though we were on the same page as you for who we wanted as President.
Out of curiosity, how do you feel about the other states that elected McCain? There were several red states that were not in the South. Do you feel that all of them are idiots too, or is your prejudice just restricted to the South? I'm a die-hard Democrat and proud of it. I could say that everyone in California is an idiot because you have a Republican governor and that 19 out of 53 of your House of Representative members are Republican. However, I know that blanketed statements about people make me just as assinine as the group that I think I'm putting it down. It would only make me look like an asshole. (Side note: I don't think badly of people that are Republicans because of their party affiliation. I'm just using that as an example to make my point. So, please keep that in mind.)
I hate to burst your bubble, but racial problems are not limited to the South. I'm not saying that we don't have any problems because we do and have a way to go in resolving those problems; however, I don't feel that we are alone in that. To read your posts, it sounds as if California became perfect on race relations after the 1992 beating of Rodney King. Here is a link to a report issued by the ACLU called 'The Persistance of Racial and Ethnic Profiling in the United States.'
ttp://www.aclu.org/pdfs/humanrights/cerd_finalreport.pdf The online version of this report was released on June 30, 2009 so it is a current publication. If you will go to page 41 of that report, there is a section called 'State Updates and New Cases of Racial Profiling.' Ironically, there are other states mentioned in that section besides Southern states. California, Michigan, New Jersey and New York are all in the list of updates. So, I guess that the whole nation has a long way to go as far as race relations is concerned.
As far as random acts of violence, here is a link to the FBI's website where there is a statistics reports on hate crimes by state for the year 2007, which is the most recent year posted.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2007/jurisdiction.htm If you look at Table 12, it gives the incidents of hate crimes reported by state. California has the most reports; however, I realized that you can't take that report and say California had more hate crimes than any other state and use that as a comparison because of the population of California. I took the liberty to take the number of hate crimes and divide by the population of the state to get a percentage of hate crimes by population. Here are the top 10 according to those statistics: New Jersey, District of Columbia, Michigan, Delaware, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Maine, Kansas, Oregon and Virginia. It looks like hate crimes are everywhere and not just in the South as you would like to have us believe.
I will sleep a lot better tonight knowing that you aren't planning on moving to the South. I'm not trying to convince you to either. I'm just trying to point out that your blanketed generalizations about the South and American white women are ridiculous. You can't judge a whole group by what a few people do. If I came on this board and made sweeping generalizations about black men the way that you do about the South and American WW, I would be called out for it everyday; and I feel that I would eventually be ran off by the board. So, what makes it right for you to be able to do it and never be called out on it?
For future reference, I would appreciate it if you would use your superb California education to make complete sentences, use punctuation and try to have a coherent train of thought the next time that you post to me. It would also be helpful if you would post links to verify your statements instead of just making random statements without any support. Thank you.
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