20 sats \ 22 replies \ @TNStacker 20 Jun \ parent \ on: The Problem with Juneteenth econ
Do you think the Black population has anything to do with naming those streets, which were named during Jim Crow?
Do you think the majority Black population in New Orleans (politicians, police, government officials of varying importance) lack the ability to make such a simple change?
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Stop being so disrespectful - answering questions with questions that try to make a point, but really only displays the fact that you've read nothing and know very little about Louisiana (or southern) politics. You answer my question first.
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Haha. Not at all. You ask questions to seek knowledge and understanding. That person is trying to make a point, but is only displaying ignorance on the subject. This irks me. Louisiana politics has always been particularly corrupt and acutely racist.
Hell they are in the news with unconstitutional religious bullshit right now!
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Steeped! Great descriptor! And yes, time. In Political Science 101 one learns that most people's politics are the politics of their parents. Most blacks, particularly in the south, don't have a tradition of politics or voting, mainly because for hundreds of years and dozens of generations political activity was, at first illegal, and then when legal, was deterred through violence like lynching.
Heck, there are still sundown towns in Lousiana. Hell, I am old enough to have had great uncles and grandparents that lived and worked on Louisiana sugar and cotton plantations. Yes, I am that old. And yes, people were still on plantations nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Yeah, no reason for you to know it still exists unless you are Black and travel smaller highways and roads in the south (not Interstate Highway travel). I travel by car for work throughout the south, so I have to stay aware (the original woke). I got a flat in NE Georgia last fall and a deputy stopped to help and warned me that I didn't want to be around there after dark. This was 2023!
Wasn't disrespectful. It was a valid response to your condescending question. You obviously have a chip on your shoulder, so I'm done talking to you.
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That's mature (intended condescention).
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They do.
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Since 2020, there has been the renaming of U. S. Army bases, schools, streets, etc. But there has been and currently is push back.
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Typical
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Sounds like moral relativism to me, which is overly simplistic and inadequate. There were abolitionist then. They knew. The human capacity for rationalization and justification is really something.