Breh I have been down here for like a few years and the racism is a bit casual and knee slap, versus Georgia's abrasive Onyx bald head aggression, and South Carolina's capitalistic fukk them "nikkas" but if they got the money they can fukk my wife racism.
It's a more "bless your heart" stigma, versus foot on neck cactastic type of demeanor.
Pleasantly surprised by such ordeals as it was embedded in my head that Alabama was demonically racist due to its past history.
There are a variety of experiences one can have living in a state - depending on your age, career, social group, neighborhood, commute, education level, etc.
Alabama is undoubtedly racist in the way every state is, it has large scale openly racist governmental officials and policies - it has a remarkably long history of racism starting during chattel slavery, and there are weekly racist issues that make local and state news.
There are police killings and lynchings, broken-windows policing and mass incarceration, medical neglect, and government DEi policy cuts, there are also day to day anti/Black interactions and incidents as well.
It’s all a matter of experience and perception.
