From my knowledge the Asians and blacks link up together. Both sides at war with Mexicans. Asians and Mexicans do not fukk with eachother at all over there.
Most racially tense major cities in the United States?
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Jean Jacket
NOPE
Boston.
East la and certain parts of Compton.
Name them
All of east la breh. I stayed in Compton in like the mid 2000s breh for like a week by the swap meet. I couldn’t really tell you streets but I had essays flash pistols at me and my family just for existing. I could go on about how Mexicans treat nikkas over there based on first hand experience but I’ll stop
Capital Steez
All Star
Born and raised in Milwaukee. It's Milwaukee for sure.
I live in Chicago now and am still awe of how many black folks are actually getting money in comparison to where I grew up.
I live in Chicago now and am still awe of how many black folks are actually getting money in comparison to where I grew up.
Counter Racist Male
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Pure Water
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Atlanta
If you know you know.
If you know you know.
Counter Racist Male
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Like I said people forget how segregated ATL is. And outside 285 its the red neck south.
Pure Water
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shyt, driving down to Atlanta from SC on 85, theirs a big ass Confederate flag flying high by the highway. It's too many counties and too many cities in the Atlanta Metro. shyt is deliberate to keep white money in their own area.
murksiderock
Superstar
I just watched Crash.
fukk at that white rookie cop they did his character dirty
Great film.
Anyway I don’t see how NYC is as racially tense as LA unless you was talking about Upstate. I was thinking about it and LA has to be considered top 5 on this list.
Crash is one of the best movies I've ever seen, probably somewhere in the Top 25-30 movies I've seen. And I saw it when it came out, I was 16, and it was impactful at the time because of how accurately it illustrates racial divide in LA. If I recall correctly, it won a bunch of awards too...
I haven't seen it in at least 4-5 years, I'm gonna watch it again this weekend between football. It's that good of a movie to me...
Nah I'm talking about NYC, which has notoriously segregated White NY away from the blacks and Latinos and the same kinda tension you see in LA in Crash, I've heard of in NY by cats from The Boroughs. Everybody know about the racist wops and Jews and shyt in NY history...
The only real difference between NY and LA is the gangbanging politics can get racist in LA, not so much in NY. But NY doesn't exactly have the best reputation for racial tolerance, either...
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
Oh, I'm well aware I'm from there. NYC is as segregated as they come. Right now a rising problem in NY is going on in Brooklyn between the ADOS and Caribbean-American residents of the neighborhoods and Hassidic Jews. Jews are reporting attacks and robberies while they are being blamed for trying to price out residents/gentrification and general slum lord practices refusing to repair tenants units, and in places like Crown Heights living in the community but in isolation and not distributing wealth.
However, LA seems to be on another level in terms of how territorial/divided it is and watching the movie for me further reinforced that, and the whole gangbanging politics muddies shyt up even more. I also think LA is a lot more spread out which leads to more division.
Off topic, but you don't feel a type of way calling yourself a nikka? Just because you spelled it different it still implied black people. You called them Mexicans not spics while calling your own a derogatory name, and they flashed on you. Spic still ain't right but u get my point
Idk why people constantly do this but expect others to respect you as a black person
murksiderock
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I guess it's just a matter of perspective, fam. I would say LA is Top 10, but Top 5 would be pushing it for me. There is racial tolerance in LA, particularly in parts of the more integrated parts of the Westside and Central LA. Obviously LA has 4 million people, so we're not just talking about a handful of people on these other sides; there are areas you can be in Los Angeles and you have a blissful ignorance of the intolerance and segregation and racism in other parts of the city, same as it is anywhere (to use a less known example, I've seen this same dynamic in little old Fayetteville, NC. This type of thing is common in many areas of the country)...
I've seen too many places that have serious racial issues themselves, with even greater social issues, to consider LA the worst, but I'm not denying that it is among the worst. But I guess my point is, I don't really fault your perspective. Mine, I just think LA is not quite as bad as the outer public believes...
I guess a better question, or a better statement to make, is the entire United States has a harsh legacy of racism for people of The Diaspora. So it would probably be easier to identify the handful of places where there is relatively high tolerance and integration for blacks. There is no perfect place for blacks in the United States, most places are dealing with variations of the same problems, so who we think is "worse" at some point is really subjective to what we decide to accept about a particular place's issues, compared to the place we think is "worse"...
I don't think anybody would necessarily say New York by itself is a beacon of racial harmony, as you alluded to yourself. But when people line it next to Los Angeles, there seems to be a public perception that New York is better, which really isn't founded when you look at the history of racism against blacks in NY, so it kinda speaks to a perception that people view NY's issues as easier to accept than LA's, even if in reality, the two cities have similar histories and rates of discrimination versus blacks...
I'm just using NY as an example as it's a prominent city, I hope what I'm illustrating makes sense!
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