I don't like rioting and violence occuring, especially when it has to do with race. I am curious to why whenever racially influenced police brutality occurs in some of the northen and western cities cities(Detroit, Benton Harbor, Los Angeles, etc.) it becomes like war, but when it happens in places in the south(Atlanta in particular), nothing happens other than protesting? I am curious because I am living in the Atlanta area and the police force has committed some police brutality recently and there are some previous cases. People are upset, but you never here of anything like a riot happening.
2006-12-04 02:12:15 · 9 answers · asked by liker_of_minnesota 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Not sure. In Los Angeles it was an economic and access thing.
There's a running joke about the description of a black neighborhood:
Liquour store (owned by Chinese), burned out building, hair salon, rib joint, burned out building, liquor store (owne by Persians), Burger King, burned out building, Church, hair salon, burned out building, Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits, liquor store.
What's missing for this joke?
K Mart
Target
Lucky Market
Ralph's Market
Fashion Bug
Mall
Sam Goddies
Blockbuster
Circuit City
Best Buy
Unemployement over 25%
2006-12-04 02:22:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Let's be honest. The South is just a really great place to live. We've always been the laughing stock of the rest of the nation, but we never seem to have the same problems as everyone else. Sure, everybody points out slavery, but I hate to tell you that there were plenty of people up North who had slaves as well.
Without the South, there'd be no Elvis, no Dixieland Jazz, no Cajun food, no Martin Luther King, Jr., no Disney World, nowhere for the old folks to retire to, no Hank Williams, no Dallas Cowboys, no Alabama Crimson Tide, no "Georgia on my mind," no Battle of New Orleans, etc.
Like another person said, the South rocks!!
2006-12-04 02:56:19 · answer #2 · answered by kenrayf 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Although blacks and whites were both used as slaves when America was young, the trend ended up with mostly black slaves in the south and lasted for almost 200 years . . . it takes a long time to undo some history.
2006-12-04 02:23:19 · answer #3 · answered by kate 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm getting really tired of hearing "police brutality". Everytime the cops rough up someone who isn't white, or straight, people are screaming this. I guess people in the South just have enough sense to know when something is bullshit and they don't scream their heads off about someone doing their job. Cops have procedures they have to go by and regulations just like everyone else...they're not just going out beating on people. Jeeze...
2006-12-04 02:45:53 · answer #4 · answered by ashley b 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
properly that throughout itself grants extra beneficial than sufficient data that lack of awareness should not be presumed because of the fact of area. definite there's a touch greater concentration of racial lack of awareness in the south All places have accents wich we are able to track to clustering of folk with comparable background Ie the Midwest grow to be specifically settled via Scandinavian and germanic human beings giving them a Midwest accessory unquestionably you're incredibly ignorant
2016-12-13 19:41:49 · answer #5 · answered by criddle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um maybe because the South rocks?
2006-12-04 02:21:01 · answer #6 · answered by i'm_a_ninja 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
properity in places like atlanta for blacks and in the south in general is greater, maybe.
2006-12-04 03:19:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's interesting with CNN right there--and they seem to report some rather mundane stuff in their own backyard.
2006-12-04 02:47:51 · answer #8 · answered by donewiththismess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SOUTH IS MORE LAID BACK!
2006-12-04 02:22:24 · answer #9 · answered by mark v 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋