To those of you who still believe racism is a thing of the past, on both an institutional and individual basis, read this, making especially sure to read the comments. I understand that the comments are skewed toward trollage, but I have personally heard more than one Cedar Rapidian refer to those “people from Chicago” (aka, poor black people mucking up our perfect, safe white city).
I know many, many CR people who do not discriminate and work hard to fight their inner racist. But clearly we have a long, long way to go.
That’s really outrageous, both the findings and the responses. My favorite comment was the ridiculous one about how tired s/he is of the word “racism” being tossed around . . . Oy.
Whew, some of those comments were scary. But it’s not just in Cedar Rapids, it’s everywhere.