he's gay? maybe that makes him an honorary black? i don't fully understand. any americans here can help me? is there anyone you stick up for? or is it just a big game of last under the bus wins?
At least in America we know how to properly capitalize the language.
i guess maybe connecticut is particularly racist and as you go further south things are more balanced - i wouldn't know.
but it's not just me, is it? if we're talking about justice then america's legal system is famous for how it discriminates against coloured people. that and its size are what its known for, internationally. it's pretty much designed to kill blacks, right?
so to say that it's "not much about race" seems pretty weird. that seemed to be the defining characteristic of american culture - and particularly its legal system - to me.
i'm sorry if this comes across as america-bashing. but recently i've been told here so many times that my rights don't matter because i'm not american. so it's got the point where, well, we're just being realists, right? compassion, mutual respect, that kind of thing aren't what life is about...
Generally, the stereotype is that the North is less racist and the South is more. Because of the War between the States (1861-1865) - Southern states were slave states and Northern states were free states.
It's more nuanced than that, but that's the main narrative.
We can play all the PC games, but the undertones are pervasive as it always has been here…
In the words of Langston Hughes: "America never was America to me"
Khalid El-Masri (born June 29, 1963) is a German citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian Police, and handed-over to the U.S. CIA, whose officers interrogated, sodomized and tortured him. While in CIA hands, he was flown to Afghanistan, where he was held in a black site, interrogated, beaten, strip-searched and subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, tantamount to torture. After El-Masri held hunger strikes, and was detained for four months in the "Salt Pit", the CIA finally admitted his arrest and torture were a mistake and released him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_al-Masri