On 2021-04-23 3:28 p.m., jmcquown wrote:

>
> I encountered a number of black people who were racists when I lived in
> Tennessee (Memphis).Â* In the 1990's there was an older woman named
> Pinkie who worked at the breakfast/lunch counter at McLemore's market
> who was downright rude to me all the time.Â* Her co-worker Louanne (also
> black) was not.


It happens even here. I never had much exposure to black people as a kid
because there just weren't any where I lived. I used to occasionally see
a black person when we drove through Toronto to go to my grandparents'
house. I saw maybe 10-12 total.There is some sort of revisionist notion
that black slavery was a significant part of our past here. The fact is
a few Loyalists came up from the US during and after the revolution. My
understanding was that it was a small number, but the revisionists are
making claims of numbers many times higher than I had read in the past.


Now we have a significant black population, most of which are immigrants
from the Caribbean. A lot of them have a chip on their shoulder about
slavery, though the slavery of their ancestors several generations
happened in their home country.

If you want to see real racism, go to an Indian reserve. You are
guaranteed to hear a rant about residential schools and how you stole
their land.