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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
Of the previous twenty years...
Crown Heights Riot, Hempstead High School Riot, Philadelphia Riots of (2001)?
Other northern (but not necessarily northeastern) race riots include Toledo and Cincinatti and Benton Harbor.
In the previous 20 years, excluding Florida (most of which is not part of the cultural South), there hasn't been a race riot.
Furthermore, out West you have stuff like Southcentral Riots in LA, Inglewood High, Lock High School and so on.
If I have forgotten a race riot in the new South (post-1985), excuse me. But, I can't think of one off the top of my head.
Kevin:
In terms of black on white violence, I mean perhaps but there was no real proven motive on the black side that it was specifically "hating whitey" on the part of the black teen who beat the hell out of the white kid.
KSigKid:
The breakdown table doesn't have it divided up between race. It doesn't really help.
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You're defining "violent racism" as "race riots"? Um, I seem to recall hearing a lot of news stories about hate crimes in the south where race is THE factor even if it wasn't a full-out riot. Speaking for the west coast, we're so racially integrated out here that race honestly is not that big of a deal to people here. California is home to the biggest number of minorities from practically all countries outside of their native lands, and up here in Seattle and Portland, many of us grew up going to schools where half the kids are asian. Seattle has no "ghetto," no neighborhood where all the "black folk" live and white people are afraid to drive through at night. For the mostpart our neighborhoods are very integrated and we don't give it a second thought.
The only place I've ever had a brush with the KKK was in the south...it sure as hell wasn't in the west. EW, your post was naive beyond words, to the point where I have to think you've never even stepped foot in the northeast or west.
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