So growing up, you knew no old white people who were kind of racist? That's what you're tell me? I call bullshit. But hey, maybe California is a generation better than Texas. Maybe so...
California is absolutely a generation or two ahead of some parts of the country.
The most racist thing I’ve personally seen was a several different instances of kids calling a black kid the N word, and I also knew of a guy that hated Blacks, or at least that was the rumor.
My brother in law’s mother married a black man when his dad and mom split up. They lived in Vegas until about the 4th grade. He’s 39 now. They moved to Louisiana and his black stepdad dropped him off his first day of school, didn’t warn him, didn’t explain to him that there might be questions by other kids.
My brother in law told me a group of white kids cornered him in class and asked who dropped him off. They asked it it was “the help?”, to which he recalled kinda being confused and replied “no, that’s my dad.”
Those kids had the audacity to tell him his mother was a no good N lover. He was blown away, upset, angry. Said he had never in the 4-5 years he’d been in that mixed family, never been in that situation where he could feel the hate just radiating from the situation.
It blew me away. We were smoking a koint and I asked him how his dad viewed all this stuff going on. He laid that story on me and just kinda rocked my world.
Kind of made me realize how sheltered I’ve been when it comes to that shit. I’ve heard jokes, I’ve heard about the supposed racist, but I’ve never witnessed someone just rail on someone like that and try to hurt that person in a race related manner.
So yeah, I think California(which is the state I’ve always lived in) is at least 40ish years removed from that type of shit and maybe more.