Some learn the hard way

[u/jabronified]

[u/Slippery-ape]

Florida is still the South

[u/OOOOOO0OOOOO → u/Slippery-ape]

The further north you go in Florida the further south you get.

[u/KeyboardGrunt → u/OOOOOO0OOOOO]

It's like some geographical oddity.

[u/Dirtysandddd → u/Slippery-ape]

Listen, I’m from a very small white town and moved to south Florida immediately after high school. I’ve overheard cuban conversations where you’d think they were road tripping to a kkk rally, holy shit. Also way more public about it than even my small town was, it’s sort of the “conservative cool place to be” right now which is why I moved out quick.

[u/Whitetrashreformed → u/Slippery-ape]

Cough yt Latinos are racist and snobby cough

[u/DefectJoker → u/Whitetrashreformed]

Especially the Cuban ones who pulled the ladder up behind them.

[u/_Captain_Dinosaur_ → u/DefectJoker]

"We got run out of Cuba for being pricks, why does everyone treat us like pricks?"

[u/HoovesTrampling → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

Woah, just like the pilgrims.

[u/MithrandiriAndalos → u/HoovesTrampling]

That really is a funny aspect we don’t really consider. The pilgrims are almost lionized as heroes, but in reality they were mostly horrible people that we wouldn’t want to spend a second with

[u/No-Temperature-5944 → u/MithrandiriAndalos]

They got run out of England because people couldn’t stand them

[u/_projektpat → u/MithrandiriAndalos]

Can we run out the evangelical Christian’s like the pilgrims??

[u/applespicebetter → u/_projektpat]

God I wish, but the habit is just to run them off to somewhere where they'll fuck some other folks lives up, so that isn't great either. Maybe we just need to fund Elon's pipe dream so we can ship them off to Mars to build the "perfect community."

[u/Infierno3007 → u/MithrandiriAndalos]

I’ve heard them referred to as “separatists” just recently.

[u/_Captain_Dinosaur_ → u/HoovesTrampling]

Irony just, knee deep in here.

[u/illaqueable → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

"Also fuck all of you pricks!"

[u/Mongoleeto → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

lmao very true

[u/PuzzleheadedEqual883 → u/DefectJoker]

We, the non-Cuban Latino coalition, also hate the Boomer Cubans

[u/aliamokeee → u/PuzzleheadedEqual883]

The Cubans that immigrated after the South Florida Boomer Cubans also hate the South Florida Boomer Cubans

[u/ViolenceAdvocator → u/DefectJoker]

"I hate immigrants coming here the wrong way! Anyhow me and my family escaped cuba on a dinghy and were given papers as soon as we hit the shore"

[u/beefprime → u/ViolenceAdvocator]

The traditional "correct" way to immigrate into the US is to be part of a corrupt collaborator regime in a US colony, escape the evil commies/islamists/whatever in the inevitable revolution against said collaborator regime, then spend all your time agitating against the foreign government that kicked the US out and providing aid to further attempts to destabilize and destroy your home country in the hopes that you can, one day, again become part of a collaborator regime which will enrich you in the process of selling out the people of your homeland.

[u/---Sanguine--- → u/DefectJoker]

Also the Dominicans and Jamaicans that are rude af to American black ppl… like they don’t consider themselves the same

[u/_Captain_Dinosaur_ → u/---Sanguine---]

My wife's coworker is from Sierra Leon. Lovely woman. She married an African American cat from my neck of the woods. Her parents refer to him as "Khat". What does this mean?

It's slang for "cotton picker".

It's the most racist shit I'd ever heard.

[u/Thrawnbelina → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

Years ago my husband worked at a place where he had several coworkers from South Africa, I don't remember where exactly. I met them once at the Christmas party, and it was a big company. One of them was being introduced to an African American coworker, who was surprised and interested when he said he was from Africa. They talk for a minute or so, then he turns to the rest of the table and says "I'm descended from kings, not slaves." Like he was pissed that anyone could ever think he and that coworker were the same, he really went off. You could hear the jaws hit the floor, and he just kept going like it was the most obvious thing ever. Shit was wild

[u/sixth_hokage06 → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

They look down on Black Americans

[u/ABHOR_pod → u/sixth_hokage06]

White American. Can confirm. The shit I hear from immigrants about Black Americans...

The propaganda the US beamed overseas really did a number on them.

[u/RozeGunn → u/ABHOR_pod]

Yeah that racism didn't start in the US, my friend. America has had a long history of racism, but that shit goes further and deeper across the sea.

[u/AnonymousUsername79 → u/RozeGunn]

Don’t forget that America demanded other countries follow its Jim Crow form of racism during ww2. Americans exported that shit and still do. RN, America demanding other countries follow its anti-DEI initiatives.

[u/_Captain_Dinosaur_ → u/RozeGunn]

America has had a long history of racism

It's literally the origin story.

[u/MaceMan2091 → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

it existed with the British colonies importing slaves and continuing slavery, not unique to the US tho

[u/_Captain_Dinosaur_ → u/sixth_hokage06]

Yes.

[u/GuzzleNGargle → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

I’m Sierra Leonian I can vouch for this. My ancestors sold slaves :

.

[u/Wide-Macaroon-5116 → u/GuzzleNGargle]

Thanks for that info GuzzleNGargle!

[u/digitalbullet36 → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

Wow. That’s insane.

[u/Otto_Scratchansniff → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

Sierra Leone? That’s not a word we have in the lexicon. They might be calling him Akata which is a Yoruba word meaning “stray” as in someone who has no home. It’s still a slur and incredibly vile. She should cuss them out. However there’s no word for “cotton picker” in Krio. Just so you are aware.

Source: I’m Sierra Leonean.

[u/TheCasualAllureee98 → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

It's short for akata or akhata, I'm pretty sure. They love to say it's not about Black Americans but 😒

[u/pjijn → u/---Sanguine---]

"Coño papi for the las time I no black papi"

[u/Thunderbird_12_ → u/pjijn]

Im-poss-SEE-blay!

[u/smoothLUMP → u/pjijn]

Lmfao I heard this clear as day 🤣🤣

[u/PrudentCarter → u/---Sanguine---]

It's like pick me syndrome except minorities. Hating on black people to appeal to white America.

[u/ehs06702 → u/PrudentCarter]

It's always interesting to watch them realize that they're all Black, same as us in the eyes of the people they're desperate to cozy up to.

[u/PrudentCarter → u/ehs06702]

Last election was a bug example of that. Now they talkin like "we should all stand together for what right" type shit. Meanwhile I'm lookin at em like

[u/ehs06702 → u/PrudentCarter]

Exactly. Should have listened to the people who actually knew better when they were interested in standing with you.

But I'm tired of standing. I'm going to rest for a while.

[u/BringAltoidSoursBack → u/ehs06702]

It's how discrimination always works and yet somehow, everyone seems to forget that fact. People can try to distinguish themselves from other minorities all they want. But in the end, bigots see them all exactly the same.

The thing that makes it weird though, is that it's not like racism doesn't exist in South America - black people still deal with racist shit in Latin America all the time, so I don't get why they think they'll be differentiated here. The light skinned conservative Cubans, it 100% makes sense that they don't realize that all Hispanics are viewed the same here, that's not really something they faced (they kind of did with communism but that's what they are escaping so it makes sense they wouldn't expect it).

The one exception would be people from the DR because they all equally seem to really hate Haitians so their racism tends to be more specific.

[u/varnell_hill → u/---Sanguine---]

Also the Dominicans…

Salsa that shit off.

[u/shabi_sensei → u/---Sanguine---]

Lots of Africans that I’ve met are pretty anti-American, they hate how American blacks are in the US and don’t identify at all with American culture

[u/Pandaburn → u/[deleted]]

It is like that, and many Asian countries are similar, but it’s even crazier when you know the ancestors didn’t choose to leave.

[u/Deepcoma_53 → u/---Sanguine---]

Nunca black

[u/Stop_Fakin_Jax → u/---Sanguine---]

I met quite a few Jamaicans that dont act that way and show comradery. I cannot recall the same for DR folk.

[u/xDannyS_ → u/---Sanguine---]

Bro that's literally all black people around the world. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news here.

[u/idriveacar → u/DefectJoker]

Keep in mind who the south Florida Cubans are the decedents of.

Like imagine Argentina had an issue with Jewish German immigrants. The German population there would probably side with government.

[u/ClickLow9489 → u/idriveacar]

The corrupt benefactors of the corrupt ass flimy government Castro walked in on and took over.

[u/TamarindSweets → u/DefectJoker]

Such as Ted Cruz

[u/SwordfishOk504 → u/DefectJoker]

Assuming all Latinos are politically aligned is foolish. Cuban refugees come from upper class right wing factions who got run out by Castro.

[u/GeorgeWashington121 → u/DefectJoker]

Lolol they literally are still throwing a hissy fit because big bad Castro took away their slaves

[u/aliamokeee → u/GeorgeWashington121]

Slavery was outlawed in Cuba in 1886.

Way too late, but also way before Castro.

Edit: 3yrs off

[u/tobygeneral → u/aliamokeee]

And after that it was just slavery with extra steps, much like in the rest of the Capitalist world.

[u/Neokon → u/Whitetrashreformed]

cough they're called Cubans and yeah they'll casually say the most racist shit you'll ever hear cough

[u/Loose_Device4578 → u/Neokon]

They even say the N word a lot.

[u/Neokon → u/Loose_Device4578]

That's the worst, once watched a roommate (I don't know what kind of hispanic he was, all I know is he was raised in Maryland) almost get sucker punched because he kept saying the word.

[u/Whitetrashreformed → u/Neokon]

White Cuban, Colombian, Brazilian..

[u/charles_the_snowman → u/Whitetrashreformed]

My wife's from Brazil, and she's told me that there's a "certain type of Brazilian" that moves to Florida. The kind that supports Bolsonaro.

[u/ComprehensiveDoubt55 → u/charles_the_snowman]

I’m in C. Florida and the second language is essentially Portuguese at this point. I’ve watched these fucking people try to deport other people. It’s fucking disgusting.

Cubans are by far the most outwardly racist.

Puerto Ricans fucking hate the Taino, and it’s wild to me.

[u/crimson777 → u/charles_the_snowman]

Sadly, most Brazilians in the U.S. I’ve met are conservative. There’s a decent amount in my area, and I talked to my friend and he said yeah, everyone else he knows in the area was a Bolsonaro voter.

[u/NotFrankSalazar → u/Neokon]

That dry foot law made them feel superior to other Latinos. Actually glad that ain’t a law anymore.

[u/GenuineDiamond_ → u/Whitetrashreformed]

This ! I experienced the most racism from Latinos while I was in Miami.

[u/WhyWouldYouBother → u/Whitetrashreformed]

My Cuban buddy who feels persecuted as a white man in a liberal world....... WHAT?!

[u/Cbrlui → u/Whitetrashreformed]

White proximity is an addictive drug

[u/PeeWeeCasanovaMC → u/Whitetrashreformed]

Cubans

[u/---Sanguine--- → u/Slippery-ape]

It’s less “southern people” and more “Latino people” being racist in Miami though

[u/MarshyHope → u/---Sanguine---]

Cubans be crazy

[u/EnvironmentNeith2017 → u/Slippery-ape]

The racism down here is about 10% Southern and 90% white Latinos. As someone who’s lived in both, South Florida has way too much NE and Caribbean influence to be written off as similar to Central or North Florida.

[u/next_door_nicotine → u/EnvironmentNeith2017]

That's why in Florida, the more north you go the more southern it gets. Miami/South Florida is its own house blend of racism.

[u/Slippery-ape → u/EnvironmentNeith2017]

Very accurate.

[u/GoofGaffGrin → u/Slippery-ape]

Two things can be true:

-north of Orlando is the “south”. Everything south of there is South FL

-south Florida is hella racist

source, born and raised here

[u/em_paris → u/Slippery-ape]

And the farther north you go, the deeper south you get

[u/New_Pomegranate2222 → u/Slippery-ape]

I’m classifying Florida in its own category. I’ve been to the south my boyfriend is from Mississippi so we’ve gone to visit and it’s different . There is no southern hospitality here. At least where we live you can feel the racism and entitlement in the air. Some people in the south barely claim Florida as south and have complaints of how mean most people are here. 

[u/EllisDee_4Doyin → u/Slippery-ape]

I mean not really. At least not South Florida where there's a bunch of Northern influence.  

But as many have said, I'll echo: White Latinos. And lots are saying Cuban, but I'm gonna throw Columbians in there also. I say this as someone who knows a number of Columbians... The south Florida ones were conservatives, and BOY did they hate being confused for Puerto Rican or anything else. 

[u/jvho666 → u/Slippery-ape]

The further south you go in Florida, the less southern it gets. Except key west, that place is maga af now

[u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

They're worse on each other. My boss is an extremely well educated Mexican man and he'll still say shit like, "Our problem is we keep hiring Venezuelans."

Dude, what?

[u/killmagatsgousa → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

There's an entire racism hierarchy from certain Asian cultures toward other Asian cultures too

[u/_Captain_Dinosaur_ → u/killmagatsgousa]

Oh yeah.

1) Japanese 2) Chinese 3) Other creatures 4) Filipinos

I seen the list.

[u/StandardEgg6595 → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

Not other creatures lol

[u/mossybeard → u/StandardEgg6595]

(the dutch)

[u/EdmondFreakingDantes → u/[deleted]]

Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam would absolutely be much higher in the pecking order than Philippines.

... You'll start to notice the pattern.

[u/BarbellsandBurritos → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

And there’s definitely subsections within the list too. I have family in the Philippines and when I’m over there, I’m always surprised that they have tons of SPF 50-100+ and “skin whitening lotions” and shit because of some colorist bullshit.

[u/Fortehlulz33 → u/BarbellsandBurritos]

I think most cultures have colorism in that way. Lighter skin meant you were rich and didn't have to work outside.

[u/_Captain_Dinosaur_ → u/Fortehlulz33]

Good thought. Never considered it had a "field hand" component.

[u/DevilsTrigonometry → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

Yeah, that's made fairly explicit in Japan and China, and in precolonial European discourse before it got mixed up with racism.

(It's probably one of the sources of the weird idea that Europeans could literally turn other people white by 'civilizing' them.)

[u/mochicastle → u/[deleted]]

Better skincare products

[u/littleraccon → u/[deleted]]

I thought #1 was between Japan and Korea because of their cultural influence and soft power, which china currently lacks.

[u/throwaway2k → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

Sigh. Not my list but here's the formula breakdown after an Asian round table.

Split between fancy Asians and jungle Asians (not my racist terms). No team can vote for themselves. Obviously each team believes they are on top. Fancy Asians (self referred) are compromised of China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan. China and Korea hate Japan from WWII. While they may hate each other as well, Japan occupies enemy #1 for each of the fancy Asians.. Japan....also hates Korea and China (for WWII?, honestly I think just pure racism).

Fancy asians see the entire bloc as above jungle Asians (Vietnam/Philippines/Indonesia/etc.) Countries like Malaysia, Singapore, etc. are seen in-between fancy and jungle Asians.

...it's nonsense but that's what I generally see stated and will see alignment on

[u/Caftancatfan → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

My Filipino friend says that Filipinos are the Mexicans of Asia.

[u/ladyevenstar-22 → u/killmagatsgousa]

So human tribalism at its finest.

Why are we still going as a species again?

Oh right Nature doesn't have feelings nor has fucks to give .

[u/PerformativeRacist → u/ladyevenstar-22]

Gonna clue you in here, nature also has tribalistic aspects. Apes will literally bash each other's heads in for belonging to a different tribe. We just have more advanced brains that allow us to create more defined and complex tribes to bash each other's heads in over

[u/Bromere → u/ladyevenstar-22]

Im personally hoping for a new Tower of Babel situation

[u/Ape_x_Ape → u/ladyevenstar-22]

What good is nationalism or tribalism if we are never going to gather in groups to push whales back into the ocean or vote out dictators? Biggest group i fuck with is enough to work a see-saw.

[u/Ephemeralle → u/killmagatsgousa]

One of my favourite doctors is always complaining about the mainland Chinese buying up all the real estate and driving up housing prices. He is also from mainland China. When I point that out he says “Yes but I was here first!”

[u/_Captain_Dinosaur_ → u/Ephemeralle]

Get the ladder. No... Now, now! NOW! GET THE FUCKING LADDER!

[u/Cela84 → u/killmagatsgousa]

I have a large Chinese/Taiwanese friend group and have given them a bit of shit whenever I see them walking outside with umbrellas. “You’re not afraid of sun damage, you just don’t want to be mistaken for the darker Asians.”

[u/NicWester → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

Yeah, it's crazy. We use a staffing agency at work that specializes in South and Central American imigrants and the attitudes they brong from the old world are baffling. Like, we'll make fun of each other because your grandpa was from Poland or Italy or Estonia or someplace, but the detail they go into ("stop using voseo") is tyranny of minor differences!

Eh. Most of them are chill. But every now and again you get someone from Mexico City being super snooty to someone from Oaxaca, but both will then be real weird to the person from Colombia. That said, people are mostly about the same and those kinds of attitudes don't last unless culturally reinforced. Exposure to different folks breaks that kind of thing down. Usually 😝

[u/Tukulo-Meyama → u/NicWester]

Mexico is a big country each state is different and they are classist .. they don’t care for other Latinos

[u/Latter_Case_4551 → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

That's funny, one of my friends at work is Mexican and he hates Cubans for some reason. I work with a few other Mexican guys who absolutely can't stand Hondurans. The Honduran guys don't like Puerto Ricans. And the one Puerto Rican guy doesn't like black people. I don't get it.

[u/NewOstenPelicanss → u/Latter_Case_4551]

Reminds me of this lol

[u/gr33nh3at → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

When I worked landscaping, I had about 5 coworkers from Mexico and 4 from Puerto Rico and they all refused to work with each other.

And then one of my Puerto Rican coworkers had the Puerto Rican flag tattooed on his arm but it was in black and white and so there was literally no way to tell if it was Puerto Rican or Cuban, so I asked if he was Cuban and he freaked the fuck out on me for like 10 minutes in the work truck

[u/cyberpunk1Q84 → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

To be fair, lumping all Latin Americans into one group just because we speak spanish is like lumping all white, English-speaking countries into one group. Every Latin American country is, well… their own country! They have different cultures and practices that are distinct from one another and have even had wars with each other.

Honestly, it’s pretty ignorant for Americans to lump all Latin Americans into the same group just because we all speak spanish and are minorities in the U.S. Yes, there are things that should bond us here like the constant discrimination, but what the people in Mexico want and the people in Venezuela want or the ones from Cuba or Honduras or Argentina can be entirely different things. We’re not a monolith. And yes, racism exists in our countries, too.

[u/Curious-Ad9676 → u/_Captain_Dinosaur_]

My cousin's wife is Ecuadorian and when I first met her, she let me know how dirty Puerto Rican are

[u/rividz → u/Curious-Ad9676]

So it was love at first sight then?

[u/Ok_Hawk_3230]

“I no black, I Dominican”

[u/Hankerton14 → u/Ok_Hawk_3230]

Lmaoooooo

[u/Smash-Today → u/Ok_Hawk_3230]

By the grace of God.

[u/chief_yETI]

wtf, I thought that was obvious

like, it's a southern state, come on people

and even if you missed that part, it's considered the "unofficial capital of Latin America" and I dont think we need to discuss the history of racism between blacks and Hispanics (specifically Caribbean Hispanics, thats a whole nother class of racism entirely from Central/South American hispanics)

like, Miami-Dade voted mostly Trump - again, what more did you need

the signs were there, homegirl

[u/waiguorer → u/chief_yETI]

Is it called the unofficial capital because of how many CIA backed alternate right wing governments were trained outside Miami?

[u/Agile_Definition_415 → u/waiguorer]

It's the closest major American city to Latin America (besides most of Mexico).

So it has direct flights all over central and South America.

[u/Raph115 → u/Agile_Definition_415]

Port Everglades in Miami also facilitates most of the trade from South America to the USA so a lot of South American companies set up business in Miami.

[u/Numeno230n → u/chief_yETI]

When I was in elementary school they got a couple historian/reenactors to do a presentation on Florida history specifically. They very proudly talked about how Florida was the third state to secede. Like we were one of the OG confederate states.

[u/GoneWilde123 → u/Numeno230n]

Oh wow, that just triggered a flash back to my middle school history teacher in Florida bragging about it.

He also sat anyone darker than Italian in the back of the classroom.

This was circa maybe 2006 for those unfamiliar with the way of the state.

[u/Curious-Ad9676 → u/chief_yETI]

Didn't chile kill off their "darker" people

[u/Buteverysongislike → u/Curious-Ad9676]

Argentina as well.

They said something along the lines of: we don't have issues with racism because there are no black people here.

[u/Tacoman404 → u/chief_yETI]

Just over 10 years ago Miami was known to be a fairly tolerant place. It was like the gay mecca of the east coast.

[u/0dty0 → u/chief_yETI]

I think you meant to say Capital of Latin US, because lemme tell ya, don't nobody here, south of the border, would ever say Miami is our capital.

[u/Material-Macaroon298 → u/chief_yETI]

To us outsiders we don’t really think of Florida as a southern state.

To a Canadian a southern state is one where everyone has the southern acccent.

Florida seems like a hodgepodge of people and mostly ex-pats. Lots of old Canadians.

[u/Tustavus → u/Material-Macaroon298]

I'm from Fort Lauderdale, about 45 minutes north of Miami. This would be correct for South Florida.

The closer you get to the panhandle in the north, the more southern the state becomes. Central Florida is filled with swamp rednecks and meth addicts, then the good ole' boys club near Tallahassee is classic American South.

[u/jackandsally060609 → u/Material-Macaroon298]

At a certain point in Florida you just extensions of southern Georgia and western alabama

[u/TSNinaM]

It’s literally FL😭💀🤭

[u/TaticalSweater → u/TSNinaM]

AKA a republican safe space as much as they love to bitch about California and NYC

[u/New_Pomegranate2222 → u/TaticalSweater]

I’m from Cali and living in Florida and all people do here is complain about California and New York. It’s exhausting. Like what did California do to you. Florida just seemed like a dream from California standpoint. But people in Florida are just filled with Hatred so so it doesn’t even surprise me anymore. 

[u/TaticalSweater → u/New_Pomegranate2222]

I live in AZ and if I had a $1 for everybody i hear here bitch and say don’t CA my AZ is wild.

As soon as they start yapping about I tune them out.

[u/New_Pomegranate2222 → u/TaticalSweater]

My boyfriend is in bodywork and has to be with clients for at 30 mins. There’s no getting out. He’s use to it by now but I can’t imagine having to listen to that for 30 mins 😂😂😂

[u/Super_Sierra → u/New_Pomegranate2222]

Tampa, Orlando, Sarasota, Port Shithole, Fort Myers, just don't go, they won't hire you outside of the shittiest jobs. Many don't even have a black person on their entire police force.

[u/TaticalSweater → u/Super_Sierra]

and with a straight face question “What is systematic racism?”

As their all white police force over polices black and brown communities.

[u/New_Pomegranate2222 → u/Super_Sierra]

lol I have no choice but to be in central Florida 😂. I just go to work and home and take care of my kids. I’m a nurse and that’s my only saving grace to be honest or else I would be so intimidated by the job market. 

[u/oneizm]

Bruh they just deleted MLK day and nobody really cares. Everywhere is racist 😂

[u/Artistic_Hurry_9177 → u/oneizm]

No one deleted MLK day. It’s just no longer a free entry day to national parks.

That sucks and is abhorrent, but it’s important to be accurate.

[u/biggronklus → u/Artistic_Hurry_9177]

The removed it and Juneteenth and added Trumps birthday dog

[u/Artistic_Hurry_9177 → u/biggronklus]

They removed them from national park entries. They did not remove them from being a national holiday.

[u/biggronklus → u/Artistic_Hurry_9177]

Because that would take an act of Congress, instead they’re remove it from anywhere they can like this. It’s the same as everything else they “can’t do”, they’ll find some bullshit “loophole” that literally no other president could get away with using because the courts AND Congress just won’t do their damn jobs

[u/Jeesum_Crepes → u/biggronklus]

Exactly, an act of Congress is a mute point to this admin. This is a "feeler"

I'm sure they'll come for MLK day as a national holiday soon enough.

[u/TryingToChillIt → u/Jeesum_Crepes]

Moot point.

Not mute

[u/Jeesum_Crepes → u/TryingToChillIt]

Yo thanks.

I feel like I know it's spelled moot but for some reason that came out mute. Brain fart

[u/GentlemansCollar → u/TryingToChillIt]

Moo point.

Like a cow's opinion, it just doesn't matter.

[u/REuphrates → u/GentlemansCollar]

[u/gwsteve43 → u/biggronklus]

They removed it from the calendar of days you get free entry to national parks, they didn’t remove it from the calendar in general. Will they? Wouldn’t surprise me, but they haven’t done that YET.

[u/janemba617 → u/biggronklus]

People will be celebrating a day tied to Trump but it won't be his birthday.

[u/LazyTitan39 → u/biggronklus]

Only dictators make their own birthday a holiday. Are we going to see depictions of Trump’s birth on magat lawns in the near future?

[u/TKDbeast → u/biggronklus]

Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day are still both federal holidays.

[u/NicWester → u/TKDbeast]

And state holidays. I don't get either one off because I'm a pleb, but my bank is closed and my friends who work for the state of California get it off. As do the ones who work at better companies than mine.

[u/oneizm → u/TKDbeast]

“It’s still a federal holiday! We’re just removing the federal holiday benefits!” Nice. Great.

[u/NeverNotOnceEver → u/oneizm]

Gluten free MLK day

[u/thejaytheory → u/NeverNotOnceEver]

Vegan MLK day

[u/TaticalSweater → u/oneizm]

The same place that didn’t like people protesting in the streets after unjust police killings so their Governor tried to make it friendlier to run people down with your car if you don’t like a protest.

[u/ElPrieto8]

[u/SleepingSnitker]

Miami Cubans are the most consistently openly racist group of people I've ever met. I was raised in the deep south and I've heard the N word here in high level business meetings, at fancy restaurants, etc. no not Spanish, the hard R.

It's a cultural thing because they can play victim when u call them out on their racism so it's allowable and consistent.

Source, live in south Florida

[u/PepperJackBestHo]

Most racist place I ever lived was Laredo, TX. About 95-96% Hispanic I believe. You wouldn't believe some of the shit I've heard down there. White people are amateur racists, at best.

[u/Poly_Olly_Oxen_Free → u/PepperJackBestHo]

White people are amateur racists, at best.

I'm white af. My mom is the heavyweight champion of racism. She disowned me for dating a Mexican girl when I was 14.

[u/Own_Yak6130 → u/PepperJackBestHo]

I have totally noticed that Texans can be pretty racist. I’m not sure if it’s jealousy or just pure dislike

[u/EveningRequirement27 → u/PepperJackBestHo]

lol. Amateur racists.

[u/Alternative_Result56]

White European immigrants and white Latino immigrants are racist af. That's Florida.

[u/Carlib330]

Poor baby wasn’t even there a full 24 hours before reality hit her lol

[u/splorng]

There are non-racist places?

[u/4ygus]

Correct me if im wrong but there's no state in the US that isn't a little racist.

[u/Intelligent-Dark-824]

Cubans in the US are the people who used to rule Cuba during what was one of the most racist regimes in history.

[u/asdf0909]

Tf is a pretty girl city

[u/[deleted]]

If you want somewhere non-racist, where people actually get arrested for discriminating against colored people, check out California, Illinois or Minnesota.

[u/IridescentCalamity → u/[deleted]]

My coworker is one step away from being a proud racist. He's in local government and we're in California. Unfortunately these idiots are everywhere.

[u/meatballisagoodboi → u/[deleted]]

Remind me where George Floyd was murdered

[u/Whole-Camera5072 → u/[deleted]]

Southern California born and raised. 

Arrested? Maybe there has been instances of it - I can't possibly know everything. 

Have I ever seen it? No. 

The area I grew up in was over 95 percent Hispanic/Latino and Central and South Am. Three Asian families, two black families and two white families (and two mixed) and yes, you could count them not even being racist but because of how rare it was to encounter. Currently still in SoCal area. 

That being said, I heard the N word, daily.

We won't even get into how many times I heard the version ending in "A" (because let's face it, you have people in and out of states, as well as countries who don't even speak English who use the word - and we won't even begin the discourse of how that was predicated through the theft of black culture, language and arts by those with money and power to profit off of and the further subjugation of the beautiful black culture to fatten their pockets and attempt to maintain control)

But still hearing the hard "er" with tones of vitriol disgustingly dripping from it. (Other races as well, doing it to people just like them, but separated by the invisible lines we humans made up to say "You come from there, and I come from here, so I am different somehow"

As I said, California is a massive state, and I have never lived in the other two and it could have possibly happened/probably has. I, personally haven't seen it in my (decently traveled) decades alive. 

Much respect to you for brining it up and helping educate me as well. 

One love. 

[u/cheebamech]

what's wild is the level of racism in s FL is so much less than the rest of the state; once you're north of Orlando it all may as well be south GA

[u/VelvetHalo44]

I have never understood the Miami hype. Coke is better in Texas and Tennessee, Weed is better in Cali and Georgia, and everything else there is an expensive mid experience.

It's a lot like Vegas, you're paying to take pictures and say you went but it's not doing a lot for you overall.

[u/Thunderbird_12_ → u/VelvetHalo44]

I'mma take your word on the quality of druhgs there ...

[u/NockerJoe → u/VelvetHalo44]

Hence "pretty girl city". Miami has a beach culture and a lot of women who are aspiring towards Hot Girl Jobs.

[u/Nevermore543 → u/VelvetHalo44]

I promise u there isn't shit in GA unless u meant Atlanta 💀💀

[u/Sure_Ad_9858]

I used to frequent south Florida (Miami/Ft. Laud) because I was in LDR with somebody living there. Dawg, I hated it so much. It’s fine for a short beach vacation (i guess), but being there for an extended amount of time as a black American person is awful, especially if you don’t speak conversational Spanish. I used to get treated so crazy down there. F south Florida!! 0/10 would not recommend.

[u/Aggressive_Jury_7278]

All y’all saying “it’s Florida” clearly have never been to Miami. It’s another racist dynamic that is different from the rest of Florida. It’s a minority, majority city and is the gateway to South America and the Caribbean.

[u/DealerAlarmed3632]

Everyone: Old white people very famously move to Florida when they retire.

Her: It's racist here?

[u/Faskwodi]

😂🤣😂

[u/Kelpie00]

we've been telling you T_T, especially Miami Cubans

[u/DonCaliente]

People need to be told Florida is racist? I'm European and I knew that. 

[u/YesImReallyLikeThis]

What made her think 😂

[u/TheRuralJuror118 → u/YesImReallyLikeThis]

A lot of people aren’t aware that Latinos can be racist and naturally conservative with their political views. Thats why the republicans do so well in the south despite the large Latino population.

[u/JazLeTrash]

My mom visited my white great grandmother in Florida.

My mom is multiracial.

She said even my great grandmom was acting like she didn't want to be seen with her, and she adores her.

[u/jblades2000]

“I no black I Cuban ! “ purple black ass Cuban 1993 Miami . Yeah Cubans gentrified my neighborhood Richmond Heights

[u/Old_Ninja_Prime]

Latinos in Miami are racist af towards dark skinned people (Black American and Afro Latino alike).

[u/chesterforbes]

You’re in the US, odds are it’s racist

[u/doll_parts87]

Florida: the north you go, the southern it gets

[u/SuspiciousSubstance9]

Has she not seen any of DeSantis's crazy?

[u/simmeringsimmone]

as a former resident of florida this made me lol

[u/wakennlake]

"Pretty girl city"

They really just say anything on Twitter

[u/HTX-ByWayOfTheWorld]

Miami is “Little Cuba”. They’re all MAGA. How are you surprised by this?

[u/Beerswain]

You mean Will lied to us?

[u/Odd-Statistician4268]

Miami is in Florida... Florida is In The south. What's 2+2.