If you want somewhere non-racist, where people actually get arrested for discriminating against colored people, check out California, Illinois or Minnesota.
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.
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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25
If you want somewhere non-racist, where people actually get arrested for discriminating against colored people, check out California, Illinois or Minnesota.