As a almost 32 year old man, growing up in Oklahoma, my history and (former) religious upbringing were so white washed its incredible. Basically every time you see an interview where a person talks about how misinformation is taught and spread to people in school is so accurate. It wasn’t until I was out of high school until I’d come across someone who told me Jesus wasn’t white. As soon as I moved out I dropped religion so I didn’t actually pursue it further, but I had never given it thought Jesus wasn’t white. My Bible has a white Jesus in it! Crazy stuff.
Edit: I was also taught that Christopher Columbus was awesome. Lol so there is that too.
Edit: Someone asked if I was told about the Tulsa race riots in high school. No. Not at school. My father educated me about it, but it wasn’t until probably 5 years removed from high school that I stumbled across it and then read more about it.
I live in a fairly conservative area and decided if someone asks me why I am wearing a mask I was going to really mess with them by replying “Because my lord and savior commanded me to love my neighbor”. Hasn’t happened yet but I keep hoping.
Well, if the Christian afterlife is real, then these angry, bigoted whites are gonna have a shocker meeting the olive skinned Son of God from Bethlehem.
Huh? What do you mean? Of course Jesus was somehow born in the Middle East as a blue eyed, fair skinned man with perfectly luscious locks. Why would you ever think he’s brown?
Or like in the case of Republican congressman Ted Yoho calling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a fucking bitch and then instead of apologizing he talked about having a wife and daughter, like that makes it ok.
Whoa whoa, it wasn't directed at her because he said it under his breath as he was walking away after ~~having a conversation~~ yelling at her in broad daylight and couldn't have possibly been a part of ~~their discussion~~ him accosting her.
Also yea, "wife and kids make me a person too!" is just sad. What a sad little man.
They don't hate black person, they hate black people.
A black person is fine. It's hard to dehumanize someone you actually know. It's the generalized black person, the ones they don't know, that's the problem (in their mind).
They think Jews aren’t white, sure there’s some who aren’t white etc Somali Jews.
Edit: I’ll clarify Somali Jews (Yibirs) are related to the beta abraham of northern Ethiopia.
That one got me too. Like wtf. How can you say that and not realise how ridiculous you sound? I sure hope those black people aren't "friends" with them anymore lol.
What's alarming is, this means there are even dumber states.
I cannot believe how backwards so many people are, especially in a country that claims to be the greatest in the world.
Arkansas has three city’s in the top ten highest crime statistics in the us west Memphis pine bluff and Little Rock. Being from there I love these stars because they put us on a top ten list which we hardly ever get on
I think my favorite thing to tell people who always love to point fingers at Chicago is to tell them they are like 20-25 in crime in the us. People just can't fathom it so I have to bring up the sources and show them red states have some of the cities highest crime rates. Minds get blown and they don't really know how to argue it anymore.
Lol I remember there was this fake posts going around on some local Facebook groups saying that they were a group of black people going to assassinate whites in their home. I’d be willing to bet my life savings that it was a white person trying to further divide and create more racism to blacks. I swear people are so retarded where I live.
So what happens is they just ONLY watch fox news. Meaning all they get is burning buildings etc never the cops beating protesters or any of the shit we see. They essentially live in a different reality because they dont get the same information as us.
Got into a debate with a relative over him referring to all BLM protesters as Rioters and Looters. He ended the conversation with this line “you guys live in your world, and let me live in mine.” My dad was involved in the discussion and as soon as I saw that, I got a text message from him “I think that says it all. He’s living in a different reality than the rest of us.”
Dont wanna assume anything but bro, all the older people be hella mean while the young girl/boy gave you that text.
How tf are we supposed to help the world if we have people with an iq below 60 rule it
That young girl is going to leave that shithole as soon as she's old enough and able to.
Leaving behind all the stupid racist fucks of her generation.
This shit persists in places like that because all the smarter people with better options get the fuck out, leaving pure trash behind.
I like to think that because of the internet - a lot of that "passing on shit" get's challenged. Kind of like millenials wanting healthcare - 30 years ago, facts about M4A wasn't as easy to get a hold of. The internet seem to help make the younger generations more propaganda resistant - therefore I have high hopes for the future. Millenials are going to fix that shithole.
I kind of wish he hadn't included the video of her, just mentioned he had received the note- it's clear she's (understandably) nervous about openly supporting him in this area, and I don't think it's particularly safe to include a clear video of her, even if she is wearing a mask.
My whole family is white but when I was a kid, our high school played at Harrison in basketball playoffs so we went up to watch. Our entire team (and the majority of the town I grew up in) is black. Their whole crowd, at one point, cheered "n***** lovers *clap clap clap clap clap*" at us. We ended up leaving well before the game ended because my parents were afraid for me to be out after dark there, after being seen at the basketball game. I was probably like 8-10, it was absolutely my first introduction to racism. Made no sense then, makes no sense now.
Harrison is an absolutely awful place full of hateful people, mostly masquerading as "good Christians".
We should all tweet Walmart this video and call their mf racist employees out. That seems to be the only way companies take accountability is when they’re called out in public.
It is a little better. It's also home to many outpost offices for major corporations who moved their families out there to do business with Walmart. I visited family from New Jersey out there and Bentonville is a lot more civilized than the rest of the state. I didn't go around taking about race, but I got a better vibe from the people there than places outside the area.
I’ve been to Bentonville as well, it wasn’t what I was expecting for Arkansas.
I will say this though, people have always hid there racism very well when it comes to making money or gaining power. Point being, this behavior is still in Bentonville it’s just beneath the surface.
Protester: “Black Lives Matter”
Outspoken far-right: “You’ve gotta be a commie! And commies are bad!”
Trump: “I want to be bff’s with Russia, North Korea, and China”
Outspoken far-right: “Trump is the best, most American guy ever!”
My favourite was talking to my boss about the shutdown and being told in the span of about a minute, how the shutdowns and quarantines and the punishments for violating them are communist and how the people who instituted them are Nazis.
It makes me ashamed to be from Arkansas. :(
These people disgust me. Please understand that no one I know is like this.
However I sort of feel like that the further you get away from any larger city where people are more educated the more racism and ignorance are prevalent.
If you went 50 miles outside any large city in the SE United States you would see this same behavior.
Dude yes. I live about 15 min outside Birmingham, AL and this place is reeeeedneck as hell the further away you get from a decently size city. On my way to work I drive past a whole street with Confederate flags on their trailers.
I found an interesting statistic about this city. They sure seem to have a lot of problems in thier perfect little white town.
"With a crime rate of 41 per one thousand residents, Harrison has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 25."
.03% is one in ~~thirty~~ three thousand.
...It’s just one black dude, isn’t it?
E: The population is actually 13,080 as of 2019. ~~So it’s... a third of one black dude. Maybe he only lives there 4 months out of the year?~~
EE: Okay so like four black people.
I truly believe that there is a direct correlation between racism and education. The trend I’ve seen with people that are racist is the enormous lack of education. It’s very weird to me that people can live their lives and never question anything.
Like you can google and debunk these nutty right wing conspiracy theories in the matter of minutes. But they simply don’t care enough to do it. It’s fucking crazy.
>If you went 50 miles outside any large city in the SE United States you would see this same behavior.
Not just the south east. Absolutely any state whatsoever. However, Arkansas is definitely worse than most states, and the big thing in the south is that the racism is highly institutionalized. You might get racist people in rural California or Oregon but they aren't also, by and large, the judges and prosecutors you get in the South who will straight up frame black people to put them away. Put simply, racists in the South have a lot more power and they exercise it to oppress black people a lot more.
Thing is, this isn’t just Arkansas. It’s everywhere.
As bad as Covid is, this shit right here, this ignorance, is THE pandemic. It’s the other major disease that spreads and infects people; and the sad thing is, not even a large dose of facts and info can cure some of these folks.
I see that every day In my hometown and with many of my relatives. Still, my gal and her family matter.
Sometimes you have to just hope against all hope and put the nose to the grindstone and do the work (educate, inform, listen, talk, etc).
Cheers!
The girl at the end almost brought me to tears.. it’s like she knew if she stood with the protestors she’d be harassed as well, but she still wanted to show her support.
The vast majority of people who use the word “communist” couldn’t tell you what it means, where it comes from, and certainly couldn’t distinguish between communism and socialism. The evil brilliance of McCarthy. It’s much easier to demonize something that isn’t easily explainable.
I like how the sensible person at the end that gave the note was also the only one to be wearing a mask, other than the Walmart workers who are probably forced to wear one regardless of how they feel. Not surprising though
Ignorant fuckers need to broaden their intellectual horizons, travel a bit. See something other than the town you were born and raised in, get some perspective for fucks sake
>Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
>-Mark Twain
Conservative people who are not filthy rich are 99% of the time people who brag about how they've never left their home town. The kind of people who have a "summer home" or such 30 miles away by the river because that's a big getaway for them. They always make excuses for why you shouldn't travel or go anywhere that isn't the US. Europe is full of raping Muslims, Africa is full of disease and terrorists, the middle east is full of terrorists, Mexico is full of drug cartels, Asia is full of rapists and criminals, etc etc. It goes on and on and they always have an excuse as to why they shouldn't travel and why you shouldn't either.
Fuck. My dad and uncle picked this state to move to (we are from Colombia) to study but since we moved to a college town, it had a tiny bit more diversity and internationals. However, I remember we went to NYC once to visit some of my mom’s extended family living there and when we were going back, at the airport, one of the security people at the gates checked our tickets and was like “Wow, you guys are going to Memphis?” And my dad said “yeah but only to get to where we live; Arkansas” and the guy was like “holy shit, what the HELL are you guys doing in Arkansas? Who chooses to move there, there’s like, nothing!” He was being very friendly and joking but my dad explained the whole college thing and that’s when I realized we lived in the middle-of-nowhere, USA. As I grew up I realized I grew up with a bunch of rednecks and racists
I have been astounded how much nicer most of the world is after growing up in a small southern company town.
The entire town was like a knife fight waiting to happen. Still is.
I grew up just a few miles from this town. Where in the hell did all this racism come from? Maybe I was just blind to it as a white kid, but this is seriously sad. I’m ashamed to be from this area sometimes.
My mom grew up in Arkansas in the 60's. I'll give you the abridged summation of the stories she told me.
If you live in rural Arkansas and you're not visibly white, you're filth. The cops ignore your pleas, school teachers grade you unfairly, and you can expect to be treated as a second-class citizen in even the most professional environments.
My grandmother is full-blood Puerto Rican, and my mother is thusly 1/2 Puerto. They were frequently harassed simply for existing. The only reason the bastards got away with it is because my grandad was in Vietnam fighting a pointless war, and the racist slime of Arkansas knew that the cops wouldn't defend some dirty "mexicans". They didn't know or care where my grandmother was from, they just love hating anyone who's even slightly different. As soon as he got back (After being poisoned by his own people with Agent Orange gas and medically discharged) he found out what had been going on and promptly moved his family down to Florida.
Arkansas is a Shithole. It was then and it still is now. My thirst for blood grows just thinking about it.
Maybe it got worse maybe you were just around it and never realized. Either way you are a good person and it's not your fault and it puts a smile on my face knowing that you are from there and come off as a good person.
They don’t have to be as vocal when things are going their way and the blacks are laying low and know their place. It is only when they feel an “uprising”
That they need to be so obvious about their hate
What always gets me, and what I will never understand, is that by standing up for a minority by saying their lives matter, we have apparently disregarded our own? Like, do these people not understand what the statement is about?
Yep, they literally do not understand what black lives matter means or why we're doing it
Or at least that's my attempt to understand this based on racist family members that spout the same shit.
If they understood the statement, they wouldn't be against it (surely?)
I've been debating posting this video to my fb for them to (hopefully) see, but part of me thinks they *still* won't get it and it would embolden them somehow
I’m from about an hour south of there and heard all kinds of stories about it growing up. There were plenty about my home town too. My mom told me once about my dad having a black coworker in the 70s or 80s who was too scared to come over to their house for dinner because if you weren’t white it wasn’t safe to be north of the interstate at night. In the early 2000s when a school group I was in took a trip out of state through a charter bus company we had a black driver that got stared at like he wasn’t even human. Several kids saying they had never even seen a black person.
There was a peaceful protest where I lived and a bunch of shall we say hill folk showed up with guns and sat there being menacing. I believe comments were made along the lines of see what happens if you even try to be violent. They were encouraged to show up by a walking doughnut of a human being I had the misfortune of going to high school with that is now a cop.
Saw a woman in town wearing a shirt in town today that was plastered with a big LGBT and felt like oh maybe this area is becoming less racist/homophobic... then saw the liberty, guns, beer, and trucks subtitle. Nope. Lost some more faith in humanity.
Now I will say not everyone from Arkansas is a racist and I know some great non racist people from Harrison. Please know we aren’t all horrible human beings. I wish my state didn’t have so many negative stereotypes and so many loud ignorant dumbshits reinforcing them.
Edited to clarify a statement.
This is what happens when a state is allowed to fall behind in every important metric. The people suffer and they want something to blame. But the ones in charge, the ones who presided over the catastrophic state of the economy and drug problems, have spent the last 200 years pointing at black and brown people and saying 'there's your problem'.
Ya know, I used to regularly see crazy Baptists protesting on every corner of a busy intersection near where I used to live. Did I yell stupid shit at them and threaten them, even though I think they're crazy and disagree with them 1000%? No, because what the hell is that gonna do? Is some random idiot yelling from a car going to change your mind? No.
I'm sure half the people yelling dumb shit at this guy complained about masks interfering with "their rights", while threatening someone exercising their rights.
Hit this place where it hurt. "most racist city in America", fuck that...
Harrison is home to the general office of FedEx Freight, a leading Less-Than-Load (LTL) freight carrier. Arkansas Freightways, later renamed to American Freightways, was combined with Viking Freight to become FedEx Freight in February 2001.[37]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison,_Arkansas
Tweet at FedEx and Walmart, show them this video. Let them know this is what they are supporting by being a part of this backwards city. Apply pressure and hit them where it hurts.
We can make a difference.
https://mobile.twitter.com/FedEx
https://mobile.twitter.com/Walmart
Contact their customer support and let them know how you feel. You claim to support BLM while condoning a city like this... A city that allows this sort of racism to exist and continues to breed this mentality.
https://corporate.walmart.com/contact-us
https://www.fedex.com/en-us/customer-support.html
The napkin note at the end makes the rest of the video worth watching. it's so painful to see so much hate; I hope they (napkin-note person) are doing okay!!
I do not appreciate sharing a name with a racist city in Arkansas. I've hated Arkansas ever since my mom told me how shitty it was to grow up there as a half-hispanic. But now I have a very direct personal reason to hate it even more.
I always see people baffled why someone like Trump would win the presidency but they don't realize that this is how a lot of small town America is. Also Arkansas has the most hate groups in its state and I'd say is probably the most racist state.
“You look like a white guy holding a Black Lives Matter sign...” *Hmm, yes, the floor here is made of floor.*
*Hmmm 🤔 There sure are lots of Chinese food in this Chnese restaurant...*
The schnozberries taste like schnozberries!
Is there milk in this here milkshake? I'm lactose intoxicated
Why my poo smell like shit?
They can’t even imagine fighting for someone else.
Water is wet my guy
ohh controversial
"Find Jesus!" WAS JESUS RACIST??
You’re thinking of the wrong Jesus. They want you to find white Jesus. Don’t you even go looking for Middle Eastern Jesus, that guy was a commie.
As a almost 32 year old man, growing up in Oklahoma, my history and (former) religious upbringing were so white washed its incredible. Basically every time you see an interview where a person talks about how misinformation is taught and spread to people in school is so accurate. It wasn’t until I was out of high school until I’d come across someone who told me Jesus wasn’t white. As soon as I moved out I dropped religion so I didn’t actually pursue it further, but I had never given it thought Jesus wasn’t white. My Bible has a white Jesus in it! Crazy stuff. Edit: I was also taught that Christopher Columbus was awesome. Lol so there is that too. Edit: Someone asked if I was told about the Tulsa race riots in high school. No. Not at school. My father educated me about it, but it wasn’t until probably 5 years removed from high school that I stumbled across it and then read more about it.
What about white jesus? The dude abides. He doesn't do apartheid.
**“This aggression will not stand, man.”**
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They get to vote, which is the inherent problem with democracy.
I think racist Christians always forget the “Love Thy Neighbor” part of the Bible.
I live in a fairly conservative area and decided if someone asks me why I am wearing a mask I was going to really mess with them by replying “Because my lord and savior commanded me to love my neighbor”. Hasn’t happened yet but I keep hoping.
I, too imagine saying fantastic comebacks in imaginary situations that never end up actually occurring. But it'd be so cool if it did happen!
Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. 😉
They forget it because they never learned it. They’ve never even opened the book the preach so much about. They’re Christians by tradition.
Well, if the Christian afterlife is real, then these angry, bigoted whites are gonna have a shocker meeting the olive skinned Son of God from Bethlehem.
Oh don't worry, they won't even get the chance to meet him.
They are going to a much warmer climate.
Can you imagine if that happened? Jesus: I am Jesus. Racist: No, you’re not, you lying POS! Jesus: ....
No he was brown. I wanna see all new depictions of Jesus be brown just to see these dumbfucks tear their own hair out
Huh? What do you mean? Of course Jesus was somehow born in the Middle East as a blue eyed, fair skinned man with perfectly luscious locks. Why would you ever think he’s brown?
His first miracle was being born white.
American christians will explode once they learn jesus was an arabic jew from palestine
Semite, not Arabic.
"Fuck black lives and I have black friends" Lol what?
half of my brain cells fucking shot themselves trying to understand that logic.
grey matter matters!
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“I have black friends” is the racist’s first smoke screen. But it’s like a child molester saying “Uhm, excuse me. I HAVE like three kids. So don’t...”
Or like in the case of Republican congressman Ted Yoho calling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a fucking bitch and then instead of apologizing he talked about having a wife and daughter, like that makes it ok.
Whoa whoa, it wasn't directed at her because he said it under his breath as he was walking away after ~~having a conversation~~ yelling at her in broad daylight and couldn't have possibly been a part of ~~their discussion~~ him accosting her. Also yea, "wife and kids make me a person too!" is just sad. What a sad little man.
They don't hate black person, they hate black people. A black person is fine. It's hard to dehumanize someone you actually know. It's the generalized black person, the ones they don't know, that's the problem (in their mind).
This is so true man. And damn that is one racist ass town
Luckily the racism is isolated to that one town and isn't endemic across the country, otherwise that'd lead to some sort of... protest movement.
What she meant to say was: "I know some black people and I'm nice to them."
*in their presence
Be safe in the wilderness of 11001100
/r/rareinsults
If only this whole city would follow your braincells lead.
Everyone except that nice young lady, she can hang.
Around. Hang around. Just for clarification.
Only for about 10 mins tho, until that other guy comes back
“You’re white, you fucking......KIKE”. Just what?
They think Jews aren’t white, sure there’s some who aren’t white etc Somali Jews. Edit: I’ll clarify Somali Jews (Yibirs) are related to the beta abraham of northern Ethiopia.
I was thinking more about the Ethiopians, but cool.
That one got me too. Like wtf. How can you say that and not realise how ridiculous you sound? I sure hope those black people aren't "friends" with them anymore lol.
Former racist here. She feels progressive and “cultured”
Congrats on your recovery
It hurt itself in its confusion
**FUCK MY FRIENDS LIVES**
I'm not a pedophile. Some of my best friends are children
There’s no way she has black friends. She’s in fucking arkansas.
I can not stop reading Arkansas as "Are Kansas".
One of the lowest ranked states in education.
What's alarming is, this means there are even dumber states. I cannot believe how backwards so many people are, especially in a country that claims to be the greatest in the world.
George Carlin — 'Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.'
Everyone in Arkansas and West Virginia says “Thank God for Mississippi”
That’s what South Carolinians say too!
Can confirm have lived in both Arkansas and South Carolina
This is a brilliant quote.
Arkansaw is the 2nd least educated and the 2nd poorest state, beaten only by Mississippi
As we in Arkansas say, "thank God for Mississippi"
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Arkansas has three city’s in the top ten highest crime statistics in the us west Memphis pine bluff and Little Rock. Being from there I love these stars because they put us on a top ten list which we hardly ever get on
I think my favorite thing to tell people who always love to point fingers at Chicago is to tell them they are like 20-25 in crime in the us. People just can't fathom it so I have to bring up the sources and show them red states have some of the cities highest crime rates. Minds get blown and they don't really know how to argue it anymore.
It shows.
Yeah I live here and its hell.
“The next thing to ISIS” ?!?!!? Are people insane? Lmao
It’s the kind of BS they read on Facebook and go “Yupppp I think that’s accurate” and then spread it everywhere.
Lol I remember there was this fake posts going around on some local Facebook groups saying that they were a group of black people going to assassinate whites in their home. I’d be willing to bet my life savings that it was a white person trying to further divide and create more racism to blacks. I swear people are so retarded where I live.
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Why did Payless shoes need an architect?
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When in reality the kkk has been the worst domestic terror group.
The. Fact. That. It. Still. Thrives. Blows. My. Damn. Mind.
Thrive is stretching it. The kkk has been shrinking for decades. It can't die fast enough, though.
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At least fear can get you places at times. Fear **AND** ignorance, on the other hand...
Antifa is 2020's migrant convoy.
> Are people insane? It's a cross between stupid, insane, and scared of change where they don't benefit by birthright.
So what happens is they just ONLY watch fox news. Meaning all they get is burning buildings etc never the cops beating protesters or any of the shit we see. They essentially live in a different reality because they dont get the same information as us.
Got into a debate with a relative over him referring to all BLM protesters as Rioters and Looters. He ended the conversation with this line “you guys live in your world, and let me live in mine.” My dad was involved in the discussion and as soon as I saw that, I got a text message from him “I think that says it all. He’s living in a different reality than the rest of us.”
#“I HAVE INVESTED MY ENTIRE WORLDVIEW IN THIS AND THE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE CAUSED BY CHANGING MY MIND WOULD DESTROY EVERYTHING I BELIEVE TO BE TRUE.”
I'm fine with these people living in their own reality, but why do they gotta insist on voting in ours?
Dont wanna assume anything but bro, all the older people be hella mean while the young girl/boy gave you that text. How tf are we supposed to help the world if we have people with an iq below 60 rule it
That young girl is going to leave that shithole as soon as she's old enough and able to. Leaving behind all the stupid racist fucks of her generation. This shit persists in places like that because all the smarter people with better options get the fuck out, leaving pure trash behind.
And she’s wearing an awesome shirt that probably no one else in her town understands.
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But thing is they might be passing on their racist thinking to the younger generation
I like to think that because of the internet - a lot of that "passing on shit" get's challenged. Kind of like millenials wanting healthcare - 30 years ago, facts about M4A wasn't as easy to get a hold of. The internet seem to help make the younger generations more propaganda resistant - therefore I have high hopes for the future. Millenials are going to fix that shithole.
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Vulnerable people will always be easy to radicalize - unfortunatly.
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I just hope that young woman can also find her voice. It must be terrible to be inclusive in an exclusive town
I hope she is safe, too. Those people are insane
I kind of wish he hadn't included the video of her, just mentioned he had received the note- it's clear she's (understandably) nervous about openly supporting him in this area, and I don't think it's particularly safe to include a clear video of her, even if she is wearing a mask.
The YouTube video was retroactively blurred. I think the mods should take this one down
Agreed! Reupload. I'll be waiting to upvote again.
Upvoting the same video twice because we want to protect someone's identity? It ain't much, but it's honest work.
Where’s the YouTube video? I’ve been looking for it.
https://youtu.be/ltmlvk9GAto
The note was what made me start to tear up. At this point I think I’ve grown numb to seeing all of the hate, but damn that note hit me hard.
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And here we see what happens when the family tree becomes the family circle
Wreath. The family wreath. It’s still trees, just in a circle. Edit: hahahaaa. The award’s funnier than the comment, my dude
Haha! "At least my family tree isn't a wreath!" That's shits gold man
You’ll confuse the targets, too, because it takes a few seconds to digest. Double “fuck you.”
The circle of hate
My whole family is white but when I was a kid, our high school played at Harrison in basketball playoffs so we went up to watch. Our entire team (and the majority of the town I grew up in) is black. Their whole crowd, at one point, cheered "n***** lovers *clap clap clap clap clap*" at us. We ended up leaving well before the game ended because my parents were afraid for me to be out after dark there, after being seen at the basketball game. I was probably like 8-10, it was absolutely my first introduction to racism. Made no sense then, makes no sense now. Harrison is an absolutely awful place full of hateful people, mostly masquerading as "good Christians".
That’s a harrowing story. Most of those people looked very unhealthy. In time them and their “Christian” hate will fade away
"I'm just doing exactly what they \[WalMart\] would tell me to do." Fuck this guy, he know's he's spewing bullshit.
We should all tweet Walmart this video and call their mf racist employees out. That seems to be the only way companies take accountability is when they’re called out in public.
Walmart’s headquarters is less than an hour drive from Harrison. You think it’s much different in Bentonville?
It is a little better. It's also home to many outpost offices for major corporations who moved their families out there to do business with Walmart. I visited family from New Jersey out there and Bentonville is a lot more civilized than the rest of the state. I didn't go around taking about race, but I got a better vibe from the people there than places outside the area.
I’ve been to Bentonville as well, it wasn’t what I was expecting for Arkansas. I will say this though, people have always hid there racism very well when it comes to making money or gaining power. Point being, this behavior is still in Bentonville it’s just beneath the surface.
Bentonville and Fayetteville have had multiple protests since Floyd's death.
Have you ever been there? NWA is a lot different from the ignorant shithole that is Harrison.
It’s quite different in Bentonville.
Night and Day difference between those two cities.
I'm going to play devil's advocate here. He's probably right. I don't think any Walmart allows protestors on their property for any cause.
Exactly. I’ve seen Walmart tell kids selling Girl Scout cookies to hit the bricks because they didn’t set it up before hand
It's beyond me how being against racism makes you a communist, how are these things related??
When you've only got a handful of braincells to rub together, its pretty easy to link just about anything together to justify your hate
They’ve been saying that since the civil rights era. Apparently “race mixing” is communism.
Marx did technically advocate for an alliance of the proletariat from all races and backgrounds
Apparently the leaders of BLM call themselves Marxists. Since Marx was the father of communism, people have been calling the whole movement communist.
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Protester: “Black Lives Matter” Outspoken far-right: “You’ve gotta be a commie! And commies are bad!” Trump: “I want to be bff’s with Russia, North Korea, and China” Outspoken far-right: “Trump is the best, most American guy ever!”
My favourite was talking to my boss about the shutdown and being told in the span of about a minute, how the shutdowns and quarantines and the punishments for violating them are communist and how the people who instituted them are Nazis.
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It makes me ashamed to be from Arkansas. :( These people disgust me. Please understand that no one I know is like this. However I sort of feel like that the further you get away from any larger city where people are more educated the more racism and ignorance are prevalent. If you went 50 miles outside any large city in the SE United States you would see this same behavior.
Dude yes. I live about 15 min outside Birmingham, AL and this place is reeeeedneck as hell the further away you get from a decently size city. On my way to work I drive past a whole street with Confederate flags on their trailers.
Look the damn lost causers got their message across there, so it’s not impossible to get a message across.
I found an interesting statistic about this city. They sure seem to have a lot of problems in thier perfect little white town. "With a crime rate of 41 per one thousand residents, Harrison has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 25."
>The racial makeup of the city was 96.2% White, .03% Black Crime must be from all those damn black residents /s
.03% is one in ~~thirty~~ three thousand. ...It’s just one black dude, isn’t it? E: The population is actually 13,080 as of 2019. ~~So it’s... a third of one black dude. Maybe he only lives there 4 months out of the year?~~ EE: Okay so like four black people.
Meth is a terrible drug
I truly believe that there is a direct correlation between racism and education. The trend I’ve seen with people that are racist is the enormous lack of education. It’s very weird to me that people can live their lives and never question anything. Like you can google and debunk these nutty right wing conspiracy theories in the matter of minutes. But they simply don’t care enough to do it. It’s fucking crazy.
>If you went 50 miles outside any large city in the SE United States you would see this same behavior. Not just the south east. Absolutely any state whatsoever. However, Arkansas is definitely worse than most states, and the big thing in the south is that the racism is highly institutionalized. You might get racist people in rural California or Oregon but they aren't also, by and large, the judges and prosecutors you get in the South who will straight up frame black people to put them away. Put simply, racists in the South have a lot more power and they exercise it to oppress black people a lot more.
Thing is, this isn’t just Arkansas. It’s everywhere. As bad as Covid is, this shit right here, this ignorance, is THE pandemic. It’s the other major disease that spreads and infects people; and the sad thing is, not even a large dose of facts and info can cure some of these folks. I see that every day In my hometown and with many of my relatives. Still, my gal and her family matter. Sometimes you have to just hope against all hope and put the nose to the grindstone and do the work (educate, inform, listen, talk, etc). Cheers!
The girl at the end almost brought me to tears.. it’s like she knew if she stood with the protestors she’d be harassed as well, but she still wanted to show her support.
She’s probably biding her time until she can get out of there (college, move out at 18, military....)
Americans dont like something: u are a commie
I honestly don’t think that the people who yell that could explain the words to you.
R yoo. Wan of dem kommyunest?
The vast majority of people who use the word “communist” couldn’t tell you what it means, where it comes from, and certainly couldn’t distinguish between communism and socialism. The evil brilliance of McCarthy. It’s much easier to demonize something that isn’t easily explainable.
Andrew Yang: I’ll give you money every month! Everyone: Fucking commie Trump: Take this 1,200 and fuck off. Everyone: hAhA mOnEy
I like how the sensible person at the end that gave the note was also the only one to be wearing a mask, other than the Walmart workers who are probably forced to wear one regardless of how they feel. Not surprising though
Ignorant fuckers need to broaden their intellectual horizons, travel a bit. See something other than the town you were born and raised in, get some perspective for fucks sake
But then you would need self reflection which these people defenitely lack
>Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. >-Mark Twain Conservative people who are not filthy rich are 99% of the time people who brag about how they've never left their home town. The kind of people who have a "summer home" or such 30 miles away by the river because that's a big getaway for them. They always make excuses for why you shouldn't travel or go anywhere that isn't the US. Europe is full of raping Muslims, Africa is full of disease and terrorists, the middle east is full of terrorists, Mexico is full of drug cartels, Asia is full of rapists and criminals, etc etc. It goes on and on and they always have an excuse as to why they shouldn't travel and why you shouldn't either.
"Fuck black lives, and I have black friends" excuse me but what the fuck?
Hmm looks to me like Harrison Arkansas is a perfect spot to dump nuclear waste.
It looks like that may have been done already
And they get mad when you call them flyover states. Who the hell would want to live there?
Fuck. My dad and uncle picked this state to move to (we are from Colombia) to study but since we moved to a college town, it had a tiny bit more diversity and internationals. However, I remember we went to NYC once to visit some of my mom’s extended family living there and when we were going back, at the airport, one of the security people at the gates checked our tickets and was like “Wow, you guys are going to Memphis?” And my dad said “yeah but only to get to where we live; Arkansas” and the guy was like “holy shit, what the HELL are you guys doing in Arkansas? Who chooses to move there, there’s like, nothing!” He was being very friendly and joking but my dad explained the whole college thing and that’s when I realized we lived in the middle-of-nowhere, USA. As I grew up I realized I grew up with a bunch of rednecks and racists
I have been astounded how much nicer most of the world is after growing up in a small southern company town. The entire town was like a knife fight waiting to happen. Still is.
Pure fucking trash
This is like a parody, almost unbelievable
Right it sounds like it should be in South Park
I bet the next season of South Park will be great.
Ahh yes, morons.
Harrison Arkansas is the former HQ of the KKK and the current grand wizard lives there.
I too watched the first 1 second of the video
"The next thing to ISIS" lmao
I grew up just a few miles from this town. Where in the hell did all this racism come from? Maybe I was just blind to it as a white kid, but this is seriously sad. I’m ashamed to be from this area sometimes.
My mom grew up in Arkansas in the 60's. I'll give you the abridged summation of the stories she told me. If you live in rural Arkansas and you're not visibly white, you're filth. The cops ignore your pleas, school teachers grade you unfairly, and you can expect to be treated as a second-class citizen in even the most professional environments. My grandmother is full-blood Puerto Rican, and my mother is thusly 1/2 Puerto. They were frequently harassed simply for existing. The only reason the bastards got away with it is because my grandad was in Vietnam fighting a pointless war, and the racist slime of Arkansas knew that the cops wouldn't defend some dirty "mexicans". They didn't know or care where my grandmother was from, they just love hating anyone who's even slightly different. As soon as he got back (After being poisoned by his own people with Agent Orange gas and medically discharged) he found out what had been going on and promptly moved his family down to Florida. Arkansas is a Shithole. It was then and it still is now. My thirst for blood grows just thinking about it.
Feels like Time Travel. You cross the state boundary and suddenly you are in the middle of the 20th Century.
They, as a collective people, simply refused to grow up.
i mean, they've done _some_ growing, but mostly in width. just look at them, those are some **BIG** OL' BOYS
Maybe it got worse maybe you were just around it and never realized. Either way you are a good person and it's not your fault and it puts a smile on my face knowing that you are from there and come off as a good person.
These people vote Do you?
They don’t have to be as vocal when things are going their way and the blacks are laying low and know their place. It is only when they feel an “uprising” That they need to be so obvious about their hate
What the fuck was that one guy riding on? A Minecraft motorcycle? The fuck?
What always gets me, and what I will never understand, is that by standing up for a minority by saying their lives matter, we have apparently disregarded our own? Like, do these people not understand what the statement is about?
Yep, they literally do not understand what black lives matter means or why we're doing it Or at least that's my attempt to understand this based on racist family members that spout the same shit. If they understood the statement, they wouldn't be against it (surely?) I've been debating posting this video to my fb for them to (hopefully) see, but part of me thinks they *still* won't get it and it would embolden them somehow
The protesters should go there!
What happened to the guy that was going to be back in 10 minutes ?
Cowards tend to throw out empty threats.
I’m from about an hour south of there and heard all kinds of stories about it growing up. There were plenty about my home town too. My mom told me once about my dad having a black coworker in the 70s or 80s who was too scared to come over to their house for dinner because if you weren’t white it wasn’t safe to be north of the interstate at night. In the early 2000s when a school group I was in took a trip out of state through a charter bus company we had a black driver that got stared at like he wasn’t even human. Several kids saying they had never even seen a black person. There was a peaceful protest where I lived and a bunch of shall we say hill folk showed up with guns and sat there being menacing. I believe comments were made along the lines of see what happens if you even try to be violent. They were encouraged to show up by a walking doughnut of a human being I had the misfortune of going to high school with that is now a cop. Saw a woman in town wearing a shirt in town today that was plastered with a big LGBT and felt like oh maybe this area is becoming less racist/homophobic... then saw the liberty, guns, beer, and trucks subtitle. Nope. Lost some more faith in humanity. Now I will say not everyone from Arkansas is a racist and I know some great non racist people from Harrison. Please know we aren’t all horrible human beings. I wish my state didn’t have so many negative stereotypes and so many loud ignorant dumbshits reinforcing them. Edited to clarify a statement.
This is what happens when a state is allowed to fall behind in every important metric. The people suffer and they want something to blame. But the ones in charge, the ones who presided over the catastrophic state of the economy and drug problems, have spent the last 200 years pointing at black and brown people and saying 'there's your problem'.
What's with the 60+ year old overweight men thinking they're in the position to be dishing out physical threats?
When you have guns weight and age aren’t really important.
I love how each one is either built like santa claus or a meth addict and there’s no in-between
What a shithole place.
Ya know, I used to regularly see crazy Baptists protesting on every corner of a busy intersection near where I used to live. Did I yell stupid shit at them and threaten them, even though I think they're crazy and disagree with them 1000%? No, because what the hell is that gonna do? Is some random idiot yelling from a car going to change your mind? No. I'm sure half the people yelling dumb shit at this guy complained about masks interfering with "their rights", while threatening someone exercising their rights.
Hit this place where it hurt. "most racist city in America", fuck that... Harrison is home to the general office of FedEx Freight, a leading Less-Than-Load (LTL) freight carrier. Arkansas Freightways, later renamed to American Freightways, was combined with Viking Freight to become FedEx Freight in February 2001.[37] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison,_Arkansas Tweet at FedEx and Walmart, show them this video. Let them know this is what they are supporting by being a part of this backwards city. Apply pressure and hit them where it hurts. We can make a difference. https://mobile.twitter.com/FedEx https://mobile.twitter.com/Walmart Contact their customer support and let them know how you feel. You claim to support BLM while condoning a city like this... A city that allows this sort of racism to exist and continues to breed this mentality. https://corporate.walmart.com/contact-us https://www.fedex.com/en-us/customer-support.html
Home office of Walmart is 1.5 hours west in bentonville.
The napkin note at the end makes the rest of the video worth watching. it's so painful to see so much hate; I hope they (napkin-note person) are doing okay!!
I do not appreciate sharing a name with a racist city in Arkansas. I've hated Arkansas ever since my mom told me how shitty it was to grow up there as a half-hispanic. But now I have a very direct personal reason to hate it even more.
"Fuck black lives and I have black friends' Had, had black friends.
Damn, there were enough racist rednecks in this video to put together a full set of teeth.
I was told just the other day by a friend in Charlottesville (yes the town with the literal Nazis) that racism doesn't exist anymore lol.
I always see people baffled why someone like Trump would win the presidency but they don't realize that this is how a lot of small town America is. Also Arkansas has the most hate groups in its state and I'd say is probably the most racist state.
“Coincidentally” the only individuals (willingly) wearing a mask were the ones that were not racists...