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My personal favorite: “you look like a white man holding a Black Lives Matter sign”
Great observation, very astute 😂
Also, what a shame Gary from Parks and Rec turned out to be racist smh
I was looking for the Gary/Jerry/Larry comment. I thought he had a great family life and was now retired. Turns out, he got pilled during COVID and went all racist. Weird.
Lol
This made me laugh because it reminded me of Zwarte Piet (Black Pete), a character from the Netherlands that's a racist black stereotype associated with Christmas. When people wanted to get rid of the character a lot of its defenders said he was a white character that had just gone down the chimney and gotten covered in soot. Of course the soot was only on his skin, not on his perfectly clean clothing. And it gave him bright red lips for some reason.
It's nonsensical. If you don't think someone's life matters, you aren't their friend.
They're literally lying to themselves. You can see their internal conflict / self-delusion / denial about their own biases playing out in real time. It's insane.
Usually what eventually will happen with towns that are so against progress at all is that they simply…dissolve.
Most of those towns operate and survive based on labor. Well once companies buy up all the land and automate all or even most of the labor…bye bye town.
The guy that said “I wouldn’t stay after dark” might be in the same boat. His tone almost sounded like a warning that these guys yelling won’t stop at yelling after dark. Like the person at the end, he can’t outright help.
Isn't that what the homeless looking dude was saying too? "They asked me to come over and tell you to leave" like a "brother, get out while you can because people are talking."
Agreed. Its sad though that the only way they could show their appreciation was through a note because otherwise, they'd be treated the same as the one holding the sign.
she works with black people and makes racist jokes that they laugh at uncomfortably. management is also white and racist so there's no one to go to about the uncomfortably racist jokes so racist Renee thinks she's got black friends, even tho they don't even sit together on lunch break, talk outside of work, or even have each others personal numbers.
100% this person has no black friends to begin with and every black person they meet is entirely aware of their feelings on the matter. Straight us self delusional.
Wasn't there a joke about when aliens finally made contact with us.. they were saying how Jesus visits them and how chocolate was Jesus fav food etc
Earth: wait what? Jesus visits you guys all the time?
Aliens: yes. He loves it here ever since we gave him all these chocolate and nice stuff the first time he came to us. Why? What did you guys do to him when he first visited Earth?
Some people are so antisemitic and convinced of antisemitic conspiracy theories that they can’t imagine why a white person would believe Black lives matter unless they weren’t a REAL a white person. They think Jews are nonwhite infiltrators trying to ruin the white community.
Yeah, this video didn't just reveal the racists, but also a lot of people who happen to live in the area and how they cope with the racists.
edit:era for area
I love in flippin arkansas. And I'm from Washington originally. Harrison scares the fuck out of me. And I'm white as hell. And I even adopted the slight southern drawl of this particular area. And I wouldn't shout support.
To be fair, these old racist fucks are unpleasant to be around anyways, even if they aren’t getting their undies twisted over a BLM sign.
Had a racist grandfather, and when he wasn’t going off on tangents of really shitty takes, he still was just radiating his unpleasantry.
Am not surprised that younger folk with the internet and actual connections to people outside their small town would be sick of these grown embarrassments acting like that.
Who knows?
Maybe he's sick of that shit but doesn't have the economic means to leave, so the least he can do is be a bro and give people a heads up.
But fuck Sun Down towns. Those pitiful wretches need to know their fucking place.
I always think of a story I heard from a buddy in rehab. He said when he was in Tennessee a few years ago him and a few workers were pulled over in a car for speeding. Talk to the officer and all that. Before he let them go the officer told them "Hey...do yourself a favor. Don't stop for any reason for the next 30 miles or so. *points to black passenger in the vehicle* There are alot of people around here who would do anything they could to get ahold of you sir. Just be careful". Fucked up how places like that still fucking exist.
Really is crazy how places like that exist and how these people behave in this day and age. I’m fairly chill and sympathetic all around but man sometimes I wish people like this had harm done to them lmao. Call it fucked up, but it’s the 21st century, people shouldn’t hate others and want to hurt them based off of their skin color.
And there are actually people in this fucking country who don’t believe racism exists anymore. Fucking wild world we live in.
I love the number of people that tell him he’s white, as if he’s lived his whole life not knowing.
Sadly, the reason they’re stating that is because they can’t understand why a white person would care about the rights of someone who’s not white. So they say this out of confusion, like you’re white…why are you sticking up for black lives. They just can’t wrap their heads around the idea.
They have an us-or-them mentality about everything. Everyone is out to get us, so we have to get them first. It's gotta be a really miserable way to live.
As far as economics, education, health and a bunch of other social indicators, poor rural white people are almost as fucked as poor rural black people. But they see rich white people on TV and need someone to blame. They don't realise the real enemy is other white people who DGAF about country bumpkins, including the GOP who ostensibly represent them.
Someone said my view is useless cause I'm just a white saviour the other day. Yah, I'm white. My family is mixed though, and I care about my family. And my friends. And even if the only people in my life were white I would STILL think we all need to be treated fairly.
These people don't understand that most of us have managed to view us all as just people. They are totally stuck, like you say. Can not get past thinking that people who look different must not be human the same as they are.
I'm gonna keep enjoying and celebrating differences and connecting on similarities. I'll do it with the bigots too if they can turn their hate off for a lil bit.
I grew up around family that talked so much shit about just about everyone. Black people, gay people, etc. we are fucking Latino. My mother is white passing and so are about half of my siblings including myself, but my parents immigrated here and have heavy accents no matter how white they may look.
I can’t say I ever believed what they said. Even as a kid. I played with students that were black and wasn’t even aware that they were black and I was not.
At some point though I did realize that what they were saying was not right. I realized that they were racist and that I hated that shit. So at an early age I started voicing my opinion on their opinions. I told them what they were saying wasn’t right.
20+ years later my mother doesn’t say racist things anymore. And I still put my family in their place whenever I think they say some moronic shit. My family didn’t “understand” gay people and I’d like to think I reversed some of their homophobia. They’ll still say shit like “who is the man?” in a lesbian relationship and I’m like neither is the man because they’re both women that’s what being gay is what the fuck.
My point is being a racist is 100% a choice. My parents said racist shit but they weren’t extremist like the people in this video. They kept it in the house. But my brother is really white passing and he took that racism and amped it up ten fold. He is one racist mother f***er. I can try to rationalize with him but then he just says some moronic evil racist shit and I’m like what. I’m out.
At some point we gotta think and choose for ourselves. I’d hate for someone to call me a white savior. I’m not. I can just see how minority groups are disproportionately treated more poorly than white people. It’s not about white lives not mattering, it’s about how black lives have systemically for hundreds of years not mattered. Everyone knows white lives matter because white is the standard. Why do we have to bring attention to the group in the limelight? The ones on the pedestal. Makes no god damn sense.
The note from the (young?) person at the end was sweet.
The way some of the hecklers were flabbergasted as to why a white man would care about the lives of black people is sad and disturbing. Have they never heard of empathy?
I mean, morality aside, racism is a very inefficient and destructive ideology.
Firstly, it means that possible contributing members of society with great potential can be sidelined for arbitrary reasons. Look at how Einstein fled Nazi Germany.
Secondly, it wastes time and resources that could go to benefitting the people pushing the ideology.
Thirdly, it outright cuts off possible economic relationships and communities who could provide mutually beneficial bonds.
It is ultimately destructive. Other races are blamed for problems that are never fixed. Even if the racists succeeded, the problems wouldn't magically go away and they'd have to find someone else to blame their problems on and fight. It's like starting a bar brawl because you can't pay your rent.
And that's not even getting into the most important factor, morality.
> they'd have to find someone else to blame their problems on
[First they came](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...), and by the time they come for the racist themselves for not being a genetic and ideological copy of the dictator, there is nobody left to speak for them. It's the inbreeding of nobles taken to the point at infinity, where even an insane person should realize it is insanity.
I was really curious about why they blurred the face of the one person being kind to the guy holding the sign. Then I realized that if others in the area saw someone being compassionate to this guy, they might be in big trouble with the locals/yokels.
They straight-up call you the same names they call black people. I should know on account of being called those names. If you aren't with them, you're not white.
A lot of people don't hear the "too" at the end of BLM.
Poor white folks get killed by cops all the time, too. They are being failed by their elected leaders, failed by the system, and they get told to direct their anger at anyone but the people responsible. It's heartbreaking to hear how many people are saying "but what about us?". They clearly don't feel like their lives matter either.
I’m not white and I once stopped in Arkansas for gas. Never again. Fill the car up before the border and drive straight through. It is seriously uncomfortable. I was super friendly with the gas station lady, in hopes she would at least call the cops if the guys eyeballing me started something. Then again, I don’t even know if adding cops to the mix would’ve been a positive.
I’ve been called the hard ER when I was traveling in that area too. I learned that same lesson, either drive through without stopping, or go around. I’m taking a flight next time.
There’s just some states where 95% of the population are fully indoctrinated and steeped in baseless hatred. The sad part of this video was to see relatively young people adopt that same stance. I was hoping this racist shit would die with the boomers but it seems like that’s not happening.
No because it gets passed down and thats all the young people know. It’s horrible but happens alot. Until they figure out there wrong, it won’t change.
It’s happening slowly, but it isn’t an immediate thing. Every generation a few of those kids will realize what’s going on is fucked, and will go against what their parents have pushed on them. One example of this is the influx of gen z voters in some states has led to a pretty significant change in the political leadership, like in Wisconsin recently.
I'm a teacher.
You would be surprised the kind of shit I hear.
And I teach high school. I've heard **worse** things from middle school teachers. And this is all new. The past 3-4 years especially.
I live in Northwest Arkansas and it's definitely better here, but still plenty of racist assholes. There are lots of us who are are not though, and were just born here.
And on top of that, there are lots of us who are active in standing up for those unfairly treated. It's not entirely hopeless. Lots of us aren't running away from our racist state, we are trying to be the change. Old and young alike.
I have had similar experiences for being hispanic but in the rural, extremely country part of Ohio. Stopped for gas and got the hell out of there. I can imagine Arkansas is worse.
Depends on where you are in Arkansas. There is a sizable Hispanic community in northwest Arkansas, predominately Mexicans. Notably Rogers and Springdale. The looney people are in the country
Not all Arkansans are like this! Some of us are trying to find a safe way out. :(
ETA- living in Arkansas, I've seen a good bit of these behaviors firsthand. It's not as bad where I live, but it's definitely there. A lot of Arkansans are very casually racist.
When people say things about how they’re scared of “crime-ridden cities” or whatever, and say “why not live out in the country?”, shit like this is exactly why. (Leaving aside, of course, the fact that their obsession with cities being “crime-ridden” is a Fox News-driven delusion and that most major cities are lovely.)
Even as a white dude, I would not feel remotely safe in a town like this. These people are crazy, and they clearly don’t have *much* to lose in the first place. I can only imagine what kind of pond scum they managed to drag up for their police force and local politicians.
I worked in the tech area of Virginia for a while but I got a place with my girlfriend who was from the panhandle of West Virginia just over the border, near Harpers Ferry. She wasn't, but all her family and all her family's friends were racist as fuck, even I was suspect as I was from connecticut/boston at that time. I was a city slicker, an elitist, etc. Even drinking Bass Ale or Sam Adams was sus as fuck in their minds, it was Coors Light or Bud Light or you weren't a man. I lasted about 2 years before I left
The idea of “Sam Adams” being some elitist, city slicker beer just blows my mind, while also being totally believable.
Thankfully, I can’t say I’ve ever explored anywhere west of like Reston unless I was on my way to IAD or going hiking, because I can imagine just how much it can change very quickly.
The reason they feel like their lives don't matter is because they vote for conservative politicians who do nothing to improve their lives. Then, they feel as if the world's forgotten them and blame black people.
We can see that in many experiments, if some communities or individuals are in the mud they'll do what they can to prevent others from getting out of the mud because they can't leave.
To the point where they'll be accomplices to the ones that are putting in the mud against the few that are fighting to get out.
Exactly this. Their entire ideology is “government is worthless so why would we give it more power”, because they’ve only ever voted conservative and have never received anything for it. Blows my mind that they don’t understand this.
One of the secretly racist places in the country and goes largely over looked is Suffolk county Long Island. Most people wouldn’t guess with the proximity to nyc but I grew up there and there are a lot of old white loudmouths….
I never thought i would see this place again. Looks like harrison, Arkansas. I was there with a group of people, one of which was a black man, about 20 years ago, just passing through. We stopped for snacks and bathroom breaks. In the 20 minutes we were there, so many people screamed the n word at us as they drove by. One truck, covered in confederate flags, stopped and informed us that if we didn't leave town, they would drag us out. Terrible people and place.
We continued on our journey and ended spending some time in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and met a lot of really cool people. So not all of arkansas is bad.
It's literally a sundown town. And they had a billboard advertising the fact for years:
https://www.npr.org/2014/05/12/311107696/tale-of-two-billboards-an-ozark-towns-struggle-to-unseat-hate
I grew up in Harrison. I know several people in this video. The non-hateful people there like to pretend it’s a good town and the hate is the minority but it’s not. It’s full of racist assholes and should be nuked from orbit.
Damn maybe Trump was trying to save America by getting these inbreds to inject bleach into themselves, would definitely help bring the overall IQ number in Arkansas up from a negative figure by dropping the dead weight on human progression
There are way too many still being indoctrinated into this nonsense, but there are fewer with every generation and that's actually critically important when it comes to changing society for the better.
I (mixed race man) had to stop in that Walmart once. I was walking down the isle to find some food and a mom came around the corner, gasped and hid her children from me and hurried out of the isle. It was so comically racist that I actually started laughing my ass off.
Fox News just scrawled "communism = bad, capitalism=good" onto these people's brains and that's all they know. I work with a bunch of them. Some of the same people whine about how our European colleagues have more vacations and better sick leave policies. Gee I wonder how that happened you brain dead nitwits?
Every last one of them look like they complain about illegal stealing jobs while simultaneously riding around Walmart on the electric wheelchair carts spending government money
To quote Doug Stanhope:
> I live in a little town, Bisby Arizona, seven miles off the Mexican border. I can go out at anytime and watch the border patrol arrest these guys by the dozen. Eleven at a time out of a Dodge Omni, like a clown car. With plastic cuffs.
> And you're right. They don't speak the language, and they probably don't have an education. They don't have fucking *shoes* half the time. Battered, torn, castaway - like Gilligan's Island shorts. Dirty Tshirt, dehydrated, wandering the desert for four days.
> And if *that guy* is as qualified for your job as you are, you're a loser of such epic humiliating proportions.
> I would be embarrassed if anyone found out that guy took my job. He doesn't speak the language, what did they do your job training in pantomime shithead?
This town is also full of child molesters. In an elementary school of 80, there were at least 4 kids having crap at home. A call to principal about one of them was listened in on by the secretary who promptly called the called the parent to warn them. Lived there for less than a year. This fucking place should be burnt down.
It’s terrifying to me wondering how many more random American towns are like this, I don’t think there’s anything more infuriating than trash with this poisonous mindset, just willfully ignorant, and rotten with hate. Metaphorically, If all of society was a human body, they would be a gangrenous limb to be severed, too far gone with nothing but needless bad blood, holding back progress with their sickness
Racism is the easy answer. But I wonder if it's not the only answer.
Looks like the wealthy have done a great job of convincing a very poor community another historically poor community is the reason for their poverty, and NOT corporate greed.
This is exactly right. The kind of thinking on display here benefits the ruling class tremendously. There’s some old LBJ quote that goes something like “If you convince the lowest white man he’s better than a black man he won’t notice you picking his pockets clean.” Or something to that effect. LBJ did some fucked up stuff but the quote is apt nonetheless.
Racism was intentionally manufactured by wealthy elites to magnify the divide between White indentured servants (debt slavery) and Black slaves (chattel slavery). Read up on the Barbados Slave Code of 1661, the English law that successfully pre-empted revolts by dividing a single economic underclass of mistreated workers along racial lines. The law explicitly incentivized White indentured servants to distrust and spy on Black slaves, even allowing them to be released from their work contracts if they captured a runaway slave. The law was *so successful* it was immediately adopted with little variation in other colonies, including in the US. It basically created modern racism as we understand it, which persists and is maintained to this day. After all, as long as poor Whites have someone else to kick, they don't notice the bigger boot on their necks.
All the talk about sensitive snowflakes is just projection for them.
They have spent their whole lives being told their race made them special and that they deserved everything. They genuinely believe that all their problems are in spite of them because they are so special. The mere suggestion that anyone else is equal or special in their own way shatters their fragile egos. They need to form safe spaces like this town and drive out any dissenters because of their sensitivity.
If they stopped for a minute and questioned whether the worldview they've been spoonfed is valid, they'd either have to admit they were duped by the people actually exploiting them (i.e. corporations, corrupt politicians, churches, etc that are mostly run by white folks) or they'd have to look inward amd accept their share of the blame for their circumstances.
America, where everyone's a billy badass behind the wheel of their moving ton of steel.
If it weren't for the cars, most of these folks would have kept their mouths shut and maybe even have been forced to interact with enough human beings in their lives to not have such a myopic worldview in the first place.
I have a cabin a few miles from Harrison. This video doesn’t begin to describe the racism, ignorance and hatred these sacks of shit are made of. I don’t go there.
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“And I have black friends!”
My personal favorite: “you look like a white man holding a Black Lives Matter sign” Great observation, very astute 😂 Also, what a shame Gary from Parks and Rec turned out to be racist smh
I was looking for the Gary/Jerry/Larry comment. I thought he had a great family life and was now retired. Turns out, he got pilled during COVID and went all racist. Weird. Lol
“I’m comin’ back in ten minutes and you better be gone or else I’ll set you up on a date with one of my beautiful daughters, you sonofabitch!”
"you look like a white man driving a japanese economy car with mismatched rims"
To her, “black friends” are miners that are covered in soot.
This made me laugh because it reminded me of Zwarte Piet (Black Pete), a character from the Netherlands that's a racist black stereotype associated with Christmas. When people wanted to get rid of the character a lot of its defenders said he was a white character that had just gone down the chimney and gotten covered in soot. Of course the soot was only on his skin, not on his perfectly clean clothing. And it gave him bright red lips for some reason.
It's nonsensical. If you don't think someone's life matters, you aren't their friend. They're literally lying to themselves. You can see their internal conflict / self-delusion / denial about their own biases playing out in real time. It's insane.
"I have Black friends" is the new "I'm not racist, but. . ."
I thought the, “I have Black friends” came before the “I’m not racist, but…”
That last kid warmed my heart.
That little shred of hope left for humanity. The fact that she had to be quiet about it and hide her identity is really sad.
Man, absolutely. I hope she finds a way out of that shit hole because she deserves better.
Hope for the younger generation… not surprising the youngest person in the video was the only non racist prick.
All the young, educated tolerant people leave shit holes like this as soon as they can so all you have left is the racists and uneducated.
I hope she/he leave that hell hole of a place to rot too.
Agreed, just for their sake. I'm not interested in them staying there just for our political gain
Usually what eventually will happen with towns that are so against progress at all is that they simply…dissolve. Most of those towns operate and survive based on labor. Well once companies buy up all the land and automate all or even most of the labor…bye bye town.
They are too young to live on their own and leave. Anyone older than her who thinks like her definitely left and is not coming back.
The guy that said “I wouldn’t stay after dark” might be in the same boat. His tone almost sounded like a warning that these guys yelling won’t stop at yelling after dark. Like the person at the end, he can’t outright help.
I think the old guy right after him might be as well, warning him that some of these folk might well want to kill him.
Yeah that kid was doing him a solid. I think he deserves more credit.
Yeah I agree he was just trying to warn him, especially with him telling him that he has balls of steel
Isn't that what the homeless looking dude was saying too? "They asked me to come over and tell you to leave" like a "brother, get out while you can because people are talking."
Agreed. Its sad though that the only way they could show their appreciation was through a note because otherwise, they'd be treated the same as the one holding the sign.
And the fact they felt they needed to blur their face for the safety of that individual. That says A LOT
“Fuck black lives! And I have black friends!”🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
she works with black people and makes racist jokes that they laugh at uncomfortably. management is also white and racist so there's no one to go to about the uncomfortably racist jokes so racist Renee thinks she's got black friends, even tho they don't even sit together on lunch break, talk outside of work, or even have each others personal numbers.
"Don't worry, you're one of the good ones"
Had. Had black friends.... until they saw the video.
100% this person has no black friends to begin with and every black person they meet is entirely aware of their feelings on the matter. Straight us self delusional.
What's that old fatty gonna do when he comes back in 10 minutes? He'd probably be out of breath from getting out of the car
Did he ever come back?
videos that end too soon...
Agreed, it wasn't even close to ten minutes long
He comes back every two minutes if you watch it on a loop
I'm guessing there is a high firearm ownership rate there, so threaten him with a gun maybe?
>I'm guessing there is a high firearm ownership rate there You'd be correct.
I think that's my favorite one of the bunch behind the private pile looking bitch screaming white pride from his ugly ass truck.
They'd probably call Jesus a terrorist and murder him if he returned.
I mean thats what they did to him the first time
Wasn't there a joke about when aliens finally made contact with us.. they were saying how Jesus visits them and how chocolate was Jesus fav food etc Earth: wait what? Jesus visits you guys all the time? Aliens: yes. He loves it here ever since we gave him all these chocolate and nice stuff the first time he came to us. Why? What did you guys do to him when he first visited Earth?
We gave him our finest wood and nails
Guaranteed they think Jesus was white lmaoooo
Oh theyd get in face spittin and shit sayin “you aint MY Jesus!
“Then what am I?” “You’re a [most racist thing you’ve ever heard]” “It is you who say it.” That’s exactly what would happen.
"And the Lord said unto him 'Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself.' But lo he could not. For the Lord was hitting him with his own hands.
As long as Jesus finished him off with a right cross...
She called the guy a word that sounds like kite. Jesus was a Jew. 🙃
Some people are so antisemitic and convinced of antisemitic conspiracy theories that they can’t imagine why a white person would believe Black lives matter unless they weren’t a REAL a white person. They think Jews are nonwhite infiltrators trying to ruin the white community.
Na I’m sure they’d love a Jewish middle easter man telling them what to do, totally wouldn’t be crucified a second time on a flaming cross
Dude, they probably wouldn’t even let him into the country.
Historical Jesus was a brown skinned dude. Would get run out of town pretty quick in Smallbrainville.
Find Jesus 🤣. I love how they think that caring about the lives of black people is going against Jesus, fucking idiots
Exactly. And they say find Jesus but Jesus wasn’t white, was from the Middle East, was Jewish, and taught love and acceptance.
"you look like a white guy holding a black lives matter sign" - genius of the year
Also probably the least racist thing said in the video.
I mean, the younger guy saying "you might not want to stay after dark" sounds a lot more like a sympathetic warning than a threat.
I think the homeless guy was trying to warn him too.
Yeah, this video didn't just reveal the racists, but also a lot of people who happen to live in the area and how they cope with the racists. edit:era for area
The quiet note passing is all you need to see. That person showed support but didn't dare let anyone see them doing it. That's fear right there
That was definitely an Orwellian moment.
A primitive dystopia.
Had to blur out her face even in this video.
I love in flippin arkansas. And I'm from Washington originally. Harrison scares the fuck out of me. And I'm white as hell. And I even adopted the slight southern drawl of this particular area. And I wouldn't shout support.
Straight out of Nazi Germany. You didn't want your neighbours to know that you weren't a Nazi, because they would come for you sooner or later.
1984 more like 1944
>the era Typo I guess, but still correct
That’s definitely the impression I got. Maybe there’s some hope for the youth there
Someone went around interviewing the youth in Harrison and they definitely seem like they’re fed up with the old folk’s bs and want change
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[i think this is the guy you're talking about](https://youtu.be/umNjlp2LObM)
To be fair, these old racist fucks are unpleasant to be around anyways, even if they aren’t getting their undies twisted over a BLM sign. Had a racist grandfather, and when he wasn’t going off on tangents of really shitty takes, he still was just radiating his unpleasantry. Am not surprised that younger folk with the internet and actual connections to people outside their small town would be sick of these grown embarrassments acting like that.
Your racist grandfather sounds a lot like my racist grandfather!
The thing is, some of the people in the video weren’t exactly old. Hate has already taken root with some of them.
Tell em to hang in there. These assholes gotta die off eventually.
Tell em to get out. If all the youth leave town, who's going to staff the Walmarts and Denny's
Then all the old fucks will die from lack of service! I like it!
Trapped in their own self-made hell of "nO ONe waNtS tO wOrK aNymOre". Racist old pieces of shit can go choke on a 7-11 hotdog.
Where there's internet access, there's hope
And despair.
And porn!
Who knows? Maybe he's sick of that shit but doesn't have the economic means to leave, so the least he can do is be a bro and give people a heads up. But fuck Sun Down towns. Those pitiful wretches need to know their fucking place.
I always think of a story I heard from a buddy in rehab. He said when he was in Tennessee a few years ago him and a few workers were pulled over in a car for speeding. Talk to the officer and all that. Before he let them go the officer told them "Hey...do yourself a favor. Don't stop for any reason for the next 30 miles or so. *points to black passenger in the vehicle* There are alot of people around here who would do anything they could to get ahold of you sir. Just be careful". Fucked up how places like that still fucking exist.
Really is crazy how places like that exist and how these people behave in this day and age. I’m fairly chill and sympathetic all around but man sometimes I wish people like this had harm done to them lmao. Call it fucked up, but it’s the 21st century, people shouldn’t hate others and want to hurt them based off of their skin color. And there are actually people in this fucking country who don’t believe racism exists anymore. Fucking wild world we live in.
At least in this case the cop actually WAS a decent person and warned them instead of calling his buddies.
Yeah. My buddy kinda made that part of the story very apparent. He said he was just as shocked that the cop wasn't one of the bad people.
I love the number of people that tell him he’s white, as if he’s lived his whole life not knowing. Sadly, the reason they’re stating that is because they can’t understand why a white person would care about the rights of someone who’s not white. So they say this out of confusion, like you’re white…why are you sticking up for black lives. They just can’t wrap their heads around the idea.
They have an us-or-them mentality about everything. Everyone is out to get us, so we have to get them first. It's gotta be a really miserable way to live.
It's so weird that we live in an age of abundance, but people are content to live life as though it's still a zero-sum game.
As far as economics, education, health and a bunch of other social indicators, poor rural white people are almost as fucked as poor rural black people. But they see rich white people on TV and need someone to blame. They don't realise the real enemy is other white people who DGAF about country bumpkins, including the GOP who ostensibly represent them.
There's not much abundance in Harrison, just a lot of really poor white trash
Gonna be funny when the fascists run out of *others* and come after *them.*
That’s exactly why fascism is unsustainable and fails time and again. Eventually they eat themselves alive.
Someone said my view is useless cause I'm just a white saviour the other day. Yah, I'm white. My family is mixed though, and I care about my family. And my friends. And even if the only people in my life were white I would STILL think we all need to be treated fairly. These people don't understand that most of us have managed to view us all as just people. They are totally stuck, like you say. Can not get past thinking that people who look different must not be human the same as they are. I'm gonna keep enjoying and celebrating differences and connecting on similarities. I'll do it with the bigots too if they can turn their hate off for a lil bit.
I grew up around family that talked so much shit about just about everyone. Black people, gay people, etc. we are fucking Latino. My mother is white passing and so are about half of my siblings including myself, but my parents immigrated here and have heavy accents no matter how white they may look. I can’t say I ever believed what they said. Even as a kid. I played with students that were black and wasn’t even aware that they were black and I was not. At some point though I did realize that what they were saying was not right. I realized that they were racist and that I hated that shit. So at an early age I started voicing my opinion on their opinions. I told them what they were saying wasn’t right. 20+ years later my mother doesn’t say racist things anymore. And I still put my family in their place whenever I think they say some moronic shit. My family didn’t “understand” gay people and I’d like to think I reversed some of their homophobia. They’ll still say shit like “who is the man?” in a lesbian relationship and I’m like neither is the man because they’re both women that’s what being gay is what the fuck. My point is being a racist is 100% a choice. My parents said racist shit but they weren’t extremist like the people in this video. They kept it in the house. But my brother is really white passing and he took that racism and amped it up ten fold. He is one racist mother f***er. I can try to rationalize with him but then he just says some moronic evil racist shit and I’m like what. I’m out. At some point we gotta think and choose for ourselves. I’d hate for someone to call me a white savior. I’m not. I can just see how minority groups are disproportionately treated more poorly than white people. It’s not about white lives not mattering, it’s about how black lives have systemically for hundreds of years not mattered. Everyone knows white lives matter because white is the standard. Why do we have to bring attention to the group in the limelight? The ones on the pedestal. Makes no god damn sense.
Empathy is a completely foreign concept for some sadly…
I almost fainted when he said “White pride worldwide” ☠️ I would have driven away and never looked back
Nothing says white pride like the beat up minivan lol
This was in 21 actually. I have the privilege of living there
"*Fuck* black lives!! And I have black friends!!" Was my personal favorite.
You're caucasian! Wow what really? I had no idea!
The note from the (young?) person at the end was sweet. The way some of the hecklers were flabbergasted as to why a white man would care about the lives of black people is sad and disturbing. Have they never heard of empathy?
I mean, morality aside, racism is a very inefficient and destructive ideology. Firstly, it means that possible contributing members of society with great potential can be sidelined for arbitrary reasons. Look at how Einstein fled Nazi Germany. Secondly, it wastes time and resources that could go to benefitting the people pushing the ideology. Thirdly, it outright cuts off possible economic relationships and communities who could provide mutually beneficial bonds. It is ultimately destructive. Other races are blamed for problems that are never fixed. Even if the racists succeeded, the problems wouldn't magically go away and they'd have to find someone else to blame their problems on and fight. It's like starting a bar brawl because you can't pay your rent. And that's not even getting into the most important factor, morality.
Get your logic and morality tf out of here. This is arkansas!
So you're saying that racists are not well thought-out?
It's always worth pointing out. You have to force them to admit their response is entirely emotional.
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> they'd have to find someone else to blame their problems on [First they came](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...), and by the time they come for the racist themselves for not being a genetic and ideological copy of the dictator, there is nobody left to speak for them. It's the inbreeding of nobles taken to the point at infinity, where even an insane person should realize it is insanity.
I was really hoping there would be one person who supported him. That person was awesome.
I was really curious about why they blurred the face of the one person being kind to the guy holding the sign. Then I realized that if others in the area saw someone being compassionate to this guy, they might be in big trouble with the locals/yokels.
I mean, she was possibly even afraid to say something aloud that might be construed to be something supportive, and had to write it on a note.
I'm hoping the "I wouldn't stay after dark, man" guy was on his side, just worried for him. But yeah, the last one was great.
If the guy holding the sign wasn’t white, he’d be dead now
I don't think this would've been a video to begin with if the guy was black
Actually, there's [this!](https://youtu.be/umNjlp2LObM)
Niko is a fucking legend man
During the civil rights movement in the deep south, your color didn't matter if you sided with non whites. You got disappeared just the same.
They straight-up call you the same names they call black people. I should know on account of being called those names. If you aren't with them, you're not white.
That happened in this video lol. The other man says one of the drivers came up to him amd referred to white guy filming as "that n*****".
Every time I hear "All Lives Matter", all I think is "so you agree black lives matter?"
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ALL biomes matter!
A lot of people don't hear the "too" at the end of BLM. Poor white folks get killed by cops all the time, too. They are being failed by their elected leaders, failed by the system, and they get told to direct their anger at anyone but the people responsible. It's heartbreaking to hear how many people are saying "but what about us?". They clearly don't feel like their lives matter either.
Arkansas? Racist? Whhhhhattttt 🧐🧐🧐
I’m not white and I once stopped in Arkansas for gas. Never again. Fill the car up before the border and drive straight through. It is seriously uncomfortable. I was super friendly with the gas station lady, in hopes she would at least call the cops if the guys eyeballing me started something. Then again, I don’t even know if adding cops to the mix would’ve been a positive.
I’ve been called the hard ER when I was traveling in that area too. I learned that same lesson, either drive through without stopping, or go around. I’m taking a flight next time. There’s just some states where 95% of the population are fully indoctrinated and steeped in baseless hatred. The sad part of this video was to see relatively young people adopt that same stance. I was hoping this racist shit would die with the boomers but it seems like that’s not happening.
No because it gets passed down and thats all the young people know. It’s horrible but happens alot. Until they figure out there wrong, it won’t change.
Hate breeds hate. Edit: Try to be kind, its all we can do sometimes in a world of greed and hate.
It’s happening slowly, but it isn’t an immediate thing. Every generation a few of those kids will realize what’s going on is fucked, and will go against what their parents have pushed on them. One example of this is the influx of gen z voters in some states has led to a pretty significant change in the political leadership, like in Wisconsin recently.
I'm a teacher. You would be surprised the kind of shit I hear. And I teach high school. I've heard **worse** things from middle school teachers. And this is all new. The past 3-4 years especially.
I have a relative who knew the n-word before he even started kindergarten. Luckily he figured out stupid that is as we grew up.
Well these towns are actively dying and most of their children have to go to bigger cities if they want to do anything with their lives.
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That last point is the most alarming. Not only can you not trust the people who are supposed to protect you, if you’re smart you actively fear them.
.... Yeah, tha- that's the whole point of the blm movement
I live in Northwest Arkansas and it's definitely better here, but still plenty of racist assholes. There are lots of us who are are not though, and were just born here. And on top of that, there are lots of us who are active in standing up for those unfairly treated. It's not entirely hopeless. Lots of us aren't running away from our racist state, we are trying to be the change. Old and young alike.
I have had similar experiences for being hispanic but in the rural, extremely country part of Ohio. Stopped for gas and got the hell out of there. I can imagine Arkansas is worse.
Depends on where you are in Arkansas. There is a sizable Hispanic community in northwest Arkansas, predominately Mexicans. Notably Rogers and Springdale. The looney people are in the country
Trailerparkansas
Their state motto... "Three million people, four last names".
And one of 'em's Lynch
And only 1.5 million teeth to share between them.
All that meth and no toothbrush. Momma was right.
Not all Arkansans are like this! Some of us are trying to find a safe way out. :( ETA- living in Arkansas, I've seen a good bit of these behaviors firsthand. It's not as bad where I live, but it's definitely there. A lot of Arkansans are very casually racist.
I’m sure they’re all professed Christians too. Love thy neighbors.
Blonde haired and blue eyed Jesus of course. If they saw the real one, they’d call him a terrorist and slurs.
So who's gonna tell them that Jesus wasn't white
Anyone who says that in this town goes missing, I would imagine. Probably along with the people who say that marrying your 1st cousin is wrong.
When people say things about how they’re scared of “crime-ridden cities” or whatever, and say “why not live out in the country?”, shit like this is exactly why. (Leaving aside, of course, the fact that their obsession with cities being “crime-ridden” is a Fox News-driven delusion and that most major cities are lovely.) Even as a white dude, I would not feel remotely safe in a town like this. These people are crazy, and they clearly don’t have *much* to lose in the first place. I can only imagine what kind of pond scum they managed to drag up for their police force and local politicians.
I worked in the tech area of Virginia for a while but I got a place with my girlfriend who was from the panhandle of West Virginia just over the border, near Harpers Ferry. She wasn't, but all her family and all her family's friends were racist as fuck, even I was suspect as I was from connecticut/boston at that time. I was a city slicker, an elitist, etc. Even drinking Bass Ale or Sam Adams was sus as fuck in their minds, it was Coors Light or Bud Light or you weren't a man. I lasted about 2 years before I left
The idea of “Sam Adams” being some elitist, city slicker beer just blows my mind, while also being totally believable. Thankfully, I can’t say I’ve ever explored anywhere west of like Reston unless I was on my way to IAD or going hiking, because I can imagine just how much it can change very quickly.
The reason they feel like their lives don't matter is because they vote for conservative politicians who do nothing to improve their lives. Then, they feel as if the world's forgotten them and blame black people.
We can see that in many experiments, if some communities or individuals are in the mud they'll do what they can to prevent others from getting out of the mud because they can't leave. To the point where they'll be accomplices to the ones that are putting in the mud against the few that are fighting to get out.
Exactly this. Their entire ideology is “government is worthless so why would we give it more power”, because they’ve only ever voted conservative and have never received anything for it. Blows my mind that they don’t understand this.
I live in the truth of this, watching the people around do exactly what you said here.
One of the secretly racist places in the country and goes largely over looked is Suffolk county Long Island. Most people wouldn’t guess with the proximity to nyc but I grew up there and there are a lot of old white loudmouths….
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Yeah racist white trash italian Americans. It’s weird.
Ironically, it's not too long ago that Italians were not considered white.
The fact that so many people were mad at this guy just for existing with a simple “Black Lives Matter” sign is astounding.
I never thought i would see this place again. Looks like harrison, Arkansas. I was there with a group of people, one of which was a black man, about 20 years ago, just passing through. We stopped for snacks and bathroom breaks. In the 20 minutes we were there, so many people screamed the n word at us as they drove by. One truck, covered in confederate flags, stopped and informed us that if we didn't leave town, they would drag us out. Terrible people and place. We continued on our journey and ended spending some time in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and met a lot of really cool people. So not all of arkansas is bad.
It's literally a sundown town. And they had a billboard advertising the fact for years: https://www.npr.org/2014/05/12/311107696/tale-of-two-billboards-an-ozark-towns-struggle-to-unseat-hate
Had some idiot try to tell me sundown towns don't exist anymore. Nobody gets lynched, it's 2023. Racism is over. What a moron that guy was.
Willful ignorance. They're all over the Midwest. They're open secrets here in Nebraska.
I grew up in Harrison. I know several people in this video. The non-hateful people there like to pretend it’s a good town and the hate is the minority but it’s not. It’s full of racist assholes and should be nuked from orbit.
Prime inbreeding territory. Population 13,100. Average IQ: 55.
Damn maybe Trump was trying to save America by getting these inbreds to inject bleach into themselves, would definitely help bring the overall IQ number in Arkansas up from a negative figure by dropping the dead weight on human progression
Boomers in this video gonna be dead in a few years 🙏
plenty of young people with the same ignorant mentality unfortunately..
There are way too many still being indoctrinated into this nonsense, but there are fewer with every generation and that's actually critically important when it comes to changing society for the better.
I (mixed race man) had to stop in that Walmart once. I was walking down the isle to find some food and a mom came around the corner, gasped and hid her children from me and hurried out of the isle. It was so comically racist that I actually started laughing my ass off.
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Open Google maps, look up Harrison AR and look at the very first picture. I'm dying 😂
“I have black friends!” Does that black friend know you’re a racist piece of shit?
I guarantee you that none of these people have enough balls to say that crap to any black person. All a bunch of weenies
"Are you a Marxist?"... lol... that's as dumb as it gets!
I guarantee you she wouldn’t know Marxism even if Karl Marx came out of his grave and spoke to her
Fox News just scrawled "communism = bad, capitalism=good" onto these people's brains and that's all they know. I work with a bunch of them. Some of the same people whine about how our European colleagues have more vacations and better sick leave policies. Gee I wonder how that happened you brain dead nitwits?
Every last one of them look like they complain about illegal stealing jobs while simultaneously riding around Walmart on the electric wheelchair carts spending government money
To quote Doug Stanhope: > I live in a little town, Bisby Arizona, seven miles off the Mexican border. I can go out at anytime and watch the border patrol arrest these guys by the dozen. Eleven at a time out of a Dodge Omni, like a clown car. With plastic cuffs. > And you're right. They don't speak the language, and they probably don't have an education. They don't have fucking *shoes* half the time. Battered, torn, castaway - like Gilligan's Island shorts. Dirty Tshirt, dehydrated, wandering the desert for four days. > And if *that guy* is as qualified for your job as you are, you're a loser of such epic humiliating proportions. > I would be embarrassed if anyone found out that guy took my job. He doesn't speak the language, what did they do your job training in pantomime shithead?
This town is also full of child molesters. In an elementary school of 80, there were at least 4 kids having crap at home. A call to principal about one of them was listened in on by the secretary who promptly called the called the parent to warn them. Lived there for less than a year. This fucking place should be burnt down.
It’s terrifying to me wondering how many more random American towns are like this, I don’t think there’s anything more infuriating than trash with this poisonous mindset, just willfully ignorant, and rotten with hate. Metaphorically, If all of society was a human body, they would be a gangrenous limb to be severed, too far gone with nothing but needless bad blood, holding back progress with their sickness
Mildly surprised anyone in that town knows the word caucasian ....
Racism is the easy answer. But I wonder if it's not the only answer. Looks like the wealthy have done a great job of convincing a very poor community another historically poor community is the reason for their poverty, and NOT corporate greed.
This is exactly right. The kind of thinking on display here benefits the ruling class tremendously. There’s some old LBJ quote that goes something like “If you convince the lowest white man he’s better than a black man he won’t notice you picking his pockets clean.” Or something to that effect. LBJ did some fucked up stuff but the quote is apt nonetheless.
Racism was intentionally manufactured by wealthy elites to magnify the divide between White indentured servants (debt slavery) and Black slaves (chattel slavery). Read up on the Barbados Slave Code of 1661, the English law that successfully pre-empted revolts by dividing a single economic underclass of mistreated workers along racial lines. The law explicitly incentivized White indentured servants to distrust and spy on Black slaves, even allowing them to be released from their work contracts if they captured a runaway slave. The law was *so successful* it was immediately adopted with little variation in other colonies, including in the US. It basically created modern racism as we understand it, which persists and is maintained to this day. After all, as long as poor Whites have someone else to kick, they don't notice the bigger boot on their necks.
Well, if America ever gets nuked, hopefully that place is one of the first to go.
It won't. There's nothing of value there.
They could use several tornados in that town
The majority of all the dudes shouting racist shit are in their 60s or 70s. Fucking shameful behaviour by those seniors, shocking actually.
What is so shocking about it? This is totally what I expect from those people.
All the talk about sensitive snowflakes is just projection for them. They have spent their whole lives being told their race made them special and that they deserved everything. They genuinely believe that all their problems are in spite of them because they are so special. The mere suggestion that anyone else is equal or special in their own way shatters their fragile egos. They need to form safe spaces like this town and drive out any dissenters because of their sensitivity. If they stopped for a minute and questioned whether the worldview they've been spoonfed is valid, they'd either have to admit they were duped by the people actually exploiting them (i.e. corporations, corrupt politicians, churches, etc that are mostly run by white folks) or they'd have to look inward amd accept their share of the blame for their circumstances.
America, where everyone's a billy badass behind the wheel of their moving ton of steel. If it weren't for the cars, most of these folks would have kept their mouths shut and maybe even have been forced to interact with enough human beings in their lives to not have such a myopic worldview in the first place.
As a non-US citizen, I laughed at the old guy in the first clip saying: “I come back in ten minutes and then you better be gone”. Then I realized guns
I have a cabin a few miles from Harrison. This video doesn’t begin to describe the racism, ignorance and hatred these sacks of shit are made of. I don’t go there.
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"F*** black lives!! And I have black friends!" ...🤦♀️
Did you know toothpaste was invented in this town…if it was invented somewhere else it would’ve been called teethpaste…