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Originally Posted by goat314
I agree, I worry about the fallout of the Ferguson riots and the effect on the entire St. Louis region. I disagree that the riots were primarily inflicted upon the black middle class, the riots were largely centered around the low income, Canfield apartments and other low income apartment complexes in that area. It is also not uncommon to hear middle class black St. Louis talk very....VERY disparagingly about the protestors, looting, even Mike Brown and these are not blacks most would consider "uncle toms". It is also not uncommon to hear many middle and upper middle class, even working class blacks have a extremely conservative worldview. I've always said that if the GOP wasn't so blatantly racist, got away from the Reagan is God mantra and focused on real issues, they would have a friend in working and middle class blacks.
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i think if it were left to popular media, left or right, they would have us believe some inevitable race war was brewing. i think that a bunch of baloney and the majority of rational thinking americans know better. classism is alive and well however and id say above a certain income level, nobody cares what race their neighbor is, they just want them to make as much money as they do and not steal their @$^&. atlanta is an interesting case. its seems like the dream of black suburbia is alive and well. crap, their real estate prices are great too compared to the west coast. if i could live in some 300k mcmansion close to a marta stop, sign me up....