I learned of it by watching my parents use it while growing up in the Jim Crow south.
You people were never supposed to know of it. You could not be trusted not to burn the businesses to the ground.
Are any reader surprised to learn that such is still very much needed and that several things things may well still exist and be in use to this day?
Same as it ever was. Thats why those of us who live through it still teach our children and grandchildren to "Never Trust Whitey". Funny how White folk are offended by that concept.
That's a naive belief to have in practice. If you are part of a group that has been systematically oppressed by a different group because of your skin color, there is a valid correlation between trust and skin color. To think otherwise is... well... naive.
Saying "not being a racist is naive" sounds just as stupid when applied to whites as it does to when applied to blacks, asians, hispanics, jews, etc., etc.
Fortunately, there's no more systematic oppression. Dwelling on past systematic injustices hampers building trust. Better to just call out instances of racism when we see them.
I was talking about the systematic oppression of black people. If you're talking about affirmative action then I agree that whites and Asians are systematically discriminated against.
I'm a white lady who grew up in the south and yeah, I got absolutely no problems with black people not trusting us white folks. We've treated them like shit for a long-ass time.
> Some people you can trust. Others you can't. This has no correlation with skin color.
That's the ideal, which I fully support, but tragically it is not at all the reality of people with black skin in the U.S.
> racist
In a small way, it's an interesting philosophical debate about semantics, but it has nothing to do with the very real, critical issue, which has caused centuries of suffering and oppression for millions of people. While we argue about words, they are in real pain.
You're totally ignoring or forgetting context. Which is that the green book exists because of the Jim Crow laws at the time, along with the general racism.
It's not remotely racist to stay away from white businesses when there is a certain possibility of service refusal, and a possibility that you might be assulted and killed. Hence the necessity of this book.
To say that his family was racist for not trusting white people with the books info, is to be totally ignorant (Tulsa is one example).
You have an extremely weird idea of racism that is not grounded in reality.
It's not racist to assume that you can more safely trust other people that look like you, because most people are racist and are therefore less likely to betray the trust of someone who looks like them. There are sociology / anthropology / psychology experiments and studies and stuff if you look.
Yeah, going through life using sociology / anthropology / psychology experiments as a moral compass sounds like something a well adjusted person would do.
I think this is less a correlation with skin color than culture, tradition, inertia and education (or lack thereof). It's demonstrably real, and why it takes decades or centuries to undo. The lasting inertia of institutional racism in the United States is pretty hard to ignore, though I've encountered my share of people who think it's all in the past.
And why shouldn't I be offended? You're bald-faced admitting to not trusting me due to my skin color, based on traumatic experiences you had decades before I was born, hundreds of miles away from the place of my birth. I hope for your sake you don't make other life choices with that kind of logic.
And you're teaching these obsolete lessons to your children and grandchildren, hampering the massive progress society has already made since 1956.
That's not to say discrimination doesn't exist today, and maybe "Never Trust Whitey" was a survival mechanism in the Jim Crow south, but I was taught the whole purpose of the civil rights movement was to move past mentalities like yours.
The "whole purpose of the civil rights movement" was to secure rights for people who didn't have them, not to placate the sensibilities of the oppressors.
In the US, to this day, we have terribly segregated and unequal communities where "never trust whitey" is a survival strategy, especially when it comes to police.
Not "didnt have them..." rights that were usurped by the majority for fun and profit. There is a difference. Getting what back $10 that was stolen from me is not the same as making a new $10.
...but black to black violence is much more frequent than any other[0] (incl. white to white and black to white, percentage wise), so for blacks that "survival strategy" is not doing much for survivorship.
Relevant quotes:
>Those 7,881 “black bodies,” in the parlance of Ta-Nehisi Coates, are 1,305 more than the number of white victims (which in this case includes most Hispanics) for the same period, though blacks are only 13 percent of the nation’s population.
>Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population.
>Four studies came out in 2016 alone rebutting the charge that police shootings are racially biased. If there is a bias in police shootings, it works in favor of blacks and against whites.
Using talking points for what amounts to racewar incitement is seriously against the Hacker News guidelines. We've banned this account because we've already asked you to please stop posting like this it doesn't appear as though the necessary change is forthcoming.
And moving past mentalities like those of the parent post would naturally secure those rights even more strongly.
For my part I was taught that not trusting people on the basis of race was racist and that I shouldn't do it. I was taught that making general assumptions about people based on race was racist and that I shouldn't do it. I was taught all this as early as kindergarten.
Sure there are some areas today where "never trust whitey" might still sadly be a survival strategy. You could also say it's a survival strategy for a black person at a Klan meeting. The issue is applying it as a general rule as the parent poster did. We're not going to solve any of the remaining racial inequalities if people categorically refuse to trust each other on the basis of race. That's arguably the definition of racism.
> Sure there are some areas today where "never trust whitey" might still sadly be a survival strategy. ... The issue is applying it as a general rule as the parent poster did.
Maybe it's a lot worse than you think, because a lot of people with actual experience being black seem to say so. The people who say it's not are, IME, the people with the least experience.
Those areas where it is a valid survival strategy for blacks in America are, in addition to the usual "oh, most of the former sundown towns after the sun goes down," but also almost any place the police ever are, ever.
It is not on individual blacks trying to get by in their day to "solve racial inequalities". It is on those of us with privilege and power to ally with those without such privilege and power and fight with them, not to demand that they do stupid and self-harmful things because we, the privileged and insecure, would like to believe that things are just great.
Things are really, really bad for a lot of people right now. It's worth considering their viewpoints before foghorning your way in with yours.
> And moving past mentalities like those of the parent post would naturally secure those rights even more strongly.
A critical part of "moving past" this means recognizing that we are not past this.
A lot of people treat things like the Civil Rights Acts or the Emancipation Proclamation as a faucet. Turn off the faucet and racism is fixed. In reality, it's more like a house fire. It raged bright for a long time, thankfully you put it out. Of course you can't move right back in. There's cleanup to do. There's rebuilding to do. You wouldn't tell the family outside the just-extinguished fire to "move past" it.
White people (myself included) are insulated form a lot of these effects, so it's important we stop and force ourselves to consider them. It's too easy otherwise to pretend the fire's out and everyone's peacefully dreaming in their beds.
it is. the rest of us are trying to survive out here with secret trump supporters in our workplaces, schools, universities, restaurants, grocery stores, and every aspect of our day to day lives.
How? I never challenged the validity of his/her experiences, simply their relevance to the modern day and how useful they are. Apparently that's too much for some around here, people are putting all sorts of words in my mouth.
Behind what? No one "wins" an internet debate. I read an opinion I strongly disagreed with and challenged it. And while I have the time I'm continuing to challenge some of the responders. It's honestly been thought-provoking.
Your feels are not why the Green Book exists and the Civil Rights Movement was not to move past mentalities like his. The Civil Rights Movement was to make white people stop systematically oppressing black people and taking advantage of their persons and their property. Those survival mechanisms you half-heartedly nod to are still necessary today because the police in America will kill you without a blink if you're black and the likelihood that they get away with it is very, very high.
Re-casting the movement to make white people stop oppressing black people as a shot at "mentalities like his," when white people have been oppressing, killing, and enslaving black people for the entirety of the history of this country is beyond the pale.
And, to be very clear, I am white. I'm also not dishonest, though, and that matters.
Actually you're being very dishonest, namely through the use of overgeneralization. Not all police will kill black people "without a blink", and not all white people from the last 300 freaking years can be lumped together.
Regardless, my "feels" have nothing to do with it. How do you propose to solve racial inequality if people categorically refuse to trust each other on the basis of race? Moving beyond "don't trust whitey" and similar mentalities on all sides would seem to be a prerequisite.
Instead of trying to shut them down yet again, perhaps it's time we took seriously the fears and experiences of black people. The evidence is pretty overwhelming that they are very real (not that I would have reason to doubt them).
> That's not to say discrimination doesn't exist today, and maybe "Never Trust Whitey" was a survival mechanism in the Jim Crow south, but I was taught the whole purpose of the civil rights movement was to move past mentalities like yours.
The reverse racism bit isn't real if you think about it. Allow me to ease your mind: You have nothing to fear. You won't be lynched; racist police won't make you drop your pants in a 'stop & frisk'; if you do get arrested, the court system is mostly run by white people so racism won't cause you to be put in jail and be given a disproportionately harsh sentence; the laws are mostly written by white people so you won't have to worry about near-open discrimination, like the war on drugs, or just plain ignorance about the problems you face; there won't be a whole major party running on subtle discrimination against you with dog whistle messaging; almost every job you apply for will be with white people, so your skin color won't hurt (and will often help) you there; your kids won't wonder if they are inferior, because everyone they see on TV and in leadership will look like them (except for the criminal characters on TV); you won't have to have 'the talk' with your kids about the police; you won't have to worry about how to give them realistic expectations, such as they will have a difficult time in certain careers - what if they want to be police detective, governor of Alabama, or star developer in Silicon Valley? You're safe; take a deep breath.
I just read an article in the NY Times about NYPD police detectives. In the intelligence division, a premier assignment dealing with terrorism, almost all black officers were put in what was called the "Rap Unit"; their job there was security for prominent entertainers (rappers, I presume), and they were promoted at far lower rates than white peers.
Yeah, I want people in general to stop judging others on the basis of race. Clearly the exact opposite objective of the civil rights movement.. /sarcasm
Of course you do, everybody wants that. But you also want to pretend that white people are already there, and it's the black people who are the problem. And the civil rights movement wants you to know that it's white people with delicate feels and their heads stuck in the sand that are holding civil rights back. Civil rights advance when white people are made to understand that they're pushing everyone else down.
I never said black people were the problem, or that white people are already there. I said mentalities like "never trust whitey" are the problem, and I'd include corresponding white mentalities like an irrational fear of black people, stop and frisk, police abuse, etc in that category.
The Civil rights movement will make no progress if it alienates potential allies by first demanding penance for one's skin color.
When my Malaysian immigrant parents bought their first ever house in America (actually still to this day their only house),
It was in a neighborhood in what was a small town about 20-30 minutes away from the Capitol city in Boise, ID
It was around 2000 and we were the first non-white family to move into that neighborhood.
Our experience there was a mixed bag.
There was some of the nicest neighbrods who helped us move in with their pick up trucks saving us a ton of money which we didn’t have at the time.
And even a year ago when my parents moved to California, many of the neighbors got their pickup trucks again and helped them with the move.
But that was the good parts. Sadly there were also other kinds of folk.
We were Buddhist/Hindus but because we were brown and many people didn’t know about Hinduism, basically all brown Asian people of middle-eastern or south Asian ancestry/ethnicity/looks got lumped in with the same stereotypes
And my parents had met some Malaysians who were studying abroad here in Idaho which got them so excited they invited them over.
They were Malaysian Muslims wearinf the headscarf and stuff and so when they were leaving our house
My mom gave the wife of the couple a big hug and one of the not so friendly neighbors saw that so I’m guessing they assumed we were Muslim.
And I got lots of terrorist comments and mean bomb jokes thrown at me.
I guess I never understood Xenophobia towards Muslims
Because my mom (who is Hindu) had best friends from her childhood in India who were Muslims
And also I had visited Malaysia which is 60% Muslim.
And they were very open minded and modern people just like here in the West.
In fact Malaysia was far more progressive than India (which is where my mom grew up during her childhood because Malaysia was having race riots at the time so she stayed in India for her safety).
Malaysia is a multi-ethic multi-religious countries made of multi-generation Malays (Indonesian immigrants), multi-generations Chinese, and multi-generation Indians.
And they all date in high school and are super liberal-progressive and big of fighting for women’s rights and taking rose and sexual assault seriously it is very surprising
Since on average most Hindus and Muslims I’ve met or seen in India or the Middle East are very conservative and the record on women’s sexual rights in India and the Middle East is very limited still to this day.
So I guess SouthEast Asia or at least Malaysia is oddly different.
So my experience with Muslims in general is probably quite different from most conservative Westerners who haven’t traveled I guess.
It’s sad how ignorance and lack of exposure is probably one of the biggest contributors to bigotry and ignorance, of course trying to maintain power and control over minorities is probably also a strong reason.
I remember in Middle School all the stuff people kept saying about Hindusm
“Why does your religious step on babies?” Etc etc.
I remember asking my mom that when I got back home from school and she laughed saying “If we stepped on babies I’m pretty sure India wouldn’t be overpopulated”
But prejudice by the majority race/religion isn’t limited to America.
When I visited Malaysia (I’m an American citizen but was a child immigrant who left Malaysia at the age of 5 and grew up here in the US my entire life since the age of 5) in 2007 there was an old fair skinned Malay lady in the train and when an dark skinned Indian man sat next to her
She started yelling racist things to him telling him to go back to India
Even though he’s a 4th generation Tamil (Tamil is South Indian) Malaysian.
And in India recently I’m starting to see some rising Hindu nationalism similar to the Trump Christian nationalism.
Both of which are silly since they go against the founding Constituonal principles of secularism and religious freedom enshrined in both country’s constitutions.
I don’t understand why but this phenomenon of the majority race or religion fearing...
I saw people commenting trying to say you were race baiting and stuff for your comment about your experience growing up in America.
And I disagreed with them and didn’t like how they were saying you were being racist with your comments and they were implying like that stuff like that doesn’t happen anymore.
I disagreed with those commenters because at Berkeley we had folks who were part of the BLM movement mentioning what they went through growing up and also all the statistics surrounding incarceration and police brutality.
What they experienced was so bad and nothing like what I experienced in my lifetime.
So I shared my experience to say I agree with you that there definitely are prejudiced folks out there.
I was in no way saying my experience was similar to yours. I’m so sorry if that’s how it came out.
There is an interactive display of the Green Book at the
National Museum of African American History and Culture https://nmaahc.si.edu/ (I think on the second or third floor).
I saw this very eye-opening video of a presentation on the Green Book, which I hadn't heard of before. The stories some of the participants tell transformed how I look at the experiences of black Americans.
Every group of people prefers to affiliate with their own, but blacks are some of the most racist human beings on this planet. I do not know if any of you have actual real-world experience or just have these discussion threads to attempt showcasing moral "values", but the drivel that comes out of the average hood-kid is astonishing: "cracker" this "cracker" that, and the recent "kill all white cops" my most favorite. South Africa shall have served as a warning sign but people choose to remain ignorant.
Blacks are oppressed not by our white ancestors but by their own biology.
> It was a horrible time in the country for Blacks...
Dr. Hate: The work that we do in the clinic is one
thing. But the moment we step outside, we are greeted
by police, by [...] a society that is perfectly happy
for us to die.
FW: Even sociologists who don’t agree with my Afropessimist
conclusions will nonetheless point out that we today are
living in a state of greater captivity than we were in the
1860’s. It seems like 1 in every 6 Black people are somehow
incarcerated. That is a pandemic. We’re living in more chains
today — through lockdowns, ankle bracelets, halfway houses,
that kind of thing -- than we were in the early 1800’s.
That’s something to think about, when people tell you that
progress has come along.
— http://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/frank-b-wilderson-iii-were-trying-to-destroy-the-world-antiblackness-police-violence-after-ferguson.pdf
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 167 ms ] threadIt still is, it's just better than it was when this book was published. However, we are back to people openly espousing racism and white supremacy.
You people were never supposed to know of it. You could not be trusted not to burn the businesses to the ground.
Same as it ever was. Thats why those of us who live through it still teach our children and grandchildren to "Never Trust Whitey". Funny how White folk are offended by that concept.Being racist is stupid, not smart
Ahh, thank god you declared it and it became so. At best you're sheltered and ignorant, and at worse you're being purposefully obtuse.
That's the ideal, which I fully support, but tragically it is not at all the reality of people with black skin in the U.S.
> racist
In a small way, it's an interesting philosophical debate about semantics, but it has nothing to do with the very real, critical issue, which has caused centuries of suffering and oppression for millions of people. While we argue about words, they are in real pain.
It's not remotely racist to stay away from white businesses when there is a certain possibility of service refusal, and a possibility that you might be assulted and killed. Hence the necessity of this book.
To say that his family was racist for not trusting white people with the books info, is to be totally ignorant (Tulsa is one example).
You have an extremely weird idea of racism that is not grounded in reality.
"Trust" assumes a fair, even starting point.
And you're teaching these obsolete lessons to your children and grandchildren, hampering the massive progress society has already made since 1956.
That's not to say discrimination doesn't exist today, and maybe "Never Trust Whitey" was a survival mechanism in the Jim Crow south, but I was taught the whole purpose of the civil rights movement was to move past mentalities like yours.
In the US, to this day, we have terribly segregated and unequal communities where "never trust whitey" is a survival strategy, especially when it comes to police.
Relevant quotes:
>Those 7,881 “black bodies,” in the parlance of Ta-Nehisi Coates, are 1,305 more than the number of white victims (which in this case includes most Hispanics) for the same period, though blacks are only 13 percent of the nation’s population.
>Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population.
>Four studies came out in 2016 alone rebutting the charge that police shootings are racially biased. If there is a bias in police shootings, it works in favor of blacks and against whites.
[0] http://nypost.com/2017/09/26/all-that-kneeling-ignores-the-r...
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For my part I was taught that not trusting people on the basis of race was racist and that I shouldn't do it. I was taught that making general assumptions about people based on race was racist and that I shouldn't do it. I was taught all this as early as kindergarten.
Sure there are some areas today where "never trust whitey" might still sadly be a survival strategy. You could also say it's a survival strategy for a black person at a Klan meeting. The issue is applying it as a general rule as the parent poster did. We're not going to solve any of the remaining racial inequalities if people categorically refuse to trust each other on the basis of race. That's arguably the definition of racism.
Maybe it's a lot worse than you think, because a lot of people with actual experience being black seem to say so. The people who say it's not are, IME, the people with the least experience.
It is not on individual blacks trying to get by in their day to "solve racial inequalities". It is on those of us with privilege and power to ally with those without such privilege and power and fight with them, not to demand that they do stupid and self-harmful things because we, the privileged and insecure, would like to believe that things are just great.
Things are really, really bad for a lot of people right now. It's worth considering their viewpoints before foghorning your way in with yours.
A critical part of "moving past" this means recognizing that we are not past this.
A lot of people treat things like the Civil Rights Acts or the Emancipation Proclamation as a faucet. Turn off the faucet and racism is fixed. In reality, it's more like a house fire. It raged bright for a long time, thankfully you put it out. Of course you can't move right back in. There's cleanup to do. There's rebuilding to do. You wouldn't tell the family outside the just-extinguished fire to "move past" it.
White people (myself included) are insulated form a lot of these effects, so it's important we stop and force ourselves to consider them. It's too easy otherwise to pretend the fire's out and everyone's peacefully dreaming in their beds.
not very clear in the current political climate.
>a survival mechanism
it is. the rest of us are trying to survive out here with secret trump supporters in our workplaces, schools, universities, restaurants, grocery stores, and every aspect of our day to day lives.
Maybe it would be a good idea to quit while you're behind.
Behind what? No one "wins" an internet debate. I read an opinion I strongly disagreed with and challenged it. And while I have the time I'm continuing to challenge some of the responders. It's honestly been thought-provoking.
Re-casting the movement to make white people stop oppressing black people as a shot at "mentalities like his," when white people have been oppressing, killing, and enslaving black people for the entirety of the history of this country is beyond the pale.
And, to be very clear, I am white. I'm also not dishonest, though, and that matters.
Regardless, my "feels" have nothing to do with it. How do you propose to solve racial inequality if people categorically refuse to trust each other on the basis of race? Moving beyond "don't trust whitey" and similar mentalities on all sides would seem to be a prerequisite.
> That's not to say discrimination doesn't exist today, and maybe "Never Trust Whitey" was a survival mechanism in the Jim Crow south, but I was taught the whole purpose of the civil rights movement was to move past mentalities like yours.
The reverse racism bit isn't real if you think about it. Allow me to ease your mind: You have nothing to fear. You won't be lynched; racist police won't make you drop your pants in a 'stop & frisk'; if you do get arrested, the court system is mostly run by white people so racism won't cause you to be put in jail and be given a disproportionately harsh sentence; the laws are mostly written by white people so you won't have to worry about near-open discrimination, like the war on drugs, or just plain ignorance about the problems you face; there won't be a whole major party running on subtle discrimination against you with dog whistle messaging; almost every job you apply for will be with white people, so your skin color won't hurt (and will often help) you there; your kids won't wonder if they are inferior, because everyone they see on TV and in leadership will look like them (except for the criminal characters on TV); you won't have to have 'the talk' with your kids about the police; you won't have to worry about how to give them realistic expectations, such as they will have a difficult time in certain careers - what if they want to be police detective, governor of Alabama, or star developer in Silicon Valley? You're safe; take a deep breath.
I just read an article in the NY Times about NYPD police detectives. In the intelligence division, a premier assignment dealing with terrorism, almost all black officers were put in what was called the "Rap Unit"; their job there was security for prominent entertainers (rappers, I presume), and they were promoted at far lower rates than white peers.
Nope, the whole purpose of the civil rights movement was to move past mentalities like yours.
The Civil rights movement will make no progress if it alienates potential allies by first demanding penance for one's skin color.
It was in a neighborhood in what was a small town about 20-30 minutes away from the Capitol city in Boise, ID
It was around 2000 and we were the first non-white family to move into that neighborhood.
Our experience there was a mixed bag.
There was some of the nicest neighbrods who helped us move in with their pick up trucks saving us a ton of money which we didn’t have at the time.
And even a year ago when my parents moved to California, many of the neighbors got their pickup trucks again and helped them with the move.
But that was the good parts. Sadly there were also other kinds of folk.
We were Buddhist/Hindus but because we were brown and many people didn’t know about Hinduism, basically all brown Asian people of middle-eastern or south Asian ancestry/ethnicity/looks got lumped in with the same stereotypes
And my parents had met some Malaysians who were studying abroad here in Idaho which got them so excited they invited them over.
They were Malaysian Muslims wearinf the headscarf and stuff and so when they were leaving our house
My mom gave the wife of the couple a big hug and one of the not so friendly neighbors saw that so I’m guessing they assumed we were Muslim.
And I got lots of terrorist comments and mean bomb jokes thrown at me.
I guess I never understood Xenophobia towards Muslims
Because my mom (who is Hindu) had best friends from her childhood in India who were Muslims
And also I had visited Malaysia which is 60% Muslim.
And they were very open minded and modern people just like here in the West.
In fact Malaysia was far more progressive than India (which is where my mom grew up during her childhood because Malaysia was having race riots at the time so she stayed in India for her safety).
Malaysia is a multi-ethic multi-religious countries made of multi-generation Malays (Indonesian immigrants), multi-generations Chinese, and multi-generation Indians.
And they all date in high school and are super liberal-progressive and big of fighting for women’s rights and taking rose and sexual assault seriously it is very surprising
Since on average most Hindus and Muslims I’ve met or seen in India or the Middle East are very conservative and the record on women’s sexual rights in India and the Middle East is very limited still to this day.
So I guess SouthEast Asia or at least Malaysia is oddly different.
So my experience with Muslims in general is probably quite different from most conservative Westerners who haven’t traveled I guess.
It’s sad how ignorance and lack of exposure is probably one of the biggest contributors to bigotry and ignorance, of course trying to maintain power and control over minorities is probably also a strong reason.
I remember in Middle School all the stuff people kept saying about Hindusm
“Why does your religious step on babies?” Etc etc.
I remember asking my mom that when I got back home from school and she laughed saying “If we stepped on babies I’m pretty sure India wouldn’t be overpopulated”
But prejudice by the majority race/religion isn’t limited to America.
When I visited Malaysia (I’m an American citizen but was a child immigrant who left Malaysia at the age of 5 and grew up here in the US my entire life since the age of 5) in 2007 there was an old fair skinned Malay lady in the train and when an dark skinned Indian man sat next to her
She started yelling racist things to him telling him to go back to India
Even though he’s a 4th generation Tamil (Tamil is South Indian) Malaysian.
And in India recently I’m starting to see some rising Hindu nationalism similar to the Trump Christian nationalism.
Both of which are silly since they go against the founding Constituonal principles of secularism and religious freedom enshrined in both country’s constitutions.
I don’t understand why but this phenomenon of the majority race or religion fearing...
Your experience was nothing like what we are still going through today. I'm sorry. Which is something I don't expect to hear in my lifetime.
You are part of the problem.
I saw people commenting trying to say you were race baiting and stuff for your comment about your experience growing up in America.
And I disagreed with them and didn’t like how they were saying you were being racist with your comments and they were implying like that stuff like that doesn’t happen anymore.
I disagreed with those commenters because at Berkeley we had folks who were part of the BLM movement mentioning what they went through growing up and also all the statistics surrounding incarceration and police brutality.
What they experienced was so bad and nothing like what I experienced in my lifetime.
So I shared my experience to say I agree with you that there definitely are prejudiced folks out there.
I was in no way saying my experience was similar to yours. I’m so sorry if that’s how it came out.
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
A very powerful clipping from the book: https://i.imgur.com/fo8vKHO.png
You can read the full book here: https://archive.org/stream/history_green_book/87_135_1736_Gr...
And there's an article here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/read-these-chillin...
Also the New York Public Library has an interactive map fro their public domain collection http://publicdomain.nypl.org/greenbook-map/
https://www.c-span.org/video/?404885-1/travel-guides-african...
Per the link above, the presenter Calvin Ramsey is making a documentary, "The Green Book Chronicles", in progress (and looking for funding):
https://greenbookchronicles.com/
Blacks are oppressed not by our white ancestors but by their own biology.