Are These the Most RACIST Places in America??

racism it's pretty much what dominates everything right now sadly politics education crime the job market social media cable news the housing market local economies everything and we thought it was something we put in the rearview mirror in the last century well clearly we did not we know what the definition of racism is it's Prejudice or discrimination against people of A different race a racist person believes that his or her race is superior and that other races are inferior but how racist is America really we may never really know while most people won't admit to being racist lots of people are closeted racists where they hold views they don't necessarily Express or at least Express outside of their own home and that's why polling isn't the best way to measure racist views people aren't going to just admit to a stranger that they're racist come on now researchers have determined the best way to measure racism is by looking at people's Anon Behavior there have been several recent studies which looked at how people might view others from a different race two particular Studies have received the most media attention one measured the use of racist language on social media and another analyzed racist breadcrumbs and people's Google queries we're going to use both those studies and merge their results to make a very good assumption as to where the pockets of racism are the strongest in America today and while there are clearly a lot of racist people in the states we're going to talk about most people in these states do not hold racist views so using previous data from well-respected researchers we're going to now go over the states that have shown a history of racial behavior and apply those to talking points that are relevant to today's America let's get started we're going to begin our look at which states have shown the most racist tendencies in the Deep South here in the state of Mississippi you might be thinking well that makes sense the Deep South has a long history of racist laws and the whole slavery thing is still a sensitive subject in the South even to this day and one somewhat reputable website proclaimed racism is built into the very bones of Mississippi but how does that apply to today well we mentioned the Google query study at the beginning for a year researchers watched who was Googling racist terms and then ascertained that those who were Googling racist and derogatory language held private racist View use cuz you know you can't hide what you Google right and Google data is something you can't censor Google searches are often alone making it easier to express taboo thoughts Google reveals meaningful social patterns people well here's a map overlay of the state of Mississippi with those Google results red and orange means a high number of racist Google searches and a lot of Mississippi red and orange so researchers have determined that there are large pockets in Mississippi that are well racist surprisingly to me Mississippi was only one of two states in the Deep South that fell into this top 10 list but that doesn't mean there's not a lot of other racism in the Deep South here's a map of Georgia less red but Georgia has a lot of history of racism as well here's an example people in Atlanta know what Marta stands for it's the metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority right but for a while the Google featured snippet for what does Mar stand for returned moving Africans rapidly through Atlanta it was a racially charged joke that was used so often in the Atlanta area that Google used it itself for its own search results and the Twitter study I referenced earlier showed that Atlanta had the second most anti-black tweets of all large US cities so there's a lot of racism in Georgia too this might be a good time to talk about these new voting laws you know the laws that some people feel suppress voting for minorities a lot of people call these new voting laws racist because they make it harder for people to vote Georgia was the first state to change its voting laws Newsweek magazine called them racist and Joe Biden said they were too the USA Today however countered saying these new voting laws aren't racist laws suppressing black voters were overturned by the Supreme Court in the 1940s according to the USA Today there's nothing even vaguely like suppressing black votes in the new Georgia state law other states passed similar laws to ensure a more reliable me method for determining exactly who's showing up to the polls the state of Mississippi though didn't change its voting laws because they're already very restrictive does that mean they're racist some say yes and some say no now stick around till the end I'm going to talk to Mississippi residents about racism in that state as well as other Southern US states but for now we're going to head to the state of New York that's right state of New York now do you remember that map overlay I showed for Mississippi check out the state of New York a lot of Upstate New York has shown a history of racist Tendencies on Google while areas like Syracuse have shown above average racist behavior on Google areas in the Far Eastern and Western sides of New York are far above average this area here is Albany the state capital udica in the north central part of the state actually had the highest search volume of all cities measured Buffalo over here also has a lot of racist Tendencies on Google and buffalo had the eighth most antiblack tweet of all major US cities too now one local Buffalo news station asked residents about the study pondering the question is Buffalo racist one guy said absolutely sometimes you open your eyes in the morning and it seems like 40 years ago another Buffalo resident said in certain areas racism is taught because that's what their fames used to racism is taught you're not born racist now how does racism play into how the police treats citizens we've all heard over and over again that the police are racist right as an example there's one study online that examined more than 100,000 police stops in New York City they wanted to see if that City's stop and frisk policy was racist or not the evidence showed that African-Americans and Hispanics were stopped twice as often as whites so the study authors concluded that the NYPD was disproportionately stopping minorities however a police officer's hands are tied even more today with the outbreak of Riot stemon from incidents between cops and black Americans listen to this Across the Nation the police have been neutered I was just talking to an officer in Illinois not Chicago but Illinois and they related to me that they uh they don't they're not proactive if they see somebody doing 20 over eight years ago they would they would have made a stop and you know from there you make a judgment call officer discussion or issue a ticket or go something further maybe they're impaired who knows why they're doing 20 over but now officers are not even willing to make that initiation because of all the recourse that is happening and a lot of it is uh out of their hands Maryland's another state which shows racial Tendencies online remember that Twitter study I mentioned earlier that study measured racist language on Twitter and then tracked where the racist language came from Maryland ranked fourth for racial derogatory language on Twitter and ranked second for language that specifically targeted the african-amer American population and Baltimore Maryland's biggest city led the nation for all major cities in terms of the raw number of anti-black tweets during a specific period now the whole Baltimore thing is going to be a very controversial one because a lot of oldtime Baltimore residents feel there's been a racist mortgage lending practice in place here for decades now is that true well the New York Times claims it is according to the times Baltimore's black population is double that of the white population but Banks made twice as many mortgage loans to whites than they did to African-Americans the time says the racial makeup of a neighborhood was the predictor of a mortgage loan approval not a credit score or income so it's possible that the banks were just stereotyping based on the neighborhoods and they happen to be minority neighborhoods they weren't particularly stereotyping against the skin color of individual borrowers but what do you think let us know in the comments below the state of Michigan ranks high on both studies we use to compile this report the state ranks eighth in the nation for amount of racially charged language used on Twitter Michigan also has a lot of red when you look at how many racist Google queries were submitted during the search study particular parts of Michigan which have the highest derogatory searches are the state's Upper Peninsula and the Detroit metro area the Detroit metro area thing goes back a long time I mean this place has the highest percentage of black residents of any US city over 100,000 people so you could expect some strange race Rel ations here you can also find a bunch of articles about perceived racism in Detroit which probably only fan the racial Flames even more this article blames white people for Detroit's bankruptcy because white families fled Detroit and then the city's economy went to here's another article about housing discrimination and redlining in Detroit it claims landlords wouldn't rent to African-Americans or if they did they charged him even more this article talks about how the race riots in Detroit made racial relations very strange here it goes on and on but clearly Michigan has a bunch of stuff to deal with when it comes to racial relations now we're going to go back down to the South and we're going to remain in the South for just a little bit here we are in Tennessee which as you can see on this map has huge racist Tendencies when it comes to private searches online the only part of the state that's not really shown a history of racist search is in the middle part of the state in the greater Nashville area but racism goes way back in the Nashville area too this was a very segregated City in the mid 1900s and even today despite the fact that Nashville is about half white half not this is a very separated City when it comes to neighborhoods and churches and restaurants and private schools and a lot of small businesses folks just don't mix often here does that make them racist perhaps not but Central Tennessee certainly isn't very integrated either and now it's time to talk about critical race Theory everyone yay so if you don't know what critical race theory is where have you been it's basically when schools teach young kids that white people have privilege and black people are oppressed a lot of parents are upset that public schools are separating kids by race they say it's taken a step backwards for race relations well so far five states have passed a law which says CRT is against the law one of them is Tennessee by Banning CRT Tennessee argues that students should not learn things that inherently divide people so perhaps tenness is making progress huh what do you think right next to is the state of Kentucky which ranks really high for a number of potentially racist search terms when you look at the map there really isn't a single part of the whole state that Kentucky hasn't shown even a neutral search history so if you live in Kentucky you may not be surprised now the eastern part of Ky is shown a tremendous amount of racist beliefs on Google and that's a trend we're going to see moving forward a lot as we Explore More of Appalachia many people in Kentucky aren't even casually racist or closeted racist they're out this is a good time to bring up another interesting study online okay so some white people will say they're not racist based on the argument that they have a bunch of black friends however a study by the public religion Research Institute showed that 75% of white Americans have only one black friend one Asian friend and one Latino friend on average meanwhile black Americans pulled said they have eight white friends so to put that in another way African-Americans have 10 times as many black friends as white friends but white people have 91 times as many white friends as they do black friends take away from that what you will people back to the Deep South we go for the last time surprisingly to me this is the last true Southern State we're going to talk about although the last one is kind of Southern here we are in Louisiana which ranked really high on both racist Google search queries as well as racist tweets in fact a study which measured 12 million tweets a few years back determined that Louisiana had the most derogatory language of all when it came to anti-black sentiment in the study New Orleans had the third most anti-black tweets of all cities which is really interesting because New Orleans ranks as the eighth blackest City in the nation of course down in the South there's a lot of black poverty researchers from the Google study noted that an increase in racist Google searches is associated with an 8% increase in the mortality rate of black Americans that's because in racist regions the black community has pushed into poor neighborhoods and also given less employment opportunities and poor people in bad areas have worse Financial mental and physical health outcomes so in a roundabout way racism kills people is that true how do you feel about that let us know in the comments below but for now check out this interview I just did with some young Louisiana residents who say racism is strong in Louisiana do you guys think Louisiana's racist yes very much so so why why what what makes it so racist in Louisiana like stuff your friends say stuff you hear stuff you see like what what and can you guys I can barely see like you're cut off that better hold up there I can't now there we go I can see you guys together um so yeah what what makes Louisiana so racist you guys think the people in general I think it's the older generation that uh taught the younger generation how to be racist there's some words that are just naturally said here that shouldn't be said like is it stuff that you guys see what's that I said there's words that are said here that shouldn't be said by 90% of the population and it's just regular for the people to talk that way next Up's Pennsylvania are you surprised that Pennsylvania ranked so high on this list I mean when you look at the Google search study there really isn't any part of the state which didn't have any strong racist Tendencies except for the state capital region near Harrisburg last year saw the most white supremacist graffiti reports in Pennsylvania's history you know swastikas written all over public buildings and stuff a spokesman for the Anti-Defamation League said white supremacists appear to be more emboldened than ever here in the election year in the pandemic and other factors may have provided these extremists with additional encouragement that is so sad Pennsylvania however Pennsylvania just passed a new state proposal to amend their state constitution to Outlaw discrimination based on race and ethnicity for things like housing and education and policing it was the first time in a long time that voters decided a racial Equity issue on a state ballot so apparently Pennsylvania is trying to fix things no we're not going to leave this region for the rest of this video up next next is Ohio which has a lot of really racist people when you measure their behavior online Ohio residents have the sixth highest number of derogatory language tweets aimed at African-Americans and if you look at the search query map most of the state has expressed potentially racist views on Google too in case you didn't know Ohio had the most KKK members in the nation outside of the state of Indiana now what's it like to grow up black in a small town in Ohio well they asked a bunch of folks that same question question they all talked about being flipped off mocked by racist jokes called slurs spit on and even licked I looked down and this little boy was licking the back of my hand one African-American mother said then he turned to his mom and said Mama she's not chocolate it's the parents she added that's teaching the young ones how to be racist what the hell Ohio oh and Ohio also ranks fifth worst for racial equality in the nation too you may or may not be surprised to hear that w West Virginia ranks as the most racist state in America at least when you look at people's behavior West Virginia is first by far when it comes to derogatory language aimed at African-Americans on Twitter in fact the number of racist tweets coming out of West Virginia was Triple that of the second highest state Maryland and this map of racist Google queries shows that pretty much the entire State's been involved in a high number of racist queries and the state's 90% white by the way like next door in Ohio one City in West Virginia went so far as declare racism a Public Health crisis the document gives the city the authority to remove any policies that have any racial bias and they require city employees to get rid of implicit bias training and work towards building a more diverse and inclusive Workforce one person asked Reddit I'm a black man moving to West Virginia to visit my girlfriend do I need to be worried about my safety and the answers were clearly yes we can be some of the most hospit people and some of the most dangerously hateful one person answered I'll be blunt because we're typically too prideful to admit how bad things are here we do have a problem with racism that problem will eventually find its way to you others said stay out of the bars stay away from less educated older people keep to yourself stay out of the woods during hunting season avoid the police at all costs what okay so that was a rundown of the most potentially racist states in America here's the map I kept referring to in its entirety as you can see the most concentrated cluster of racist searches are in the Deep South but rather along a spine of the appalachin running from Georgia and into Southern Vermont so if you want to find all the racists in this country start in Appalachia and Ohio out west it's not as bad when it comes to racis Attitudes though there's a large cluster of anti-hispanic social media language coming out of California in Texas if you're curious and I know you are Wyoming appears to be just about the least racist state of all when you combine Google queries with tweets hardly anyone in Wyoming expressed racist attitudes on Twitter maybe they just don't have Twitter there now of course discrimination does exist and the black population suffered under laws and treatment for a long time those days are over at least on the surface critics of the whole racist idea will say that people of color are not being discriminated against today some will say that people of color are given added benefits or special treatment in order to make up for the financial and social gaps that exist today there's been cases of parents complaining that their white or Asian students were passed over for Hispanic or black student simply to meet quotas a little later I'm going to play a very candid conversation I had with a really cool guy named Ricardo who lives in the Philadelphia area we'll talk about this very issue folks this is a very sensitive time in the US right now anything you say or do can be construed as racist we all need to be sensitive of the differences between all of our races and do our best to make sure we're fair to everyone but at the same time people of all Races need to remember that just about everyone is not racist so can we just all chill out and get along we're all in this together I mean these two are getting along why can't we why can't we be Friends why Can't We Be Friends why Can't We Be Friends we can 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now who wants to deal with a realtor they don't know when you can have me help you right yeah like is it something that you're so are people taught racism then like at a young age is that what's going on they're just born into it I guess yeah the older generation tends to uh teach them their way since that's the ways that they were taught when they were kids it's like we're stuck in 1955 like give me an idea on like what you mean by they're taught that like black people are bad like white people are better like I mean how what kind of stuff are do people in Louisiana say I guess they teach you to be scared of black people be uh intimidated by them and just to not trust them and all type of stuff do you guys when someone says that to you are you usually like that makes sense are you like no that doesn't make sense I mean how how do you when when a friend of yours says that to you how do you respond without without alienating yourself from your friends well we condemn all types of racism so we just don't surround ourselves with people like that yeah but there are a lot of people in our age group in our older age groups very conservative people that are taught those ways from their Elder Generations is it getting better at all or is it getting worse is it especially after the black lives matter matter movement everybody I guess thought that they could say what they want to say and not get in trouble for it so the filter on these people just came off after that but overall though you know I think the stereotypes could probably be more applied to Mississippi you're your cousin next door you still got a lot of racist in Alabama yeah it's still there yeah would you say it's like a closeted racism yeah yeah I say that a lot of people I know people that are Stark racist that are say I'm not racist I'm not sure a lot of people realize what a racist is you know yeah but yeah they still but at the same time you know they're not out killing people or running them over over they would help them if if they could what's the solution to to Alabama's racist attitudes that still persist to this day what do we got to do to get people to knock it off time time because it's the uh it's the evangelicals that's pushing all this hatred I I come from an Evangelical background I was in church and I've been seeing this happen for years now and I used to tell people it's got to where church is scared me and they thought I was nuts but this is exactly what I was talking about you know and uh the Jesus I was taught about don't support the things that the evangelicals are supporting now and uh we got to wake up the president of the Southern Baptist convention he just took over because the last president was having women you know and they fired him and a new guy got there this is last year or year before and they were having their board meeting and it was brought up that maybe we should change our name from Evangel iCal because we're really getting a bad rap and the the new president said no he said what we need to change is our hearts nothing wrong with the name we got to change our hearts so time time is going to matter I've seen what it's done over time already so Alabama and Mississippi's always last man and everything so it's so crazy how in Philly and and other areas you know you have large African-American communities but nobody owns anything except for a barber shop and a church and like everything else is owned by other people and that's one thing that's really frustrating so I would give them an opportunities opportunities to own their own um businesses because everyone that I know there especially the uh the male population they want to be entrepreneurs they're tired of working for other people um and they're tired of seeing uh other people that come into the community take over their Community as far as financially and then do nothing to help them in return so yeah no I get you so this is just a question like I don't know any the answer to so I'm asking just naively so when you say like black communities only own like a church in a barber shop is there is there other rules in place or is it just difficult for black folks to like own businesses that they or I mean why is that that that you feel that like you know everybody else owns businesses except like the African-American communities what why is that you think you know I I really I I really don't know because um I would say because well I know historically um you know the African-American Community has been denied bank loans and things like that and they haven't been they they've had discrim they've been discriminated against with regard to doing well getting loans and grants and and things of that nature um and I like I know that I I don't live in Philly I live in reading right now which is I heard you talk about reading before and uh it's my church is was trying to open up some sort of uh daycare center in the city of of reading and they they were given the hardest time trying to open up uh a bit like this daycare center but meanwhile you'll have a a lot of bodegas in the area that are drug fronts you know I grew up in the in the um in Reading which is an hour from Philly and and this happens all over at least the Northeast you know where I grew up uh going to a bodega and the food was always expired the gum was always stale and everyone used to get their drugs from there and um why does why do the people that I know that are trying to open up a business that are African-American have to go through all these hoops and hurdles to try and fit all these regulations which I agree with but you don't hold everyone else to that same standard you know and it's just a bunch of other things I mean I don't know the United States they treat their and I don't think it's just black Americans it's just Americans in general that have been here like they don't give a lot of people that have been here as many opportunities as as newcomers and I think there's a lot to that maybe there's something that the United States may have done to the country there are other countries that the people are coming from that they're um paying them back or maybe the people are self- selected um when they come over here as far as immigrants and things like that um but the native population here is just kind of forgotten about espec especially the um Native black American population so I don't know why exactly that is but it seems to have been that way since I've been alive so yes you you still feel there's discriminatory practices going on with banks and the way the rules are written even to this day is what you're saying yeah yeah yeah because I mean I hear like I hear the like you hear the opposite sometimes from people people that are like you know folks of color get like the benefit of the doubt they get pushed forward in in schools they get like opportunities for scholarships they get there's loans set aside just for people of color but like you're saying that like that doesn't always apply across the board like you're not seeing that where you're at no no I'm not seeing I'm not seeing that for non-immigrant black Americans you know what I mean like you could there there are benefits for people that are that I've seen to open up businesses and things like that for people that are um foreign black Americans but if you're a native black American from and you've been here for Generations the opportunities for you to progress are are very very limited as far as if you want to use the government and so people have kind of given up on that unfortunately yeah do you feel like Joe Biden's administration's going to change that or any Administration is going to change that like do you see any any political inroads to um from from what you're seeing or hearing is there hope that that stuff's going to change or or how will that change I I think that the change is going to have to happen from the ground up it's going to have to come from the people the people are going to have to organize in some kind of way and and and fight for what they want because we're not I don't I don't think we're going to get anything from Joe Biden Donald Trump um any any president or anybody that's already at the top that is designated to be our so-called leaders um I mean we've seen that we've seen things stay the same for the past at least 50 years you know um ever since we I don't know I'd say after the Civil Rights Movement and things like that things have kind of just kind of stayed stagnant and gone down you know and no nobody has really been committed to really changing anything they just kind of want to maintain this status quo and it's just kind of getting everybody everybody is hurting because of it you know so no I don't think that any political leader is going to I think we should still be involved and we still have to let our voices be heard and known and things like that but the real change is going to happen from you know the NAT from the population itself uh understanding its history and how things work and um fighting for Change and like I don't really understand like the BLM movement from from except for what I see on TV and what you hear people talk about I don't know anybody that's involved in that but is that part of the change that you say needs to happen is that part of the the movement is is BLM itself are they trying to do some of the things that you're talking about I don't think BLM is there are other organizations out there that are but I I don't necessarily trust BLM um one controversial um group that I've been following is called the um American descendants of slave slavery movement which is the movement led by uh IET Carnell and Antonio Moore and they're on YouTube and they talk about like giving repar ation to Native black Americans in the United States um and I think that once you know I and I and I agree with that like I at first I didn't at first but they laid out like the everything that you know the population have I'm a native black American I even though my name is Ricardo I'm not um immigrant like a lot of people seem to think that I am but uh given everything that they've um laid out I can definitely see why one aspect to change the way things are in America right now is to give the descendants of American slavery reparations for you know the work that they've done to build this country you know but um but BLM I'm not necessarily a supporter of black lives matter I I like the slogan but I um the organization itself I'm not necessarily a supporter of yeah now it definitely exists you know where my mother lives my mother isn't racist at all but where she lives there's definitely some questionable people there but you know it's never to somebody's face or blatantly like racism you know like we're going to do this or do that to you it's never like that but there's definitely still people here that have those feelings but it's not as bad as what people would think I mean you have to really dig to find those people I'm telling you you have to dig so yeah is it more would you say it's more segregated than racist then in a sense that you've got the black folks at church and then you've got the white folks at their church you've got the predominantly black parts of town the white parts of town they don't really hang out I guess that's just sort of what I've heard is that there's not a racist inyour face kind of thing still going on but there's this undercurrent that still exists where they people kind of just deal with the there's a history there that happened it's still lingering but it's not in your face as much but people definitely don't really intermingle as much as they would in other states is that do you see that well I I think it all depends on your personal experience and how you grew up because me personally I grew up you know I grew up on a farm doing you know what most white people probably do back in the day and then when we were building when my mom and my dad were building their house and stuff we stayed in the ghetto in Nicholson which is outside of pikun you know we stayed in trailer park I went to South Side Elementary School right across from section 8 and I loved it and I wouldn't have it any other way because the thing is is it's a little bit I mean we do have like wh's funeral home we have Brown's funeral home we have um you know we have do have black churches and you know white churches and things like that but I don't think there's any aminos behind it because you know when I was growing up I I I didn't I wasn't treated any type of way when I did go to Section 8 or when I did go to Southside Elementary School or when I'd go to Martin Luther King Drive or something like that and to have a a few blunts with some of my friends you know there was no am can't I'm sorry I can't talk aminos or anything like that so I guess it's just how you grow up and how you perceive different things but I can see how people would think that because we do have like certain things like a funeral home or a church that is separated by their race But ultimately a black person is more than welcome to come to a predominantly white I can walk into one it'd be no problem yeah no I didn't mean that it was the laws or the culture was like you guys can't hang out I just meant like they kind of just don't really it's like oil and water a little bit they get along and they kind of exist together but they don't necessarily is is that accurate yeah a little bit because you wouldn't you really wouldn't see too many white people going into a you know a black church or you know too many people going to a black people funeral home and vice versa and I don't know if that is because there is some kind of I I don't really know I've never seen that before because I've never I've personally I've never been to a black church nor have I been to a black funeral home and that's not personally because you know I have nothing against you know because I don't want to mix it I guess it's just how we're raised down here like they have they what they have we have what we have I mean I don't know I have no idea I don't know how to that correctly I guess yeah

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Published: Fri Jul 09 2021