tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775665740005660017.post2532323725991321312..comments2024-03-27T18:12:48.949+01:00Comments on Ami im Schwabenland: Freedom of Speech, German StyleAmi im Schwabenlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10601866031019102559noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775665740005660017.post-64501057188297258082018-05-11T12:22:35.244+02:002018-05-11T12:22:35.244+02:00Thanks for any other magnificent article. Where e...Thanks for any other magnificent article. Where else may just anybody get that kind of info in such an ideal approach of writing? I have a presentation next week, and I’m at the look for such information.<a href="http://messehotel-frankfurt-oder.de/" rel="nofollow"> Hotel in frankfurt-Oder </a>Jim Barnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02659702631249428576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775665740005660017.post-33791681156510496262017-08-21T17:08:58.644+02:002017-08-21T17:08:58.644+02:00I agree with so much of what you wrote. I've n...I agree with so much of what you wrote. I've never lived in the South, only in Wisconsin. We like to think we're open and diverse up there. In my home town we had a little diversity when I was growing up, but there was very, very little integration and even less reaching out by white people to people of color or from other cultures. My family and their friends had parties, gatherings at the lake, etc., but everyone was white. I am relatively certain that is still the case.<br /><br />I fear also that #45 encourages those with ugly and racist views. After Charlottesville and his response to it, why wouldn't they feel emboldened? <br /><br />"So many white people refuse to acknowledge..." I can only say "Uh-huh" and I better leave it at that. It makes me sad. Many - including some I know personally - have the "Well, THEY..." or "But what about _them_?" attitude. That is not an appropriate response to racism, white nationalism/terrorism, or hatred. I will never understand this.Ami im Schwabenlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13148291164062226269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8775665740005660017.post-19015748641847343022017-08-21T11:29:48.056+02:002017-08-21T11:29:48.056+02:00I just wish that we, as Americans, would take our ...I just wish that we, as Americans, would take our own advice and put Article 1 into our own constitution. Charlottesville is about a 30-minute drive from where I did my Bachelor studies. That area of Virginia has earned a special place in my heart, but it is far from perfect in terms of race relations. The town I studied in (smaller than Charlottesville) is home to one of the many Robert E. Lee High School's throughout the south. During one of my semester's at the uni, KKK leaflets were left throughout the downtown streets overnight. Community leaders were quick to trash them and disavow the messages on them. That must have been 2014 or so, and white nationalists/terrorists kept it underground for the most part. Since the election of Trump, several people of color that I know who are still there say that things have gotten worse, and several of my friends have expressed that they have feared for their personal safety on multiple occasions since the election. <br /><br />The rural area of Missouri where I'm from is quite simply openly toxic, moreso than I ever perceived the Charlottesville area to be, but there are few people of color to feel the effects. I'm not sure of the situation in Missouri because I speak to pretty much no one who is still there except my family, and they are woefully ignorant to anything having to do with race apart from being quick to judge when they see protests which a small group of people have turned violent. We've got serious problems in the US, and it drives me nuts that so many white people refuse to acknowledge that it has been going on for decades.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com