LOCKED - What Would You Do?

[imissplatinumplus]

This video popped up on my Facebook feed and damn it made me proud.

Especially the Mississippi State gentleman.

Hail STATE! Hail STATE!

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Surprise! Mississippi is NOT as racist as the world thinks.

Try that **** up north and see what happens.

 

[KentuckyDawg13]

Up North? Like Tennessee? Michigan? Canada? How about Texas?

 

[WilCoDawg]

I say 17 them for trying to get a gotcha moment in MS. I’m very proud of them people acting like humans instead of the idiots people assume southerners are.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

Amen

I say 17 them for trying to get a gotcha moment in MS.

Please do the same video in Boston

 

[OneParticularHarbor]

I hope they tried the Korean BBQ pork belly tacos.

 

[paindonthurt_]

People can say what they want abt Mississippi and racism.

We are way more diverse here than most places in the US.

 

[ClintonInHelen]

I’d hit it...

 

[tbaydog]

ABC/Writer/Produced should be ashamed for scripting this.

 

[BossDawg78]

**yyaaaaaawwwwwnnnnn**

More race baiting bull$#!t that just drums up more racial drama.

 

[preacher_dawg]

As someone who lives in yankee land now, I can tell you that people up here think Mississippi is stuck in the 50's.

 

[mount lefroy]

Surprise! Mississippi is NOT as racist as the world thinks.

Try that **** up north and see what happens.

I’ve lived here all my life. It is no where near as backward/ignorant as is characterized outside the state. That said, far too many Mississippians still cling to racist stereotypes. It is far more subversive and implied than this show would be able to reveal.

That said, I think of the recent events with the children of the people arrested in the ice raids, most of us had a heart of empathy for those families affected no matter where we fall on the immigration issue.

We are a great state. With great people. I’m glad so many were in that restaurant that night. I can think of a few that wouldn’t have made us so proud.

 

[ArcherSPS]

I actually think it made Mississippians look very, very positive to a wide audience.

 

[fang]

As someone who lives in yankee land now, I can tell you that people up here think Mississippi is stuck in the 50's.

And don’t do anything to change their minds, please!

 

[sandwolf.sixpack]

I fat fingered that....should've been an upvote.

 

[Southern Law Dawg]

ABC/Writer/Produced should be ashamed for scripting this.

It's actually based on a true story that happened in Marietta. I know the guy who got arrested for "babysitting while black"

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

JUST trying to STIR **** UP!

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Up North? Like Tennessee? Michigan? Canada? How about Texas?

All I will say is that I have been to a few places above the Mason Dixon line that were very surprisingly racist and I mean very overtly racist of anyone not pale white.

 

[sandwolf.sixpack]

It's actually based on a true story that happened in Marietta. I know the guy who got arrested for "babysitting while black"

I think he's referring to the fact that they loaded up and came to MS to shoot the scenario that is based on blatant racism. I shook my head at it too, because I was expecting them to go above and beyond to make us look like backward rednecks.....I was pleasantly surprised at how it played out.

 

[preacher_dawg]

And don’t do anything to change their minds, please!

Hopefully I don't. One of the earliest sermons I preached up here was about the sin of racism. I even talked about how for thw most part, there is very little racism left in Mississippi. Hopefully, it got through.

 

[Dan Dority]

The MSU guy is my former high school football coach, Jeff Walker!

 

[GhostOfJackie]

That show is nothing but a staged (clearly), clickbait, gotcha moment type production. It's garbage.

Coming to Mississippi with the expectation of racism is just ******* garbage in my opinion. We live in Mississippi in more harmony with other races than most states in the north do. It's offensive to me that people assume we are overtly racist just because we are from Mississippi.

 

[KentuckyDawg13]

LOL! Good one, needed a laugh. Gracias.

 

[dog12]

The MSU guy is my former high school football coach, Jeff Walker!

I thought that was Jeff . . . looked just like him.

Did he go to Mississippi State?

Jeff and I are the same age, and we went to school together in Florence, MS until I moved away.

 

[Bcash2]

I think saying "there is very little racism left in Mississippi" is either being naive or dishonest. When I got older, I realized how much racism I'd grown up with that neither I nor anyone else seemed to consider being 'racist'. Growing up, my idea of racists and racism revolved around the overt kinds of racism I'd seen in movies and read about in history books. I understand now that you don't have to be a "bad" person, or be burning a cross in someones yard to be perpetuating racism or racist stereotypes. For example, I've often thought about what would have been said about me by many "non-racists" had I openly dated a black girl in high school. Many would have thought nothing of it, but many people would have.

ETA: My high school days were about 15 years ago now, so things have definitely changed for the better no doubt.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

I'd love to see a scenario with a family wearing Trump/MAGA clothes in a Portland, Oregon, restaurant and a liberal Karen comes up and starts ripping into the parents and how they should be ashamed of themselves for raising their kids to be bigots, and try to get others to join in.

Just to be fair to other parts of the country.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

I say 17 them for trying to get a gotcha moment in MS. I’m very proud of them people acting like humans instead of the idiots people assume southerners are.

Totally agree. Pisses me off they went with Mississippi. And they say Southerners live in the past.

 

[MSUDC11]

Mississippi is far from perfect, but many of the people who mock it constantly have never stepped foot in this state. Yes there is some inherent and implied racism around the state, but that's not exclusive to us, and generally speaking the quality of people in MS is higher than people in many of the states that stick their noses up at us.

I grew up in a nice all-white neighborhood, went to an all-white church, went to a mostly white school, have always had mostly white friends, etc, so much of my upbringing was in a bubble and that can cause you to lose some perspective about others whose situations are different from your own. I would have never described myself or my family as racist, but there are jokes, comments or even just thoughts over the years that in hindsight I regret. I work at a job where many of my clients are African American, and my wife teaches at a school with a mostly black students and an African American assistant. All most people want these days is to be treated with kindness and respect, and that's all you can do as a human being. And in spite a lot of the negatives about Mississippi, I do feel like we are one of the better states when it comes to basic human decency.

 

[dorndawg]

Wonder if our state flag has anything to do with outsider's perception?****************

 

[thatsbaseball]

Excuse my naivety but I have an honest question....who are the current victims of the racism you speak of and how so ?

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

Please do the same video in Boston

Hell Boston! Try New York! Bunch of red neck racist snobs.

 

[mstateglfr]

Surprise! Mississippi is NOT as racist as the world thinks.

Try that **** up north and see what happens.

1- never heard of the show and its total trash.
2- good to see people not support the terrible scripted scenario.
3- Missippi, and many other places, are oppressive as hell in the way they systemically exclude and disenfranchise minorities(often based on race). Many laws, traditions, and the social construct of places in Missippi exist to separate and/or exclude based on race.


As to #3, that doesnt mean all the people within the state are racist. Hell it doesnt even mean that many are racist. What it means is that those in power are either racist or willing to create law and set standards to comply with the wishes of influential racists.


It's basically a difference without distinction.
So great point you made.***

 

[FQDawg]

Excuse my naivety but I have an honest question....who are the current victims of the racism you speak of and how so ?

Go read about things like redlining and the disparate treatment of minorities in the criminal justice system and you'll learn that the effects of structural racism are still very prevalent in our society.

 

[L4Dawg]

Go read about things like redlining and the disparate treatment of minorities in the criminal justice system and you'll learn that the effects of structural racism are still very prevalent in our society.

Redlining as in the three black families that live on my street in a nice formerly all white part of town? Times have changed here, and for the better. I'm in my 50s. My high school class was the first one to go through our school integrated 1st-12th grades. We had no idea till right before we graduated. We might have known back when we started, but nobody thought anything about it by the time we graduated.

 

[thatsbaseball]

"Redlining" is as extinct as the Dodo bird and the best way to not get mistreated by the criminal just system is to simply obey the laws and stay out of the criminal justice system.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

As in personal responsibility? Go back to bed old man**

 

[sandwolf.sixpack]

3- Missippi, and many other places, are oppressive as hell in the way they systemically exclude and disenfranchise minorities(often based on race). Many laws, traditions, and the social construct of places in Missippi exist to separate and/or exclude based on race.

Could you expound on this? I am genuinely curious as to what laws, etc. separate and/or exclude based specifically on race.

Also, if I'm being honest, it kind of bugs me when people from certain parts of the country jump at every opportunity to lecture Mississippians about how racist and oppressive we are. Take somewhere like, I don't know, let's just say Iowa for example......Iowa is 91% white and 3.5% black, whereas MS is 62% white and 37% black. How could someone who has chosen to live in Iowa -- one of the whitest, most non-diverse places in the world -- feel like they were the proper authority to talk down to anybody about the way that they interact with minorities? Anyway, just a random thought.

 

[Dan Dority]

I thought that was Jeff . . . looked just like him.

Did he go to Mississippi State?

Jeff and I are the same age, and we went to school together in Florence, MS until I moved away.

Funny thing is, he's only a couple years older than me, he was just an assistant but he went to MC I think?

 

[BossDawg78]

That said, I think of the recent events with the children of the people arrested in the ice raids, most of us had a heart of empathy for those families affected no matter where we fall on the immigration issue.

That tends to happen when people break the law. Where's all the sympathy for the folks going to jail for selling meth just trying to support their families (I guess). They are being separated, too.

 

[mstateglfr]

"Redlining" is as extinct as the Dodo bird and the best way to not get mistreated by the criminal just system is to simply obey the laws and stay out of the criminal justice system.

Redlining 90 years ago still affects social/cultural/racial groups now.
Sucks, but compounding wealth is a real thing. So is systemic poverty.

I find myself realizing how thankful I am on a daily basis that I happened to be born in the situation I was.