Historian debunks misconception that racism is a Southern issue

In light of deadly unrest following the Jacob Blake shooting, officials in Wisconsin are expressing concerns as President Donald Trump plans to visit Kenosha. Historian and University of Wisconsin professor Christy Clark-Pujara joins CNN's Bianna Golodryga to dispel the notion that racism is primarily a Southern issue. #CNN #News

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  1. If people think racist only live in the south. Look at Boston history. Especially south Boston. Black couldn’t walk or live in south Boston.

    1. @pinkie perky WHAT RACISM in SOUTH BOSTON?? , STILL GOING ON, IRISH ARE SOME OF THE BIGGEST RACIST IN BOSTON, watch the MOVIE “THE DEPARTED”.

  2. why did this need debunking? its not a geographic problem, its how your raised and what morals and ethics you’re taught problem

    1. @LL&PH TwoZero – Because a lot believe that they are not racist because they weren’t raised in the South. In Montana where I live, racism is rampant and the Confederate flag is flown on the backs of trucks and in the yards of neighbors, but they don’t think it’s racist. It goes to show that ignorance breeds ignorance no matter where you live. And people need to fight it.

    2. @Oceana Kennedy Amen..comin from a Texan where RACISM is like breathing..pple that say trump is not a racist are pple that grew up hearing that type of trash and thinks its ok their family, cousins and all talked that garbage so they see nuthin wrong…just an everyday thing

    3. Jay Tee I’m black and I disagree with you… totally, lol. Your experience is different than his and mine, as is mine from yours and his. Color does not “unite us”. From his comment, I agree with him more than I do with you. STOP MAKING EVERYTHING ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE AND ATTRIBUTING IT TO EVERYONE. Your life experience…is yours, not black peoples as a whole. There might be some blacks that agree with you and some that don’t. Same with whites and Asians, etc. Don’t be race obsessed.

    4. Oceana Kennedy lol. The irony of your comment is great. Do you understand that many black don the confederate flag? Do you understand or know the history and meaning of that flag, and that it has been linked with race bc of comments like yours and simple fear mongering. Most people, pre civil war, that are represented by that flag were not even slave owners. Lol. Not saying racists don’t like that flag, in sure racist like all types of flags or may even agree with what that flag represents. But that doesn’t make the flag out of history racist. That’s plain inaccurate and factually false. I get what you’re saying tho, people can be ignorant with this issue.

    1. @Ruth Burgey oh so it didn’t start our in slavery…..ok. Go ahead and try to change the past some more. LMAO

    2. @jacob twotwo I’m rep has a black doctor at ihs 😁Mrs Garcia she from jaimaca had forever she a good doctor

    3. @jacob twotwo Dem are slave owners ask Kamala her gramother was free and her grandfather was biggest slave owner in Jamaica 5 plantation over 200 slave how you think she was so well off worked her way into politics you not black u don’t vote for poor kids just as bright as white pobert Byrd my mentor my friend and my guide look it up .

    1. @Joseph Paul There were always hate, jealousy, etc. Beginning of time, Always. Go figure! Who colonized India? “What did Gandhi do ” . USA emphasized it more, by “color” classification, then it becomes a thing. The young one in town. You can be in love and still able to see flaws.

      Once Europeans put their hands on anything they change the format.

      One RACE which is the human race!!

    2. @Joseph Paul We inherited it from our ancestors, our great great grandparents. But the color classification must have born here. We keep it going, right?

      We just love the race/hate war and we think it it lovely.

  3. There are plenty of racist people in the north and west including Wisconsin. I separated myself from some four years ago and one last week.

    1. @stonewall tommy jackson I think your misconstruing racism with prejudice, while black people can be prejudice against white people, black people cannot be racist again white people Why ? because they (black people) lack the power (social, economic, political) to be racist against whites, conversely white people have the power to stop blacks from voting, or deny blacks jobs, to block blacks from living in the neighborhood thats racism.

    2. @TheDjBdawg As the brother of a cancer patient I wouldn’t say that Obama didn’t do anything. Without the Affordable Care Act ( Obama care ) I know a lot of us would be dead. Obama gave health care to millions, and my kids are covered until they’re 26, and Obama care covers all preexisting conditions and removed insurance caps. This saved Americans from going broke due to a health crisis.

    3. @Derrick Taylor born and raised in California period thank Jesus Christ born again. A Latino born in poverty who realize that the soul can be enriched through faith in Jesus Christ period!! never lived in Russia period. I understand your desperate to excuse the way descent by labeling them as things that they are not. That’s called being a false accuser period no false accuser is going to heaven. Satanic communism is pushed by the wicked left in America.

      Hola! 👋🤗Every day is a gift of God. Those who do not turn from their sins to Jesus will learn they wasted their God given breath.

      I see souls in cages silenced by voices of fear. Devilish propagandist.

      https://youtu.be/4-p3NMYnuqQ

      JESUS CHRIST SAID I CAME TO SET THE CAPTIVES FREE. CALL OUT TO JESUS CHRIST TO BE LIBERATED IN YOUR MINDS. JESUS CHRIST CAN BREAK THE CHAINS. JESUS CHRIST EMPOWER YOU.

      CALL OUT TO JESUS CHRIST THE SAVIOR OF SOULS.

      ALL SOUL’S MATTER!

      Jesus loves you!

      JesUSAves 🙏🏿♥️✝️🕊️🌞🇺🇸

    1. Cropper Copper 👈. Sure I can. The left are destroying cities. The left are torching cars. The left destroy people’s personal properties. Don’t you even give me your lame speech about pain and brutality. Your party is toast and Biden’s brain is burnt toast.

    2. @Mike Hall Yet again… Being so bias you don’t dare look on your own side. Everything is always someone else’s fault. That is why your not taken seriously… That is why your president isn’t taken seriously. How can you take someone seriously who can never admit they might play a part and how things turn out when it’s a two party system?

    3. @Mike Hall 👈 So, why are you using the pain and brutality, that is a racism, to attack the left, because you can’t defend the right?

  4. I grew up in a southern state and I experienced more racism in New York than I ever did at home as a black man.

    1. Elena, #1 Bernie Bro Don’t get the false idea, the GOP want us to realize we are way less racist now than ever before. It’s just that Democrats are using race to influence elections and spread fear or hate towards white people. I can see that you’re probably a white liberal and I’m a minority so I have credibility.

    2. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour!!
      1 Peter 5:8

      The wicked left have been using mail in voting to steal elections for years.
      https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/democrat_operative_spills_the_beans_on_how_democrats_steal_elections_through_mailin_voting.html

      WHEN THE DAY OF EVIL COMES STAND. THEN STAND AGAIN. FOR WE WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD BUT WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES. *Spiritual warfare* Ephesians 6

      turn to Jesus Christ. Getting some serious prayer. Shine a light on the darkness throughout the land. Preach the word in season and out of season. Make the living God cause the word of Truth to burn away the lies of the wicked left into ashes. May the Almighty God bring the wicked left plans to nought.

      WE NEED TO HUMBLE OURSELVES IN THE EYES OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD. FOR BLESSINGS AND PROTECTION.

      SUBMIT TO GOD AND THE DEVIL WILL FLEE.

      Pray! Pray! Pray!!

      JesUSAves 🙏🏿♥️✝️🙌🏽🕊️🌞🇺🇸

    3. Christians of all colors are suffering far more throughout the world than people of color in America. THE DIFFERENCES PEOPLE THAT KNOW JESUS CHRIST DON’T PLAY THE VICTIM CARD THEY KNOW THEY ARE VICTORIOUS IN JESUS CHRIST. THEY KNOW TO OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD. THEY KNOW TO PRAY FOR THE ENEMIES. THEY KNOW TO BLESS THOSE WHO PERSECUTE THEM. THEY WALK IN THE VICTORIA’S POWER OF JESUS CHRIST.

      they don’t whine like wicked leftist in America go into the streets and throw tantrums and burnt other people’s property and steal from others. They don’t justify hurting others. The wicked left in America have produced a crop of evildoers.

      Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour!!
      1 Peter 5:8

      The wicked left have been using mail in voting to steal elections for years.
      https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/democrat_operative_spills_the_beans_on_how_democrats_steal_elections_through_mailin_voting.html

      WHEN THE DAY OF EVIL COMES STAND. THEN STAND AGAIN. FOR WE WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD BUT WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES. *Spiritual warfare* Ephesians 6

      turn to Jesus Christ. Getting some serious prayer. Shine a light on the darkness throughout the land. Preach the word in season and out of season. Make the living God cause the word of Truth to burn away the lies of the wicked left into ashes. May the Almighty God bring the wicked left plans to nought.

      WE NEED TO HUMBLE OURSELVES IN THE EYES OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD. FOR BLESSINGS AND PROTECTION.

      SUBMIT TO GOD AND THE DEVIL WILL FLEE.

      Pray! Pray! Pray!!

      JesUSAves 🙏🏿♥️✝️🙌🏽🕊️🌞🇺🇸

    4. Reparations for all minorities born and raised in underprivileged communities, the Board of Education set up a rigged game to pick winners and losers!

  5. Racism is an INTERNATIONAL ISSUE. Racism is generally taught, and the intolerance and hate is handed down through Family’s.

    1. @Felicia Dixon Intense education and reprogramming. Up until now most children spend most of their days in School.
      We Need to teach out children from a very early age that racism, intolerance, and prejudice is NOT acceptable.
      We need to spend more time watching and listening to what goes on in the schoolyards in order to begin to bring this issue under control. We also need to improve our disciplinary action when we come across blatant abuses. What a pity that virtually every measure that Barack Obama took to bring racial equality front and center was Erased by Donald Trumps disgusting stance.

    2. @Varekai Ascendant Preach. But we need to add a greater social reform because unfortunately racism will just follow from Homelife, to school life, but I still agree. The more we do in schools the more it will mitigate that.

    3. @Felicia Dixon The Home has always been the first classroom. We need a Hell of a LOT More Teachers that are capable of getting across to these children who’s parents have indoctrinated them into this Evil back on the correct path. God didn’t create boundaries, WE DID.
      We Need to do More to end this irrational behaviour and teach our children that ANY bias or favouritism is unacceptable.

    4. Varekai Ascendant perfect I agree. Well said. And thank you for responding so kindly. We need more people like you in this world.

    1. Yeah, it is systemic and always has been. To be honest though the south is worse in general but the system was set up to make it hard for black people to succeed. For about 90 % of the time people of African decent have been here we have either been enslaved or living under Jim Crow laws. It is amazing that there are people with multiple degrees, black billionaires and millionaires.

    2. real american , I’ll give you 2 examples. Just names and you can review their actions.Patrisse Cullors and Al sharpton. They need racism to extract money and power from weak minded people like you

  6. CNN is owned and operated by WarnerMedia, which has significant financial and institutional ties to the CCP. In June 2013, WarnerMedia announced it had forged a partnership with a Chinese investment fund to the tune of $50 million. The funding would directly invest in the China Media Capital (CMC), a media company with oversight from the CCP, meaning it is subject to censorship and other demands to push Chinese propaganda.

    WarnerMedia considers China a “partner” in their economic and cinematic ventures.

    “Increasing our global presence is one of Time Warner’s strategic priorities and China is one of the most attractive territories in which we operate, but it’s complex. This alliance will give all our businesses a savvy and accomplished partner,” said WarnerMedia Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes.

    According to Raleigh, when American companies work with organizations such as CMC, they are subject to China’s use of its laws to advance its global objectives, including their cyber security law. This includes forced technology transfers, leaving companies and data subject to random searches from the CCP. Companies are also forced to build data centers in China, where the CCP can observe the data directly. All of this poses a national security risk for the United States.

    CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker also has a connection with China. According to CNN, Zucker works internally with Turner Sports and is responsible for programming acquisitions, production, marketing, league relations, and sports advertisement sales. Turner Sports works directly with the NBA to broadcast games in China, meaning Zucker has ample business in the Middle Kingdom, where American businessmen seek to keep the CCP happy so the money keeps rolling.

    A Fox News “Tucker Carlson Tonight” clip shows CNN singing praise for China over the coronavirus pandemic. In the clip, CNN anchors praise China for sending ventilators and masks to Europe while blaming the Trump administration for alleged poor leadership over the pandemic — the pandemic China allowed to spread worldwide.

    Last week, CNN published a story praising China’s “model of control.” The Federalist’s Kylee Zempel writes that CNN is “parroting Chinese media’s duplicitous claims that the country sufficiently control of the virus, while downplaying the CCP’s role in spreading COVID-19 to the rest of the world.”

    1. @Cropper Copper Ok, Cropper, I’ll address each of your check marks. And in doing so I am offering you a lot of my time.

      1. Do I think they should be murdered in the streets? No. However you do seem to assume that all of this is happening in earnest. Having lived in the west coast for nearly 20 years I do know factually that what many of these people want is subversion. That is, to destroy the United States, not honest attempts at “reform” of any kind even if their gripes were true in the capacity that they state. This edges them ever closer to being “enemy combatants” regardless of their citizenship.

      2. Should we descriminate against them? I’m not sure what you are suggesting here. You have a lot of young white people wrapped up in this many of whom are not even old enough to have true conviction. So, I’m not sure that you mean descriminating against people based on race or preposed political belief. The former would not be justifiable but the latter would be.

      3. Impression them? Did you mean imprision them. Again, I’m not sure what you meant to say. However if you did mean imprision them my answer is that they should be held accountable for the crimes they are committing. Not without due process of course. “Protesting” under the first amendment does not offer carte blanche to those who express their rage through destruction and chaos and looting and so forth.

      4. Profile them? It depends on how far certain individuals take this. Many of these people will see the error of their ways later in life. However, many are committed to this subversion for a lifetime. We should know their names if they show they are willing to take it too far.

      5. Ignore their struggle and pain? No one is ignoring anyone’s struggle and pain. Again, their are many people out there who are co-opting this cause. It is not an honest “movement”. Where is the struggle and pain of the white 20 somethings out there spitting vitrol at the everyday citizen that does not share their view. In addition, if you view the BLM website they make it very clear that their goal is subversion. Not all black citizens are on board with that.

      6. Beat them? They will get beaten as much as they beat others.

      7. Treat them less than human? Refer to point number 6.

      8. Your last point. If you teach children to fear those who are supposed to be protecting them then that is what will happen. On this point you really reveal the fact that you are not thinking critically about the reality of what is going on.

      I think that it clear that it is you who should be listening Cropper.

    2. @Roberticus Jesus is on call 24/7. call out to Jesus Christ for salvation. Call out to Jesus Christ for peace. Call out to Jesus Christ for Joy. Call out to Jesus Christ for deliverance.

      JesUSAves 🙏🏿♥️✝️🙌🏽🕊️🌞🇺🇸

    3. @Cropper Copper These are not protests. These are riots. They are not protesting racism, they are destroying their own communities. As for systemic racism, whatever that means, these riots are in cities that have been run by Democrats for decades. So, if there is systemic racism, it has been put in place by Democrats.

    4. Former NFL player Jack Brewer’s 2020 Republican National Convention Speech | FULL
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWax4cTeEx0
      Herschel Walker at GOP convention: Trump is not a racist
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLzg6iGhzVY
      What The Left Won’t Tell You About The Plight Of Black People And The Myth Of Systemic Racism
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M5gWnuqkVI
      The historic truth of the democrat and republican parties:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_a7dQXilCo
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OURy5WFp0zk
      #WalkAway
      #BLEXIT

    1. they have an agenda that has nothing to do with truth. They only will cover certain incidents. That cater to keeping willfully ignorant people angry and easily triggered. They have an agenda will they will only report on criminals being killed or hurt. they don’t talk about the wicked people’s background that led them to be in a situation where they were unfortunately killed or hurt by a copy more people of color being hurt by their own people than cops have hurt them. CNN is Satan’s Network. The father of lies Who comes to kill steal and destroy

      Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour!!
      1 Peter 5:8

      The wicked left have been using mail in voting to steal elections for years.
      https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/democrat_operative_spills_the_beans_on_how_democrats_steal_elections_through_mailin_voting.html

      WHEN THE DAY OF EVIL COMES STAND. THEN STAND AGAIN. FOR WE WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD BUT WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES. *Spiritual warfare* Ephesians 6

      turn to Jesus Christ. Getting some serious prayer. Shine a light on the darkness throughout the land. Preach the word in season and out of season. Make the living God cause the word of Truth to burn away the lies of the wicked left into ashes. May the Almighty God bring the wicked left plans to nought.

      WE NEED TO HUMBLE OURSELVES IN THE EYES OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD. FOR BLESSINGS AND PROTECTION.

      SUBMIT TO GOD AND THE DEVIL WILL FLEE.

      Pray! Pray! Pray!!

      JesUSAves 🙏🏿♥️✝️🙌🏽🕊️🌞🇺🇸

  7. She only speaks of racism in terms of people’s feelings toward blacks but, what about the racism that exists amongst all races, within races and cultures..
    When it speaks in one direction, it is not educated but, agenda driven..especially when it’s an election year..

    1. Shane Lambert Shane, I think you sound ignorant. You must be blind to American history and how it affects the present. Wake up, Shane…there’s a lot of inequality and intolerance in the country, always has been. Sound familiar? Stay blind and ignorant, or learn some history and learn to think for yourself. Thanks.

    2. You do not understand what systemic racism means. It affects the black community through historically developed structures in society and not whites, so it can only go in one direction have the ancestors of white people been enslaved and exploited?
      Oh I forgot the USA also enslaved and exploited Asians, mainly Chinese for their railroad.
      The USA should come up with a plan how to compensate the descendants of the former slaves and for the descendent of those suffering from segregation.

    3. @R C Jacob Blake has a warrant for a sexual assault that he committed on a woman back in May. He also stole her debit card. George Floyd was a compulsive law breaker with a rap sheet longer than his arm. Trayvon Martin was wearing obscuring clothing while “walking” in a neighborhood that was neither on his way to or from home. Let’s get back to Jacob. The black neighbors called the police on him. Not white people. He resisted arrest several times even after he was tazed. He told cops he had a weapon (a knife). He walked away from cops and tried to drive away in a car loaded with his children. His actions caused his paralysis. Also, a white fireman just rescued a black woman from a burning building. How come black people aren’t out on the streets rejoicing that a black woman was saved? They won’t because they don’t really care about black lives either. It’s all about getting more rights and making it look like black people are disparaged against. LMFAO. The democrats should know that people are getting BLM fatigue. It’s like a rerun on tv. After a while – you stop thinking about it.

    4. That’s because racism was invented right in the U.S. and has always been intended to hinder African American integration into society for the purposes of keeping them in a place of poverty so that wealthy parties could continue to exploit them as cheap labor class. The rest of the world has simply tried to adopt the same model for the purposes of appearing more American like. This is why in countries that have no history of slavery ridicule and discriminate against blacks for them it’s blind hatred. Racism has always been perpetuated by the wealthy in this country. The militias, white supremacist, KKK, etc; are normally poor white movements while policy is controlled by the rich.

    5. @manb4war FYI Black People were slave traders and some even owned black slaves. Just thought you might want to get your racist views more aligned with reality.

  8. Moving from the DEEP SOUTH (Louisiana) to Wisconsin in 2005, I experienced a racism that I NEVER had prior to living up north!

    1. Shadowess rascim or discrimination? Get that part straight. One race if you look around clown. It’s called class warfare from the get go! Wtfu🐑

    2. @Shadowess in my experience blacks are eternally racist.

      Black only dating sites, black only awards shows, FUBU, black owned business listings. “Black dollars”

      Its everywhere

    1. @Joe He did not allow himself to be controlled by the mainstream in his early years quiet as its kept he was the inspiration for the Marvel Comics character MAGNETO.The mainstream considered him a so-call troublemaker because he was not afraid to call out anyone that did not help black America.

    2. @Dwight Love That is complete bullshit. Republicans are still for a republic.. and democrats are still for democracy. That means republicans are still for individual rights, and democrats are still for rights based on group-identity (if you’re black, you vote for this. If you’re gay, you vote for this).

      Have you not noticed that the left’s whole strategy is based on identity politics? Have you not noticed that republicans are for treating everyone the same? They don’t believe in reparations or affirmative action.. cuz it’s fucking racist and all.

      Whenever anyone simply points out what it means to be republican, idiots like you should “No they flipped! Republicans are the racists now!” You are a completely brainwashed NPC if you think that democrats are now for individual rights and republicans are for group rights.

  9. When are we are going to start talking about HUMAN BEENS and stop talking about RAZES. That would be the end of the racism.

    1. Never be and end to racism as long as sum has it better than others no matter how long and hard they worked for it

    2. Amen amen preach it!! Media wants us to be separated and hate but we love each other in spit of the media’s lies!!

    3. @SPCKING87 sounds like you need to come to my church we’re white and black people love on each other and are part of each other’s families and themselves have become a family!!

    4. @Clay Osborne There will always be people on this planet who have something a little better than someone else. Many black folks have it better in the eyes of this world than I do as so should they sell all of their riches and give it to the white folks? No they worked for it so it’s theirs!

  10. So much racism…most BLM protesters are White.
    This is what happens when the demand for racism far exceeds the supply.

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