Adrianna Tan1d ago

This country is so big. I mean, I think I knew it intellectually but I don’t think I really understood it until I spent the last few days traveling through it by train. I come from a country that’s so small, you get two other countries’ cellular signal if you stand at your window.

In four days, I’ve been in three different time zones. I’m now three hours ahead of San Francisco, here in Atlanta.

I’m in the south for the first time. It might as well be a completely different country. I’ll be checking out all the museums and monuments relating to civil rights while I’m here. This place was an important place in that struggle.

http://atlantacivilrights.com/civilrights/essay_detail.asp?phase=1

Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement

Show threadAdrianna Tan1d ago

When the train was passing through Arizona, they said Navajo Nation is larger than Vermont and Massachusetts put together. It kind of broke my brain.

I’ve found that when I try to spend more time learning about Black and Native history and culture, I get a much truer sense of the U.S. today, particularly how many of today’s problems seem to be continuations of old time racism and Civil War divisions.

Show threadAdrianna Tan1d ago

Even in California, whenever someone says ‘this neighborhood is nice’ or ‘this town is safe’, I always look up redlining. Almost always, the nice, safe places are places where Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native and other people were not allowed to buy homes. This is recent history.

I am so allergic to anyone who says words like nice and safe.

Learning about redlining helps me see why

‘Safe’ is almost always a perfect match for the places where non-white people were banned from living

https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/

Mapping Inequality

Redlining in New Deal America

Show threadKeira (She/Her)1d ago

@skinnylatte and the opposite too, I found. I've spent a lot of time in the US, on the cheap couch surfing and using airbnb when it was a house share situation, and staying in cheap hotels.

Reviews by Americans that said some area was "sketchy" always turned out to just mean "Black".

Show threadKeira (She/Her)
@skinnylatte and also, safe for whom?
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Show threadKevin Karhan 1d ago

@keira_reckons @skinnylatte exactly!

I feel way safer in a "migrant area" like #Keupstraße than say a "rich white people ghetto" like #Hahnwald, where everyone looks at you with disgust because you drive a 2007 Opel Corsa D and not a Porsche or Mercedes (AM)G…

I prefer the diverse and queer areas over the suburban hellscapes that look like the set location for " #Karen "…

KAREN | Official Trailer 2021 | Rotten Film

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Show threadLisPi23h ago
@keira_reckons @skinnylatte What I've found is that going by crime rates (and specific crimes against the strangers & such) most cities are fairly homogenous outside of having specific attractions or causes for shenanigans.

Of course crime rate is not a full view because it doesn't account for police aggression which is also a problem (it's just not counted because of the fundamental hypocrisy behind the definition of crime).