You guys don't get it: the rust belt working class want to be TOLD, not reasoned with

[Buckeye_Democrat]

17. There isn't much of a sense of "community" anymore.

I don't think segregation has helped matters. I'm not talking about forced segregation like what happened in the South, but the type that happened around here (whether it's considered "natural" or something else).

Almost all white people that I've met LIKE their African American co-workers, even among the ones who seem more racist than normal. There's just a few of them who get caught up in media coverage of riots and the like. I likewise suspect that some AA's get caught up in media coverage despite how they sometimes live in nice suburbs and might be hard-pressed to offer personal examples of bad encounters with cops and the like. I told a black co-worker about a bad cop experience in my life, but he didn't have any similar experiences to share with me. Maybe he just didn't feel like mentioning it, though?

To be honest, I'm sometimes amazed that our large civilization works as well as it does considering how our ancestors existed so long in Africa (and later elsewhere) in very, very small communities. It's kind of ingrained in us, I think.