The South and Black Privileges

      Just for the blog post I am going to talk about how these discussed Black rights are viewed and experienced in the south. Being from Atlanta, Georgia having moved there since I was 10, I have grown up most of my life there and a good portion of my friends, teachers, bus drivers, neighbors, etc. have been african american. Now do these people feel the oppression of the caucasian population? Yes, but very rarely and the two personal experiences I have had was from middle school a teacher made a racist comment, and the police being vocal over someones race. Speaking of police, they are a different story, the only place I feel african americans are truly under the black privileges field is with police. Now while some police officers are colored as well, they are majority in downtown while the suburbs of atlanta remain a solid 75% caucasian task force.
      It was strange coming from a majority black city (Atlanta) to Chicago where fellow students have told me that where they came from there are still all white neighborhoods where black people don't attend the schools there or even come in to the town really. While this isn't forced there is still a major sensation of segregation in these areas and black rights can definitely be felt because of how distant the two races are. Odd to think that the South is far more integrated with the black culture now than the north; where feelings of black oppression of rights still feel prevalent.