Racism in America - Beyond the Scenes | The Daily Show

I never get enough of Dulcé Sloan's wisdom!!!!! No matter how many times I see her comments on Karens, it is never enough; always perfectly stated!!!

About "green books": when I was a kid in the 70's, my family would take summer road trips to Texas and Indiana to visit extended family. My grandmother would always bring a cooler full of food and drinks and we'd stop at rest stops along the way to eat. As a kid, I LOVED this about road trips. As I got older and thought about it, I figured this was to save money on food, by bringing home-prepped food instead of eating at restaurants. As I got even older and heard about "green books", and knowing that my grandparents took road trips in their younger days, circa 1940's and 50's, then I had new thoughts on why Grandma always brought food instead of stopping at restaurants. Maybe it was much safer to bring your own food than risk going to a restaurant where you might not be welcome as a black person. It was probably a bit of both... saving money and saving the family from a potential bad experience. Addendum: Upon further thought, I called my mom and asked her experience on my grandparents trips when she was my age. She said neither of my grandparents talked to her about green books. My mother said that she didn't even know about green books until about 10 years ago. She said it's possible that her parents decided to keep silent about it or it may have been that even they didn't know about green books since their use was more prevalent on the East Coast and the South and not so much in California where they lived at the time. My mom did, however, state that they usually drove at night so as not to be as visible to white cops who might decide to pull them over if seeing them in day time. Even I remember traveling at night on road trips when I was a kid. Mom also said that Grandpa always did the driving and never allowed my Grandma to drive even though she was a better driver than he. After getting to their destination in the morning, Grandpa would be dead tired and sleep all day. Whenever getting gas, he had to go to the back door of the gas station to pay. All this probably contributed to him forswearing road trips when he got elderly; having to endure the humiliation of having to enter buildings through the back door and having to worry about being pulled over, I'm sure, likely made travel not so enjoyable. His excuse for not traveling was that someone had to stay home and feed the dog. They're both passed on so I can't corroborate any of this to be certain. As an adult, I think nothing of getting on the road and driving all hours of the day, wherever my fancy takes me. I don't have to enter buildings through the back door and can stay in whatever hotel I please... at least so far. I'm beginning to wonder these days if this country might be slowly reverting to those days when my grandparents had to take extra care whenever they hit the road.

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I'm an old white guy, more than likely part of the problem..I very much appreciate this discussion. Thx

The asbestos analogy is brilliant!

That poor 7 year old! He knew how f up his dad was. Gives me hope tho for future.

That kid brought tears to my eyes!!

What do you call someone who's the opposite of a Karen? A decent human being.

12:47 ‘Roll that racism!’ 😅gotta love Roy Wood Jr

That Josh dude is giving me strong Michael Jackson "blame it on the boogie" era vibes....