A woman from Prince George's County, Maryland, details her spiritual awakening two years ago that exposed generational hatred toward white people inherited from her mother's Jim Crow upbringing. After moving to conservative South Carolina, she witnessed compassionate teachers and superior educational progress for her children compared to Maryland's "horrible" system. While debating whether her past feelings were true racism or merely prejudice born of isolation, the discussion concludes that her willingness to accept new information proves she was never truly racist, but rather corrected deep-seated biases through direct experience. [Automatically generated summary]
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Generational Hatred Revealed00:03:28
So this black woman right here said she used to be racist until she moved into a red state.
Yeah, some of the nicest people on this planet are white people in red states, especially in the south.
Check out what she got to say.
Yeah.
Two years ago.
Two years ago, I was racist.
I hated white people.
I didn't think I hated white people.
Let me be real.
I didn't think I did until the Lord checked my heart and he said to me, you know, you're racist, right?
And I said, nah, you can't be telling me that I ain't racist.
Like, black people can't be racist, right?
And he revealed to me the hatred I have in my heart was passed down from a generational teaching that was taught through family and whatnot.
Now, when that was revealed to me, that's when my family and I, we moved down south to South Carolina.
I'm originally from Maryland.
I'm from PG County.
So in that area, it's predominantly black.
That's all you see is just, you know, black, everything, just black richness, the melanin, everything.
That's all you see.
Beautiful representation in the area.
That's all I knew, literally, until I moved away.
And I didn't think I had hatred towards whites until I was around whites down south.
I didn't know how to feel about them.
I didn't know how to necessarily act around them.
Now, mind you, I have worked with white people before.
I have, but I still had my mixed views about them due to what I was taught.
And that's just that.
I know exactly what she's talking about.
Like, when we were kids, my mama used to put us in front of all this, all this content that made us dislike white people.
Remember, we was watching Roots?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And did our mother tell us all these horrible stories when she was growing up in the South?
She grew up through Jib Crow, though.
Yeah, she went through that.
Mama was born in the 1940s, right?
So my mama seen some stuff.
Yeah.
Right?
And so I totally understand where this woman's coming from.
But here's what made me look at white people differently.
When I brought my children to school down south in South Carolina, and the city that we live in is very conservative based.
So it's not just a Republican state.
It's also conservative based too.
And the way how those teachers listened to me when I addressed my concerns about my children and their education and everything, it blew my mind how understanding they was very compassionate.
I remember them even apologizing to me for what I went through with PG County schools because Prince George's County schools, for anyone that lives there, they know it is horrible.
Horrible.
It is so bad.
I mean, the system is beyond messed up.
Like, it's just bad.
So when they saw the issues that my kids have, they placed them in developments that they need to be in school.
And when I tell you, two years later, my children are doing so well.
Finding Grace in Red States00:04:58
They have progressed so fast and it's such a blessing to me.
And remember, I was telling my sister, I said, I wish kids in PG County, I wish that they can experience this.
I was like, every kid in Prince George's County should experience what my kids are experiencing down here in South Carolina.
And it grieved me.
I said, it's not fair that these policies that they have in place in Maryland and all the people do is vote blue in Maryland because that's all we know.
But moving away from a blue state to a red state, it gave me an awakening that I needed to have.
And like, honestly, when the Lord revealed my heart, as far as like how I felt about people who are not my race, I had to repent, of course.
It gave me a sense of grief for myself on the things that I missed out on due to the racism that I had in my heart about whites.
But now, fast forward, I welcome everyone with such love and respect.
I do.
I really do.
And what's crazy is the perspective that we have is because we grew up in a poor white neighborhood.
We lived in all kinds of neighborhoods, but we also lived in a poor white neighborhood, a white neighborhood.
Poor has nothing to do with it.
We lived among white people.
A lot of black people, and she points that out, black people who live only among blacks and that's their only experience in life.
You're going to be racist because black people are racist.
Well, the thing is this, Keith, when you're black and you're looking at black TV shows, all your friends are black.
Your movies are black.
Your music's black.
All you know is black.
They figure you that white people are racist.
Yeah.
Of course, when you become, if you're a black person and you only accustomed to being around black people, when you get around white people, you're going to have this anxiety.
I call it racial anxiety.
We had it when we transferred from one school to another school, and that school that we transferred to was all white people.
Yeah.
And that school was so much better.
I didn't get bullied.
I didn't get called gay or anything.
What's it got to do with it?
Yeah, they always said we had pretty eyes and we was merely vanilla.
We were gay looking.
So they called us Prince too.
Yeah.
But her moving to a conservative area, predominantly white, that's the best thing that can ever happen to a black liberal or black progressive.
The way how red states with conservative based cities, because I know every red state doesn't have conservative based cities, there are red states that have Democrat cities.
I'm not talking about them.
I'm talking about red states with conservative city base, like all red all around.
I noticed how the local businesses invest in the schools.
I noticed how the teachers are happy to teach the children.
I noticed how these school classrooms are not overpopulated.
I noticed that these teachers are caring, they're loving.
They make you feel involved.
They make you know that they basically let you know that you are not alone.
Like we are a team.
And they don't dismiss your feelings.
They don't gaslight you.
They don't do any of that.
Like you actually feel like an actual human being being around these people.
And I'm talking about all kinds of people, black, white, Hispanic, there's all kinds of people that live down here where I live at.
But I want kids to experience the same things that my kids are experiencing in my hometown.
I don't know how it could be done because again, Maryland has been blue for decades.
I mean, decades.
It's been blue since I was a baby.
And it was blue before then.
I don't even think if Maryland was ever red before.
I can't even recall, but I believe every kid should experience that type of level of education.
I believe that every parent should be able to have the opportunity, you know, the option of the child going to a different school, like school choice.
I believe that kids should just be able to experience those things.
So I don't know if there's a way for Maryland to turn red.
Oh, there ain't no way in hell.
That'll never happen.
All them sub-Saharans up there, ain't no way in hell.
And you know what?
Your experience in a red state in that red area that's predominantly conservative or Republican, the reason why you're having such a pleasant experience is because you're a good person and your kids is open to learning.
Y'all was open to listening and adhere to new information.
Yeah.
You could take a lot of those people from Maryland and put them down now.
Openness to New Information00:00:53
Soon as they feel like they've been disrespected or you criticize them in any kind of way, they're going to scream racism.
You're talking to me that way because I'm black.
You did that to my son because he's black.
You're open to new information.
So it's been an eye-opening experience for you.
And I seriously doubt you was actually racist.
You had a prejudice against white people.
You wasn't racist.
But now, since you had lived around whites, senior schools were whites, now you know those prejudices, they were stupid.
Yeah.
You know?
But you was never really racist.
Because a racist would have never moved to South Carolina.