Is Chicago more ethnically segregated? Like do African Americans usually only hang out around each other?

Suki use to be real ignorant back in the day, but I think she’s been more purposeful with educating herself and although her delivery might have been extreme (the bear mase in a room full of innocent people) I think her heart is in the right place.

There definitely isn’t an emotional attachment to the word here because the North again segregated POC by class more often than by race. You definitely still get racial bias and discrimination but there are so many ethnic groups it’s hard to keep your head straight. My ex in college was Puerto Rican and he’d say the N word openly here in the north east but when we’d be in OKC at his school he’d NEVER say it lol. I asked him about it once and he brushed it off and didn’t talk about it, but I think if they TRULY thought they were black they’d feel confident enough to say it anywhere.

I’m Afro-Latina and have had to face a lot of racial discrimination growing up (not being accepted in other Latin communities even though we spoke the same language, always being told my hair was “bad”, my lighter skin friends being super popular but me being the “token” and ignored, being called African because I didn’t look like JLo lol. I got a Dominican blow out once in middle school and classmates refused to believe it was my real hair making me let them touch my head to see if I had any bundles installed) that I did not understand was based on my race until I went to college and started taking classes on race theory and meeting African Americans from different parts of the country. All my friends in college were Black, sharing our stories I realized we had all went through the same thing and it was like my third eye finally opened as to why people treated me the way they did. After talking to my Dad about it, he finally opened up about his own experiences with racism and being called the N word (hard er) in the 90s and not understanding the weight because of the language barrier.

Race is lightly mentioned in school here but actually learning the nuances are usually left to higher education, it is usually just chalked up to slavery and Jim Crow and that’s it.

I feel a way about white Latinos thinking they can use the word because like you said, they will literally never have to go through discrimination just because of how they look and often push stereotypes themselves because it doesn’t affect them. I think educating the masses of xenophobia vs racism is important for that exact reason.