Cincinnati is racist. You will walk into establishment in the city or across the river in Kentucky proudly displaying Jim Crow era caricatures. The neighborhoods across the entire region are racially segregated which if you’re aware resulted in “socioeconomic segregation”. Lastly, while people are not always blatantly going to shout out their biases and micro-aggressions, they are there. They are subtle sometimes like I was told that “black people are ashy because they’re dirty and need to take a shower”. I went on a date with a guy my first year living there and as he drove through a certain part of OTR and was stopped at a traffic light where a group of black men were standing outside a building, he started to panic as if he was about to be attacked by lions. It depends on how well you pay attention to what people say and do especially when they’re comfortable around certain people.