sgt.null wrote:The systemic racism in law enforcement that did exist was set up by Democrats. The south has moved away from that, to the dismay of the DNC.
I've personally met a correctional officer who works for a prison system in my state. He complained to me about those "fucking n---rs" in the prisons.
Of course, that's not proof of widespread racism among southern law enforcement officers (active LEO), but from my experience it definitely exists. Where I come from, Brazil nuts are called "n----r toes" and people say "well their lives don't matter here" in reference to BLM. Take a place with such ingrained racism, and of course anyone working as a LEO in this community is likely to have the same attitudes as the general population around them.
I'm different only because I was raised in TX, and racist attitudes weren't as prevalent as my birthplace. My parents did their best to not raise me to be a racist. When visiting family, my parents told my relatives not to say the N-word around me or talk about race. They hated it, but respected my parents' decision.
So maybe it is true that it isn't that much of a problem in Texas, but there are parts of the south that are straight up Jim Crow Era in their mentality and views of race.
Also your continued effort to associate the current Democratic Party with its past is laughable. The overwhelming majority of Democrats are anything but racist. Republicans, the party of Lincoln, have grown more accepting of it over time. However, I don't believe in the whole "they switched their ideologies"/Southern Strategy bullshit either.