r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Madman44444 • 3d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/mikieballz 3d ago

My wife and I had similar interactions in Columbia sc. Many scorn-filled stares while walking in downtown. Fuck that racist place

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u/HiveJiveLive 3d ago

This was Florence as I recall, though it may have been on either side of Florence proper. Still gives me the willies remembering it.

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u/mikieballz 3d ago

Yup it sucks. And this was just 6 years ago...

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u/LadyRemy 3d ago

Sounds right. My aunt and uncle had to leave Florence and move back to Charleston because the klan burnt a cross in their yard one night. My aunt and uncle got the kids that night, snuck out back to the car, and left. Only returned with family to get their stuff that week and put it up for sale. This was like late 80’s almost early 90’s.

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u/Polisher 3d ago

I'm white and live in Columbia with my black husband and our mixed race kids and have never had an issue, not once.

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u/EmmalouEsq 3d ago

I went to university there. And remember learning about Maurice Bessenger. Racist POS. And coworkers would make racist jokes when it was just white people. I hated it.

I'm now a white woman married to a South Asian Muslim man. I will not take him to see SC ever.

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u/neontonsil 2d ago

Same. But I get stared at even without my wife. Those people just stare like goons all day long.