WTF is wrong with you, Arkansas?

[closetohumping 17287]

I have a friend stationed in an AFB in Arkansas.  He's half black, or  bleck if you're from South Africa or Lethal Weapon2.  Anyways, during onboarding, he was told to "stay in the city area and avoid sundown towns."  Those can't possibly still exist right?

[Stella Link 534]

It's Arkansas.  

And they do exist....even in Texas...apparently there's 11 of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sundown_towns_in_Texas

https://greenbookglobal.com/travel-the-world/11-sundown-towns-in-texas/

 

 

[CoTex 1157]

54 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

I have a friend stationed in an AFB in Arkansas.  He's half black, or  bleck if you're from South Africa or Lethal Weapon2.  Anyways, during onboarding, he was told to "stay in the city area and avoid sundown towns."  Those can't possibly still exist right?

No, people are free from harassment and crime on every corner in America, no matter their skin color.  It’s a colorblind Utopia.

 

[TwiceHorn 30834]

The only AFB in AR is fewer than 20 miles from Little Rock and is part of the NLR/Conway MSA.  I don't' doubt that there are sundown towns in Arkansas, but that doesn't seem to be a particularly likely location, or any place particularly close.

More likely areas are in NW AR and southern parts.

Which is not to say that your bud won't encounter blatant racism, it's just that most urban/suburban areas in Arkansas, even if small, have way too many blacks to be sundown towns.  Lot like East Texas in that respect.

[idigTexas 2257]

The thread title alone was sufficient.  There was no need to add any context with a post.  

[Beau Vine 53653]

24 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

The only AFB in AR is fewer than 20 miles from Little Rock and is part of the NLR/Conway MSA.  I don't' doubt that there are sundown towns in Arkansas, but that doesn't seem to be a particularly likely location, or any place particularly close.

[YGIFS 19445]

This thread is making white children feel bad about themselves.  I suggest we remove it or burn it. 

Edited June 9 by YGIFS

[Blotto 23245]

8 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

This thread is making white children feel bad about themselves.  I suggest we remove it or burn it. 

Or we can just slather it in lard and let Huckabeef eat it

[DalTxHornFan 3070]

Austin is going to become a sundown town?

https://austinfreepress.org/sundown-home-town/

Edited June 9 by DalTxHornFan

[RPM 26090]

Surprised that Bowie barely made the list as "suspected". I can take you to the Hanging Tree.

[closetohumping 17287]

1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

The only AFB in AR is fewer than 20 miles from Little Rock and is part of the NLR/Conway MSA.  I don't' doubt that there are sundown towns in Arkansas, but that doesn't seem to be a particularly likely location, or any place particularly close.

More likely areas are in NW AR and southern parts.

Which is not to say that your bud won't encounter blatant racism, it's just that most urban/suburban areas in Arkansas, even if small, have way too many blacks to be sundown towns.  Lot like East Texas in that respect.

I did my boot camp in South Carolina.  Close to graduation time, our drill sergeant said “go out and have a good time on grad night. You’ve earned it.  To our black soldiers, don’t venture too far from the city”. 

[YGIFS 19445]

What year was that out of curiosity?  

[Covri 6149]

1 hour ago, Stella Link said:

It's Arkansas.  

And they do exist....even in Texas...apparently there's 11 of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sundown_towns_in_Texas

https://greenbookglobal.com/travel-the-world/11-sundown-towns-in-texas/

 

 

Since the topic was Arkansas, here’s their list:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sundown_towns_in_Arkansas

[closetohumping 17287]

1 hour ago, Stella Link said:

It's Arkansas.  

And they do exist....even in Texas...apparently there's 11 of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sundown_towns_in_Texas

https://greenbookglobal.com/travel-the-world/11-sundown-towns-in-texas/

 

 

Appreciate the links.  Fascinating.   A few of the “suspected towns” are a reach though.  For example port neches grove is definitely not a sundown town

[Evil Bill Obrien 2914]

1 hour ago, Stella Link said:

It's Arkansas.  

And they do exist....even in Texas...apparently there's 11 of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sundown_towns_in_Texas

https://greenbookglobal.com/travel-the-world/11-sundown-towns-in-texas/

 

 

It wasn't all that long ago that I first hand saw a sign outside a business in "Downtown" Livingston Texas that said "colored entrance in back" so definitely believe at least some of these still exist, deep east Texas especially. 

[YGIFS 19445]

This thread is bullshit.  There's no systemic racism in America anymore.  Just municipal racism.  Totally different.  

[closetohumping 17287]

38 minutes ago, Covri said:

Since the topic was Arkansas, here’s their list:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sundown_towns_in_Arkansas

I actually met a guy from Horatio, which is on the list.  Confirmed sundown town.  At least in 2004

[bolverk 29037]

38 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

Appreciate the links.  Fascinating.   A few of the “suspected towns” are a reach though.  For example port neches grove is definitely not a sundown town

Yeah, the suspected list is more than a little sus. Lots of the communities/counties listed are just rural places in West and South Texas that never really had much of a large Black population historically because they didn't have large industries that would've attracted African Americans during the Great Migration era.

[bolverk 29037]

55 minutes ago, Covri said:

Since the topic was Arkansas, here’s their list:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sundown_towns_in_Arkansas

Harrison checks out. Y'all might recall a certain YouTube video that was filmed there a few years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison,_Arkansas

[ocugolf 1199]

28 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Harrison checks out. Y'all might recall a certain YouTube video that was filmed there a few years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison,_Arkansas

That place is like walking into 1958.