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Plans for Saudi Arabia’s linear city cut from 170km to 2.4km
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Well yeah, he wasn’t white.
Honestly, that is not a big Terre Haute problem today compared to a lot of Indiana. While it is still by far majority white, there is a sizable black population compared to a lot of other Indiana towns this size and there's no "black part of town," it's thoroughly integrated. As far as Kashoggi is concerned, there also is a large enough local Muslim population to support a mosque. ISU is also a progressive school despite being in Indiana they are very big on multiculturalism. I don't know what the Muslim population of the school is, but enough that you would notice and the school does have public celebrations of holidays like Eid, so it was actually surprising.
Now, I admit that was not always the case. In fact, a little over a century ago, Terre Haute was the site of an absolutely horrific lynching of a black man. And, of course, since this is Indiana, there is not a total lack of racism. But compared to other parts of the state I've been to, it's doing relatively well on that front.
I was thinking more of the systemic racism that’s supposedly not a thing in America depending on how far in the sand one’s head is buried. Definitely happy to know sentiments are improving locally, though.
Oh there's definitely that everywhere, for sure. I just was surprised it wasn't a big deal at least at ISU, but it wasn't. I know because I not only worked there at the time, but in the marketing department taking photos and videos of ISU events of pretty much any sort and no one in my department was sent to document anything.