Tampa is a city full of fakes in Central Florida. A place that tries to act progressive and on the move, but in reality is just a swamp once run by the KKK who segregated its African American population away from whites (read your history books about the lynchings, Morrisons, Lowry park, the white-only beaches across the bridge. Tampa is constantly holding its breath, praying you don't find out its truth. The truth is a bunch of future Confederates built the town next to a military fort, the town started out as a cotton port for cotton grown in the Eastern part of the County and Central Florida. When the slaves were set free and cotton went bust, they turned to citrus. Then these citrus barons, cattle kings and cotton broker's kids proceeded to bring Cubans to town to roll cigars, segregated them in a place called Ybor City and treated them like blacks along with the other "Latins" who also came for the cigar industry in the late 1800s. Then a few crackers partnered with some yanks to build ostentatious hotels and lay down railroads for rich Northerners to come visit. This all went bust, things stayed segregated and very Southern into the 1980s, but now the yankees, crackers and northerners are mixing like a soup with no name. Tampa tears down everything. Tampa has no idea who it is.
Tampa is gross.
by justme34 May 30, 2019