http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8krampus wrote:Maybe thats why I get that yucky vibe in the gut of my stomach when I see the stars and stripes on an SUV in the burbs
Only in Kentucky
Let's see:
1. I never said northerners weren't racist, we're talking about "Southern Heritage." Southerners' racism has been more open and vicious (or at least more widespread amongst the white populace) and the South is the last refuge of legal discrimination. Mississippi still has laws against inter-racial marriage in their Constitution. The Confederate flag is a symbol of racial hatred and nothing more. In my lifetime blacks were strung up in trees across the south and it wasn't all that long ago that a black kid was drug to death behind a pickup in Texas. I can't see one reason to be proud of Southern culture since an integral part of it is killing "niggers* that don't know their place," blowing up little black girls in churches, and refusing service to people based on their skin color.
Of course anywhere you find ignorant people you will find folks like these from New Jersey:
2. If you are white you benefit from slavery whether you just got off the boat or your great great great great was smoking herb with Thomas Jefferson. If you don't think so you should look into the wealth discrepency between races that exists to this day due solely to slavery and the segregation that followed. If you're white and your family owns property in this country realize that in most of the wonderful South blacks were pretty much barred either by law or by practice from accumulating wealth or education thereby advantaging the whites who either stole that wealth or denied it to the blacks. Wonderful Southerners like these:
*For you prissy p.c. bitches out there that can't stand to see this word, note that I am using it to indicate the thoughts of the kind of person (i.e. proud, white southerner) that would lynch a black kid for supposedly whistling at a white woman.
[size=75]You are as bad as Alan, and even he hits the mark sometimes. -charlie
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"Not all conservatives are stupid, but most stupid people are conservative." - John Stuart Mill[/size]
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Alan,
I agree with everything you wrote. The legacy of slavery is always with us, white and black. But you do a disservice to blacks by doling out pity via your great white guilt. Blacks don't want nor ask for pity, just treated as individual humans and accepted with all the trappings of black culture that they come with.
I don't think you are winning any friends in the black community by wringing your hands over historical injustices.
I agree with everything you wrote. The legacy of slavery is always with us, white and black. But you do a disservice to blacks by doling out pity via your great white guilt. Blacks don't want nor ask for pity, just treated as individual humans and accepted with all the trappings of black culture that they come with.
I don't think you are winning any friends in the black community by wringing your hands over historical injustices.
"It really is all good ! My thinking only occasionally calls it differently..."
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Normie
now THAT'S the Alan we miss..hates who he is, has white man's guilt oozing from his pores, is pissed because he didn't benefit from the land grab, and uses the N word with abandon. well done. you play the part well.
screw all you racist southerners. shame on you...shame on you.
screw all you racist southerners. shame on you...shame on you.
Positive vibes brah...positive vibes.
I really was going to walk away from this one but Goddamn you people are clueless.
Here's the thing, unless you are from the south, live in the South, aren't as fucking ridiculously reactionary and clueless as Alan, you have no credibility in making statements on what is the South and what is Southern culture. You can't learn how to ride a bike from reading a book.
It has as much if not more to do with Sweet Tea, BBQ and Burgoo, using terms of respect like Yes Ma'am and Yes Sir, not wearing a hat at the dinner table and opening doors for people as it does with race issues from decades ago.
Where did they intern Japanese people in WWII again? There were no race riots in Chicago in the last 100 yrs or even more recently in Watts or Detroit or even in Cincinnati in the last 20 yrs?
We patented the terms wetback and Beaner in the South, as well as Faggot. Issues of prejudice are not monopolized by us Southerners. I honestly think they may be even less of an issue here than other places these days, and despite my accent I do make it out of the village every so often.
Here's the thing, unless you are from the south, live in the South, aren't as fucking ridiculously reactionary and clueless as Alan, you have no credibility in making statements on what is the South and what is Southern culture. You can't learn how to ride a bike from reading a book.
It has as much if not more to do with Sweet Tea, BBQ and Burgoo, using terms of respect like Yes Ma'am and Yes Sir, not wearing a hat at the dinner table and opening doors for people as it does with race issues from decades ago.
Where did they intern Japanese people in WWII again? There were no race riots in Chicago in the last 100 yrs or even more recently in Watts or Detroit or even in Cincinnati in the last 20 yrs?
We patented the terms wetback and Beaner in the South, as well as Faggot. Issues of prejudice are not monopolized by us Southerners. I honestly think they may be even less of an issue here than other places these days, and despite my accent I do make it out of the village every so often.
Honestly, I was surprised at how openly racist most of the people I met were. My little sis disappointed me in that she actually has racist and prejudicial tendencies now and never had before (despite being raised in Kentucky).tomdarch wrote:Serioiusly, I'd be interested to hear what you thought.Having just returned from North America visiting my sis in Ontario, I have a newly refreshed perspective on culture and geography........
Because you saw a picture in a book and considered yourself an expert. You fool yourself and it may prove useful to go down to the local grocery store and buy yourself a fucking clue.tomdarch wrote:Hmmm... Why does the phrase "Southern hospitality" cause the image of a body hanging from a tree to pop to mind...
Charlie, I am not sure what you are getting angry about, no one is saying that southerners are bad people as a whole, in any group there is always going to be a few dick tards. I love me some sweet tea and BBQ as much as the next guy, but I don't think that some person from the country (PC version) with a confederat flag tatoo was thinking of sweet tea when he got the thing.
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lordjim_2001
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isn't Alan from the south? If so, I bet he thinks he does have a clue, whether he bought it or found it.
I, piglet, promise to never start another controversial thread on here.
I just returned from Boulder...wanna hear my latest Pigsteak Corollary on Boulderites?
I, piglet, promise to never start another controversial thread on here.
I just returned from Boulder...wanna hear my latest Pigsteak Corollary on Boulderites?
Positive vibes brah...positive vibes.