“First of all, he said that when he was growing up (graduated in 1984), there was still a lot of open segregation and racism in the deep south.”
Unlike the north, where no racism has existed for a hundred years and everybody holds hands, regardless of race, while riding their unicorns under rainbows.
Once thing that would help the American psyche would be to rid ourselves of the lie that racism was/is a wholly owned subsidiary of the South. The most racist white people I’ve known have been from the north...yet they walk through life with the delusion that they are superior to Southerners.
Honestly, I agree in part. But it is different.
I was talking about that with him, and he said “I don’t recognize it as much.”
Different social norms. And where I grew up, most of the blacks I knew weren’t considered much, but the Hispanics and Indians were.
Oh, how right you are!
The Snowbirds here in Florida migrate anually to their gated enclaves scattered all over the coasts, keeping out the riffraff, voting three times in each election (once back north, twice here in Florida).
Indeed. Exactly where did the race riots occur during the 60s?
Hint: It wasn't in Alabama.