You’re not from here honey
You probably think The Help and Deliverance were both documentaries and quite accurate
My ancestors in Sullivans hollow right above Jones county hated those bastards you’re venerating strictly cause you got some romantic vision and it’s got Matthew
I swoon....,
Jones county was always weird and the Masonite plant there in the 60s had serious labor thug violence and corrupted local govt
I knew some of the mullatoes that descended from Newt and another big mullato name from that locale... the Moffit or Moffat clans
These were quads and octoroons and some of the women were beautiful and most passed as white when I was a boy....I had a crush on one.....she was about 25 and me 12....she carried me home in her convertible one day after she saw me walking about 5 miles from home coming back from the bowling alley....she was a teacher......folks whispered but nobody cared really she was so gorgeous like Claudia Cardinale.....my buddies when they saw her driving me through my leave it to beaver neighborhood to my house
Closest to Summer of 42 I ever got
Most of the left the Leaf River basin for the swamps north of Mobile called appropriately enough Creola
The irony is that area of Smith Scott Simpson Jones and other east south central Mississippi had little plantocracy and most only had maybe one slave family they lived and worked alongside with cattle and substistance farming like most of my people
They treated their slaves better cause ..it was a bigger investment
Newt was a renegade and a deserter raider.....but he was all about interracial sex and fought against his own kind in the confederacy to some point
That silly girl wrote that book and it got optioned......that’s it
Just like Kathryn Stockett
You’re welcome to come down here and I’ll educate about the south and race.....I guarantee you I can open your idealistic well intended eyes in a respectful way
You wish to study an interesting Mississippian and race....try William Dunbar Natchez Mississippi
Presumably an ancestor of mine albeit thru the illegitimate pregnancy upon my great x5 grandma
Thank you for your perspective. Sorry to disappoint, but I did not see the Help and I'm not a Matthew McConaughey fan (this was the only movie I've seen all the way through with him...tried 'Dallas Buyers Club' and 'Interstellar' each for about 30 min). So swoon away...he's all yours.
In any case, I'll still look at history that way I am entitled to. Whites DID own blacks (YES...blacks owned blacks, etc). However, whites wrote and passed laws which dehumanized and allowed for the sale of humans. White men also wrote and passed laws which didn't allow for women to vote. It's just part of our history and I'm not afraid to see a movie about it.
No, I'm not into reparations, either. Again...it was our history. If anything, I think Obama should apologize to the country NOW for keeping the racist pot stirring. I think some blacks AND whites are in slavery still...only under Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton race-baiting types.
Actually, I DID pass through Jones County last year on a roadtrip. I knew about the movie at the time, but hadn't done much reading yet. I remember stopping at a gas station/Piggly Wiggly/whatever and thinking, "hmm...interesting characters here"...which is fine because I'm sure *I* looked like an interesting character to them. They definitely had a "you're not from here, honey" look going. :)
Thank you for the offer to come down...better be careful, might take you up on it! I've seen you on threads a lot and have no doubt you could respectfully educate. That's what I like about FR. I knew making a thread was a dicey endeavor and I would need to go get my thick-skin suit on. :)