Living so long in the Atlanta area, I had a clearer perspective of what was happening to America. Let me first make it clear that growing up in the south-most tip of Florida, had no concept of racial bias until college years in Alabama, and even then (late 1960’s) I could not see any reason to be racist. After college, teaching school near Fort Bennington where most of my students were from the military families and a good mixture of White and Black, there was no racial tension.
In the early 70’s my husband and I lived in a quiet middle class neighborhood in the southern suburbs (the area that today is nearly all black). School integration caused the bussing of everyone in our area schools to inter-city black schools and the vise-Versa. This caused instant white-flight. As our children were toddlers, we stayed. Two years later, husband’s job transferred him and we discovered the value of our home was lower than the original cost and we had lost all the equity achieved. This loss alone did not cause the racial animosity that was creeping into our heads, as we had black friends we admired.
Fast-forward to 2000. We were back in the Atlanta area, this time in the northern suburbs and by now in an upper middle class neighborhood. Although I still think our little yellow cape cod style house from back in those early days was my favorite. Though mostly White, the Black families in our neighborhood were respected, liked as everyone else, as were Black colleagues at schools and work.
Admittedly I was cautiously afraid of going into downtown Atlanta. It was that horrid creeping racial bias again. However I tried to never forget that there are some bad people in all races. And God lovingly reminded me of that one day when I had jury duty at the Atlanta courthouse. No parking near it, so I took the Marta train into town. The closest station was 5 or 6 blocks from the courthouse. It was not quit daylight yet, I was standing outside the station looking up the street and in tears trying to work up courage to proceed. A nice-looking gentleman (happened to be Black) said, “you look lost, can I help you with directions?” When I told him I had jury duty he told me I should not be walking there alone, and he walked with me all the way there, saying, “God bless you, and have a great day” when we arrived.
So what I am saying here is that it is not because there is an inherent difference between Whites and Blacks. The differences lie in how each of us interpret morality, right from wrong, and if and how we curb animal-like behaviors. After slavery, most Blacks understandably mistrusted Whites. But as a nation we were beginning to get past that. That was until the evil powers that be used this weakness to once again build great animosity between races to destroy America. Unchecked illegal emigration hurt even more. Government practices encouraging keeping too many Blacks in poverty, fatherless families and now actually encouraging animal-like vicious behavior has brought areas of the country into unbelievable pit holes where we wonder if the people there are even capable of ever assimilating.
Today, I hope to never ever have reason to go anywhere near Atlanta again!
Sheep are prejudice against dogs and coyotes. So are the sheep racists?
This situation was caused in the mid 1960s by the RACIST white supremacist democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson and his racist democrat henchmen in congress buying the votes of Blacks and keeping them down on the democrat plantation in poverty.
They destroyed families and ruined cities.
Now rural white females are figuring out how to live off Uncle Sugar and are doing the same.