[fishergirl]

It is scary. Yesterday, at our post office in our little town, where everyone has always got along, a friend of mine was speaking to her cousin about hunting and made a comment that her husband had some guns he needed to get rid of. Her cousin said, oh, don’t get rid of them, you never know when you might need them. And went on to say that when the grandsons got older they may get into hunting and appreciate having their grandad’s guns. A black woman standing there made an ugly comment. (Keep in mind this post office is really SMALL!) Then proceeded to tell my friend and her cousin, yeah, I meant for you to hear that, you white m*****f*****!! I was appalled!!!!

[Melian]

I was at a small post office a month or two ago and a young Hispanic man felt slighted by the middle aged white man in front of him. When the Hispanic man got up to the counter, he announced loudly to the clerk that he had been disrespected by the white man and that he was going to kill two white people before he died. He repeated loudly, “I swear I am going to kill two white people before I die and it's on that guy's head.” The Vietnamese clerk said, “Don't say that, sir.” Then the man did his transaction and left, giving those of us in line a malevolent stare.

Needless to say, those of us in line who were white, and patiently waiting, felt a bit “disenfranchised.”

There's a lot of haters out there. {sigh}

[a real Sheila]

Having grown up in a small southern town with ongoing racial tensions in the H.S., I can totally believe that story!