I don’t owe anyone virtue signaling anything here
We had over 500 employees at our peak work force
Over half black
But one was special ....a few really but James was the closest male to our family
Hannah the cook was his female counterpart
He basically took care of everything personal
To the family and worked the equipment etc as well
In our case he’d showed up at my grandfathers horse farm at 15 orphaned and my grandfather put him to work and he lived in the tack room and used my grandfathers office bath shower
He ran the detail at our deer camp and helped with Horses and in the contracting biz
Eventually built his own place and raised his own family
He taught me to hunt and operate heavy equipment
He drank gin and doctor tichenors and smoked pall mall unfiltered he opened from the opposite end and shared with me
He could field dress deer and whip up a mess of perfectly scrambled eggs and homemade biscuits and salted ham at 4am like nothing even if he’d been out drankin till 3 and had walked the levee Home
He was black as onyx and always smelled musty and put that jell in his hair slicked back and carried a small 32 pistol and dressed just like my grandpa black mini me
Khakis and slouch hat or miners hard hat and lace up 1907 brown work boots
His funeral when I was 13 was my first
I was close to him
Non southerners don’t understand blacks
They just say what they think is the right answer so they won’t be called racist
So lemminglike
One thing you can be sure of is that none of them had cooks or hands who were like extended family. But they are as worried about not sounding properly PC as an intern at the SPLC.
Sounds like a good man. Thanks for letting us all know how un-racist you are. Not necessary, but ok. We were clearly puzzled by your choice of words. If you don’t see that, I pity you.
actually I was making sport of you...
We had “clean Irish girls” when I was growing up.