Posted on 12/11/2004 10:58:12 AM PST by Log
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The state slogan "Heart of Dixie," a source of pride to some and embarrassment to others, is disappearing from more Alabama license plates every year.
One-third of the groups that promote distinctive and collegiate license plates now choose to leave the slogan off their tags.
The standard state license plate still has "Heart of Dixie," but it's reduced to letters one-sixteenth of an inch high and it's placed in the bottom corner of the tag where it's barely visible to passing motorists.
(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...
Maybe you need to catch up on some history. The issue of segregation was all about forced segregation. Now it is a choice.
I expect that's the way antebellum southern middle class white people were too. Those not in the power structure, not owning slaves, etc. Tell you what, Plantation Owners might have put forth a legal fiction about blacks being not quite human or whatever, in the same way that women were a subclass, but I'm pretty sure you didn't have to be around them too long to realize what a bunch of crap it was in reality.
Yes, they, as a people, are going to have to get over it, and move on with their lives, but that is a lot easier to say from where we are sitting.
I have no fear of the future however. In 20 years, I believe that they will be melted. Starting with my generation and now with the current generation of kids, we all grew up with the black culture all around us, and we embraced it. So it won't be so much the black culture melting into the "white" culture, but more of a meeting in the middle. I believe more and more of our kids are growing up colorblind and I believe it will reap great benefits in the future.
A white kid has no shame when he wears his hat backwards and listens to "black music". A black kid has no shame when he wears polo shirts and golfs at a country club. We are making progress.
My mother has never been able to make friends with black Americans because of her views on race and because she had two children for a white man. They could have had as much in common with my dad except they couldn't get over their issues. It's pretty sad to watch actually.
That whole Scot-Irish thing is laughable considering how many mixed people there are of that descent.
For????
Yes. I suppose it would have made them feel better if my father dumped my mom in a strange country with two kids.
A lotof people wish for thosed days so they could be useful. You know the types!
Anyways, I was just asking why you said "had two children for" instead of "with". Sounds a little funny saying "for". At least ever since women were given equal rights.
I'm just trying to explain some of the cultural differences that would lead to some black people disapproving of mixL
The use of for never occured to me. Sorry. I didn't grow up in a feminist household.
I'm still confused by your previous comments on your mother and father. And especially of your use of the word "for". Was she hired to have kids? I don't get it.
I see.
You're words. Sure you added "not lately at least", but you just seemed to be denying that the treatment of blacks for the past 100 years had little to do with how they acted, whereas the government giving handouts was the primary reason.
Not exactly. I lived in Alabama for quite some time, and I am trying hard to recall instances of segregation. I lived in an integrated dorm. I attended an integrated church. All the apartment complexes where I lived were integrated. I never once went to a segregated grocery store. All the restaurants had white and black service staff, though I may be wrong because it's not something I set out to see. (there is The Cotton Patch in Greene County--I think--and all the waitresses there are black and dressed up like Aunt Jemima. they have the best onion rings i've ever eaten.) I'm not sure I had any all white classes in college, though it is possible. I never paid attention to how my fellow students spent their meal-times. I suppose I might if I was in a high school cafeteria.
Look, I'm not blind. I realize that there were predominate black, hispanic, asian, and white areas in Houston, where I'm from. I realize there is still separation to an extent. But I attended a church in Houston that had probably a 20% black, 30% hispanic congregation. I have yet to see anything close in Alabama. At least at the churches I have seen. You have your Black churches, your White churches, ect. It's very segregated still.
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