Posted on 12/11/2004 10:58:12 AM PST by Log
My mother used to make curried venison then she'd boil the feet and ankles and make 'American sous'. Have fun at deer camp!
I remember that nonsense in the 70s when I was a teen in Brooklyn.
I didn't mean Alabama has a LOOOONG way to catch up on just racial issues. It's just 20 years behind on everything. Always has been, always will be. Not that it's always bad to be. It just it.
I like pickin on you ole timers :-P
Believe me, I don't doubt that.
I actually got nasty comments about the tags the last time I was in Delaware. Of course, I still had my anti-Delaware bumper stickers from when I still lived there on my vehicle.
Some people just have no sense of humor - or heritage.
Yes, I went to school here! My children went to school here as well. When I was in school the Civil Rights issue was in full swing. When my children went to school there was NO segregation. The segregation issue is the past, not present. I'm sure there are some pockets that are still segregated but it could be that's the way they (blacks and whites) like it.
We don't cotton much to yankees either.
Yes I know.
Liberal schools in California take field trips to Alabama to see that cafeteria you're talking about, otherwise they would question whether segregation every happened, since it never happens in California ya' know.
BTW, read my whole post. I never said those things. These are people who have lived in Alabama. I've never been to Alabama.
Quote (made at the time) from a former co-worker who lived in Cicero, IL on the influx of Blacks in the '60s and the resultant blockbusting:
"I won't be the first to move, but I won't be the third."
So much for tolerance in other parts of the country.
"Some people just have no sense of humor - or heritage"
Boy isn't that a fact.
I see that, please accept my appology, it was meant for the folk (presumably from the North) who can't see anything beautiful about the South, and Alabama in particular.
I grew up in California and moved to Texas while working. I was told all the "bad" things about the South that I would not like, and did not see a one of them. On the contrary I found Southerners to be friendly and conservative. I liked them and when I retired I moved there. I still like them, and Alabama has some of the best.
So I appologize again, I shot of my keyboard before a really understood your post.
apology accepted... I understand esp. since I've been around liberals who never have anything good to say about the South. It's not as if they have a reason to say the things they've said unlike some of my clients who really did have it rough. If I base my views about the South on the people I meet, I'd definately want to visit at least. When the old guys hold the door open for me and I say thank you sir, they almost fall over dead *LOL* The men are very respectful. I do hear that a girl can get married real fast too ;-)
I realize I'm a "damned yankee" and accept that, and because of that, I'm accepted and not considered a carpet-bagger.
Of course having been out of NYC for 22 years does help me a bit!!!!
Some of us yankees ain't so bad - we actually prefer the south!!!!
But all kidding aside, I have never, and probably will never, understand the animosity of northeasterns to the south and southerners.
Don't be too shocked by the comments of people who live a thousand miles from the issue they say they know "all about."
Arrogance is a trait commonly found among the stupid...
That's putting it mildly. Personally I have found less racism down south than I did growing in NYC.
And what racism I have found, is unmentionable in this PC world.
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