Posted on 08/30/2010 11:24:11 AM PDT by oldleft
(CNN) -- As the blue Chevy Cobalt crept toward the edge of the property in Chula, Georgia, a palpable nervousness wafted through the cramped car.
Three men, straight out of central casting from "Deliverance," craned their necks toward our vehicle. A 30-by-50-foot Confederate flag waved 120 feet in the air. Nothing says "Welcome to the South" quite like the old battle flag.
We were quite the sight for this rural stop along Interstate 75: two olive-skinned Americans on a mission; an African-American photographer; and me, a white boy from the Bible Belt.
(snip)
Already, the road trip has been a bizarre learning experience. It was our own preconceived notions -- OK, our prejudices -- that almost prevented us from stopping.
The gravel kicks up as our car pulls away.
"My problem," Bassam says, "is what do you think they're saying about us now?"
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“two olive-skinned Americans”
What the hell does this mean? Are they talking about green olives?
“white boy” ?? Could you imagine CNN saying “black boy” to describe anyone over about age 9? I cannot. More subtle anti-white racism from the MSM.
Did they ever visit East Oakland at 10 PM on a Friday night...or East Los Angeles?
Idiots.
CNN? Owned by Time-Lies?
With a corporate head who walked through the newsroom one day insulting all of the Catholics with ashes from Ash Wednesday on their foreheads?
THAT CNN?
These people must be wealthy. Most people can barely afford to pay their bills let alone travel all over the country and pretend they're on some important mission.
Scenes from the South I’ve seen that the media would NEVER report:
1) Black NASCAR fans—there are tons
2) Black Travis Tritt fans singing the lyrics to Best of Intentions
3) The two good-ole boys in a pick-up truck with a confederate flag on their rear window changing the flat tire of three gray hair elderly black ladies. One tried to tip the good old boys and he politely refused.
4) A black man and a white women arguing over whether or not a vehicle with a confederate flag bumper stick should be allowed to park on company grounds—the black man was FOR parking with any bumper sticker.
5) A black man who was president of the Taylorsville NC Sons of the Confederacy local chapter.
6) Two elderly men, one black and one white loudly arguing. Both men were lifelong friends who constantly bickered over which bait worked best at Lake Moutree.
7) NBA player Brad Daugherty interviewing his personal favorite athlete of all time -—Richard Petty
8) White folks who make the best soul food around and their clientele is all black.
9) A Successful black small construction business owner who has an all white staff because he happens to live in an all white town.
10) Black folks rooting for Robert E Lee high school to beat the hell out of Jefferson Davis high school on a Friday night high school football game in Montgomery Alabama.
I’ve lived up north and down south and I can honestly say that their is MORE racism in Boston then Birmingham.
That's true - and I like it!
Probably got some kind of government grant from the Zerobama administration.
Ya’ll come back now, ya hear? (or maybe not.)
I’m a little sick of the Deliverance references. Then again, given the Muslim proclivity for a little boy-on-boy action, perhaps that’s really what they went looking for.
How quaint. I’m sure they’re planning a city by city photo tour of all the Christian churches in Saudi Arabia next.
LOL! Short trip fer sure.
I did like this (from the article):
“Robert and I were struck by the mosques in Atlanta and Jacksonville, because they seemed to be so much like our own churches and upbringings in Christianity. The imam in Atlanta talked of how their teens face the temptations of sex and drugs — just like all the other kids in the nation — and of how the members do their best to steer children to a moral lifestyle. “I’d say we have strong Christian conservative views,” he said with a laugh.”
I did like this (from the article):
“Robert and I were struck by the mosques in Atlanta and Jacksonville, because they seemed to be so much like our own churches and upbringings in Christianity. The imam in Atlanta talked of how their teens face the temptations of sex and drugs — just like all the other kids in the nation — and of how the members do their best to steer children to a moral lifestyle. “I’d say we have strong Christian conservative views,” he said with a laugh.”
I did like this (from the article):
“Robert and I were struck by the mosques in Atlanta and Jacksonville, because they seemed to be so much like our own churches and upbringings in Christianity. The imam in Atlanta talked of how their teens face the temptations of sex and drugs — just like all the other kids in the nation — and of how the members do their best to steer children to a moral lifestyle. “I’d say we have strong Christian conservative views,” he said with a laugh.”
Thank Alfred Hitchcock. If he didn't invent it, he popularized the hate/scare-puppet Snopesian retrograde redneck, the bottom-10% knuckledragger with crooked yellow teeth and fingernails, a sweat-stained fedora, and loose, baggy pants held up by galluses.
Elaborated (regrettably) by Strother Martin in The Horse Soldiers as a Georgia deserter (sample line: "Heighdy, missy!! <hee hee hee hee!!>" and also Cool Hand Luke: "Now, what we hayve heaunh, is failyuh to communicate!!" (The film, btw, was shot in Iowa, not the South. Two guesses why.)
Knowing nods, of course, to Easy Rider (Johnny Billeaudeaux as one of the country-uglies), Deliverance as mentioned, and any number of "swamp thing" movies.
Deliverance, of course, was written by Lynn Dickey, who also appeared in the film (as the sheriff). "Y'all don't come back up heah no mo'e."
Or a shot of a Confederate flag in a NASCAR infield -- courtesy of the France family and/or their network partners.
They got booted out of a mosque LOL!
Also From the article:
“A couple of weeks earlier, a man came in toting a bunch of literature from white nationalist David Duke.”
Don’t these cats know that Duke is a big hit with ROP’rs?
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