Race relations: Better in the South than North!

wnd.com ^ | 8/22/2017 | Barry Farber

[rktman]

If you were born anywhere north of Baltimore, you won’t believe a word of this. And that’s unfortunate, because the survival of our America may depend on enough Americans realizing I’m right.

There are, indeed, those who brandish the Confederate flag with the same diseased passion as some Germans revere the swastika. That same crowd will spring to their feet defiantly when the band plays “Dixie.” And there are those who would gladly volunteer to take their shotguns and guard the local statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee during the overnight shift. Don’t deny it, You All, there are such people. Fortunately, they are overwhelmed in numbers and influence by Southerners like me.

I was born in the South. I grew up in the South. I have waved the Confederate flag – the “Stars and Bars” – at many a college football game even though you Yankees laughed uproariously when we waved our Confederate flags in the faces of opponents from farther south than we were! I can sing, not just “Dixie,” but over a dozen songs about the South. And my favorite un-published manuscript is the one by a history professor in South Carolina entitled, “An Objective History of the War Between the States from the Southern Point of View”!

Now here’s what you won’t believe. There’s not a racist corpuscle in my entire bloodstream. My attitude contains zero white-supremacy, hatred of Lincoln, Grant or even Sherman, nor resentment of the North. And zero doesn’t mean “very little.” Zero means nothing.

[Paal Gulli]

It long has been the case that Southerners speak more derogatorily about other blacks but on a man-to-man basis are more likely to treat them as equals. Whereas in the north, they talk all sunshine and buttermilk about blacks but tend to treat them individually as inferiors. Even during the War Between the States, the north had laws that would see blacks whipped or imprisoned or even executed just for being there.