As a lifelong southerner it has been my observation that some northerner s learned all the think they know about the south from watching “Roots” and reading “Tobacco Road”.
Until air conditioning made its way south, you couldn’t find a Yankee with 500 miles from the Mason-Dixon Line.
From spending time around guys from many states (Air Force) I have noticed that many Northerners base their opinion of Southerners based on the accent alone. They think themselves all-knowing that people who don’t sound like them are somehow, less intelligent. Profiling, anyone?
Insofar as slavery goes, that was a loooong time ago. And even though “progressives” like to fear-mongering people that we are trying to bring back slavery, or even “Jim Crowe” laws, it’s simply a canard to justify race-baiting.
Southern attitudes are based on individuality, whereas up North the tendency is “groupthink”. Down here we accept, or reject, persons of any color based on their personality, attitude, and honor...not just because some community organizer says we “must” like and/or accept them as a person.
Most Southerners now would not partake in slavery if they legalized again. It’s not worth it.
So, if “racism” is to be defined as not accepting blacks on a group basis, I guess we are more “racist”. But, percentage-wise, I know and like as many black people I’ve met, as white. It’s the individual, not the color, that makes the difference.
Now, I’ll let the author of this article get back to his stereotyping...
Frank, I’m not doubting YOUR personal beliefs, but what do you make of the following comments?
“The fact of the matter is, being made a slave was the best thing that ever happened to those blacks. The vast majority of blacks that were made slave were simply captives from internal tribal conflicts among Africans. If they had no value, they would simply have been slaughtered (as they are today). Instead, since they had value as slaves, they were allowed to live, sold to slavers, and then brought to the greatest nation on the face of the Earth while their brethren were left in the hell hole of Africa.”
“Africa was such a horrible place to live that many Africans volunteered to come to America as slaves. The problem was that some of their descendants wanted out of the deal.”
“Some slaves were mistreated, but most were treated as beloved members of the family much as pets are today.
Would you condemn all pet owners because a few beat there pets or some fight them against each other? Should the states that allow pet ownership be justifiably burnt to the ground as someone suggested was deserved of the South earlier in this thread?”
“The point was, every argument you use to justify pet ownership can be applied to slave ownership.”
What do you think is the common component to each one of these FReepers?
As a lifelong southerner it has been my observation that some northerner s learned all the think they know about the south from watching “Roots” and reading “Tobacco Road”.
Mrs. WBill says that "Slow doesn't mean stupid". :-) Truer words were never spoken.
I'm the worst kind of Yankee, having moved to the south 20-odd years ago AND having had the uncommonly good sense to marry a fine Southern woman.
I love it, and I'd not change a thing. Moving to the south was one of the smarter things that I've done.
And, to get back to the topic, aside from the handful of fools that you find no matter where you live, the only real "racism" I've seen is southerners who dislike those of us from the north. My Mother-in-Law, for instance, still introduces me as "That Yankee Republican".
If pressed, I tell those who push me that I'm originally from Maine, and we generally don't like people from NJ, NY, Boston, etc there, either. :-) That usually breaks the ice.
May 23, 2013...DENVER (AP) – A Saudi national serving eight years to life in prison in Colorado after being convicted in 2006 of sexually assaulting a housekeeper and keeping her a virtual slave for four years has been ordered to attend a parole hearing on Tuesday
May 25, 2013
Kenyan Woman Kept as Domestic Slave for Months by Saudi Diplomats…in Virginia Posted on May 25, 2013 by creeping Arab Muslim slavery of black Africans isn’t confined to the Middle East and Africa. via Kenyan Woman Claims She Was Kept as Domestic Slave for Months | NBC4 Washington. A 25-year-old Kenyan woman has come forward with allegations that she was kept as a domestic slave for three months by Saudi Arabian diplomats living in Northern Virginia.
Jan 29, 2012. CHICAGO—A Taiwanese official who pleaded guilty to mistreating two housekeepers brought over from the Philippines to work in her Missouri home will soon be deported, a judge ruled Friday. Liu Hsien-hsien, director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City, Missouri, was arrested in November for allegedly treating her Filipino housekeepers like slaves. She reached a plea deal with prosecutors that allowed her to avoid spending up to five years in prison if convicted of the single charge of fraud in foreign labor contracting.
Slavery is here, it is legal in sharia law and will be found in Detroit, Murfreesboro and anyplace Moslems rule. The left is to blame for slavery in the past, present and future.
The left is also a product of social devolution. They can't compete and lower the bar by affirmative action and giving handouts to enslave those who really need a hand up.