I grew up at ground zero in all this right precisely as i came of age as it happened all around me in a fairly moderate family and knew many of the famous players in that drama
Your post is most reflective I’ve seen on this topic in a while
I have given up trying to explain even here
Most enjoy the accepted narrative.
It gives them moral superiority free of charge
I can spot a fake southerner talking like they were there from a mile away
The first giveaway is hyperbole about segregation .....” oh yeah they had no niggers allowed signs everywhere” or “ sure I saw nigger don’t let the sun set on your black ass in this town”
OK.....maybe somewhere somebody could find something like that but I sure never saw it.....colored drinking fountain and bathroom and black sections in cafes I did see...no question
And the notion blacks could not own stuff or business or go to schools or college or never vote
BS.....UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND
black precients turned out for new deal slate same as whites
Voting crap started when civil rights workers showed up pushing social lib candidates
White men never prosecuted for crimes against blacks...untrue
White men raping blacks girls pell mell....a blatant lie in league with hillbilly male rape absurd myth
The notion we were simply mean and ugly to noble blacks as a matter of practice is just Hollywood wishful thinking
Many many here are happy ignorant..... and hypocritical
I lived in NYC.....they don’t fool me
All the fears of the segregationists have come to bear
I do not like the outcome and only see worse coming
Blacks in the south under prejudice ironically were nicer and maintained a more productive culture
Not out of fear but rather emulation from association
You cannot explain this from a 40 percent black state to someone in New Hampshire with one percent
That’s the rub....blissful perch
I just drove from Nashville area to Pacific northwest and back to Glacier and Dakotas
Home.
St Louis.....Kansas city......north Platte...Laramie....salt lake....winnemuca.....Medford.....grants pass.....coos bay.....yreka.....Portland.....Klamath....walla walla....Lewiston.....Missoula.... whitefish....kalispel....browning......spearfish.....Pierre....Sioux falls.....back to KC
FROM KC TILL BACK TO KC....over 5500 miles my boys and I counted 11 blacks total in 2 weeks
In my hometown of Jackson MS I could see 11 black folks in the time it takes to rub my eyes
And 4 were Verizon commercial mixed race.....Lennys we call them after Kravitz
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Its like war or jail or cancer or death of family member
You cant explain it to folks who can’t see it....cause it ain’t there