Everyone in ol' DIxie hears a familiar tune

[misanthrope]

It rings of minstrelsy, night riders and a big bird with black feathers. It also wastes the potential of things learned over the last half-century.

https://kevinblee.substack.com/p/crestfallen-to-be-newborn-again

In my youth, Lost Cause mythology and fever dreams of the valiant Confederacy were everywhere. Cars sported plates with illustrations of grizzled Confederate veterans and the slogan, “Fergit? Hell No!” Hoop-skirted high school girls acted as “ambassadors” for an antebellum home not far from our house.

SNIP

I once stirred trouble when I responded to a great-grandmother’s gripe that “coloreds don’t dance good like they used to” by saying “they want to be called Black people now.” She chased me around a bush with a belt trying to whip me.

Another time my Southern Baptist family elders sat around a table and discussed whether Black people had souls. One grandfather used the n-word with regularity. The other grandfather told me Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was “a Communist.”

[Deuxcents]

1. Yep..know it well. My parents had names for Blacks, Hispanics, Jews and non were endearing

Cuban kids started coming into my school around junior high and there were no Black kids until my senior year but we all got along and that’s when the questions started because it just didn’t make sense.. the mocking and belittling. I ended up marrying my Cuban boyfriend even though out of respect, he talked to my dad beforehand but I was excommunicated from the family just the same.I’d do it all over again because it was a win for me that my son was never exposed to their religious, hateful behavior

[alfredo]

8. My sister was x'd out of our family because she was dating a Catholic.

[Deuxcents]

9. O, yes.. that, too! Your sister is a survivor of ignorance

I say that with respect to you as I don’t know your family 🌺

[Keepthesoulalive]

2. I am grateful that you and others are telling your stories

Because some folks believed trump brainwashed them into racist behavior and that we should welcome them back once he is gone. This has always been there they were just looking for someone to champion them and he does as he picks their pockets.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[rampartd]

4. trump has turned back 3 generations of civil rights progress

maybe more

[misanthrope]

5. You know that makes him oh so proud

Like a beaming boy. A happy, proud boy.

[rampartd]

6. and his followers

there is a sucker born every minute.

[dalton99a]

7. Kick