[lbo-talk] enough of the southern bigotry remarks... not, necessarily on this board though.

Tommy Kelly tkelly15450 at charter.net
Fri Nov 5 12:36:22 PST 2004



>Tommy Kelly wrote:
>Enough is enough!
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Doug Henwood


>I understand where you're coming from, but how do you explain the
>fact that poor whites vote Republican, esp in the South, without
>resorting to racism to at least some degree?
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Yea, there are plenty of racism in the South. However, I have always notice that is usually comes from a poor education - compared to Mississippi's record, Alabama isn't as harsh. This is nothing more than amateur philosophy but I believe people are a product of their environment. Not to get to the level of Meme gene, but people are influenced by their forefathers. Then again, when the KKK started burning cross's, people of Christian faith where not happy, but also did not want to be tortured by some emotionally baggage, brainwashed, psycho! All that changed when they blew up a black church in Birmingham. Since then their numbers have been dropping off each generation. Hence the reason they have lowered "their standards" to doing ridiculous talk shows, and even allowing long hair white guys with, or without, earrings to join - something they would never allow unless they where disparate for people.


>Just a reminder -- Chomsky's on Maher's HBO show tonight, along with Andrew
>Sullivan. 11 PM Eastern. Should be fun.
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Since my 3 post per day are up; someone should try to tape that episode and put it on Shareaza. It's not like Noam would care if people are P2Ping his material.



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