[lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence

[Carl Remick]

>From: Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>
>
>Dennis P. wrote:
>
> > > But I do think it's high time that the South pull its head out of its 
>ass
> > > and get on with the business of being civilized.
> > >
> > > Carl
> >
> >What -- like the rest of the country?
> >
> >Carl, you should take a drive with me through parts of Michigan, which 
>is,
> >if you don't know, well above the Mason-Dixon line.
>
>Maybe he should take a drive down the street:
>
>Henry Conyers can’t escape racism. As a
>six-year-old, his family moved from Summerton,
>South Carolina to Long Island, New York. Theirs
>had been a segregated South devoid of equal
>opportunity for black people. “My dad wanted to
>get away from the racism,” says Conyers, “But
>Nassau County, now, is the same as the South was in the 1950s.”

Ah well, *Nassau* County -- it's hopelessly backward.  I live in *Suffolk* 
County ;-)

At any rate, no matter how many social warts today's North may sport, 
nowhere in the North will you find war monuments commemorating soldiers who 
fought in the noble cause of defending white people's right to own black 
people -- nowhere.  As soon as the South demolishes all of its monuments to 
the Confederacy and outlaws all public display of the Confederate flag I'll 
stop sneering at Dixie.

Carl

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