[lbo-talk] Minority Report (was Southern vs. Northern violence)

[Carl Remick]

>From: Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net>
>
>On Friday 11 May 2007 10:40, Carl Remick wrote:
>
> > I must say white Southerners certainly have an impressive record of
> > *lynching* their black neighbors as individuals.
>
>Lynching is an amateur sport in the South; in the North it has been
>professionalized and is taken care of by the police. Perhaps this is why it
>continues to be cultivated in the forward-looking North, while it has 
>fallen
>into disuse in the lazy, retrograde South.

I admire your tenacity, but let's face it:  The Lost Cause of the South is a 
lost cause.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy>

Carl

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