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re: Neil Young's 1970 hit single "Southern Man"
Posted on 5/17/16 at 4:09 pm to Big Scrub TX
Posted on 5/17/16 at 4:09 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Let's not act like the south wasn't ground zero for most of the horror show.
When virtually all black folks lived in the South? Sure. As they moved north? Revisionist history at best. Again, just like in the antebellum period, Yankees act like they had gleaned no benefit from slavery. They were 100% fed by slavery and relied heavily on southern products such as cotton for their industry. It's a fact that is rarely admitted, but it doesn't make it less so.
Hell, a northern textile worker in 1855 was more dependent on slavery, than a poor southern dirt farmer working his own 40 with his sons and no slaves. But, let's keep up this pretense that Southern white folks (rather than the love of money as the Bible tells us) are the root of all evil.
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Posted on 5/17/16 at 5:26 pm to Ace Midnight
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Hell, a northern textile worker in 1855 was more dependent on slavery, than a poor southern dirt farmer working his own 40 with his sons and no slaves.
Not to say there was no racism in the rest of the country. But Young's song was referencing contemporary southern racism of the 1950s and 60s after the rest of the US had gotten rid of racist laws and segregation. A lot of ugly stuff went down in the south at that time in defense of white supremacy.
Posted on 5/17/16 at 6:14 pm to Ace Midnight
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But, let's keep up this pretense that Southern white folks (rather than the love of money as the Bible tells us) are the root of all evil.
As someone else pointed out, when Young put out that song, it had only been 8 years since white college students (presumably the most educated/affluent segment of the population) in Oxford had literally fought the National Guard in the streets to prevent a black veteran (and taxpayer) from enrolling in the state university.
I understand that Southies in Boston fought vehemently against integrated busing, but that does not change the sheer magnitude of the hatred/evil that permeated the south.
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