re: Is the South more racist? - Article

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I know people from Ohio and Boston

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Boston school desegregation, 1976

I lived in Boulder for a decade. I was consistently told that the South was a hotbed of racism, replete with good old boys in sheets with torches, by people who had not interacted with a black person in months. All the liberal enclaves are like that- full of white progressives who imagine the horrible racism that exists in their mind elsewhere, while ensuring they are only surrounded by well- heeled white Progressives who eat endive salad and drive Volvos with diversity stickers .

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Boston school desegregation, 1976

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Look at that gentleman waving the negro through with an American flag. THAT is how you welcome people to your school

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I don't know, I've never seen Confederate flags or Nathan Bedford Forrest statues in Minneapolis.

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well it's good to know you're just trying to one-up your own drive by gotchas in this thread and adding nothing of actual substance

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I've never seen Confederate flags or Nathan Bedford Forrest statues in Minneapolis.

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And that is a relevant anecdote......,your Civil War comment was infantile.

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I mean, Southerners fought a literal war to keep a whole race enslaved.

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The fact that you think this is why the war was fought tells me that I dont need to try and re-educate you. Lost cause.

Good luck in life

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THAT is how you welcome people to your school

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except that is nowhere near a school

that's City Hall Plaza. The building in the very back is the Old State House, to the right is now a Staples & a new Wax Museum(? its weird), just off frame on the left is a Bill Walton statue where food trucks park. City Hall is immediately behind the photographer

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e fact that you think this is why the war was fought tells me that I dont need to try and re-educate you. Lost cause.

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"The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away... Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it—when the "storm came and the wind blew, it fell"

- Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens, March 21, 1861

Southern leaders were pretty open about it being about Slavery at the time. The Lost Cause narrative so many Southerners buy in to is the American equivalent of the German Stab-in-the-back myth. Good luck believing it.

The war was about Slavery. That is why it started.

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ou guys are desperate to have a black man validate your belief that "Those damn Yankees are more racist than us!"

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Says who, dipshit?

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while you cling to your confederate regalia and all talk shite behind closed doors

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I would love for you to name the posters that are doing that in this thread.

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KSGamecock

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You are what we call, a dumbass. You have preconceived notions of "the South" and you back them up with your own misguided opinions. You don't seek truth. You don't seek objectivity. You don't seek answers. You simply hurl insults, yell "South is racist", and back it up with ZERO facts.

Sometimes, throwing out that bat signal that you're an ignorant bastard isn't the best idea. Your posts in this thread is a perfect example.