TheFonz

My old man remembers seeing the klan back in the early 60’s in St. Tammany. A guy who lived down the road from them was a member and would have small meetings at his house. An uncle of mine who grew up on a farm in northern St. Tammany in the 40’s and 50’s remember seeing klan meetings in the field across the highway from their farm. Flaming crosses and all. He would watch from his bedroom window and wonder what the hell was going on.

My old man said he never witnessed anything klan related after his teen years, even when they were desegregating the high school. I’ve never witnessed or heard of anything growing up. Only what you saw in the movies.

On my first visit to Australia in 1998 my wife (no pics) and I were on a city bus in Sydney. They had a couple “bah, dude!” surfer types on the bus, and heard my accent. They asked where I was from in the states, and told them Louisiana. I get a blank stare (if it’s not California or New York it’s over their heads) so I say “it’s in the southern US.” I start to see the wheels start cranking in one of their brains, and he slowly leans over and says “hey, can I ask you a question? Is there still like the KKK and stuff down there?” I just laughed and told him if there was, no one takes them seriously anymore. I kind of wish I would have said “sure do! I was at a cross burning just last week!” just to see what kind of reaction I’d get.

In my line of work I come across this from time to time. Usually the individual has burned every bridge from lying to, stealing from, and even hurting loved ones to feed their drug habit. At some point the family gets fed up and no longer want to help someone who doesn’t want to help themselves.

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I don't know about this.


A future Democrat president's going to hang a rainbow on one of them.

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If Trump is paying for them, he can take them when he departs.

I have one of those replicators from Star Trek,

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LSU Tiger Grad 2002

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I’m hearing that they have hearings there every day

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I hear that they have hearings there every day, too, and that at the hearings people hear things that they probably shouldn't hear at hearings.

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During the war my grandfather could talk to the women in French and nobody else could.

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In that tv series Combat! from the 60's one of the main characters was a guy named Caje who was a Cajun and served as the platoon's translator with the Frenchies.

I remember when I was in middle school, we were going home one day and three young scholars threw a brick through one of the bus windows and ran. One girl got cut by glass and hit with the brick, and the boy sitting next to her was also cut by glass. The cops had to come out, an ambulance, and the vice principal. It was a couple of hours before everyone got home. When I told my father about the people who got hurt, he said "if you had been hurt, I'd have to go kill a (insert racial slur here)."

If I had been murdered, I think my old man would have gone an burned down north Baton Rouge.