Not going to dig out the quote right now, but something along the lines of how blacks and whites got along better before the civil right movement. Certainly something that the left could/would twist to fit their agenda.
Direct excerpt from the GQ article.
… Phil On Growing Up in Pre-Civil-Rights-Era Louisiana:
“I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field ... They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word! ... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.” …
The newspeak phrase “before civil rights” is how it was described by the Liars on the Left. Phil never said it...
Please don’t parrot them.
He didn’t say squat about the civil rights movement. It was against welfare.
I grew up in a black neighborhood on the east side of Youngstown, Ohio, in the 50’s and 60’s. My friends were black, 90% of them and I NEVER had a problem with any of them. Sure, childhood disagreements, arguments, etc., but by the time the day was over, we were best buds again. Come the mid to late 60’s though (beginning of the civil rights movement), all of a sudden I was the bad guy because I was white and, in their mind, now an oppressor. I got into a lot of bad scrapes at that time, each escalating. My parents finally moved us out of there in ‘69.
What p*ssed me off though, was, these were my friends, my buds, who I NEVER felt superior to because they were black. It was a sad time for me.