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To: PAR35
13 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.” …

19 posted on 12/20/2013 9:27:46 PM PST by MacNaughton
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To: MacNaughton

Thanks


36 posted on 12/20/2013 9:36:59 PM PST by PAR35
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