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. Im with the blacks, because were white trash. Were going across the field ... Theyre singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, I tell you what: These doggone white peoplenot a word! ... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.
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