Posted on 12/29/2020 5:57:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Yesterday, I wrote about a New York Times story that focused on an 18-year-old boy from an affluent Virginia community who sat for a year on an old 3-second private video in which a classmate, when she was 15, used a racial slur because she thought the word made her cool and “grown-up.” My post focused on the behavior of the Times and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for validating this cruel and immature behavior. Robert Stacy McCain noticed something else foul about the article: It’s part of the New York Times's consistent pattern of demeaning the Southern states.
I take this seriously because I have spent some of the happiest years of my life in the South and the Southwest, and have come away with a deep appreciation for Southerners and Southern culture. It also matters because Democrats use the South as a strawman for their anti-white racism.
Here’s what McCain has to say about the Times’ approach to all things Southern: If you are not a Southerner, or if you pay no attention to the New York Times, you may be unfamiliar with that newspaper’s long tradition of invoking slavery, the Civil War, and Jim Crow as a means of insinuating the South’s permanent status of moral inferiority. As a native of Atlanta — and by “native,” I mean, literally born there, as opposed to most of the city’s current residents, who moved there from up North somewhere — this sense of hereditary stigma is something I’ve resented since I was old enough to notice it. Because our national media establishment is mainly headquartered in New York, this insulting anti-Southern prejudice is taken for granted by most journalists, who seem incapable of reporting any story below the Potomac River without bringing up lynching, segregation,
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Try being from Alabama. The sister/wife jokes are unbearable.
Well, at least you’re not an auburn fan!
Not everyone is fortunate enough to be from Alabama.
Roll Tide.
RLTW
Now, it is the War of Coastal Suppression against the fly-over country.
It was the democrats not the south which practiced slavery. The South was held hostage by democrats.
The author should also remember the Times being that great deal sympathetic to the South during the Civil War and that in turn very reflective of attitudes in New York City at the time as many business interests there depended upon the slavery based economy for trade in and out of New York Harbor.
Roll Eagle!
War Tide!
The War of Coastal Oppression. That is an excellent name and description for what is occurring.
“Try being from Alabama. The sister/wife jokes are unbearable.”
Not if you live here.
If it helps, I used to joke, “in America, if you marry your sister it’s called incest. If you do that in England, it’s called royalty.”
“The War of Coastal Oppression. That is an excellent name and description for what is occurring.”
Yes. What DID occur and is occurring now against the south AND fly-over country.
...and now the democrats are occupying America’s cities.
Every ship carrying slaves that was registered in the USA and home ported in New England.
The truth of the matter is that the War Between the States has never ended.
I am southern, grew up in the North and had to hide my accent, attempting to perfect it in the TV News anchor styles. For the most part, I did okay as long as I was careful but every now & then, I slipped. And then.....
Then I moved to the South, now I was a “Yankee”. In Houston, there is a war between the Blacks and the Hispanics, and then between both of those cultures and the Whites. When I was a teacher, I stood between these races to distract them from each other or arguments would happen.
How any of the other cultures made it through - Viet Namese, Sudanese, Caribbean, etc. escaped me. I didn’t understand racism then. I don’t understand it now.
All I know is that there are “no go” places in this country based on the color of one’s skin and accent. The War Between the States and all the things it represented and brought with it: bigotry, hatred, division, ignorance, racism, self-righteousness - pick one - never ended; it’s like the bamboo pole stuck in the ground. You pull it to one side & it bounces back to the other and then back again from where it came & keeps on going.
How does a society ever stop that swing?
New York Grimes. Excellent cat box liner.
That is the thing with northern RINO occupational licensing corruption business, that chamber of commerce loves the illegals and slave business.
Southern cities like Charleston, SC, had thriving ship-building & shipping industries which began to fade away at about the same time (1807) the United States made it illegal to import slaves from abroad.
Restoring both the international slave-trade and Southern shipping was a major objective of secessionists in 1860.
In Minnesota, it’s called Islam.
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