Posted on 05/17/2005 10:26:50 AM PDT by Destro
interesting take on the issue
and for counter point...
The REDNECK MANIFESTO: HOW HILLBILLIES HICKS AND WHITE TRASH BECAME AMERICAS SCAPEGOATS by Jim Goad
Take a look at the stereotypical culture of black teens and the reality of redneck teens and you'll find that there really isn't that much of a difference.
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So the plight of the modern blacks is a result of thier acting like conservatives?
Here's a thought... stop whining and get out to do something for yourself. Waiting around for someone to provide you with something you "deserve" or an opportunity is lazy, stupid, and inevitably doomed to failure.
This still boils down to blaming someone else for your own failures.
Gansta Rapper Ice T argues that there is o difference content wise between Gasta Rap and traditional country music from artists like Johnny Cash.
There still is the discrimination against the "redneck" today. Ask any WASP country club golf fan who he'd rather see succeed- Tiger Woods or John Daly.
Heard Sowell being interviewed on Rush's show a month ago. Sowell illustrated his point by noting there were more dairy cows in the civil war era south than in the north. But in the north, there was more cheese and butter (more hard working Germans).
I might not go quite that far, but I'm sure there are a lot of similarities in some songs.
The pathology of the urban underclass is not explained by slandering African culture or by slandering the culture of the Celtic borderlands.
The shiftlessness, laziness, criminality and violence we see today was not in evidence in the 1940s and 1950s. Poor white and poor black Southerners at that time both believed in the virtues of hard work and Christian living and abided by them as well as any other Americans.
What happened was the rise of socialist ideology in the 1960s - the false ideology of pan-Africanism, the idolization of Third World Communist movements, the sexual liberation movement, the victim culture and the paternalism of the Great Society.
Poor black and white Southern men before the 1960s generally married the mothers of their children, avoided drug abuse and crime and went to church on Sunday.
Then race hustlers and poverty pimps encouraged illiteracy, disrespect for law and order, rejection of the work ethic and disdain for traditional Christianity.
The cultural plight of the black underclass was created by white Northerners in universities, not by white sharecroppers on the farm.
Please, we prefer the term, "Agro-Americans" thankyou...
Tiger - then I get to see his wife.
He said it on Conan in terms of gun use and singing about women who are no ood - getting high and their rides.
That's my kind of redneck woman.
Stop and think about what 5 or 6 traits you would say define rednecks. Now think about how many of those traits are also exhibited by young urban blacks.
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