In the old days this was reality. Liberals can’t deal with reality. It is what it is—a slice of one world in one region of the country. So many stories. So many peoples. So many places. This just one story. Liberals can’t seem to grasp that some things are complicated and has several layers.
I’m a conservative realist. I don’t have my head up my butt ignoring what happened in our past.
The only real, actual KKK - lovin’ people I ever encountered in my life were Democrats in Washington County Maryland. When I was in my 20’s.
My parents were lily-white people who were Goldwater, then Nixon, then Reagan Republicans in lily-white Illinois (country)... but my parents had great friends who were black and in a traveling band. I’ll never forget my “uncle” Rudy Hunter who my mother called “her brother”. When my parents lived in Waterloo, Iowa... they were surrounded by Democrats... in fact, the developer was going to name the street Kennedy Court and my dad said, “if you do that...I won’t buy the house” ... so there’s a street in Waterloo, Iowa named after my family. When my parents hosted Rudy’s family there, the democrat families around wouldn’t let their kids come over to our house because “those nigger kids” were there. I have pictures of me at one ... with one of “those kids” I call it, “Your hair is nappy” ... because I am reaching out to touch his hair.
I’ll never forget being ten and dancing to Rudy singing “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.”
I am really very lucky. I left Illinois for DC and over to Europe and back to the East Coast and now am back in Illinois.
And my parents never taught me to hate or fear a thing.
I was born in 1970. I’m sure many on Free Republic are older... but don’t worry. We are going to be the frontlines. We will be united in our principles and we will NOT see color.
Don’t worry.... if there’s a “race war”... no race is going to lose it.