[snowtigger]

I am two years younger than Phil. I grew up in the same part of the country . I also do not recall seeing Blacks mistreated. I have nothing but respect for those Blacks who picked the cotton and field peas. They were happy to get ANY kind of job in that day and time. So were some Whites.

They worked side by side, until the black WOMEN ran off and left them, with their children riding on their cotton sacks.

Were they happy? I don't know, but they never said anything. My Dad treated them fairly and did not try to cheat them.

[BunnySlippers]

And that was the point.

Phil never said he was speaking for the entire South or for all blacks.

He was merely recounting his own small personal experience which appears ti be true.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Were they happy?

I can't help but notice that people who have regular work, even the very poor, are much happier than those on the welfare dole.