Race relations: Better in the South than North!

wnd.com ^ | 8/22/2017 | Barry Farber

[rktman]

If you were born anywhere north of Baltimore, you won’t believe a word of this. And that’s unfortunate, because the survival of our America may depend on enough Americans realizing I’m right.

There are, indeed, those who brandish the Confederate flag with the same diseased passion as some Germans revere the swastika. That same crowd will spring to their feet defiantly when the band plays “Dixie.” And there are those who would gladly volunteer to take their shotguns and guard the local statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee during the overnight shift. Don’t deny it, You All, there are such people. Fortunately, they are overwhelmed in numbers and influence by Southerners like me.

I was born in the South. I grew up in the South. I have waved the Confederate flag – the “Stars and Bars” – at many a college football game even though you Yankees laughed uproariously when we waved our Confederate flags in the faces of opponents from farther south than we were! I can sing, not just “Dixie,” but over a dozen songs about the South. And my favorite un-published manuscript is the one by a history professor in South Carolina entitled, “An Objective History of the War Between the States from the Southern Point of View”!

Now here’s what you won’t believe. There’s not a racist corpuscle in my entire bloodstream. My attitude contains zero white-supremacy, hatred of Lincoln, Grant or even Sherman, nor resentment of the North. And zero doesn’t mean “very little.” Zero means nothing.

[rktman]

Mr. Farber is correct. Anyone that has spent significant time in the deep south knows these things. Of course there are pockets of individuals who are racists everywhere across the country. But having been to both parts of the country, I always found higher tensions in the north/north east than in some places in deep Mississippi. And over the past 12 to 14 years things have been on the decline. So today, President Trump will be in Reno to talk to the American Legion folks. Already, the assclowns are gearing up to embarrass the city again. He will be hatefully greeted by people preaching hate and toting signs decrying hate while in full hate mode. Yes, the are idiots. A lot of them have been picking apart his talk in Phoenix last night without ever even listening to it. As predicted by Trump. Just snippets and unconfirmed accusations. Typical.

[struggle]

Lived 4 years in Mississippi. Taught at an all black high school. Never saw the Clan.

[outinyellowdogcountry]

Will read later but as a kid I remember watching the horrible riots in BOSTON when bussing kids to mix integrate schools. Bussing was not smart but the violence was much worse than in south.

[Ken Regis]

I’ve been saying this for two decades.

[Red Badger]

Yankees are more racist than Southerners ever were.

You will see more mixed race couples down here in The South that up north.

The late poet laureate Maya Angelou observed that Southerners and northerners reacted differently to blacks in America.

She noted that Southerners liked blacks on an individual basis, but not as a group. They would have black friends and associates on a one-on-one basis.

But northerners were exactly opposite. They liked blacks as a group, but not on an individual basis. IOW, not next door and not my friend..................

[DiogenesLamp]

"Although it wrenches my soul to confront it, there are reasons why the South has so often been wracked by racial rioting—by outpourings of the rage of the downtrodden against an unjust civilization. However much the states of the old Confederacy may seek to deny it, they cannot. People do not take to the streets, burn their homes and cities, unless pressed beyond forbearance by the cruelty of the oppressor’s iron fist.

Thus these eruptions of racial desperation have occurred all across Dixie: in Detroit, Ferguson, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Washington DC, Watts, St. Louis, Cincinnati. Yes. Though I am a son of the Southland, I will not lie. The truth is the truth. I bow my head in shame.

And I am further forced to own that, while the black population of the North prospers, and mingles easily with its white brethren in casual but sincere amity, in the South the Negro huddles in the slums, denied schooling, and living on the meager charity of whites. Should you doubt this, look to Newark, Trenton, Camden, Detroit, Chicago, Flint, Gary. The flowering of blacks in the North a century and a half after the end of the Civil War, the rise in scholarly achievement, the frequent and accepted intermarriage of the races—here we have irrefutable proof of the superior moral culture of the North."

https://fredoneverything.org/a-southerner-repents/

[Wonder Warthog]

Heh....Fred nails it.

I have a nephew (Baton Rouge native) married to a black girl. The weekly paper that served my home town had front-page coverage of a recent family reunion of a very old Creole plantation lineage. The reunion coverage and the accompanying photos included both the white AND "free people of color" cousins.

[Jimmy The Snake]

Only Clan member I ever met was in CT. I lived in GA for 20 years. More racists in New England than anywhere.

[Leep]

When I first started spending time down south I thought their hospitality was just a put on. But it’s not .they are friendlier and trusting then nothetners.
I think northerners are grumpier due, in part cause of our long hard winters..but also because how we are raise.

[cgbg]

New England cities are highly segregated.

Just pick one at random and visit for yourself.

[al_c]

This map supports this article.

Also, why would so many blacks choose to live in the south if it was so racist?

[RegulatorCountry]

I just got back from a week in the 4x4 area of the northern Outer Banks in North Carolina. No paved roads whatsoever, state highway 12 is the beach. Don't Tread On Me flags, Confederate battle flags, even skull and crossbones pirate Confederate flags were everywhere, on backs of 4x4's, on flagpoles of beach houses, you name it.

Very popular place, and not just with those who live there or were renting beach houses. People drive up just for the day, or rent a Jeep to come up from the very groomed and resort-ey beach towns just to the south, Corolla and Duck. There were also a fair number of black people there, and get this, they didn't seem particularly disturbed and they certainly didn't appear to be uncomfortable in the least.

They were enjoying their day on the beach in their 4x4's just like everybody else, swimming, fishing, taking a walk, looking for seashells, playing volleyball, throwing frisbees, you know, what people do at the beach.

[DiogenesLamp]

Heh....Fred nails it.

I thought it was hilarious the first time I read it. He totally flips the script on conditions in the North vs South.

The North was always way more racist than the South. They just have better press.

I have a nephew (Baton Rouge native) married to a black girl.

Actually, so do I. My nephew is only a year younger than myself, and he and I grew up together with a relationship more like brothers than Uncle/Nephew.

The weekly paper that served my home town had front-page coverage of a recent family reunion of a very old Creole plantation lineage. The reunion coverage and the accompanying photos included both the white AND "free people of color" cousins.

Well that obviously can't be right because all you Southerners are "racists." The New York media tells us this all the time!

:)

[rktman]

Well, I too lived in MS and the particular town, in the late 70’s early 80’s, the klan would be on the street corners trying to raise money on a rare occasion and north of town there was an open field with a steel cross that was gas fed and they did, on occasion, hold rallies there. I would raise the hair on the back of my neck when I saw it. Now, I’m sure there are still some that are like that. But, I also know folks that were raised in NYC and Detroit that are racist as all get out.

[buckalfa]

I spent my childhood in segregated Memphis. Spent most of my adult life in lily white south east Ohio and West Virginia. Now live in Upstate South Carolina, which at least in terms of jobs and neighborhoods, is quite racially and ethnically diverse. Socialization, on the other hand, tends to be still segregated.

[Hojczyk]

I live in a small town on the SW coast of Florida...

There is no evidence of racism here...Kids here seem to all get along...blacks with whites and Hispanics with whites and blacks..

They have great high school sports teams in the area..

Blacks in this area are not in one area like Tampa

I think a lot has to do with the school system..

Great schools better than my grand kids in Mass..

They do not teach America sucks down here..

There are a few democrats who want to get rid of statues but I think it will fail..

[Karoo]

I’m from the South, raised in the South and worked in the South. I can tell you that the Black people I know are so much fun. Whites tend to be reserved in my generation, but Blacks are down to earth and very caring for all. Just good people. In pains me to see how the movies portray Southern Blacks and Whites.

[RightGeek]

[rktman]

LOL! The old birds of a feather deal. Back in the late 70’s I was playing guitar with a country band near the MS/LA border area. Out bass player and sax player were both black guys. At a vfw one night, the drummer and I overheard a couple of old guys at the bar bitching that we had brought them “N’s” in there. We told the rest of the band what we heard and we packed up and left without ever playing a note. Unanimous decision.

[BeadCounter]

Klan is all over the South and yes, in places in the North too. How does Mr. Farber dismiss this?