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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4570638" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Unfortunately I've seen tape of the guys brought to trial for the murder of those three young activists. They made those bigots in "Mississippi Burning" looked enlightened. I lived in Mississippi for 8 months. I saw open racism at my station. Delivered to a town where a black man was shot dead on his porch by a white man with multiple witnesses who refused to testify. I asked for a transfer before the end of my commitment and got it. This was in '92. Attitudes were like going back 50 years in time. Met a lot of great people in Mississippi, white and black, but the racist whites that are there are a force to be reckoned with. As much as we like to think the Left way overblows things these days there was a time when that sort of stuff was reality across much of the South and pockets of it still exists. Today we have those on the right who say it's a fiction put forth by liberals to attack white Southerners. And those on the Left who say show them a white Southern male and they'll show you a racist, a white supremacist. Those of us who actually live in the South know that most people get along, that there are Christian blacks who put me to shame with how kind and generous they are, and that there are some who will hate me because I'm white no matter what I do, and some whites will do the same towards blacks. My suggestion is to get dogs for friendship and just be decent to everyone around you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 4570638, member: 24302"] Unfortunately I've seen tape of the guys brought to trial for the murder of those three young activists. They made those bigots in "Mississippi Burning" looked enlightened. I lived in Mississippi for 8 months. I saw open racism at my station. Delivered to a town where a black man was shot dead on his porch by a white man with multiple witnesses who refused to testify. I asked for a transfer before the end of my commitment and got it. This was in '92. Attitudes were like going back 50 years in time. Met a lot of great people in Mississippi, white and black, but the racist whites that are there are a force to be reckoned with. As much as we like to think the Left way overblows things these days there was a time when that sort of stuff was reality across much of the South and pockets of it still exists. Today we have those on the right who say it's a fiction put forth by liberals to attack white Southerners. And those on the Left who say show them a white Southern male and they'll show you a racist, a white supremacist. Those of us who actually live in the South know that most people get along, that there are Christian blacks who put me to shame with how kind and generous they are, and that there are some who will hate me because I'm white no matter what I do, and some whites will do the same towards blacks. My suggestion is to get dogs for friendship and just be decent to everyone around you. [/QUOTE]
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