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My teacher isn't racist though. Yeah he's white, but he gets along with everybody and is a good history teacher. He's very loud and loves to teach history. Sometimes after notes he plays with Microsoft Speech and does funny stuff. "hey shawty drop it low" is funny in monotone.
I didn't say he was a racist. He is presenting false information, and painting a region from Texas to Florida to Virginia with a broad brush. Basically, because the rest of the world doesn't fit into his mould of what's right, we are a bunch of barefoot, bib overall wearing, with one strap loose, tobacco chewing, missing three front teeth, sitting in a rocking chair, on the front porch with a shotgun, hating anyone or anything that isn't just like us.
That is known as bigotry and prejudice....Sort of like me saying that teachers are a bunch of close minded liberals, who are trying to put false impressions in your head, because they know that you are young and malleable.
I didn't see where he said that at all. The op said that he told them that there were schools in the south that are still like that. Well, being in the south now, I can totally agree with him. Is it ALL of the south? No. But there are definitely large sections of it that are still very openly racist. And I mean openly in that it is perfectly acceptable to use racial slurs in open public conversation and talk about killing blacks who "don't know their place." AND for others in the vicinity who overhear to openly applaud those sentiments.
Where people believe that it is an order from God to stamp out inter-racial relationships and that the Bible is against even associating with different races. That there are diseases that white people can catch if they use the same rest room as a "colored" person. We had a Black delivery driver ask if he could use our rest room at work. As soon as he left, my office manager put on gloves and went in and completely bleached the entire room. She closed down the men's room for several hours so she could clean and disinfect, first with bleach then 2 more times with really concentrated Pine Sol. She didn't want anyone to "catch anything". And we ALWAYS have different men in and out of our workplace. Delivery drivers, people touring the factory, etc etc and NEVER has she felt the need to disinfect after any of them.
Are there people like that in the North? I'm sure those people exist. But entire cities and counties where such behavior is acceptable? Not really. Maybe things said when you know that you are with people with similar views. But here, it is expected that EVERYONE has those views.
