This isn't true! I mean come on! Maybe back in the 60s...

[Moochie]

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Call me cynical, but I suspect that your teacher was displaying prejudice and bigotry, while trying to show everyone how erudite she is.

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.

 

[Moochie]

I actually like all those towns. Well, some parts of K-Town needs some tidying up to do. And as much as I love my Korean kin, some of the ladies there need to learn some manners. I've met some mean hags in the markets. It's stuffy in them and I do my best to get the cart we use out of others' way. Although I don't get why some folks don't go around at the really busy spots. It's possible but it seems many of the folks are relying on survival instincts, while they could look to the right of them and say "oh hey!" in Korean, and go along with their day. Eh, well, I'm just raised differently I guess.
I prefer going near Beverly Hills though. Mom would drive by Paramount Pictures and I would awe at the gates, good times. And historic Los Angeles. This has nothing to do with the thread but I'm having fun with my memories.

Hmm I wonder how that chapter would react if scientists found out all the first humans were tan skinned. From a doc I watched, there was an ancestor of ours call cromagnens? They didn't look white in color. Something about when cromagnens and neanderthals come into contact with eachother. That was when I had National Geographic, I miss that channel.

 

[Royd]

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Call me cynical, but I suspect that your teacher was displaying prejudice and bigotry, while trying to show everyone how erudite she is.

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.

 

[redhen]

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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.

Yeah, i get what you mean...

 

[enjoyin' my chickens]

In the town I graduated in the south side school was mainly white and the north side school was mainly black. The other two schools were mixed pretty well.

 

[dainerra]

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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.

 

[EweSheep]

Last time I looked, KKK is still alive.

I had my culture shock when we went to down South....within not even a year, we moved back up North. Just utterly shocking to me, my parents have taught me to "judge" people on their character if you want to remain friends. I have friends of all races, creed and sexual preferences and I treat them like I want to be treated. I thank for my parents in molding me who I am...look past the colors and see the inner personality of people. I have seen enough bad things going on down there...even with the KKK in the act of doing inhumane things to a black couple camping across the lake while we were in GS camp. It was not pleasant to see and to this day, to mention KKK, it burns an image in my head of that night. (no, no one was killed that night but badly beaten up, as I heard later).

On the good side, there is so much to be learned, particuarly when you go visit the plantations of the south, Arcadia Village is one I can remember. An older black woman making bread, grounding corn into cornbread....I kept thinking why are you doing this, and why these black people doing these things while white people sitting on the sidelines? I was only in seventh grade and had NO idea about slavery and how it degrades everyone. I love the people (particuarly the older ones) who has the heart of gold, open their doors to strangers, think nothing of our original state and was able to teach us why the Southern do that and what they do to keep their heritage alive. Oh the good food down in New Awlins is something else!

They hate KKK as much as we do.

In our public schools, the odds are against us. We weren't getting the good education for our daughter (which the schools are highly blacks) but the black students are at the biggest disadvantages when it comes to education. Sure, we would like good people with good goals in mind, regardless of creed, and race or religion. I believe we should give them better teachers, not what the board of education put the poorer quality teachers in poor record and expect them to rise above all others. It happens more often here than others.

 

[conny63malies]

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still happwns just like that . We(white) were told by a realtor we couldnt buy a house because its on the other side of the tracks.. Sherperdsville Ky is still big with the clan and at the Elizabethtown Ky fleamarket were once asked by a klansman if i wanted a N***** hunting license . Needless to say he lost his sale.

 

[darkmatter]

As a Migrant Nuclear Worker with a 30 year career plus overseas military, I can say everyplace has it's viewpoints and opinions that can be shocking to an outside observer. I can't say on this forum what us contractors coming in to an area for work sometimes get called. When I worked in one southern state with a northern license plate, I got called "Yankee" and was surprised at the topics of discussion about the civil war as if it was recent events.

 

[EweSheep]

Not only with this segration how about the USA famous military school that only allowed men? The one and only West Point.

I had some mixed feelings about women going in there...call me old fashioned but can't West Point make a different school for women? I do like the women being equal but tradition plays a part. Why break it?