Who does your friend, Mr. Henry, think he's fooling? Southern whites usually were never unpleasant to their blackies so long as they knew their place. It was only when they wanted equal treatment did the problems start, or do you think all the racial tensions of the '60s and '70s have disappeared? In fact, just a few months ago a woman from Arkansas said on national tv she didn't realize it was wrong to call blacks niggers growing up.......she's 20. And forget Affirmative Action......why should we give those niggers, I mean blacks any kind of edge. Its just plain unAmerican.
So save your tall tales for German medical students.
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"A few summers ago, we met three German medical students, who visited friends of ours at a summer cottage on the north shore of Massachusetts. After-dinner conversation turned to cultural topics. I recounted an anecdote told [to] me by a female Baptist minister, originally from Alabama, now living in Boston, who had met a black man on a bus. The black man, who was also from Alabama, was drawn to her by her accent, and complained that Boston was a racially chilly city, that he missed the easy ways blacks and whites got along down South.
"This anecdote caused an absolute explosion of fury in our summer conversation. It could not be true. Alabama? Bull Conner, fire hoses, police dogs? No, no African-American could possibly express fondness for Alabama. One of the med students, Indian by background, but now thoroughly assimilated to Germany, began a tirade of condemnation of race relations in the United States, a condemnation more suited to the conditions of the Jim Crow 1950s than the 21st century. His impression of us was frozen in the images of brutal old black and white newsreels."
-- Lawrence Henry, writing on "Hating America," Friday in the American Spectator Online at www.spectator.org |
