Ok. I will even grant you Georgia, even though it isn't the same as flying it over the capitol building. You won't find a Confederate flag in Austin over the capitol building. Or even many of the old Confederate states. Heck, you will probably find more modified Confederate flags in New Jersey, Ohio and California than you will find in all of the South.
The fact of the matter is that black have had the short and shitty end of the stick in most of the states in this country for a very long time. I will grant you that slavery was no picnic. And certainly, freedom under any condition is better than that. But, there is a big difference between that, and anything that smacks of equality.
Note that most of the riots due to forced integration during the 1960s occurred in the North, rather than the South. Oh, we had them. But the Yankees had more. In some respects, the situation in the South with respect to blacks is similar to Germany with respect to Jews. Those who have any education will fall all over themselves to apologize for past behavior. Whether justified or not.
Because slavery was wrong. As was what happened to the Jews, Gypsy's and the others in Nazi Germany. And yes, there is still lingering resentment towards those groups, even today. Blacks do have problems in the South. But they have problems outside of the South. In some respects, their problems may be even greater. At least in the South, there is not quite the economic disparity that exists in the rest of the country. As Harris has pointed out, these days we go to the same churches, work for the same employers and get buried in the same cemeteries. There likely aren't many Northern communities that can say the same.
Except for the tokens who managed to claw their way to the top.
You know, the "substantial property" group.
I have had this discussion with natives of the old North before. The fact of the matter is that your history education is, if anything, more whitewashed than ours. Unless you study history post high school, you have a biased background. Was the old South perfect? No. We can both agree on that. It was great for those who had money, but that was true of the North. At least during the Civil War, the wealthy Southerners were expected to contribute both money and bodies, something that wealthy Northerners were able to avoid. |
