<The good people of Appalachia>
Murdering a decent person census worker at a low level of gummint employment is not done by GOOD people. A bunch of bucktoothed ignorant friggin hillbillies. JMO.
I know the type as I grew up with sundowners in southern Oregon.
<A sundown town is a town that is or was all white on purpose. The term is widely used in the United States in areas from Ohio to Oregon and well into the South. The term came from signs that were allegedly posted stating that people of color had to leave the town by sundown. They are also sometimes known as “sunset towns” or “gray towns”. The term is less common in suburbia and on the East Coast, even though the concept was still prevalent in those places. Residents were often systematically excluded from living in or sometimes even passing through these communities after the sun went down.>
< sundown.afro.illinois.edu;
Possible sundown towns eh? Between Roseburg and Grants Pass up Cow Creek is where I grew up. My Dad hired a black man in 1965 or 1966 a very decent fella. Did not go over to well.
<Originally Posted by gonbck2cali
As far as our business goes...we are actually doing quite well considering our location. We simply can not deal with our customers. The daily dose of racism, ignorance and lack of respect for nature and our environment is not what we want to live with the rest of our lives. Roseburg was apparently a "sundown town" up until about 50 years ago, meaning all Blacks and Jews, Asians, Mexicans, etc. had to leave town by nightfall. I actually had a customer say they would not shop at the store down the street because it was owned by an Indian (east Indian of course) and what happened to good ol caucasian America? In the bank we heard a man say to the teller "Looks like you just got ******ed!" People in Roseburg even resent the Cow Creek Indians,** the only entity making money in the county and donating it back. I am forced to smile and nod my head in feigned acceptance in order to maintain a customer base and I will no longer abide by it. I certainly would not want to raise children in this kind of hateful and ignorant environment.>
**I grew up on Cow Creek 30 miles south of Roseburg. Still remember getting beat up by Luther O. an injun in the 6th grade. <G>
So zincman please do not tell me about how "good" the folk in those types of areas are (the murdering complacent and complicit hangeronner types), in some way a lot of them NOT ALL are bigots, undereducated, under exposed to the world, and just plain F'ing dumber (or more ignorant)than a turd in a cat box.
If I remember right the constitution begins with: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. >>>
I know things have gotten out of hand in WA. DC the last few decades but the people IMO are still the government. And hopefully most of us are decent folk that can use our brains on occasion.
Let the detractors say how bad we are and let them be stars on certain threads with a lot of bookmarks and followers but to me they are seditious crybabies and the true cowards.Railing daily with hate filled posts of baloney is not going to improve things.
Tom |
