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To: koan who wrote (9573)	2/4/2017 7:49:05 PM
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>> People always talk about the southern hospitality, but tell that to the African American; for 100 years the South refused to end segregation. Segregation was such a horrible thing that it simply trumps anything else that is wonderful those people did i.e. if they are racist. OF the vast number of blacks I know and have known over the years, I don't know of one who feels that way. There are certainly some younger blacks who do, those who hear it in pop culture. But most adult blacks in the South do not. No normal black adult feels the way you suggest. Those I went to school with are facebook friends just like my white friends. I'm going to run over to the racetrack for a little while, and I will sit amongst blacks and whites who are drinking beers and talking racehorses together, discussing underlays and overlays, and we don't know each other but no one is hostile or talking about what happened in the 50s. Hell, most of them were kids in the 50s just like I was. I'm just going to tell you. You have no idea how African Americans in the South live. You are ignorant of this subject, and you really would do well not to discuss it unless you want to ask questions of those of us who do know something about it. I don't know where you live or where you are getting this information. It sounds like something you would have gotten from that idiot Howard Zinn who had no idea WTF he was talking about, either. Seriously, if you're going to lay out these accusations to stir stuff up, then that is your prerogative. But they area total bullshit. When I rode to my poor brother's funeral 20 years ago, there were as many blacks as whites and those blacks weren't mourning for their own selves. They were mourning for a white man who was as good as gold. When I took over his job I had black clients come in and bawl their eyes out and tell me my brother was their "best friend." These are not people walking about wringing their hands about what happened 100 years ago. I think you are are either a stubborn old ignorant bastard or just an idiot for repeating this nonsense over and over.