Left The Klan on the 1950sI'll just leave this here and show myself out.
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Said joining the klan was the biggest mistake of his life
Told other white southerners not to join the klan
Supported Barack Obama for President
Left The Klan on the 1950sI'll just leave this here and show myself out.
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I'll just leave this here and show myself out.
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I read somewhere that there were something like 20 rally participants and literally hundreds of media ?
I grew up in the South and returned a few years ago to the South. 28 years in total. Went to graduate school and worked in Chicago.
This is strictly anecdotal - but I have never seen or heard of a Klansman or a Klan rally and I have never seen a burnt cross or any of that silly nonsense. I’m sure there are racists here (as there would be anywhere) but I personally in my own mind do not see how a person could hold a job successfully or manage a business in the South whilst being racist. The population is 50 percent Black. You really have no choice but to be courteous and accommodating in the modern South. You’d fail or get your ass fired otherwise. I see strangers holding doors, saying ma’am and sir, and being courteous to each other.
Regional college football rivalries excluded because that is just a whole ‘nother matter.
I read somewhere that there were something like 20 rally participants and literally hundreds of media ?
I grew up in the South and returned a few years ago to the South. 28 years in total. Went to graduate school and worked in Chicago.
This is strictly anecdotal - but I have never seen or heard of a Klansman or a Klan rally and I have never seen a burnt cross or any of that silly nonsense. I’m sure there are racists here (as there would be anywhere) but I personally in my own mind do not see how a person could hold a job successfully or manage a business in the South whilst being racist. The population is 50 percent Black. You really have no choice but to be courteous and accommodating in the modern South. You’d fail or get your ass fired otherwise. I see strangers holding doors, saying ma’am and sir, and being courteous to each other.
Regional college football rivalries excluded because that is just a whole ‘nother matter.
but they really believe that most white people are racist .
Yet the south is flooded with confederate flags,monuments, schools and streets named after confederate leaders who fought to keep blacks enslaved and most southerners consider them heros .Im sure you dont see any of that eithier.
Get it straight,white republicans not most whites.
Flags - nil. I’ve seen maybe one the past three years and that was on a deck boat under a pirate flag. Monuments - a few in very scattered locations; you’d have to drive quite a distance to find one. Schools and streets - very rare.
I’ve seen more highways, streets, public buildings, and schools named after MLK and civil rights leaders down South than I ever saw in the Chicago area.
You must not go to trump ralliesFlags - nil. I’ve seen maybe one the past three years