SC - Reuses for leftover worms

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Mordonna22 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 3/14/2000 10:40:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> phlip at morganco.net writes:
> 
> <<
>  I think we might make a modern parallel with the attitude of Northern and
>  Southern US Americans towards US blacks and slavery. Much of the impetus
>  towards freedom of the slaves came from the Northerners, most of whom had
>  never seen a black slave, but after the freeing, when many blacks moved to
>  the North and were competing for jobs and livelihoods, they were treated as
>  intruders, worse than the Southerners had treated them. On the other hand,
>  in the South, most black folk are treated as people who belong there,
>  although the poorer whites try to emphasize their superiority by virtue of
>  race.
>   >>
> 
> That's a huge oversimplification of the "race problem", but, for the most
> part, pretty much what I have experienced.  Except, I would not say that last
> phrase is quite what I've seen.  I've seen a lot of "poor" Southerners who
> are totally not race-concious, and a lot of the "Old Money" types who are
> rabidly so.

Wow! I missed this when the topic was first raised. I'm torn between
rolling up my sleeves and having a go at this conversation, and asking
that we Don't Go There. Can we Not Go There, please, at least not here
and now?
 
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com