SC - Byzantine Bread Stamps

[Mordonna22 at aol.com]

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.

Mordonna the Cook,
SunDragon's Western Reaches
Atenveldt
(m.k.a. Buckeye, AZ)