Good Lord, probably shouldn't have opened this thread !
My family is from Vicksburg, Ms, I learned alot about racism
In the 70s when I was young, I also learned what side of the arches to
stay once it got dark. People will find an excuse to be evil and full of hate.
Some of my fondest memories were on the river , selling catfish, turtles,
and black market gators to the river rat houses, predominantly these
we're black folks or a mixture of black, white and some native
Americans, Cajuns is what they were called. There was no such
thing on the river as black or white, all of us were fisherman, color didn't matter.
That was on the river.....now on the other side of the stone arches on highway 80,
It was a different world, pure evil existed because it could.
I find it interesting that I cannot be proud of my mixed heratage
and mention it without becoming a racist but a person of African desert can do
so without any retribution. Something is Souray wrong here !
I guess I don't know what side of the arches I'm on. Before I moved to MS you cautioned me, Buzzard, about how racist it was.
But since I've moved here I've seen the exact opposite. When I lived in NY, I didn't know a soul who didn't refer to black people by the N word, since moving here I've only heard it a few times, and most of those times were black people saying it.
On the day we moved down here, I said to Pete I don't think we're in IL anymore.. he asked why and I said look, there are black road workers... black people in Gov't jobs! In IL, those were all reserved for whites.
In IL, white store managers would make comments about it "getting too dark in here" when their newer assistant managers hired black workers.... down here it's common to see BLACK store managers (I work for one) which is rarely seen up north.
If you think MS is racist, Buzz, I think you need to get out more.
