I got no sleep tonight, so I’m remembering all these stories from my past. Back in Canada, I met these two students from the US, twins. They were from a well-to-do East Coast family. Passionate Bill-Clintonites. (This was in 1999.)
These women were the biggest racists I have ever met in my life. It’s like they couldn’t open their mouths without letting out some racist barbarity. They trashed African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans. They even had shit to say about Australian Aborigines. It was insane.
I obviously wasn’t friends with them but we were in the same classes. Once they overheard me telling my friend, “So I went to lunch with John and he told me. . .”
“You are speaking to John!” one of the sisters exclaimed. “Eww!”
“What?” I said. “What’s wrong with John?”
“He’s from Georgia,” the other twin explained. “You are not from the US, so you probably don’t know. Those people are all racists!”
The most hilarious part about this whole thing was that during the lunch in question “the racist Georgian” John told me that he’d just gotten engaged to his black girlfriend.
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Go find some episodes of “The Squidbillies” and get back to us about “Georgia, the State” …
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Yes, I meant Georgia the state. Not Georgia the country. Those people are all racists. 😅😅😅
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Yes, and the fascinating thing about “Squidbillies” is that it’s produced in Atlanta, the capital of “Georgia, the State” …
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[… and no matter where you go, there will always be some wisearse who says, “yah shar dew tawlk funneh, yaynt frumround ‘ere arrryeh?”]
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Trashing Southerners is one of the main ways of excusing one’s own bigotry in US.
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“Trashing Southerners is one of the main ways of excusing one’s own bigotry”
Yup. Many southerners do go out of their way to maintain the negative stereotypes but on the whole east of the mississippi I don’t think white southerners are really more racist than white northerners (not saying much but still….)
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Very true. Racism is not limited to a certain region. Unfortunately.
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There’s also something to be said for being able to talk to a person of another race, or sit next to them and so on. Many of these self-righteous Yankees cannot do that, even when they know how to articulate a non-racist position and claim it
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And it’s the same with immigrants. I know people who’d go on and on about how pro-immigrant they are but they’d never have an immigrant over at their house.
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Oh yes. I’ve noticed that the more people show disgust with southerners the more likely they are to be bigoted.
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Ah, northern racists.
Most sundown towns are in the north.
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The worst thing is how often they feel superior to other, “less sophisticated” people.
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