Ack wrote:Luke wrote:Ack wrote:Now if you all could just get over all the South bashing, maybe we'd be getting somewhere.
Truth is, I've never seen more racism than in the South. It deserves the bash. That in mind, I can only compare it to the Midwest.
Yeah, but you folks make it seem like I'm out cross burning when I'm not playing video games. I mean, from some of the stuff I've seen on here, I'm apparently some cheap beer-swilling Nascar-fanatic Klansman with a third grade education and three teeth balls deep in my sister.
Yes, I've seen racism in the South. I've seen white on black, black on white, white on asian, asian on white, asian on black, black on asian, latino on white, latino on black, black on latino, white on latino, latino on asian, asian on latino, so on and so forth. I've also seen the horror and the aftermath of racism, where people come together and rally against it. Growing up in a state that was torn apart from racial strife 40 years ago, I've also seen the positive and negative response to it. I've walked down the same streets where years before people were getting beaten just for wanting to drink from the same water fountain, stood in churches once blown apart by bombs over the color of the congregation, and walked throw the doorway a governor once stood in to stop black students from attending.
Apparently all of this has left some sort of black mark on my soul, where I and all the people from where I come from must be criticized and ridiculed solely because I happen to have grown up in an area still plagued by the repercussions of years of instituted racism.
I was born in North Carolina, raised in Alabama, and take great pride in where I'm from. I understand the problems my home faces, and for long periods of time I have wanted nothing more than to run away from it and never look back. I've seen firsthand the hypocrisy of the churches you all seem to love to insult so much, and I've also seen the love and charity of these organizations and how they come together to help those in the worst of times. As a matter of fact there will be a gathering of church congregations tomorrow to help provide food for those who are unable to work over the Gulf oil crisis, regardless of the color of their skin. You want to bash them and the region they're from, fine, but realize they're doing a whole hell of a lot more good than you are.
I also understand the struggles facing my state and the battles over how to solve them. My state's government lacks funding for nearly anything, our schools have no money, and our municipalities are struggling to take loans to make up for the lacking revenue. Along the coast businesses are dying out because for all the help BP says they're giving, they haven't helped large sections of places. The claim they haven't rejected a single claim is true, because instead they're holding many of them in limbo. Whole industries are dying out down here over this mess, and nobody knows what it's doing to our environment.
We've got problems and we know it. What we don't need is you all making snarky remarks from your high horses about what we're like and how terrible we all are down here. You want to talk about how terrible all this racism towards Arabs and all this anti-Muslim sentiment, and then some of you turn right around and insult me and my own for some of the same shit you were just self-righteously condemning.
And for the record, I hardly ever drink alcohol, I hate Nascar, I went to one of the best high schools in the US, I hold two degrees from respected universities, I have all my teeth, I've never even seen a Klan rally, and I don't have a sister, but I can God damn guarantee I wouldn't fuck her if I did.
