and get away with it - almost like today

If this is true then why are there still black people alive today? I'm 62 and when I was in school there were no segregated drinking fountains. Those were before my time. Even so my dad ran a plumbing business in Georgia in the 1950's and he hired blacks and whites and paid them both the same. He told me that he preferred hiring blacks because they worked harder than whites. Uh oh.... Did I just blow every prejudiced and preconceived notions that liberals are spoon fed by their overlords?

The meme was not intended to be a personal attack on you or your family. But just because you and your family are not racist doesn't mean bad things don't happen related to prejudice and hate.

I agree. Bad things happen everywhere and for all sorts of reasons. One of them is difference in skin color. I just do not see this country as even close to as racist as the left paints it. I have seen a HUGE change in attitudes in my lifetime.

If this was the 60's I still wouldn't say that this nation is as racist as the left paints it now but it was certainly a whole lot more racist than it is now. I saw it. But I also saw it on both sides. When I was in 4th grade there was a black girl in my class at school. She had some chewing gum and I did just what any kid would have done and asked her for a stick of gum. Just then this other black kid also asked her. She looked at me and said "My people first". I didn't really care because I just wanted a stick of chewing gum but it shocked me enough for me to remember it to this day. I don't recall ever saying or doing anything to her that might have caused such a reaction. And if I race bothered me that much I certainly wouldn't be asking a black girl for anything.

There will always be racists, just like there will always be murderers and rapists. There is just a small part of the population that just cannot stop themselves from being evil. But we don't call everyone a murderer or rapist just because it happens. So why are (by some people) all white being called racists just because it happens?

That's well put. My experiences are entirely different. There were two whole black families where I grew up and they were treated like royalty almost. Smart and athletic, one went to the Olympics. It wasn't until later when visiting Detroit I saw the depravity of man, driving through neighbourhoods with burned out buildings where you don't slow down for a stop sign. But even then, I heard some amazing local blues, my friend and I (the only white folk) welcome. I can't answer your question, only you can. Each person is different.

I never held that one experience against all other blacks. Even my tiny 4th grade mind equated that experience is it just being that girl and not all blacks.

Every black person I have ever met after that has been great.

I never said that. What I am saying is that before you paint the South as every single person as a bunch of redneck racists you might want to actually look at who the people in the South were.

Not everything is black and white (no pun intended). People everywhere have always had their own unique personalities and ideas about things. That is true of the Southern states.

My dad was about as hillbilly as you can get. He was born in a log cabin with a dirt floor in the mountains of north eastern Alabama in 1917. He grew up picking cotton. The only thing missing from the hillbilly image is my grandfather didn't make moonshine. As soon as he graduated high school he left the farm as fast as he could and found his way, during the Great Depression, into plumbing. He eventually started his own plumbing business.

You see, poor whites in the South were treated about as bad as poor blacks. Many times poor whites and poor blacks were close friends.

I don't racism is nearly the problem the left makes it out to be. The left over hypes it, then accuses all Republicans of being racists for a reason. Black votes. That is the ONLY reason why the left is interested in blacks. They certainly have done absolutely nothing to make the lives of blacks better in fact they steal any hope because they need to keep blacks working for them on the vote plantation. But there are lots of platitudes being thrown out that make Democrats look like the civil rights champions they never where. It is the greatest smoke and mirror show ever performed.

And a huge number of blacks are beginning to realize that. Trump got more black votes than any Republican prior to him and after Lyndon Johnson. Because before Johnson blacks were all Republicans because the Republican party is the anti-slavery party. Democrats are the pro-slavery party and still are. They just have changed the type of slavery. Instead of individual people owning other people, it is now the government owing everyone (aka Socialism).

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