<<Sure it didn't end in the 60's - not in the South, and certainly not anywhere else, either. And that is my point. You concentrate your criticism on the South, and overlook the racism that still exists in the rest of the country.>>
That's totally ridiculous. It's like saying there's antisemitism all over the world, so why all this criticism concentrated on Germany? The criticism was concentrated on the South because the racism was infinitely worse in the South than anywhere else. And if racsism is gradually being rolled back all over the world, when you freeze the process at any one point in time to take a snapshot, you are going to find that it's still abysmally worse in the South because they started off so far behind all the rest of us.
<<Here's a news flash for you, Tee - you don't have to tell me about racism in the South. I've lived here practically all my life. Certainly it hasn't gone away, but I can tell you it's a hell of a lot better than it was, and it is getting better all the time. You just don't seem smart enough to realize we're not living in the fifties, or even the sixties, anymore. The times, they are a-changin', my friend, and while it may take more than two or three generations, we're a lot further along than you think.>>
That's highly debatable. Racism that deep just doesn't vanish in a generation or two. If you chose to learn nothing from the recent exposures of Trent Lott and Senator Macacawitz, that's your problem. They are more representative of the REAL "new South" than all the BS and hot air of its defenders.
<<In the meantime, take the blinders off and look around you up Nawth. You might be surprised to find people up there aren't really that far ahead of us.>>
I'd say that until Northern racists drag a black man chained to a truck till his head comes off, and until the North produces senators like Macacawitz and Lott, I would think that nobody in his right mind could think for even a minute that the North wasn't really that far ahead of the South. The North really is "that far ahead" of the South, and all the wishful thinking and dreaming of "Dixie" ain't gonna change that by one iota.
