Some thoughts of 77 yr old white male from the south

[BabbaTam]

24. from Texas

Yes, been there. In the fifties my mom found me playing down by the creek with some black kids. She quickly whisked me home with no explanation. A couple of years later she yelled at my granmama for using the 'n' word at dinner. She said we didn't use that word in our house. Much later on 'integration Sunday' I was home visiting my parents and in Sunday school with the 'college class', an older man opens the door a bit and sticks his head in. He says, "Don't worry, if any of them try to come to church here, we've got a pew reserved in the back of the church just for them". ( and I thought Methodist were liberals ) During the last election my mother (still kicking) said, "Don't tell your father you voted for a black man." This election she baited me while I was showing her some pictures on my cell phone of Lloyd Doggett speaking. She proudly exclaimed, "I'm voting for Mitt Romney!" I just flipped to the next picture and said, "and this is how big my new hound dog is now." And life goes on in the south.