Just want to say, i never dreamed how bad our country could become. I've NEVER thought

[raging moderate]

43. It's not only Mississippi. My husband and I met many bad racists in small Illinois towns.

About fifty years ago, my husband and I finished studying at Southern Illinois University and found jobs in small towns in Southern Illinois. I remember some of the residents mentioning that there had been some Black residents, but they were gone now; they refused to tell why they were gone. Some teachers praised the head Science Teacher who had just retired; they mentioned that he had taught Creation Science. I volunteered on the local Volunteer Ambulance Squad. These people were better than most residents of that town. After a traffic accident (not during my shift), some of these ambulance volunteers spoke sympathetically about an accident that had left a Black family badly injured. They reported sadly that the Black family was obviously terrified when the ambulance crew first arrived, but gradually relaxed. They said the Black family later mentioned that they had been very scared that an ambulance crew in that area might be very mean to them, and thanked the ambulance crew for being nice to them. Oh, and another man expressed the belief that Adolph Hitler had actually been a very fine man, and the Nazis actually were very fine people who just understood the superiority of "white" people.