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In reply to the discussion: Wow !!! - 'Trayvon Martin: Before The World Heard The Cries' - Reuters [View all]MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)How'd ja know, otherwise?
Actually, this woman went on to marry, have a child and move to TN, where she apparently lives happily ever after. I quit communicating with her after sending her a rather long rant, which I feel must have been quite insulting.
When we worked in Sanford, I believe she continued to believe, as many like her, that there would always be two Americas, the South and the North... She was raised to believe that when things were sooo funny, it was perfectly fine to exclaim, "I laughed so hard, I made nigger babies in my pants"... An otherwise, intelligent person in her profession, but so clueless as to WHAT the hell she had just said. I reminded her of her comment afterwards. I looked at her in disbelief when she said this, and she actually thought the fellow laughing right along with her (who was another supervisor, like she was at the time, but was black) "didn't mind at all!"...
I suppose when you think you're right to keep referring to things as if you're living in the antebellum South, nothing else matters.