Conservative Southern Values Revived: How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Rule

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65. And whether the promise was true or not of '40 acres and a mule' the plantations should have been...

Broken up and given to the slaves to farm and set up their own communities to live in peace as they deserved. Instead this gang kept on going. Some say it was foreign money that kept them going; I don't know.

All I know is that I grew up in the South and had to listen to racist bullshit every damn day, except in my home where we never allowed such dumbfuckery.

I can't count the number of times I heard the oh, so smug mantra repeated, 'Send them all back to Africa.'

My answer was, 'If the white people hadn't brought them here, they wouldn't be here. But they did. Learn to live it because they ain't going anywhere.'

I never disagreed with black nationalists on a philosophical level. I'd want to be separated from these racist yahoos, too, if I were in their same place.

I think we can do better now, but we have to keep working on it. Man, but I'm tired of trying to school these brats.