Yesterday left me in despair.

[ananda]

33. Thanks for your story.

My dad's family farmed in the Panhandle in the thirties
and finally had to give it up and move a little south of
Dallas to farm. They had a really hard life.

What's interesting is that Roosevelt and the New Deal
saved their lives. They thought he was God.

But as time went by and life got better, the racism took
hold in a big way so that my dad, my aunts and uncles
all became super rightwingers. It was hard to watch.

That's how it is for a lot of white people in this country.
I'll take anything the government has to offer if I need
it, but I don't want to give or share with Black people
or others who I don't deem worthy.

My uncle was always distinguishing between Blacks
and Mexicans with the term "hard working." You get my
drift.

Racism, bigotry, and intolerance is literally destroying this country.