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In reply to the discussion: Conservative blogger posts Obama photo in chains with fried chicken [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)English language as it was spoken many years ago, in the South. When I moved to the northwest, I got my first racist voicemail.
I'm white, but to the wrong number who called me, I must have 'sounded black.' That's what he said, 'Why don't you go back to Africa, or learn to talk white!'
I called my white landlady who was married to a black man, and she listened to it. I was more than a bit shook up at the vehemence. And my naive assumption that racism was mostly a southern problem. She gave me some history so I'd understand.
But with the food things, for some reason the racist think it's different that blacks like the same food as whites do. They like grits, beans, collards, cornbread, sausage and chittlings, too.
It's cognitive dissonance at its worst. They need some face time in front of a mirror.