The Runaway Slave’s Lament

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2. I'm an old white guy who grew up in Los Angeles in the 50s.

And I am most definitely the beneficiary of all sorts of privilege.

LA was at the time a stirring mix of Southern, Northern, and Western sexism, racism, and other forms of bigotry, as I like to say we had names for everybody. Dixie was quite popular when I was young. Camptown Races, Joel Chandler Harris, all that.

So I don't run my mouth about such things, or complain, I listen.

However I do know what you mean. Few realize today that abolition was very much a religious movement, the Battle Hymn of the Republic ...

And I did find that sanctimonious Northern attitude jarring reading about it in Mr. Lee's piece.

I do like Mr. Lee a lot, he writes well and has diverse interests.