http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/11/15/in-dixie-the-past-isnt-even-past Comments On: In Dixie, the past isn't even past by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by mrboast]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:38:06 -0600 Arkansas Times
It's not as bad as it used to be, but it's a lot worse than it should be or appears to be. I learned in 2008 and it was a lot worse this time, that my old classmates and many of my dear friends didn't do any transforming like I did. They just got more cleaver and quiet about their dislike.....all the way to hatred of black people. I am amazed and saddened. I'm guessing if your in your 50s to your 80s....you aren't going to transform into anything other than an old racist.

What's funny.....I know some of my classmates, have always been friends with them and I know they never had a horrible experience at the hands of a black person. Why the hate? I don't remember spending a lot of time with them discussing them damn sorry black folks, not even in the 1960s. Like I've said before, I've counted up the awful times in my life and not a single one was caused by a black person. I ought to be scared to death of white men!

Maybe if you ever lost a Civil War it would stick in your craw....though as far as I can tell my family set out the Civil War, never owned slaves, never owned much of anything. I'm proud of where I live warts & all but that doesn't mean I wish the South had won and I could own me some slaves. Well...I don't want to own Beyonce but it's probably the only way I'd ever get a kiss.

I really think the Republicans are going away, death by their own 19th century hands. If they don't there's still a good chance of Civil War 2 because if you talk and talk and talk for decades and a group of people just won't listen or get along, the only option left is to shoot them. That's what happened in 1861 when an unpopular to the South President was elected. It was the last straw and the fighting commenced.

It'll be worse the next time because our weapons are oh so much better and I can just walk across the street and shoot my neighbor....won't have to travel much in Civil War 2. We better figure out a better way to handle our problems. But as I watch old man McCain, Sissyboy Lindsey Graham and the rest of the (r) assholes on my TV it makes me think healing up won't ever happen. Unless he's going to Cheney's doctor, McCain will die soon, but the rest of them will just keep on yappin....... It's very sad and disappointing. I wouldn't mind analogizing to every black person in America if I could.
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:27:55 -0600 Arkansas Times
I'll stand by my statements regarding demographics of racism in the USA. It's still the same.
Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:25:08 -0600 Arkansas Times
Really eLwood? The country twice elected a black man, and we enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1964. These are two examples just off the top of my head.

BTW, where were you last night? You skipped out on my attempt to pay off the bet.
Posted by scrapper72]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:20:23 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:56:23 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:30:53 -0600 Arkansas Times
The petulance out there is palpable, whether it's Romney's whining divisiveness or the insistence that the vote was skewed by those who stayed home.

Romney truly believed that all he had to do was not be Obama. He could even be a Mormon as long as he was white.

The Republican Party has a southern white problem, not the Democrats. Unless failure to attract bigots is a problem.
Posted by Vanessa]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:04:55 -0600 Arkansas Times
Just go into any coffee shop, senior center, volunteer fire department casual meeting and see how often the "n-" word shows up. I remember my dad who once said that the only thing a poor white person had going for them was that they weren't a poor black person. And not realizing that they were both in the same position-just tools for companies to use and abuse. Look at some of eLwood's old encyclopedia items about 10 year old kids being killed at work and it not being the company's fault they were run over or crushed by a company train and that being upheld by the courts.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:14:16 -0600 Arkansas Times
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Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:13:53 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by FullThrottle]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:13:51 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Benji Hardy]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:53:39 -0600 Arkansas Times
The casual tourist sees nothing to suggest the current of savage hatred that flows beneath the genial hospitality of our Ozark villages. "Still waters run deep," as Grandmaw Tolliver used to say, "an* the Devil lays at the bottom."
Posted by Mean Gene]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:31:58 -0600 Arkansas Times