It hurts to hear people bash the South (Reply #29)

In the discussion thread: The South's Shocking Hidden History: Thousands of Blacks Forced Into Slavery Until WW2 [View all]

Response to Aristus (Reply #24)

Wed Jan 16, 2013, 12:53 PM

reflection (6,183 posts)

29. It hurts to hear people bash the South

because I have lived here all my life and it hits me personally when I hear it, but I just can't deny it's different here. Like any large group of people, there is a whole spectrum of Southerners ranging from thoughtful, wonderful people to mouth-breathing knuckle draggers, but it's the average that is markedly different than other places.

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72 replies	Author	Time	Post
The South's Shocking Hidden History: Thousands of Blacks Forced Into Slavery Until WW2 [View all]	xchrom	Jan 2013	OP
Slavery never ended	loyalsister	Jan 2013	#1
No, travel down to the Delta and observe the living conditions and "indentured" blacks	Tutonic	Jan 2013	#63
I fully agree	loyalsister	Jan 2013	#66
My father's family were sharecroppers near Meridian, Mississippi	revolution breeze	Jan 2013	#72
Awful	dipsydoodle	Jan 2013	#2
kr	HiPointDem	Jan 2013	#3
Chain gangs are not hidden. Just ignored.	Scootaloo	Jan 2013	#4
Some days I'm ashamed to be an American ...	Scuba	Jan 2013	#5
Our American Holocaust	MrScorpio	Jan 2013	#6
The mass graves are out there, they just need to be found.	Scuba	Jan 2013	#8
Are you referring to burial grounds?	Nye Bevan	Jan 2013	#18
Why would it matter?	Scuba	Jan 2013	#20
Thank you. n/t	1StrongBlackMan	Jan 2013	#32
It doesn't matter. They were robbed of their place in the sun, that they should have had.	freshwest	Jan 2013	#39
Worked to death or executed....what's the difference?...	OldDem2012	Jan 2013	#23
+1 you speak truth. n/t	BlancheSplanchnik	Jan 2013	#47
the noose took the place of gas chambers	SemperEadem	Jan 2013	#12
Our 2nd holocaust.	grahamhgreen	Jan 2013	#54
"we want our country back..."	SemperEadem	Jan 2013	#11
Yeah, they want to live off what they stole from others - their freedom, their labor, their lives.	freshwest	Jan 2013	#40
So so true	Euphoria	Jan 2013	#57
Still happening... disproportionate sentencing for black folks and prison labor...	Luminous Animal	Jan 2013	#53
This is why I have no desire to live in the South.	UnrepentantLiberal	Jan 2013	#7
I live in TN and you are spot on.	reflection	Jan 2013	#15
"Oh, but the South is so put-upon and misunderstood!" in 3...2...1...	Aristus	Jan 2013	#24
It hurts to hear people bash the South	reflection	Jan 2013	#29
I agree. I grew up with a number of things about the South that I loved.	Aristus	Jan 2013	#30
The south is different as any internal colony is different. Other internal colonies include:	HiPointDem	Jan 2013	#61
Me, too, reflection. I had to move back to care for aging parents.	Politicub	Jan 2013	#51
Thank you. Kick. Rec. n/t	Judi Lynn	Jan 2013	#9
that is the country that the tea farts want to be taken back to	SemperEadem	Jan 2013	#10
+1000	Blue_Tires	Jan 2013	#34
Right to Work.	tclambert	Jan 2013	#13
What Martin Luther King, Jr. knew:	freshwest	Jan 2013	#62
K&R	idwiyo	Jan 2013	#14
Thank you so much for posting.	nc4bo	Jan 2013	#16
But, but, states rights!	ellie	Jan 2013	#17
That is EXACTLY what people mean by "states rights"	Hugabear	Jan 2013	#28
Unless one is talking about Marijuana or DOMA	hughee99	Jan 2013	#38
SMH	Mr Dixon	Jan 2013	#19
Slavery Just went corporate with Share-Cropping	JCMach1	Jan 2013	#21
K&R	Solly Mack	Jan 2013	#22
If only the 14 year old black kid had been smoking a joint...many here would applaud his	Romulox	Jan 2013	#25
if the kid was 17 and black and had Skittles, some here would defend his killing	CreekDog	Jan 2013	#27
you are right about that. racism runs deep	noiretextatique	Jan 2013	#45
I must have missed those posts....	BlancheSplanchnik	Jan 2013	#48
I agree, Romulox, combine the "War on Drugs" and for profit prisons and we	Uncle Joe	Jan 2013	#43
I lived in the South in the 50's and 60's and nothing would surprise surprise me about what happened	demosincebirth	Jan 2013	#26
My family oral history has it ...	1StrongBlackMan	Jan 2013	#31
god....	BlancheSplanchnik	Jan 2013	#49
This is sickening...knr	joeybee12	Jan 2013	#33
k&r	shanti	Jan 2013	#35
Rogue government? It can't happen here.	Nuclear Unicorn	Jan 2013	#36
K&R	gollygee	Jan 2013	#37
omg	uponit7771	Jan 2013	#41
Some years back a DUer recommended Douglas Blackmon's Slavery by Another Name	malaise	Jan 2013	#42
Thanks for posting that.	LisaLynne	Jan 2013	#50
Yes, I remember hearing an interview with him when his book came out.	Hissyspit	Jan 2013	#58
It is an excellent book	malaise	Jan 2013	#68
k&r. Thanks for posting this story. I had no idea...	Liberal_in_LA	Jan 2013	#44
They left out The Nadir when we were taught American history. NT.	Warren Stupidity	Jan 2013	#46
rec'd	limpyhobbler	Jan 2013	#52
I saw a documentary that dealt with this on PBS.	Third Doctor	Jan 2013	#55
See post #42.	Hissyspit	Jan 2013	#59
I have read many heartbreaking stories on DU . . .	Brigid	Jan 2013	#56
I always thought this was Jim Crow	caseymoz	Jan 2013	#60
I recently posted some photos..	SouthernDonkey	Jan 2013	#64
K&R	Land Shark	Jan 2013	#65
Grew up in a very liberal state...	im1013	Jan 2013	#67
I remember seeing a TV show decades ago, I think in the 1960s.	drm604	Jan 2013	#69
Yes -- and for a good article about this subject	TuxedoKat	Jan 2013	#71
k/r	marmar	Jan 2013	#70

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