Reply #82: In my mind the jury is still out on whether you're racist or not,

[MadHound]

I don't know you, your attitudes or actions.

However judging by your post, it seems that your definition of racism is, well, wrong. You compare the treatment that a person with a southern accent gets in NYC with racism. Except the trouble is, you can drop that accent, you can learn how to speak without it. You can't change the color of your skin, or your sex, or your sexual orientation.

Plus, there are certain jobs where speaking clearly and professionally is a must. You can be the most intelligent person in the world, but if you can't communicate effectively, you're useless.

As far as white southerners suffering from racism, I'm sorry, but that dog just don't hunt. People ridicule stupidity and ignorance wherever they find it it, north, south, east or west. However given some of the south's recent actions, like proclamation's of Confederate History month, it seems as though the stupid has come to reside below the Mason-Dixon line.