tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576200516116402874.post3198682147575903984..comments2023-10-30T07:45:59.446-04:00Comments on Termites of Sin: Paula Dean and the Civil Rights MovementMr. Charlestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17497415823443875308noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576200516116402874.post-80878123307391427982013-06-29T18:07:33.680-04:002013-06-29T18:07:33.680-04:00I think the hidden racist is more damaging that th...I think the hidden racist is more damaging that the one that is in your face..like the supreme court.yellowdoggrannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14906624317290990109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576200516116402874.post-62129412662899937792013-06-28T15:15:27.794-04:002013-06-28T15:15:27.794-04:00Well put. Totally agree.Well put. Totally agree.Mr. Charlestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17497415823443875308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576200516116402874.post-31782523068953129152013-06-28T13:00:19.662-04:002013-06-28T13:00:19.662-04:00"You cannot single out one part of the countr..."You cannot single out one part of the country for special treatment over another no matter how 'justified.'" I agree. I think the exception clause to the Voting Rights Act should apply to all fifty states. Progress has been made since the 1960s, but not enough. And that's true in the north as well as the south. Northerners are just more coy and more discreet about their racism than southerners are; they're not any less racist.Tom Harperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05610417770240609022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576200516116402874.post-55500709719660254762013-06-27T14:08:33.978-04:002013-06-27T14:08:33.978-04:00Of course there are no simple answers, but two thi...Of course there are no simple answers, but two things come immediately to mind. First, I'll bet that even though very poor, those families in Kentucky were still a family. 70% of the men didn't just bail on their parental responsibilities. Second, I grew up in a pretty poor family, the black folks up the road from us were as well off as we, and all of us, them and we, turned out as productive citizens with moral values of responsibility to self and family. Those values are nearly totally lacking in the black sub-culture and I don't know why.Mr. Charlestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17497415823443875308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576200516116402874.post-26445786575087880132013-06-27T14:00:41.296-04:002013-06-27T14:00:41.296-04:00Well putWell putMr. Charlestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17497415823443875308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576200516116402874.post-54644311581904000712013-06-27T09:39:16.373-04:002013-06-27T09:39:16.373-04:00i agree with marks last statement...
i had an exp...i agree with marks last statement...<br /><br />i had an experience a couple years ago that always gives me a bit of perspective...i was building houses in harlan kentucky...an old mining town impoverished after the mine left...and i cant remember the poverty rate but its really high...and as we were talking i asked why they just did not leave and go somewhere they could get a job that paid better...but it was all they ever knew...it was what they were raised in...it was what they learned...i do believe environment plays a factor...i believe that the community you live in and its attitudes (including parents) play a factor...<br /><br />i differ in that i think this does go back to slavery and even further into our history defining most all of us...those who have rule, those who dont work for them...and find their ways to escape that reality the best they can with stupid decisions...people typically stay in their crab pots except those allowed to break free when they have something to offer of worthBrian Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722940075884718007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576200516116402874.post-43166224948844302602013-06-27T07:05:49.990-04:002013-06-27T07:05:49.990-04:00I refuse to brand the dysfunction in an impoverish...I refuse to brand the dysfunction in an impoverished Black community racism. 50 years ago I may have, especially here where there was no entrepreneurial capital that banks would make available, but there were other ways that could have been overcome in a single generation. If education through to and including advanced degrees was prized and valued as much as getting high, if The programs of The Great Society had been term limited instead of becoming multigenerational ways of life, if guns had not been produced in mass quantities and pushed as the ultimate symbol of machismo masculinity, if the assholes of the religious right had allowed science to be taught in sex education classes rather than their perverted version of morality, if all races would stop pre-naming themselves with some subculture label instead of what we are Americans, if the true lasting ignorance of having to have someone to look down on to validate your worth died quickly rather than this slow lingering centuries long death, maybe just maybe there would be no racial, cultural, class warfare among us. <br /><br />Until then we are as we are a directionless herd turned and driven to self immolation by the loudest voice in the room.the walking manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10058913927297370740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576200516116402874.post-67210643245518584112013-06-27T06:31:15.087-04:002013-06-27T06:31:15.087-04:00There surely is more to it than that... but what i...There surely is more to it than that... but what is it? And, why does the same behavior bridge oceans? I certainly don't have the answers but I do know that many people, particularly those who fought and died for civil rights, are bitterly disappointed. Mr. Charlestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17497415823443875308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576200516116402874.post-13954222535728183332013-06-27T06:18:43.480-04:002013-06-27T06:18:43.480-04:00Surely there’s more to it than that?
I don’t know...Surely there’s more to it than that?<br /><br />I don’t know about the US but there is a similar problem as you describe here and there are similar opinions. <br />I would say simplifications and generalisations rarely help.<br /><br />(Should I have kept my mouth shut?)Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.com