--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > This exchange is starting to take a hard turn because > > nobody is either an expert on the topic or they did > > not live back then in the deep south. One thing is > > true, and that is that history is re-visionist. What > > we say happened "back then" is not necessarily so. > > With all due respect, I sat in on this silly discussion > because I *did* live in the deep South back then. > And I was getting damned tired of the reverse discrim- > ination of idiots who did *not* live there then making > statements about what it was like.
Now Barry's hallucinating freely. > It's nothing more > than "white niggerism," trying to paint a whole society > a certain way to match their preconceptions and their > belief that they were "superior" because they lived > up North. There was a great deal of ignorance and > bias in the South in the 1950s, but it has been more > than matched by the ignorance and bias shown here > today. No "ignorance and bias" of the type Barry describes have been shown by *anybody* in this thread. The only two people who have said anything about "what it was like" were Shemp and akasha, who both made the same case Barry's making. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
