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> In a message dated 5/26/06 9:42:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> The character of the best Northerners barely approximates the character of
> mediocre
> Southerners. Some of the most considerate, thoughtful, and hopeful people
> on Earth are
> from Mississippi.
> I am a native Louisianian, with ancestors there several hundred years in the
> past. I
> was disappointed to hear knee-jerk racist expressions from southern whites
> about the
> blacks who were stranded by Katrina floodwaters in New Orleans. Deeply
> engrained
> racism remains in the character of Southerners, and casts an ugly scar on
> what would be a
> beautiful face of Southerners, were it not for racism.. What a shame....
>
>
>
> Racism towards blacks is not limited to the South. Yes the South has the
> legacy of slavery, but the slave ships sailed from Boston and New York where
> blacks have not been treated well even up to recently. And the South had the
> legacy of the Jim Crow laws which were a result of the failure of reconstruction
> policies forced upon the South by the federal government after the freeing
> of the slaves. And the South has the legacy of the Knights of the Ku Klux
> Klan, just turns out there were as many, if not more, members in Northern states.
> I personally believe racism is a human quality that all people have to some
> degree or another all over the world. The more intelligent ones can recognize
> it for what it is and make the effort to over come it.
>
Recognizing that someone is not part of YOUR "in-group" is a universal human trait. The
Japanese have entire sets of verb-forms dedicated to this. They also have groups of
native-born people who are STILL not eligible for citizenship even though they've lived on
the islands for generations.
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