tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post2869661006977062769..comments2024-01-17T09:33:57.158-08:00Comments on Brain Rage: Pat Buchanan Sees White PeopleJBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13293642610215334516noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-33477832801199360202009-07-17T23:34:35.373-07:002009-07-17T23:34:35.373-07:00I share your pain, one L.I share your pain, one L.JBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13293642610215334516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-25165486965475235552009-07-17T21:18:27.896-07:002009-07-17T21:18:27.896-07:00Yeah, dude. In-laws are the worst.Yeah, dude. In-laws are the <i>worst</i>.one L billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-52400648326602344202009-07-17T01:35:56.077-07:002009-07-17T01:35:56.077-07:00David Cross, one of my favorite comedians PP (and ...David Cross, one of my favorite comedians PP (and a Georgia native), does a bit where he says that the South has some of the truest and purest racism in the world because in many places they still have segregated cemeteries. It's a testament to how the power of ignorance transcends life and death.JBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13293642610215334516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-85261836670146987042009-07-16T18:33:53.383-07:002009-07-16T18:33:53.383-07:00I like your observation about in-laws. So true. Wo...I like your observation about in-laws. So true. Would be willing to bet my AL & GA cousins are all a twitter about my blog.<br /><br />As you know, I grew up in the deep south. Went to a nunnery boot camp (HS) in a small conservative university town. As editor of our paper I wrote an editorial in favor of integration. Can't tell you the number of phone calls from my "true loves" at the university who called to advise me to stay out of town. One Nashville friend spit in my face and called me a Nigger Lover. Won't even go in to events in Houston.<br /><br />But, things have improved here but by no means as much as they should have. Going to a small rural town in the south is like taking a step back in time - way, way back. If you're in a small country store in the boonies and a black man walks in to buy something, the owner will wait on the man but he gets this weird expression that you'll never see except in the South. It's as if the customer doesn't exist but really worse than that. I don't even know how to describe it. The owner is looking at the customer but making sure the customer knows he (the owner) doesn't see him.Leslie Parsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-37858456454417211412009-07-16T12:45:04.495-07:002009-07-16T12:45:04.495-07:00When I was younger PP I naively wondered why there...When I was younger PP I naively wondered why there was still racism in America on the cusp of the 21st century. It wasn't until I had gone to a conservative Southern college and met some <i>real</i> racists that I realized that this is what these people were taught, not just by their parents but also by their friends, their neighbors, their town and to an extent their government. And it's what they'll teach their own kids someday as well.<br /><br />Racists are like in-laws: Unless you get really lucky you're going to have them. All you can do is steel yourself for when they visit.JBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13293642610215334516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-85656426189270505612009-07-16T08:26:04.387-07:002009-07-16T08:26:04.387-07:00Things haven't really changed since the 60s wh...Things haven't really changed since the 60s when a KKK grand dragon was invited to speak at the U of Houston - not by this hippie, pinko, whatever. Turns out this guy from AL was younger than expected, slimmer than expected, and nicer looking than expected - looking sort of like your average Joe Blow.<br /><br />After his talk many of us gathered around (surrounded?) him. He obviously felt threatened, paranoid and scared. Hey, we weren't the aggressors. We just wanted to get a feel for this poor, ignorant member of a hate group possessing the same mind-set that Buchanan exhibits forty years later. Will things ever change?Leslie Parsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-25712326892543552322009-07-16T08:12:17.795-07:002009-07-16T08:12:17.795-07:00Yeah but you have the advantage of being a laid-ba...Yeah but you have the advantage of being a laid-back Aussie, quietmagpie. Right-wing pricks like Buchanan are pricks because they have no other choice in the matter.JBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13293642610215334516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-79631294966715660272009-07-16T07:59:27.299-07:002009-07-16T07:59:27.299-07:00Be glad you don't have his mind-set. Imagine h...Be glad you don't have his mind-set. Imagine how afraid he must be, underneath the suit, the swagger and the bullshit. Think of the cowardice it takes to be a right-wing prick, afraid of what someone MIGHT do because they're not white.magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08690258860393548951noreply@blogger.com