(January 16, 2022 at 5:25 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(January 16, 2022 at 1:35 pm)Spongebob Wrote: I wonder, if you lived in Alabama in 1960, would you have agreed with those who hanged black people from trees for simply wanting to sit at a diner and eat lunch or drink from a water fountain marked "white"? Something tells me you are that person and it makes me gag just having this conversation with someone so vile.
The sad thing is, if we lived in Alabama in 1960, most of us probably would have. After all, we’d probably have had overt white supremacy inculcated into us for decades. That said, if you think much the same way 62 years later where such shit isn’t normalised (even if it actually is, in a subtler and more insidious form), it’s then we have a huge problem.
You make a valid point, but there were white southerners who weren't racist in 1960. The racist faction impressed their power to keep those people from standing up to the issue. I can honestly say that I felt that normalization even growing up in the 70's and 80's. It wasn't gone then, just less normalized, less accepted. And now it's getting a resurgence from people like Trump and apparently Ahriman and IA.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller