(June 24, 2013 at 12:50 pm)Savannahw Wrote: In the video she talks about her grandfather's heartache at losing "The War." How he didn't know how to cope. So he shot himself. How the south is LESS prejudice because "black folk" were like family to their owners. How we are all prejudice. Then she talks about her black friend, calls him as black as the board behind her. Then calls him onstage and says we can't see you against that dark board.
She said all that after her lawsuit was filed.
Yeah, that was pretty retarded and shit stupid of her.
(June 24, 2013 at 12:50 pm)Savannahw Wrote: I have talked to a WWII vet. My great-grandpa was one. He pasted away when I was little, but my great-grandmothers (one pasted last summer) are a huge part of my life. If I ever heard anything like that from them, I would have called them out on the spot. I rarely did. Just because they are from a different time, doesn't make it acceptable, especially form someone who is in a spotlight.
I'm sorry I don't mean to be touchy, but this is touchy for me.
I've never heard a white southern woman talk that way. Probably because they were too polite. This is also probably why you never heard your great grandpa mention something like that to you. Woman are considered "polite society" so it wouldn't be mentioned around you.
If it was just me and them though, yeah they'd say some crazy shit sometimes.
I've also never heard any white people in the South no matter their age, say such racist crap in the presence of an African American.
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