Time For Whites To Wake Up

[Rahul]

What?!?!

Are you saying the South is not the most conservative place in the US?

Yes it is. Because it's also the most religious place in the US. The South was a lot less religious before the American Civil War. Since then the South went all religious because they were in a perpetual state of crushing poverty for a century.

Opiate of the masses.

Are you saying the south never had a problem with slavery?

Yes, the entire country had a problem with slavery. I just don't see why I should take the blame and feel guilty because some other motherfuckers that died decades and decades before I was born had slaves.

Should I personally blame you for the Holocaust?

Are you saying the South never had a problem with civil rights?

Yes it did. And it was illegalized before I was born. I had nothing to do with Jim Crow laws.

Are you saying that the poorest states are not in the south?

Of course it is. The funny thing though is if you compare the average salary of white families in the North with those in the South, we make about the same amount of money. If you compare the average salary of black families in the North with those in the South the average southern black family makes a little more than their northern counterparts.

But EVERYWHERE whites make more than blacks. There are just, percentage wise, more blacks living in the South. Hence southern states are poorer.

Are you saying the least educated states are not in the South?

Same reason.

"38%
Percent of Mississippi's total population that was black in 2010. Mississippi led the nation in this category followed by Louisiana (33 percent), Georgia (32 percent), Maryland (31 percent), South Carolina (29 percent) and Alabama (27 percent)."

High School Graduation Rate For Black Males Trails White Students

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19...96490.html

Are you saying the south is not the most racist place in the US?

Ever heard of Sundown Towns?

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

From Maine to California, thousands of communities kept out African Americans (or sometimes Chinese Americans, Jewish Americans, etc.) by force, law, or custom. These communities are sometimes called "sundown towns" because some of them posted signs at their city limits reading, typically, "Nigger, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On You In ___."

Guess which state had the most Sundown towns.

It was Illinois.

http://sundown.afro.illinois.edu/sundowntowns.php

The cliches and stereotyps associated with white southeners have their origin in reality and even if you never engaged in behavior associated with such stereotyps, others did. There is a reason for that southers stereotype to exist, and it is not some weirdish conspiracy by the rest of your country to make the south look bad. No, it is the south itself.

You did a lot of research on the South, eh? Or did you just blindly accept the myths portrayed in popular media?

I'm a white atheist male with a college degree. My GPA at graduation was 3.85/4.0. But the stereotype is I'm an uneducated dolt because I'm southern. The town I live in was called by some magazine, Time or something like that, the most educated small town in the US a few years back. (less than 100,000 population)

But I'm done beating my head against the wall. You guys win. You are successfully making me shut up and not point out the hypocrisy I've seen my entire life.

Honestly if anyone would look at this without the bias we're taught from birth you start to see a lot of shit that starts to not make sense.

It's the same honest look I did with religion that made me an atheist.

But fuck this thread.