thanks for posting the link, Minimalist. I've heard of some of those quotes, and enjoyed nearly all. Funny though, Mencken talks of men from (eastern) Tennessee quite a bit, and it looks as though he covered the Scopes Trial for newspapers?
That famous trial occurred less than 20 miles from my home. Even now, almost a century later, bigotry is rampant throughout this area. Hell, I personally know a school board member there who is incredibly prejudiced. The man swears that 'the only thing worse than a homo is a white woman with a black man, god help us...' Sadly, his own granddaughter is a beautiful curly haired angel with big happy eyes (who is bi-racial) and the family scoops her up to be HIDDEN AWAY when he comes around. This happened on the 4th of July (talk about irony!) Such a despicable excuse for a human, and to think he is in charge of 'educating' children???
I cannot wait to move my wife & children out of this place. In the meantime, there's pleasure in reading posts like this one.
(thank you too, Shell B, for starting this thread)
That famous trial occurred less than 20 miles from my home. Even now, almost a century later, bigotry is rampant throughout this area. Hell, I personally know a school board member there who is incredibly prejudiced. The man swears that 'the only thing worse than a homo is a white woman with a black man, god help us...' Sadly, his own granddaughter is a beautiful curly haired angel with big happy eyes (who is bi-racial) and the family scoops her up to be HIDDEN AWAY when he comes around. This happened on the 4th of July (talk about irony!) Such a despicable excuse for a human, and to think he is in charge of 'educating' children???
I cannot wait to move my wife & children out of this place. In the meantime, there's pleasure in reading posts like this one.
(thank you too, Shell B, for starting this thread)
"Stop defending what you think was implied, and listen to what was said." - B W Ross
