LoneLaugher
Diamond Member
As if on cue.
I was just going to note -- start a thread on racists and haters, and look who shows up to denounce the OP. Telling.
Also telling is one single line in the video -- "you're like the tenth one (black person) I've ever seen".
That's where it starts -- Ignorance. A dearth of experience fueled by fears and paranoia fantasies. When one of these cretins declares "ya can't trust 'em!" we can safely translate it as saying "I don't know any!".
That's exactly why segregation (and its modern-day disguise under the anti-diversity banner) is a dangerous breeding ground.
When my siblings and I were little --single digit ages -- one of us picked up the N word from a neighbor much like this cretin in the video and uttered it within earshot of my mother. She reacted with a quickness I never saw before or since, immediately corralled her entire brood into a group, even those not involved, and laid down the law in no uncertain terms that she was never going to hear bigotry like that, intentional or not, from any of our lips again. And to her dying day she never did; we got the message.
Now my mother was a Southern girl who grew up poor on a farm in Mississippi, but that's how she rolled, so I bristle a bit when I hear stereotypes of certain Southern monoliths. But clearly there are those who walk among us who could have used that level of parental guidance.
Interesting, Pogo, because I had exactly the same conversation with my mother, when I was about 5, back when I was growing up in Georgia..
My father was a hard-nosed kid from the Bronx. He didn't live around minorities as a kid.....but....he somehow learned how to hate them.
I suspect exposure to some group, and hatred of it, are usually inversely proportional.
I absolutely agree.
Note...the asshole in the video admitted that he had only met a few black people in his life.
