Reply #63: I'm proud to share a state with you [View All]

[MedleyMisty]

And you reminded me that some people who identify themselves as Republicans are actually human - I often fall into the trap of assuming that they know what Republicans stand for and are cool with it and want people to suffer and die and like fascism and want the planet to become unlivable.

One little bone to pick - people here are fine. I had quite a few cool friends in high school. The people I worked with at Arby's weren't prejudiced based on skin color or sexual orientation at all and were cool. You yourself are cool. This Roy Carter guy is cool. Your current events teacher is cool. The "solid South" is made up of individual humans who are all different and not some Borg collective of Klansmen - we're not the ones who haven't evolved. It's the people who hate other humans en masse because of things like where they were born that haven't evolved.

Plus, considering that the South has the largest concentration of African American people, I think it's pretty racist to assume that we're all racists or to only think about the white people who live here and your stereotypes and prejudice about them when lumping together and hating on a huge geographic region - you'll see the geographic prejudice prevalent here soon enough.

Oh, I grew up in Mount Airy and live in Charlotte now.