Originally Posted by
Desert_Donkey
I understood his point perfectly. However, Bro Max said "The South", not Greensboro, North Carolina, which is using a very broad brush to paint us all into the corner of racism and intolerance. The South of the 1960's is gone. It's high time that the rest of the country realized this fact and stopped believing in the tired old leftist stereotypes.
I don't think that Bro Max was using stereotypes. He was referring to very specific incidents that set very real legal precedents. Though I doubt that he took the time to research all the dates and times. He told it as he remembered it.
I wouldn't be quite so sensitive. The incident in Greensboro was one of a whole wave of events that played out across the South. Racism is alive and well here in the South just as it is everywhere. Just juxtapose the Jena 6 and the 50th anniversary of the Little Rock 9 which happened at the same time. Most people know that it's not isolated to one area of the country. Just think of Manzanar and Skokie.
I also think you are stereotyping us on the left. Many of us come from fine old Southern families.
