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re: The Two Races of Tennessee
Written by KEVIN10134, on 15-02-2001 08:57
58.2 in reply to 58.1

I really enjoyed the piece. I am a black American from the South, living in the Northeast and the two worlds are really strange. I was raised in a progressive home with fundamental religious beliefs. We were very multiracial/integrationists, my grandparents being Irish and black, carribean and native american. All our friends were white southerners, native americans and hispanic, as well as some blacks. We were taught to only be multiracial and to fight for the fundamental commandment of God(love thy neighbor AS thyself).
Now as an adult, married to a Scottish American, I totally live by the values of my parents and our family and religious heritage. In the north, the raicsm is covert by whites(esp. liberals) and overt by blacks. We feel like we are foreigners in a strange land, becuase the tension between the two worlds is so thick and real. In the South, racism was there of course, but the races were at least cordial with one another and I didn't remember any hypocritical liberal whites around. the white's were conservative christians or conservative non christians who either hated you or loved you--no middle ground. That was at least safe for you knew who to avoid and who to trust. In the Northeast, where I attended Ivy League(liberal) University and graduate school and now live, the liberal whites said that they believed in civil rights and equality, yet they ran to the burbs, leaving decimated urban areas, as fast as the conservative families did. The liberal whites don't date blacks anymore than the conservatives do and avoid contact as much as possible.

So what is better? Who know, as long as we don't bleieve the hype that the liberals care about blacks, multiracials and democracy anymoe than the conservatives. I love the progressives and libertarians and support them locally and nationally. But will support conservatives over liberals and centrists any day.

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