Bad Reactions to W&L ?

ariesathena
Sun, 20 Aug 2006 02:39:40 +0000

Of course a private institution can do whatever it wants; however, I tend to think that banning things that make people uncomfortable is not a good idea.

Frankly, I disagree - STRONGLY - with the idea that the Confederacy was all about oppression of blacks. The North, for those of you who would just love to pretend that it is a bastion of equality, had slaves for hundreds of years. Only when it was sufficiently industrialised - i.e. had no need for extraordinarily cheap labour - did it get rid of slavery.

I’ve noticed that racism in the North is quite an amazing thing. Everyone loves to pretend that they are all about equality, but heaven forbid that they actually let black people move into their nice suburbs. I grew up in a town that is 98% white but scorns the South as a backwards region. My hometown friends spaz every time I date someone who isn’t white and born in the USA (which is a fairly frequent thing - you think they would get over it).