Mass shooting in South Carolina

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Originally Posted by KestrelBike

In my opinion, the Confederate flag (if you call it the correctly titled BFNV, no one's going to know what you're talking about) is used by many Southerners to represent Southern tradition and standing up against Northern Aggression. Many of these people have traditionally held racist views. My dip$*** boss is a flaming liberal, and even he admits growing up in SC that they used to refer to blacks as n******s in a casual manner.

I didn't even grow up in the Lower 48 except for a few years in a suburb of DC but I went to college at an elite university in the Northeast. For my money, Southerners were no more racist than Northeast liberals. The big difference was Southerners weren't subtle or politic about their views. Today, I'd say whites are no more racist than blacks; indeed, far less so as a group because whites have had white guilt drummed into them fora few decades now.

Hear anyone called "not white enough" in the last few decades? I didn't think so -- but I HAVE heard someone referred to as "not black enough" in recent years. And for the record, in today's lingo of "enlightened" racism, I'd probably be termed a banana ...