Hey, All Y'all!

Hey, All Y'all!

Addenda:

Number Eight: No Sugar In The Cornbread. In My House.

Number Nine: BBQ is Pig. At My House.

Number Ten: Two Spaces At The End Of Sentences. Anywhere I Am Allowed To Internet.

Full Disclosure: I do not own a single bow tie. None. Nor ascots. I do, however, have several pairs of overhauls.

Originally shared by Bitter Southerner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JTb2uE0KJs&feature=autoshare

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  1. Richard BensamApril 4, 2018 at 8:37 AM

    I may not know much about the South but every one of these should also be tenets for a Better North, including the first one. It's way past time for Northerners to stop underplaying their participation in the slave trade and our modern racism and literal segregation. I've come to think the southern states will get their ship in order before we ever do, because you guys are having honest conversations about the shit we're still in denial over. Maybe change "gumbo" to "chowder" and New England should embrace all of these points.

    (P.S.: I typed this with double spaces after each period and I always will.)

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  2. Drew McCarthyApril 4, 2018 at 11:07 AM

    I don't think the South is any better than the North for civil rights. In many ways, we are demonstrably worse, sad to say. It's definitely closer to the surface of things here, and it isn't a theoretical problem, as it is in some other places. It's even fair to say that the greater proportion of responsibility for the evils of slavery lies here. But the North benefited indirectly in ways often hard to acknowledge, and has had perhaps less practice in attempting reconciliation and reparation as a result. It's quite complicated. The food is pretty good, as are many of the people. But the ones in charge now, they're not even pretending to do right, and we need to get to fixing that.

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  3. Richard BensamApril 4, 2018 at 11:33 AM

    No place in America is "better" at civil rights than any other. My point is just that the South hasn't been allowed to hide it the way the North has -- and part of the way the North has done that is by spreading anti-Southern propaganda. We're going to have to learn how to let go of that as well as our denial about Northern racism before we can have a better North.

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