RT @foxmusk@twitter.com
I like my southern history and I like the flag. I recognize that’s complicated for people who weren’t raised around it. A lot of us were, and that importance won’t change. We can talk about it or we can not, but I’m not sorry and I’m still not the closet racist people think I am.
And I don't want to dunk on @/foxmusk; I don't know him, and I'm willing to take his comments at face value.
But..."liking" your Southern history is a flag to me. Southern history is one of racist terror, subjugation, dehumanization, willful, violent, malicious bigotry.
@jakebe
I'm confused. Is Northern history not tied to slavery?
[1.Ch.] Dunking
@jakebe I have no problem dunking on the words as they were written. Once released into the world, the text exists as an independent entity. I don't have to know anything about who said them to have an opinion about them.
Absent a clear delineation of what aspects of "Southern culture" (barbecue! country and western! line dancing!) they're talking about, I have no reason to think they're not talking about white supremacy.
Southern history is indelibly tied to the slavery of black Americans for hundreds of years; dehumanization and disenfranchisement that is still being practiced TODAY.
What...is there to like? I don't see how someone who says that isn't willfully overlooking this.