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Lie down with dogs…..

I thought it would piss me off to watch the video but really it just made me kind of sad at how ugly and split America has become.

Nowadays, they think the Democrat is Willie Horton.

One of the reasons that we do analogize racist behavior in states like Pennsylvania with racism in the south is the tendency of those in the north to describe racism in the north as being something markedly and substantively different from what occurred in the south. There are historically documented cases, for example, of slave masters in Chester County attempting to hold their slaves in bondage well after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

While I was living in Hershey the Ku Klux Klan held at least one rally and march in York, Pennsylvania, which was only about 30 miles away. Blacks who live in Harrisburg and Dauphin County still refer to the west shore area of Cumberland County as the “white shore.” This characterization is a hold over from the time when blacks were not welcome to cross the Susquehanna River from Harrisburg (Dauphin County) into the towns of New Cumberland, Lemoyne and Camp Hill.

It’s not your characterization of PA that I have a problem with – I’m well acquainted with the racism in that state. But why does racist behavior in PA or OH or any other state always have to be equated with racism in the South? Isn’t it bad enough to stand on its own?

I get your drift but you missed my point. I was not attributing anti-black racism only to the south but the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has a long, dishonorable and largely hidden record of state sanctioned anti-black racism that persisted long after other states above the Mason-Dixon line had repealed the most odious aspects of their own laws and regulations. In the late 1950s, for example, blacks were routinely turned away from entering Hershey Amusement Park. I could list numerous other examples to support my viewpoint but I stand by my characterization of Pennsylvania.

Sadly, no right-wing outrage about John McCain’s mortgage plan, tho. I’ve been waiting all day.

One of my professors is from the very rural south, has a thick Kentucky accent, is a former CIA operative in Amin’s Uganda, speaks seven languages and got his ass kicked in middle school for refusing to join with the other white kids in enforcing segregation after the Brown decision.

I’m going to be rude and post something from another thread, because I think it bears repeating:

I’d like to point out that the two (very disturbing) videos making the rounds of the internet today were from Pennsylvania and Ohio. And yet commenters on at least two threads here have equated the behavior with Southerners. Can we please end the racism=Southern trope? I’m not about to argue that there aren’t deep pockets of racism in the South. But there are also deep pockets of racism in Massachusetts (where we lived for 7 years), New York, Idaho, Iowa, California, …

It’s too easy to blame racism on the South. It paints the racist as the “other,” and absolves all you folks in the “good states” of any responsibility for the inherent racism in society.

Call out racism when you see it, no matter where it originates. Don’t weaken your message by pretending that its just those ignorant hillbillies who have somehow snuck up North.

I’ve had to go down to Titleist NXT’s instead of Pro-V1′s with this stock market, Parthy.

Painful. You have no idea. 10 yards less and no backspin.

Here’s your winner, Parth!

I look forward to Nov. 6 when you guys can become reasonable commenters again.

Wait, did I miss something?

Whatever the outcome, I look forward to Nov. 6 when you guys can become reasonable commenters again. Seriously, people are getting weird. And you accuse Sen. Obama’s supporters of having Obamamania. I think it’s the other way around, except not the rapture kind you accuse supporters of having. More like the clinical definition of mania.