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Sadly, many peoples views haven't changed. I didn't dare express my opinion to my parents!

Omg 😳

I love that picture, but I was thinking the same thing when his son was looking up at him, spewing his racism. I’m gonna be just like my daddy.🤮

She probably had children who were raised to be just like her, then they had children who learned the same bigotry, ignorance, hatred, and assumptions about privilege. They don’t die off. They breed.

Just listening to them made me sick to my stomach.

I think it was always there. Trump gave permission to run with it.

I was raised in that environment unfortunately. My birth family & foster homes were bigoted. I was 9 y.o. when I partially realized how awful it was, & then began to grow. It takes only a little humanity to recognize & reject bigotry. That's why what's happening now is so god-awful shocking.

Sickening.

Scary how little has changed.

These are the grandparents of today's racists. Of course they are.

😘👍

Seems things haven’t changed much

southerner is code for racist by that white woman

Nature or nurture? Nurture. People aren’t born to hate. They are taught hatred. I wrote a college essay almost 30 years ago saying such, and not a God damned thing has changed.

This makes me sick.

Yep

These people are the ones who raised the MAGA GOP and Trump voters.

they hide it somewhat but not completely!

I bought a house in an unfamiliar town in the 90s. The realtor sure did redline!

It’s just the perpetual lie they believe to claim they aren’t actually racists when in fact they’re racist and entitled af! There are racists of all colors but the white racists seem to be the entitled racists IMO. 😡

Just like now, they were parroting what they are told and not thinking or seeing for themselves.

61 years later and nothing has really changed in the South. In fact, nothing has changed in the South since 1865 except their methods in keeping black people suppressed.

Is this an unemployed #KellyAnnCuntway?

Let’s try 61 years 🤣

I wonder how many of them are alive… someone should locate them and ask them the same questions… also this is a reminder of why white women can’t be trusted!

White lady with a drawl: “of course, being a southerner, I don’t like it at all.” Translation: “I wish we still had slaves”. The southern whites haven’t changed much since then.

100%

"Ridiculous that POC want equal rights, why they have the same opportunities separately from us that the rest of us do". Yeah absolute hogwash, and KKK doublespeak for "We don't want these uppity POC thinking they're equal to us purebred white folk".

Well, here's your grandma's, and grandpas for posterity.

How disgusting ..... Fact, It is easier for ones own mind well-being to love than it is to hate.

This feels like listening to my grandparents. Never bothered to learn the names of my black friends. Always "that little black boy". No surprise that today my grandfather feels that Fox News is too liberal. Fuck it all.

Sad - not much has changed in 60 years. Yesterday at No Kings, I talked to younger Black and brown former military members (25-35). They told me that the racism is from Latinos and Black people buying land and taking what's theirs. They know that white people are <50% of the population. They see.

Why be against something you swear they have? Like if I have a fruit basket and you had a banana and you want a fruit basket too and I say nah you have what I have and I don’t like you pushing for more. Wtf I hate people

Many of them are still alive and raised their kids to be just as racist.

Racism is taught by hateful, close-minded people! Unfortunately, there are still way too many. I hope there comes a day when it is no longer taught, or made acceptable and promoted by people in positions of influence and power. It’s up to us to call it out every time!

As a young sailor, my first experience in the south was in 1974. Let me tell you it wasn’t any different than this.

I can’t believe how utterly ignorant they sound .

I remember it well.White Boomers grew up watching that unfold,and if you didn’t come away from the experiences and lessons of those times with enormous respect and grateful awe for our black population, I have no idea WTF you were watching! My mom was a civil rights activist,I walked with her at 10.

I was born in 1965. This was only 61 years ago. 💔

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My stomach churned, and after the “I’m sorry I’m a southerner,” I had to stop watching. I remember those times, and we really, really don’t want them again. We have far greater numbers

These are the grandparents of current day magats...

I recently read "Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause" by Ty Seidule (2020), an eyeopener on Southern culture. I'll mention 2 things: the culture doesn't see people of color as fully human & it is primed to cultishness by inculcation of Lee as a divine hero.

Holy shit

“Their part of the town” “they” OMG the last lady! It was evidently acceptable in the south to say that! I was 8 years old! OMG! I wasn’t raised like this! Disgusting!

Maybe Lincoln should have let them go. They want to have blue states’ money with no strings.

It takes education and experience to overcome generational racism. Back in the day we had ‘encounter groups’ to bring people together to discover that we are not really different.

Keep in mind, they shared these "values" with their children, which is why we can't get beyond the racism. It's generational like child abuse. Here's an oxymoron for ya: learned ignorance.

My mother‘s family were part of the (racist jerk…) white flight out of Chicago when Black people started moving in to their neighbourhood. I grew up w all this shit until I went to college & met actual Black people (gasp!) that didn’t fit the stereotypes I’d been taught. Fuck this bullshit. 🖖

Yep one hundred years of racial discrimination after the civil war. No equal opportunity in housing, education, employment and banking. No opportunity to build equity what so ever. This created generational poverty. Release the Epstein files. Epstein Epstein oy oy oy.

It's crazy how we can make so much progress, yet so little simultaneously.

Ahh, the peckerwood perspective : some things in America may change, but cracker ignorance is immutable.

My Gram is 87. My Godfather is 81 Those most valued Wisers(my word for the elderly) in my community are all 80+ they were there. Hell🫩my Father is 73 he was run out of a Sundown town in the early 70's. This Amerikkkan Dream is a nightmare.

Not too surprising coming from the South. 🙄 In the 90s I was told to watch my mouth when visiting down there. I was told not to express my ideas w people cause you never know who you’re talking to.

Wasn’t long ago at all. Gets passed on. Thanks for the clip

fuking disgusting. and they’re so proud to express their opinions…”they have equal raits though” and “the niggas ah justis free as we ah” .That suthun accent is so thick, it makes their words even more creepy.

Not much has changed. The responses might be a bit more nuanced, but this country is still a Cracker Barrel.

The brain is a terrible thing to waste. Ignorant people.

Uneducated entitled whites.

Talk about deluded self entitled white women.

I was trying to say that after living for a year in the UK, the British condemn American racism, as they should, but rarely turn to the mirror to discuss bigotry of the Brit variety (India, Jamaica, the Indies, Africa)

I'm thankful most of these people aren't here to worship Epstein's best friend.

What hasn't change is how easily people are convinced.

It's like the preclearance provision struck down in Shelby Country v Holder: if petitioners don't want to do anything bad that the preclearance provision would prohibit, why are they suing to get rid of the preclearance provision?

Whites always want what they can't have. So they steal cheat and rob their dignity.

Sixty years later, instilled in another generation. We are being punished by the Birchers, Heritage, Kochs, Federalists who listened to all of these people, remembered, and built their organizations on their anger and hatred.

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know. Morons!

Yup, and these kids in the videos will grow up to be little racists themselves ... but sure SCOTUS gut the voting rights act, Brett sure racial profiling doesn't harm people of color, sure houses still have racist covenants on their deeds to this day. WHEN CRITICAL THINKING ISN'T TAUGHT WTF

I'm a boomer who grew up in NYC and I remember it well, it was a sad time in history. I moved to NC 20 years ago and was disgusted to see many still behaving that way in the South, so many racists!

They didn’t like it then they still don’t like it… racist bigots

I just can’t even….🤦🏻‍♀️

Judging by the dialect, deep south? Nothing much changed there...

Even then, like today, they're all just so angry.

Brainwashing/whitewashing.

Thanks for info. I will check it out.

Look around the globe. White men still reign supreme and still messing up the world. They aren’t as powerful as they used to be so they are afraid. Afraid of losing their white privilege. That’s how insecure & weak they are. To clarify, NOT ALL WHITE MEN. It’s up to women to teach them. ESP boys.

From their false social construct of “race”. Created to keep them on top.

Thank you for this informative comment. I’d forgotten about Bacon’s Rebellion, as well as how the south was settled by the Second Sons of the British aristocracy. And you’re absolutely right: the dots connect, leading us to … Right now.

Same here. I don't have a lot of regrets in my life but one is that I didn't push back, and hard, on the war against "politically correct" speech & behavior every time someone made a "joke" about it. That seems to me when we began to lose civility & equanimity in public toward our fellow humans.

The saddest part is you can still get similar answers around this country right now if you ask about civil rights, thigh the people answering the same way are far less articulate these days. "I'm from the South, so you can imagine I don't like it." Me: really, no shit? I couldn't imagine...🤦🏻

Just stand outside a Chik-fil-a and ask the same question. You'll get the same answers.

Not much has changed

The ignorance expressed by those people is astounding and incomprehensible!!

I’m from Georgia. Too many white folks there are still awaiting the enlightenment that the Civil War made available.

my parents are these people. they've convinced themselves that they aren't racist and no one was then.

For reference I was two years old. It wasn't that long ago.

Trumpers today

I guess it’s a long time coming for them to finally get those 6 clowns on the Supreme Court they have always wanted

It is mind boggling to me that so many folks don’t acknowledge just how bad life was for people of color a mere 60 years ago. And how little progress has been made in the years since the Act’s passage.

Such gross people with the ugliest souls

Damn they even were able to find a confederate soldier!

I grew up in Illinois and visited relatives in Tennessee all my life. I’m stunned about the drastic attitude difference regarding race. I never shut my mouth. Many reasons I’m not popular there.

For those that don’t know this country’s racist history. And not long ago!

If course he's in the deep south...if that was the opinion of the majority of Americans it would never have passed

“Not that long ago”? Wasn’t that last Friday?

Reminds me of Mississippi Burning movie. The ignorance was just astounding, and still is!

(And I am so sorry, truly. There aren't sufficient words to express the depths of my regret for my grandparents' attitude and my parents' limited willingness to really dig in and learn.)

Yep, in the grand scheme of things, all Americans having civil rights is very short

My elementary school had National Guard deployed to escort minority children to class. The government had to force Southern states to integrate.

Key word...."They".

Ignorance and bigotry don’t change very much. Their spawn would say some variation of the same thing. 🤦🏼‍♂️

racism is ugly...

Indeed , not so long ago. Incredibly embarrassing, but shall we take heart in how far we've come ? And how far we might still go in another 60 ! Where there is life there is HOPE 💙

And today we'd call them MAGA.

They spoke their truth. This ignorance, prejudice and fear has never left America. It may have diminished in places but it is unfortunately still very alive. It festers like an open sore & is the stain of our land. Evil must always be fought against by every generation. It’s the way good prevails☮️

Disgusting. These people are obviously still loud and clear among us today or trump doesn't have a 37% approval. Disgusting