Word: racism
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...found it enlightening to hear from David W. Brown that only the South is capable of outrageous racism. Obviously, he did not read Joshua Kaufman's editorial on Pat Buchanan's popularity in Massachusetts that appeared next...
...audience. The Symphony is first-rate, the film and music industries are growing and the theatrical production is explosive. Historically, the South has produced such artists as Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor and Truman Capote. Not bad for a population "so crippled by inbred cultural racism that they could barely demonstrate that they were morally or intellectually superior to brute beasts...
Obviously, there are race-relation problems in Atlanta, as there are everywhere. The South did not invent racism. Take one look at the number of tenured minority professors at any Ivy League school and you'll see that we're not even the only ones who institutionalized it. But railing against the "craven degenerates" who owned slaves 130 years ago will not change our problems now. We must stop taking pot-shots at historical targets and begin to examine more deeply the roots of our problems. Only then will we be able to solve them. Blaming Bubba won't change...
...find it surprising how easily liberals can see the racism in sentences such as, "Black men in South Central Los Angeles are criminals," while they will often overlook and occasionally, as in the case of this editorial, make statements such as, "The white Southern man remained consumed by one overriding passion--a paranoid fear of black men." Both statements are racist, and it saddens me that people seem so willing to make generalizations such as these, and that such statements have become acceptable if targeted at white Southerners...
This article fails to recognize that such a biased and prejudiced view only serves to undermine the legitimate argument against racism associated with the flag while perpetuating regional rivalries better forgotten. In the Handbook for Students, Harvard says, "Any form of discrimination based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs...is contrary to the principles and policies of Harvard University." Does this policy exclude the constant stereotyping of Southern students, or could it be that Harvard still adheres to the same regional rivalry the South is often criticized for? At the very least...