This is just one of the reasons why people from the northern part of the US feel superior to people from the south. Granted, not every southerner is a segregationalist racist, and the north has our share of them too. But it seems that for the most part incidents like this continue because the old ways die hard. Drive around a southern state and count the rebel flags sometime. When you get up into the triple digits, maybe you'll have the same thought I often do: Why is it perfectly okay for a redneck to put a bumper sticker on his truck that has the stars and bars and the slogan "Heritage, not hate" when if a person of German descent put a bumper sticker on his car that had the same slogan and a swastika on it they would probably be beaten by those very same rednecks?
Both are wrong. Losing a war means you give all the old shit up. We expected Imperial Japan and Germany to, we expect Iraq to, and yet the Georgia state flag, up until last week still had the stars and bars on it.
The worst part about this whole thing is that the black students seem perfectly fine with it. It's almost like "As long as we're not getting lynched or blasted with fire hoses, then separate but equal is just fine with us."
-Mikey
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