Sage

My crazy coot of an uncle used to say "There's black people, and then there's niggers" and I think that was just a very colorful way of saying - either you're an asshole, or you're not. My godmother came from a dirt poor family in rural Appliachia, and she's still pretty darn poor. She and my godfather raise chickens, and have a dirty kinda house and a beater car, and talk in the most hillbilly dialect possible. Yet she's such a sweet woman, and raised me alongside my mother, and is just a wonderful person altogether. And then, there's the Barker family, who are in the exact same situation and are a bunch of inbred hillbilly assholes. So, if you're an asshat, I'm going to treat you like one, and if you happen to be an asshat and a hillbilly/ "african-american"/ "latino"/ "semite", it basically all boils down to you being an asshat.

And you know, I think a lot of the bigotry directed at black people is a product of the self-fufilling prophecy of "I'm black, and I'm nothing, and I'm never going to amount to nothin" attitude. By thinking you're unable to get an education and a job, you defeat yourself before you even start. So, black people store up a lot of unfocused rage at their percieved inability to "better" themselves, and thus lash out in socially destructive ways, which is negatively percieved by the rest of society. But this is the opnion of a white middle class woman, so obviously I'm racist.

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