Yes, the small towns in South Carolina do have a problem with racial attitudes. It's almost like they've never seen someone from another race. The town my parents live in has a chapter of the KKK in it, and everyone that grew up there seems to know where they meet. They were proud they knew where the KKK met. We didn't because we weren't from there and were appalled (not surprised) at the fact this wretched little town had a KKK chapter there. Plus, we just didn't care where they met. We just wished they'd go away.

I am surprised you had a bad experience in Charleston because it's more racially mixed. But, honestly, I don't find the fact that Susan Smith blamed a black man was racial. I mean she could have drawn from a hat what the person looked like. I just do not like it when people draw the race card whenever it's convenient. Granted, I am caucasion and believe like you should treat everyone like you want to be treated. I also realize not everyone believes that. It's just like I believe those people with higher financial status and those with higher authority bear a greater burden to society due to their fortunate gain in finances and power. There are those who do not believe that either.

I am not here to trivialize racism because I admit it does exist within areas all over this nation. It happens in New York between people just like it happens in South Carolina. What do you think gangs do? Most gangs consist of a majority of one race or another, and they gang up on rival gangs with a different ethnicity. It's just like all Southerners don't walk around barefoot and pregnant, while eating chitlins and dirt, then, turning around to check on the moonshine brewing. The northeast and other parts of the country are not necessarily any more socially advanced than the southeast. Southerners are branching out and infiltrating other parts of the country and vice versa.

We all experience things differently, and I will admit I just don't understand why we can't all treat each other with respect, no matter the race, religion, or gender. I will also admit I don't understand what it's like to be another race because I will be white until the day I die. I am proud of my race but I don't think I am any better than a black person, asian, etc. All we can do is listen to one another and accept each other as a person not certain race, gender, religion person. Yes, I am one of those d*mn liberals. :p

slight hijack: They used to have marches down the center of the town where I grew up. The only grocery store there was owned by one of it's most vocal members.

end slight hijack

Tickled Pink,

When my parents first moved to where they live now, the KKK had a march about a month after they moved up there. I was like dear God! I was a naive 18 year old and a freshman in college. I didn't realize the KKK even still existed because I thought they broke up way back when. Guess they're still alive in podunk towns. I about had a wreck because I saw some of them standing in the First Baptist Church's parking lot taking off their costumes.

end my highjack! :)

I'm glad you posted this.

Thanks, DSTCHAOS

In a way I almost wish that the KKK was active up here... it'd be so handy with the guys in deserving of a severe shit-kicking openly identifying themselves with costumes ;) A visual identifier of blinding ignorance is so much easier than waiting for some tool to spout his stupidity...

Deleted because we got the situation settled! :)

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What happened? Did I read something wrong??? I thought he was calling the KKK guys stupid, saying that it would be easier to identify them with the sheets than to wait for them to say something stupid. Did I miss something?? :confused:

And here I was about to post a X days and counting that a thread about race did not go up in flames.

ZTAwgirl - I don't think you offended anyone....

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Guess you didn't understand the post... ztawinthropgirl I was pretty much saying what Tickled Pink 2 read into the post.

Basically I was lamenting the fact that the raging racists are more covert up here, and that the silly white sheets would be ever so handy in idenitfying those who deserve the hockey stick to the groin.

No...that's how I read it, too. :confused:

LOL. You misunderstood, but that happens sometimes on message boards. :)

Yep. :) The "good ol boys" are as active but less visible in a more traditional sense.

This was just another case of message board misinterpretation. No harm and no foul.

Sorry! I misread! I apologize! My bad! I agree the KKK people are stupid!

'Overpromotion'
Here's a fascinating story originally from England's Daily Mail:

A black police bodyguard who protected the Duchess of Cornwall has won $70,000 [Australian, or around US$53,000] compensation after suing Scotland Yard for "over-promoting" him because of political correctness.

Sgt Leslie Turner--the first black personal protection officer to guard the royal family--will receive the "racial discrimination" payout after reaching an out-of-court settlement with London's Metropolitan Police.

His representatives argued he landed the prestigious job as Camilla's bodyguard only because he was black.

It was claimed that as a result of being over-promoted and not receiving proper training and support, Sgt Turner made mistakes which led to him being re-assigned.

This suggests a tantalizing line of legal attack for opponents of "affirmative action" in American higher education. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that, at least for the next 22_1/2 years, "diversity" is a "compelling" enough reason to justify discriminating at the margins against people of pallor. But what if a black student were to sue, claiming he had been admitted to, say, Harvard and done badly there because he was not held to the same high standard as other students?

"Used with permission from OpinionJournal.com, a web site from Dow Jones & Company, Inc."

I dont see where there is a huge racial seperation in South Carolina. I have lived my entire life outside of Charleston and some of my best and oldest friends are black. Maybe it is because the high school I went to had a majority of black students. I have friends who are "semi-racists" not because they were taught growing up to hate black people or whatever just because of their own personal experiences with people of that race (long complicated story that involved the death of a friend)...I have noticed a bigger racial seperation in people that I know from other states.